THE SPIRIT OF GOD
November 2, 2009
I
believe that the word of God can
and will speak for
itself. So most of this booklet is just that, an in depth study in
God’s word of who the Spirit of the living God is. “So
shall My word be that
goes forth from My mouth;
it shall not return to Me void, but it shall
accomplish what I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah
55:11. “I know that, whatsoever God
doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing
taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before Him.”
Ecc.3:14.
God’s
word says: “Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He
make to understand doctrine? Them that are
weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” Isa.
28:9,10. So, our journey into God’s
word will be “Here a little, there a little, precept upon
precept.”
We should never assume that we
can do anything without our heavenly Father to lead us. Therefore I
would recommend that you pray before reading His Holy Word. “But
the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, nor can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.” 1Cor. 2:14.
Is
this topic, the Spirit of God, of importance? Is this something that
our heavenly Father would desire us to study and find out? “That
THE GOD of our Lord Jesus Christ, THE FATHER of glory, may give unto
you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the KNOWLEDGE OF HIM.”
Eph.1:17. “Thus
saith the LORD, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let
the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his
riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
UNDERSTANDETH AND KNOWETH ME, that I am the LORD which exercise
loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
THESE THINGS I DELIGHT, saith the LORD.” Jer.
9:23,24. We are called to know who our God is
and whom we should worship!
Satan has, from the
beginning, tried to deceive the people of God to worship someone or
something other than God. Do we think he has changed his tactics?
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst WEAKEN the
nations!
For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
THRONE above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
CONGREGATION, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” Isa.14:
12-14.
“But
I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice
to devils, and NOT TO GOD: and I would not that ye should have
fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the
cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and
of the table of devils.” 1Cor.10:20,
21. We need to be diligent in studying God’s
word—that we be not deceived! “These were more noble than
those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all
readiness of mind, and SEARCHED the scriptures DAILY, whether those
things were so.” Acts 17:11.
Is there a relation between CHRIST and the COMFORTER/HOLY SPIRIT?
COMFORTER
We will use “The
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible” to find the
meaning of the translated words in the Bible. It is a good study tool.
JOHN 16:7 “Nevertheless I tell you
the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not
away, the COMFORTER
[HELPER, COUNSELOR] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I send
him to you.” Strong’s #3875
JOHN 14:26 “But the COMFORTER
[HELPER, COUNSELOR] which is the Holy Ghost [Spirit], whom the
Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you.” Strong’s #3875
JOHN 15:26 “But when
the COMFORTER
[HELPER, COUNSELOR] is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from
the Father, he shall testify of me.” Strong’s #3875
JOHN 14:16 “And I will
pray the Father, and He shall give you another COMFORTER
[HELPER, COUNSELOR], that he may abide with you forever.”
Strong’s #3875
Strong’s
Concordance definition for COMFORTER
#3875 is:
An
INTERCESSOR
So the Comforter [Helper, counselor] is our INTERCESSOR! WHO is our INTERCESSOR?
1 JOHN
2:1 “My little children, these things
write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
ADVOCATE
with the Father, JESUS
CHRIST the righteous.”
Strongs #3875
Again we
have #3875: An
INTERCESSOR.
This scripture tells us that Jesus Christ is our
INTERCESSOR. An intercessor is one who intercedes [dictionary: to
mediate] for us. The following scriptures will uphold this truth!
MEDIATOR
1
TIMOTHY 2:5 “For there is ONE
God, and ONE
MEDIATOR
between God and men, the man CHRIST JESUS.” Strong’s
#3316
HEB.
8:6 “But now hath He [CHRIST] obtained
a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the MEDIATOR
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
Strong’s #3316
HEB.
9:15 “And for this cause He
[CHRIST] is the MEDIATOR
of the new testament [#1242 covenant], that by means of death, for
the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first
testament [#1242 covenant], they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance.” Strong’s #3316
HEB.
12:24 “And to JESUS
the MEDIATOR
of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh
better things than that of Abel.” Strong’s #3316
Strong’s
Concordance for MEDIATOR
#3316: An
INTERCESSOR.
INTERCESSOR
JESUS
CHRIST is our only
[ONE] Mediator, Intercessor. Notice the scripture in 1
TIM. 2:5 says “There is ONE
INTERCESSORbetween God and men.” When God says
ONE He means ONE!
ROMANS 8:26 “Likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities [MT.8:17]: for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
INTERCESSION
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
ROMANS
8:27 “And He that searcheth the hearts
[LK 2:34 & 35] knoweth what is the mind
of the Spirit, because He maketh INTERCESSION
for the saints according to the will of God.”
