God is love. God is a Spirit. The things of God are spiritually discerned. The carnal mind is enmity with God and cannot understand (Godly) love, it cannot perceive of the wisdom that only the Spirit of Truth brings (love, the heart that is after Gods, that allows us to understand Abba Father).
Love is the second wind that pushes through your pain to achieve your goal (being filled with the Holy Spirit). So is receiving from God. The carnal mind feels a need to be occupied, it is discomforted by silence; separation to hear in the Spirit. As a runner pushes through pain to achieve his goal of endurance, so must a spiritual man (a man who would be spiritual) push through the will of his flesh to achieve the desires of his heart. Truth comes by the Holy Spirit. If you love truth you will love the Holy Spirit. If you want truth you will revere the Spirit of Truth and strive to have Him enter in to you and make His abode/home within you. Men have taught that it is automatic (or part of salvation), not true. Being born again is a spirit that was dead, is now alive (within a man). To live in the Spirit we must recognize that having the Holy Spirit is a second event (scriptural as well). And, we must desire it (to be filled) more than our own physical comfort, our own will, our own mind set, to purchase the “Pearl of Great Price”, the “Pearl of Wisdom”, having access to “all truth”. Perseverance to accomplishment is a virtue, it is strength of will, it is a Godly desire and commitment. Death is swallowed up in victory. You can be more than a conqueror through Christ (the Anointing, the Holy Spirit) who gives His Holy Spirit, endues you with power, if you press through.
Once your name is blotted out there is no more remission of sin. There is no more sacrifice God can pay. It would have been better if you had never accepted Jesus in the first place, than to pull back.
The Kingdom of God, which is not of this world, is yours to take, by force (of your will), or not. It is yours to value and keep, or not. It will be eternal life in the pleasure of God, or not. The season of “grace and mercy”, being drawn by the Holy Spirit (no man can come unless he is drawn) comes to an end. The undecided are the unworthy. The doubtful and fearful are the unworthy. Those who have squandered being born again, never coming to knowledge of truth, by the Spirit of Truth are castaway and shipped wrecked, having begun in the Spirit. What do you believe? Confirm your beliefs by your actions. Show your faith by your works, your actions.
(As a runner) Breaking through second wind is like the Holy Spirit moving on you and rather than looking into (pushing past our doubt and fear), we pull away, for discomfort.
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
L,J,P&HG
Dave
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Amen Dave. It is not by our strength but by Him who dwells within us, yet we much choose to believe he is greater within. There is no other way to the Father than by Jesus, no other way to live and dwell with him than his Holy Spirit, and even so the just live by faith. May we not become weary but know and trust God will give us our second wind, he promised it already. All we must do is believe, never doubting, trusting he is who he said he is.
~Austin~
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