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Why doesn't it always happen as we read it could happen according to the Word of the Bible, which is the Word of God? Is it God's fault? We have received everything in Jesus Christ, we believe and know it because the Word says so. Anything can happen because, for God in Jesus, all things are possible. I think we've forgotten quite a few things that we've probably learned, but not received at all in faith. Or we think, just hoping enough, it may well be that it will happen, which is doubt. Or we have a lot of wishful thinking that is basically not something we should own at all, but is ultimately a result of our carnal desires.
When we think/say. It may well be or we think it can happen, it basically proves how little we have learned and received in faith. By confessing, we hope so, and we believe so and other things like that, we are in fact confessing our distrust or disbelief.
We can say. Everything we think/say with a mist and mon in front is disbelief. Faith is (Heb. 11) We have received everything in Jesus Christ. We can do everything in Him. We get what we ask for in faith that is firm trust in God. Paul says. We must strive to get to know Jesus. We must stick to what we have learned from the beginning, someone is going to have milk again because they cannot tolerate solid food. Unfortunately, many are in that situation.
Since we forget a great deal, therefore it is good and beneficial to repeat things over and over again, reminding each other of what the Word says. That's why I think it's sad to be with other Christians who hardly ever talk about anything other than what they do at work, how they've gotten this and that of new things, etc. I don't understand why they don't talk more about God's Kingdom and build each other up.
Of course, we have the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, to remind us of things. However, faith still comes from what is heard and what is heard must come from the Word of Jesus Christ. Here it is also very, very important that we do not change God's Word so that it just fits better into our lives, no we must adapt to the Word and not set God's standards down to a lower level or deal with the truth with half-truths. We must speak purely like the Word and neither subtract nor add anything. If we don't, it's better we don't preach. We've had more of a lot of hazing with uncertain truths that didn't last when we were in life's situations.
Many, instead of coming up with their own thoughts' opinions, should refer to other believers who may be further along the path of faith than they are, and not stand and throw out some scriptures indiscriminately, often something they do not even believe in and much less have grasped and understood. We should not be so honorable that we will not demean ourselves to report if we are asked questions we cannot answer ourselves. It is blah. also why we do not live for ourselves but together in unity in the life of the Spirit of Jesus Christ where we have different graces and talents that only work if we are all willing to esteem each other higher than ourselves. Pride, then, stands for fall and leads to a great deal of uncertainty. All because of half-obscure truths that don't help a single person.
1. We must actively engage in Jesus, by the active life of faith.
2. We must abide in the Spirit of Jesus Christ and not in the life of our flesh.
3. We are to grow in Jesus Christ by dying away from ourselves and instead allowing Him to quicken us by His Spirit. He must grow and we become smaller. So small that we have finally died with Him and we no longer live but only Him in our place.
We may well be born again and yet live a passive life where we look into the land and rejoice in God's Word and Salvation yet we are dead, and without the growth of faith and the fruit of the Spirit. We have forgotten that we are the ones who have to take the step and enter Jesus. We must choose the Way ourselves. Truth and Life, and stay in that life. If we don't, we are still dead, and without life. Therefore, in faith, we must seize the real Spiritual life.
We have to make our own choice. God does not take away our own free will, but offers us that we must voluntarily lay it down before Jesus and let Him be our Lord in all things. 2.chor.6.1. It says. As an employee, we exhort you that it must not be in vain that you received God's grace. It can easily be a Christian such that it is almost in vain that we go to church and hear and hear, read and read. However, it doesn't always really happen in our lives. Many have gone back to the life of the flesh, still saved but, life is like meaningless in many areas because, some people don't think it works quite as well anymore. Unfortunately, many people blame the priest, blame them or everything else, it could never be their own flush or could ?
Isaiah 53.5 Jesus has been wounded once and for all for all our sake. He has saved us, it is certain. But we must also allow Him to save us from ourselves. Otherwise, we will end up building with hay and straw pretty quickly and they will miss out on the salary. Therefore, look carefully at how to build your house. Look closely at how you build your temple (yourself) which is God's house. What do you put into it? You see? Do you hear? Are you talking about? And not least live in? What faith do you have? Your own? Or the faith of God. Are you carnal or spiritual? Make up your own life today and get in place.
