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The Ministry of the Holy Spirit (PART TWO)
Fourth, The Ministry of the Holy Spirit is to Teach and Reveal Christ in Us
No man can come to the Son, except the Father draw them (John 6:44). The
Father sends the Holy Spirit to testify of Christ and the things of Christ (John
14:26, 15:26). The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to teach and reveal Christ. The
Holy Spirit first reveals Christ to us as Savior, our need as a sinner. The Holy
Spirit convicts of sin (John 16:8). Then, the Holy Spirit speaks faith through the
Word to us (Rom. 10:17). The Holy Spirit implants that incorruptible Seed, the
Word of God – the Son in us, and we are born again (I Pet. 1:23). We are now
complete in Spirit with a total new Person –
We still have the same old carnal and unrenewed mind, that listens and tends to
things of death. Above all, we now need to know and hear the voice of the Holy
Spirit, who is the Person who speaks, teaches, and reveals Christ. The Holy
Spirit is called the Comforter, Exhorter, and Encourager. Every time He focuses
us that Christ is now living in us, to be everything the Father desires in and
through us in this temporal life. Christians must stop being Christian actors and
let the true Person of Christ live to the Father in and through us as us. That is
the difference between night and day, and between a lie and genuine truth!
Fifth, We Must Rightly Move in the and Purpose of God If we do not know the Holy Spirit as the teacher and revealer of Christ, we will wrongly attempt to focus men on the Holy Spirit as the Source of life instead of Christ. What is the difference? Are they not the same Persons of the Godhead?
It is my earnest prayer that we will see what the Father desires in manifesting
Himself in three Persons. He longs to have a deep, rich, and full fellowship with
us in and through the Spirit of His Son. No one can come to the Father, except
through the revelation of the Father through the Son (Matt. 11:27). The divine
flow is now clear. The Father sends the Holy Spirit to birth His Son in Us. The
Holy Spirit then reveals His Son in us. The more we know the Son in us, the
more the mind and life of His Son can flow in us as us. The more His Son lives
and expresses Himself in and through us, the more we have fellowship with the
Father through His Son in us. We need to yield to His divine flow, until Christ
lives His life and expression spontaneously in us as us. That is the Christ-life.
Sixth, We are in a New Creation Life with Everything in Spirit Complete
Paul tells us we are a new creature in Christ Jesus (II Cor. 5:17). Everything is
now new in the Spirit, as we have received Christ in all His fullness in us at the
Spirit rebirthing. However, all the old things of our carnal mind are at intervals
passing away, as the Holy Spirit performs His transformation ministry in us.
Seventh,
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Reveals the Christ in Us as our Life
Paul informs us that we ever have the mind of Christ (I Cor. 2:16, 9-15). Yes, we
received Christ with a full and complete mind when we were born again. We are
very familiar with using our carnal mind that operates out of the knowledge of
good and evil. We now need to know and hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, who
can reveal and teach us of the Person of Christ who lives in us. We must
spontaneously live out of the Christ-life – a union-life in us, with a full Christ-life
relationship with Christ in us as us. The Holy Spirit’s transformation ministry in us, is to fully reveal Christ in us – as our life; as our only true life of love and
expression to others in us; and our link of fellowship with our Heavenly Father!
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