What is the deal with the continuing Holy Spirit debate? Is it all that essential? First of all it is a he....and yes, he is most essential.
I understand the fear of the topic. The church has received adequate propaganda over the years to intentionally misguide the church from this entity. You see, the Holy Spirit is the presence of God in Spirit form. He shows up no other way. He is Spirit.
If Satan can convince the church through its very own doctrine to deny the existence of God among itself.....then guess who wins? The church without the Holy Spirit is the church without God while shouting from the rooftops it is God's church.....it's just that evidently He can't attend it.
What will the Holy Spirit do? Whatever God does. Scary? Hardly! The Word is very clear; he gives us the ability to be patient instead of panic, loving instead of snippy, a controlled calm rather than a hand-wringing fret, etc. The Holy Spirit wants to do all the good things for us that we all want; yet, we opt for trying to do it on our own because we are afraid of......God?
The Holy Spirit is God. He is Spirit and He is Holy. We have mistakenly jumped the faith track to deadening religion. We have become religious. Religion doesn't need the Holy Spirit. It can chart its course by attendance and performance. The Spirit, though, cannot be understood by the fleshly mind.
To disbelieve the Holy Spirit activity for and among us is the lazy man's move. It has always been easier to trust what we can see; not what we can't. Thus, we assume we are not going to be caught as foolish by believing in something invisible like.......God. Bad move. Costly move.
The church will one day apologize to God for harboring a doctrine foreign to His will. Possibly we will turn back before such is necessary. Maybe we can open the very Word the Holy Spirit delivered us and regain our composure. The Spirit of God surely is important among us.
If you struggle believing this, just read the Bible. It will encourage you to accept his activity among us.
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The more we walk in the valley of shadows the more the light comforts us. One has to have hope as Paul wrote to the Romans in chapter 8, “24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.”
The key to turn and to work in the lives of saints, is for the saints to be patient and allow God’s will to be worked accordingly. God will give what we ask and will not give us a stone or a snake. The Spirit will help in our weakness. Christ will work to strengthen our weakness. God will be glorified through our weakness. The weakness is not in our faith. The weakness is in our hope for what we do not have and the lack of patience waiting on the hope to be fulfilled.
It is true the Spirit can’t be understood by the fleshly mind. The Spirit can only be understood when we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. Once we are obedient to Christ then everything falls into place.
In order for the church to accept the Spirit it has to have hope for what it does not have. The hope has to be created. The hope of reaching into our communities and to give, but there is a delusion created a long time ago which has diminished the hope. These delusions are based upon love and giving while expecting nothing in return.
God constantly has motivated mankind to give and to expect something in return. Abraham keep My commandments and I will give you a son. Christians overcome this life and I will give you a crown of life. The hope is the motivation of understanding if we give to the community we will reap what is sown. A soul! Where does the soul come from? It is Spirit lead like the Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. Is the church willing to be lead to souls? Is this the weakness and is the church willing for the Spirit to intercede and give hope to the Saints to keep giving.
Keep on preachin' it!! More and more are hearing.
"To disbelieve the Holy Spirit activity for and among us is the lazy man's move. It has always been easier to trust what we can see; not what we can't. Thus, we assume we are not going to be caught as foolish by believing in something invisible like.......God. Bad move. Costly move."
Amen, Terry.
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