When you first came to Jesus (was born again) you were put with Him in heaven. You went from being a carnal/mortal to being a Spiritual. You became a whole, not a half, new creature in Jesus. As Peter says i. 1. Pet.2.4. By His wounds we received healing/healing. So we got a whole new life to hike/live in.
You went from your dead life to another life. You got something different from what you had before. A new life. Then why hike/live in your old life? Why not, as in proverbs. 4.4. Let the heart/mind grip the Word of God?
What exactly were we being? New creatures in whom? In ourselves? Where we work and toil ourselves to improve ourselves and do a whole lot of good works to show God and Jesus that we are believers in each case and we work for the salvation of the soul? In that case, I will ask you. Who do you really believe in? Whose work are you? Do you believe in your own ideas and the word of the law where you must constantly do something to make yourself in the eyes of both man and God?
Was it you or God who drew you to Jesus? Was it yourself who chose you? Was it God or you who called you to His Son so that you could be saved. Most Christians would say. Of course, it was God who saved us. Of course, I could come to faith because God loved me first. Yes, but then everything should be in perfect order in your life, right? Then you know by faith. That you are God's work created in Jesus Christ to walk in His pre-arranged works and you live completely in His Spirit always right?
He who does not have the life of the Son in him does not have the Spirit of life in him and is dead. How many of us have not heard a sermon where afterwards we said/thought it I did not get anything out of, it was probably "dry" i.e. without the water of life. It was knowledge, theology that we heard and not something we were built upon. A sermon without the water of life are dead words and a waste of our time to listen to. So are our lives without the life of the Holy Spirit in us.
We should not only blame the speaker we are accomplices ourselves. We must also live in a Spirited life with Jesus by the life of the Holy Spirit or we are as dead as before we came to faith.
All of us are without the Spirit of life, dead without life within ourselves. Yes, it takes both faith and self-knowledge before you can really believe this. Not only have we read Romans and most of the other epistles Paul wrote, it only provides knowledge or insight into someone else's Christian life. It is something that must happen in your and my personal life as a real reality. If God has not, through Jesus, given us the shock of death so that the passions and desires of our flesh are truly dead, yes, but then we still live in the flesh and not in the life of God's True Spirit.
1.Cor.15.22. It says. Because. Just as everyone dies in Adam, in much the same way we must also be brought to life in whom do you think? In Jesus Christ. That's what the Word says. And this is not debatable. God says it's like that and so it is, and even though we can sometimes come up with a whole bunch of other scriptures. About justification by God's grace, that we are not perfect as human beings, that we all fail and sin, yes whatever else we can try to hide behind, by religious fig leaves. So that is the case. That we die in Adam. We are dead in ourselves, we will not have life if we do not experience a revival, a new resurrection in our own lives.
All of us must enter through the door which is Jesus and His life before we live and can share in the life of faith and get answers to our prayers. No one can just say so now I (yourself) have decided to be a Christian, so I just believe in God and get everything it says in the Bible because all of God's promises are now mine. The path to life goes only one way. It is through your own death with Jesus Christ on the tree of His suffering. You can try to skip other places. But then Jesus tells you directly that you are a thief, and thieves and robbers do not enter the kingdom of God at all.
Here, many religious people have a lot to learn and do. What about you, have you gone through death and into life, life with God through Jesus? Is this a real reality, the life you have right now? Is Jesus Christ your life?
We must all be guided and trained, not by men but by the Spirit. By Jesus himself. Of course God speaks through the people, we shouldn't start just like just going outside the camp/congregation and running our own race. We must be together and in Jesus by submitting to each other in deep heartfelt love, and that is the first love.
Can we really live is such the life of Jesus? Yes, we can if we would just stop labeling God and try to set the agenda ourselves. Many have planned how they want to live and where they want to work, live yes all their lives they have planned and they work towards that. What about God's plan for your life? What about your personal everyday worship when no one sees you?
We do everything in Jesus, who gives us the power for what God wants, not what we want.
Kol. 1.12-13 says. And thank the Father who made you fit to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He who delivered us out of the power of darkness and led us into the kingdom of His beloved Son. This is something that has happened. It is not a promise of anything to happen. God has done it. It happened when you were born again, by your faith in Jesus, whom God gave birth to in you. So He has made you the custom, enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints.
You've got everything.
As you have seen, you have got it all, even if you are in the faith of the life of the Spirit. It is the condition that everything you read about in the Bible happens in your that you have been given this lot and have been ransomed as a real reality, and not as something that could well have happened in theory but has not happened to you.
The spirit makes alive the letters only kill.
A great deal has been said and written since Jesus traveled before us to heaven. Much quibbling and endless discussions have been done. Here to is only to say. Pray, Jesus make the words come alive for you so that they become truly living life. Stop arguing with yourself and others about it and it may be absolutely correct with this and that interpretation of the Word. Faith becomes inactive by opening the door and distrust of God's Word produced in different ways through different servants who are human beings on an equal footing with you and me.
I'll tell you. What you understand from what is said may not be done in the same way by your neighbor. We are all different as human beings, one has to feel one way and the other the other. That's why Jesus says. One should not believe every spirit, but judge whether the spirit is from God, he does not tell us to sit up as judge of one another. Roman. 8. Then it is not a charge and condemnation anymore, for the man who is in Jesus Christ, the spirit of the law of life, has set that man free from the law of sin and death.
If we have the same Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and are in it, we also get what God says in the Word. Jesus asked Father that we may be one in Him, that is, have the same Spirit and abide in it. Therefore, it is very important that we always look for in our own lives whether we are still in the life of the Holy Spirit.
By the way, when I say what we learn, only through God's revelations through His Spirit can we come to know Him and His ways and lives. If we do not have the Spirit of God's True Revelation in us, we will go down the wrong path and get lost. Without visions/visions and revelations, the people die.
So what do we do?
To enter an active, living life of faith, we must begin to accomplish the life of God we are given to live in. It says somewhere that we must strengthen what is now left. That is precisely what we must do. We must go back into our lives and rise where we fell, or start again where we left off. Too many have long ago, maybe you?, put aside their vocation, task. They did not see any results from their hardships so why should we continue? Did the different editors see the result of what they wrote before us? Did everyone in the Bible see their fruits of what they wrote? One sows another harvest. Jesus wounds through mage different things and people. We reap some of what others are sown before us. Others are going to reap some of what we sowed without us even seeing it right now. Therefore, we must stay in our work for the Lord Jesus and not just say now we don't want to bother anymore just because we ourselves do not see any fruit of what we do by virtue of God's grace and strength there.
We have to finish the race and fully lead it. We must be cleansed from our own righteousness which is unjust in God's eyes. 2.kor.7.1. We must put on our old garment, which is dirty and ripped and ragged, and put on a new garment. Be aware that we must first be completely undressed before we can be dressed in a new outfit. Jak. 1.21. We must get rid of the worldly bad inclinations that we have become so accustomed to in our lives. We must have a total renewal of our minds (the inner man must be renewed). We must be cleansed from all that we were reminded of by the Holy Spirit before it is too late. If this does not happen, all the old things (Adam's life) will wake up to resistance and uninhibitedly erupt when we weaken or grow old and no longer have control over ourselves.
We must be sanctified to God in Jesus. How could we meet God without Holiness? Hebrews 12:14.
Work.
We all have work to do. It is not enough that we win and serve God by ministering to our neighbor. We must never forget that we must work for the salvation of our own souls, with fear and trepidation. File.2.12. Too many have forgotten this old truth. They are very busy with the lives of others, advising, guiding others, but their own lives often shout far louder than their many words. We must not look like the scribes and hypocrites who had fallen asleep. We must be awake, sighted and hearing. We must not overhear the Spirit of God telling us to wake up and be transformed through a renewal of our minds so that we are clothed in the new garment. By the way, you have to undress your own tattered garment first, and stand there completely naked before God can put on his own new attire. God is not in favour of tinkering. Jesus himself says you don't pour young wine on old sacks or you don't sew unpeeled fabric on an old garment, so it will break it. This is also how God does He creates new clothes for us so that we do not have to be alpked together. Everything becomes news if we will be clothed and renew our minds by the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
We must put off the old Adam's garment, we must leave the old Adam's man dead with Jesus Christ and not start living in it again. We must never go back to the old, but we must keep our eyes on the future. We are new creatures in Jesus Christ. All the old stuff is over. I.e. We are also over, dead, crucified with Jesus Christ. It is something that has happened by the power of the Spirit of God and not by reading it, and then we think that we are because we know it from Scripture. Only God knows Jesus does that for and in us.
It is not an external action we have to. We shouldn't start patching up an old outfit and start decorating ourselves by making a whole bunch of excuses about it being because so-and-so, it's my circumstances' fault, it's because of my illness, etc. whatever foolish invalid excuses we can come up with just because we won't be undressed and put on the new attire. Where there is a will there is also a way. If we don't want to, nothing will happen.
We only achieve that the old clothes will be even more torn apart if we get started with the so-called patchwork solutions. No, the water of God's Brook is new water. God's Spirit is renewal and it is all from the inside out. Efes. 22.24. By a total undress and in the wearing of the new life's garment.
Improvement?
No, we still don't have to start preparing ourselves and our exterior. Field. 2.21. The various improvements we have put on must be completely removed. They burden the soul life and bind us again in the slavery of the law which never leads to a renewed dress and a life of Jesus Christ, in faith. The old patches bind us only with heavy burdens of self-accusations, condemnations that are unbearable in the long run. All because. The exterior does not come from within the renewal of the heart, and the old garment is not put off and the new one is worn.
It will always be inside and out.
It is the heart, your inner self, that determines your exterior. When you yourself start cracking and the façade flattens your true self always comes out, you can't hide. Knowing all that misery eats away at your old self (Adam) causes bad nerves and tears you apart. Therefore, you must allow yourself to be transformed and renewed by Jesus via. The Hellegeånd.
Our hearts can be like a robber's den.
Filled with rot and depraved thoughts come up again and again. Therefore, we must all experience a temple cleansing (the renewal in the Holy Spirit of our minds) where we give Jesus permission to swing his whip so that we clean the temple of the Holy Spirit, as we are for the Holy Spirit. 1.chor.6.19.
Is it we hear something that touches us and makes its effect in us? Stop and search yourself. Is our minds touched by the glow of the altar, the glow of the Holy Spirit? Or have we become stiff-necked and emu in the face of the Voice of the Spirit. Do we hear? Or do we not refuse to face up to our situation?
If we are afflicted and do as Jesus commands us, then sin is convicted. Ace. 6.6. And we are on our way from death to life, by a total, not renovation of our minds, but renewal. When we are confronted with God like this, nothing unclean can stand and sin withers from the root, it is torn up with the root first, and not just with a pruning of the top, so that the outer looks beautiful and good good, while the inner is something completely different.
The fire must never go out.
If we abide in Jesus Christ, a conscious personal choice by faith, we are constantly renewed within ourselves . Never let the fire be extinguished. Leviticus.6.,6. If we are in Him, we are under the Spiritual's, not our own, Sanctification and we are sanctified. And then we can be devoted to God as portrayed by Jesus, without stains or wrinkles or the like. Efes. 5.27. He finishes His work in us, whether we are cooperative and submit to our free wills His will and pruning.
Such a man who is in Christ Jesus will be much better able to enjoy the evening of his life, without all the anguish that a sloppy Christian life entails, as a witness to the latter, because Jesus testifies himself in that man.
Don't put off what you're going to do today until tomorrow.
It is the greatest folly and foolishness of your life to procrastinate, your matter with God at other times. By the way, it is also one of Satan's best weapons to make us postpone things, with excuses about. I guess it can wait, not right now, I have to get this and that done first, and when you finally want to, you're too tired.
Time is very precious. Unfortunately, there are far too many who do not spend their best time with God. These precious minutes of the time of life are looked upon by many people with recklessness, postponing and postponing the matter of God's life all the time. When they retire or take early retirement, it is their boat, holiday homes and camping trips that are at stake, not that it is a sin to take a holiday, we also have a body to rest and relax. However, I draw attention to these things as they are often obstacles in prayer responses and life in and with God in Jesus.
When the hours come where it should be. Do people become disabled in different ways. The body, the nerves are worn down, physical pain that takes all the force, and they are so numbed by medicine that they do not have the peace to gather around the most important thing in life, to get their clothes in order, and to make matters in order with God within them. They didn't want to while they could, now they want to but can't. Don't let it go that way for you.
We must have our lives and trust in the Lord God
Keep your heart (your mind) above all else, because from there comes life. Word 4.23. Be aware that quite a few illnesses arise precisely because our minds become sick with worries and speculations. We're going to worry when we allow the thoughts of distrust to stick. We can get bitter so quickly. My heart was bitter and it stuck in my kidneys. Hymn. 73.23. Whether your eye is sick, your whole body is in darkness. If your mind is in the bitterness of darkness, your whole nature becomes a great darkness. That is, if we are constantly negative, we are driven down in our nerves. A happy mind brings positive life joy. Therefore, it is important that we entrust God with all our worries and trust that He will take care of everything. We must let go of our old nature and dress and step out of ourselves. Beat the discouragement out of your mind, keep the diseases at a distance from your body. Ecclesiastes 11.10.
Can we? Can we just knock all the evil and worries out of ourselves? Yes we can. We can do everything in Jesus Christ who is the power to do it in. We have been promised power and the strength of the life of the Holy Spirit, as our day is our strength and life shall be, we shall have power for all things in Jesus.
A happy heart a good healing. Proverb. 17.22.
You cannot, in the long run, keep your body /body healthy without God's sanctification in your faith in Jesus Christ. Without God's, not your self-righteousness work, you have no chance of justification, sanctification of that in you which is not yet subject to God. And as long as you stubbornly hold on to things that you know you should let go of, this is pathogenic in itself. Therefore, many sick, weak and many sleep ahead of time. 1.Cor.11.30.
Because many will not let go and surrender their lives entirely to God's will, there are many kinds of suffering among Christians today. They do not believe what they hear, they may say yes and amen the moment they hear the gospel message, and they can also discuss it among themselves afterwards, especially if the preacher used the right words from Scripture, but the very act of acting on what they heard, in their everyday lives, where none of the others in the church see it, they don't.
Today, as before, many have hardened their hearts. We see that Nabal did it. Nabal made his heart hard as stone, and died 10 days after that. 1.Sam. 25. 37-38.
Many Christians are hard as stone and are cold as ice. And then they can't understand why their life isn't the way they read it could be in the light of the Bible. It is quite clear if they are not inside the light (in Jesus) and allow the heat of the light to melt away their ice and the fire of the Holy Spirit melt their stone heart, yes, but then they are almost like when Lot's wife turned into a stiff dead pillar of salt. Maybe that's how it's gone for you?
Life's disappointments and problems have caused you to close the door of your heart both to people and to God? Perhaps you have become so bitter about life that you do not realize you have shut yourself out of God's life in Christ, by the hardness of your heart or the bitterness of your mind? You may be very busy preaching the life of sanctification and righteousness to others, but have you completely forgotten to look at how things are in your own life?
The Good Master is calling us all today.
We all have something that should be different. I will be the first to acknowledge this. But what are we going to do about it?
Yes! Take a look right here. Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. Jak. 5.16. Do you see it? It's important we don't just keep it all to ourselves, but share all things with each other. We make a huge mistake if we only share all the fine and good we experience and are in with each other. God wants us to live together, have a common life in Jesus where we really do what the Word says, in honesty with loving care for the one who fell into something. It's also one of the reasons there's so much confusion about being one in Christ. People would rather be one in the self than in Him. They don't want to be honest but much rather lie about themselves and others.
Now that we have been cleansed and have confessed our sins, it says here in John 4.4. Behold, now you have recovered, sin no more, that something worse should not befall you. Fear from now on God, and depart from evil/unrighteous, and you will get healing for your whole body, and relief for your life's misery. Word 3.7-8. Many are tired of life because they do not do as the word says here.
You must have the mind towards each other as if you were Christ Jesus. File 2.5. And in Kol. 1.3-6. As you come to know God's grace. God's True Grace/False Grace. We must come to the realization of God's True grace.
Grace and Truth came with Jesus Christ.
Is it the True grace you live in and believe in? Has the grace in Christ been abundantly shared with you? Have you met the light of grace, the Truth, the Way and are you in life?
It says that the Word is growing its growth. Do you grow in grace through your realization of Christ Jesus in you?
Being a believer is something alive and something that works, God's Word is alive. However, if you yourself are not alive in Jesus, you are dead and without Life, not the life we can see as such but your Spiritual Life may be dead.
It says that it grows its growth from the day they heard it. Here it is about being in Jesus Christ as we were when we first encountered grace and the Truth, when we came to faith, were born again.
John 4.16. We have come to know love. It also says stay in love. Are you still in the first love of God through faith in Jesus?
Jesus says in Revelation. I wish you were hot or cold but because you're lukewarm I want to spit you out. Too many are not burning in love, or the Spirit. They are lukewarm and do not grow at all in the grace and truth of love that would otherwise grow, and become more and more abundant to them as they come to know Christ more and more.
Can you now begin to see why your Christian life is not as you can see it should be?
One can have words for living and yet being dead, therefore it does not really happen in one's life because one lives in one's own flesh and not in the life of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit.
You can also be in that situation, you know a lot and know almost the basic language of the Bible at your fingertips, yet you are just a scriptural theologian without the life of the Spirit in you. Words do not save. You don't believe because you know a lot. You believe because you're a believer and you can't study that. It is a gift that is put down or into one when one is born again, the magnitude of faith is God's device, some have faith like a mustard others a little greater faith, But all of them have faith.
Even if you may now be able to. Pages and thinking oh yes. It's now something to talk about so you have to do something yourself. You must make your life's decision and choose which master you want to serve and belong to. Do you want to belong to yourself, as your own master? Or do you want a living life of God in the works of faith, where you have the Son as your personal ruler and Lord?
You need to know God has a plan for you and your life, but you yourself have been given your free will to choose God's plan or say yes and live in it, that is, in the life of the Spirit and not in the passions and desires of your flesh.
God has a plan with you.
It's one of the best pieces of news I've heard, many say. But maybe we ourselves have a completely different plan than God's? And so we ourselves must take the consequences of our choice in our living out the plans of our own wills and the lives of dead deeds.
But, here it is God's plan. Surely you have a whole bunch of plans for your life, you are probably thinking that you are going to serve God with everything you have. And make amends, and get everything that you failed to do before done now and you think. Now I just have to hurry while it's time for this and that. Maybe you've made a plan about how you would like to serve God now, compared to what you did before?
You be fully aware. God does not take our plans and ideas as good goods, even if they are not according to the will of His plan. Here you must quickly learn to submit to God's will, otherwise you will go out under your own power, and your work will not bear God's fruit. And you end up in the same place, in your chain as before you started.
Are you eager for your life as a Christian to be truly successful?
It is only Jesus' Kirsti work God accept as His life's success. So I would strongly advise against striving for success. Rather, you must strive for holiness in Jesus and the spiritual graces in Christ.
But, therefore, do not throw away your boldness, not at all, it should just be used according to God's will. Do not lose the courage of your faith even if you do not see God's success in your work. Keep that in mind. Don't throw away your boldness it has great pay according to. Because. God wants exactly the same for you as He wants for His Son in you. However, it is His success throughout your life God wants and not your own. That is precisely why God Himself has made a careful plan for you and your life to follow.
Pay attention.
The plan God has laid out for you is not always quite the same as the plan of other Christians. God has given us different tasks and carefully planned each person's life plan so that each of us has our own function on the body of Jesus Christ. It is on the body of Jesus Christ and in Him all life and success is and is lived. If you are in Him you will also succeed as a successful fruit of the Holy Spirit's work in and through you.
Nothing happens if not.
There is inte in our lives if we are not in Jesus Christ, by the grace of God by personal faith and firm trust.( Hebrews 11).
Jesus says. Pga. His unbelief could not do much among them. Pga. our own faith/theory and our own plans, Jesus cannot do what we read about in the Bible.
Because of people's self-made deeds, without being driven to do so by the Holy Spirit, what we read about does not happen.
Not all are
We can read in the Bible about the different kinds of grace gifts, the gift of healing, the pofetic gift of speaking tongues and interpretation, etc. What else we see we can get of gifts. But, no one, absolutely no one can usurp a single gift of God by saying. It says so in the Bible, so I can do that too. You can't steal God's gifts and make them your own if you don't get them given by God. It is also one of the reasons why we experience many failed attempts at miracles and see all the strange things with people getting into extestase and acting as if they were animals with shouts, screams, howls and laughter.
I personally, have seen how people lay on the floor writhing like snakes and where their stomachs went up and down, and they called it the fullness of the spirit, that despite the people who had that experience were still the same people the next day, without power for service, without true humility, they probably walked around with mines that looked like pharaoh's but you didn't see a single fruit in their lives that was bred of the Holy Spirit.
As such, we should not just accept everything you see and hear. It is vital that we judge whether what we see and hear is from God. We can only do this if we ourselves are one in the Spirit with Jesus Christ, and have His Spirit in us, otherwise we will be led astray by all the many different false copy prophets that we have everywhere today.
That's how we are.
We all wild as sheep, we each turned our own way. We hid our faces from Him (Jesus). We heard and heard but did not do what we heard. We did not see the life of God's glory in Jesus Christ.
We did not receive the gifts of faith that God wanted each of us to have. We wanted to be different from what God had in mind for the individual. We became like stray sheep, without a shepherd. We bleat like sheep about. Yes, but we also want it this way and that. After all, we have read in the Bible that we can also do this and that. Why shouldn't I be able to do it as well as so-and-so. We were envious. We would be big even though we are the very smallest. We thought ourselves rich in everything and yet we were so poor.
We studied and researched the Scriptures of the Bible, and were very concerned about whether there was a correct translation in our opinion, and whether we heard anyone use different words and phrases than those we thought were the right ones, we alienated them from our midst, despite the fact that we stood out as being the ones who always love everyone and would never dream of shutting any believer out of our middle. We refused to see the life of God's glory in anyone but ourselves.
Can you begin to see why this doesn't always happen, everything we know can happen according to the Words of the Bible?
Which we began by asking about.
Why doesn't it always happen as we read it could happen according to the Word of the Bible, which is the Word of God?
Is it God's fault? We have received everything in Jesus Christ, we believe and know it because the Word says so. After all, anything can happen because, for God in Jesus, all things are possible.
We have only one thing to do.
We must turn back, let ourselves be transformed through the transformations of our minds, so that we no longer live in the nature of our flesh (Adam). So we begin to do the same deeds that we have learned from the beginning.
The man who still has ears to listen to must listen carefully to what the Holy Spirit says to the churches today.
Repent and believe in the Gospel and you will be saved. You will not be saved or transformed to look like Jesus if you continue to live in your own theories and listen to the dead religiosity of people, which only leads to death.
The man who has the Son also has life. And then it is not long you who live but Jesus Christ in your place.
Amen.