ROMANS
8:34 “Who is he that condemneth? It is
CHRIST that
died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand
of God, who also maketh INTERCESSION
for us.
HEB.
7:25 “Wherefore He [JESUS] is able also
to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by
Him,
seeing He [JESUS] ever liveth to make
INTERCESSION
for them.”
ISAIAH 53:12 “Therefore will I
divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil
with the strong; because He [JESUS] hath poured out His soul
unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare
the sin of many, and made INTERCESSION
for the transgressors.”
Who is it
that makes intercession for us? Heb.7:25.
Who is the ONE INTERCESSOR
between God and men? 1 Tim. 2:5.
Who is the one who makes intercession for the transgressors? Isa.
53:12. JESUS CHRIST the Son of the living
God!
Our INTERCESSOR,
according to the scriptures, is not a mysterious third person that
cannot be identified but it is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Who
else would be more suited than the ONE who was tempted in all points
as we are? Our High Priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses!
(Heb.4:15)
In the
above scripture (Rom. 8:27)
there is a reference to the Spirit
making intercession for the saints. Lets look at the:
SPIRIT of TRUTH
JOHN
15:26 “But
when the COMFORTER
is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even
the Spirit of TRUTH,
which proceedeth [John 8:42, John 17:8] from
the Father, he
shall testify of me.”
Strong’s
# 225
JOHN
16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of
TRUTH,
is come, he will guide you into all TRUTH
for he will not speak of himself
[John 8:28, 12:49, 14:10]; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will
shew you things to come. Strong’s #225
JOHN
1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten [John 1:18, John 3:16, 1 John 4:9] of
the Father,) full of grace and TRUTH.
Strong’s #225
JOHN
17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth,
thy word is TRUTH.
Strong’s #225
EPHESIANS
5:9 “For the fruit of
the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and TRUTH.”
Strong’s #225
JOHN
14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, ‘I
am the Way, the TRUTH,
and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.’”
Strong’s #225
Strong’s
Concordance for TRUTH
#225 is: Truth,
which is from #227
is: True, which is from #1:
ALPHA
REV.
1:11 “Saying, I am ALPHA
and Omega, the first and the last.”
The SPIRIT OF TRUTH is
the SPIRIT of Jesus Christ. It is His Spirit. It is not separate of
Him it is Him. HE is the Way, the TRUTH, and the life.
He
could not be everywhere at one time therefore
He came in another form. The scriptures
declare this in John 16:11,12:
“And they, when they had heard that He was alive, and had been
seen of her, believed not. After that He appeared in another
form unto two of them, as they walked and
went into the country.” There are many
accounts of the disciples not recognizing
Jesus after He had been raised from the dead. Mary did not recognize
Him and thought He was the gardener (John 20: 14,15). Peter did not
recognize Him at the shore until He spoke (John 21:5-12). Jesus said,
“And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you ANOTHER
COMFORTER
[INTERCESSOR], that He may Abide with you for ever.” Jesus
says, “I will not leave you COMFORTLESS:
I
will COME to
you.”(John 14:18) He also says, “…and lo I am with
you always, even to the end of the age.”(Mt. 28:20)
LIFE
Let us
take a look at JOHN 14:6
again:
JOHN
14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am
the Way, the TRUTH, and the LIFE:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.’” Strong’s
#2222
JOHN
1:4 “In him was LIFE;
and the LIFE
was the light of men.” Strong’s #2222
JOHN
6:48 “I am the bread of LIFE.”
Strong’s #2222
JOHN
11:25 “Jesus said to her, I am the
resurrection, and the LIFE:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”
Strong’s #2222
Strong’s
Concordance for LIFE
#2222: life,
compare to #5590:
breath, SPIRIT,
mind.
SPIRIT
2 COR.
3:17 “Now the
LORD is
that SPIRIT:
and where the SPIRIT
of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Strong’s #4151
Let us
take a look at some more scriptures with this same #4151:
ACTS
2:33 “Therefore being by the right hand
of God exalted, and having received OF THE FATHER the promise of the
Holy Ghost [SPIRIT],
he hath shed forth this,
which ye now see and hear. Strong’s #4151
JOHN
14:26 “But the COMFORTER
[INTERCESSOR/ MEDIATOR]
Which
is the Holy Ghost [SPIRIT]
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever
I have said unto you.” Strong’s
#4151
Remember
the scriptures declare that there is ONE
MEDIATOR, ONE
COMFORTER, ONE
INTERCESSOR! And this scripture says the Comforter IS the Holy
Spirit! Which is CHRIST! 2 COR. 3:17 (scripture above)
GAL.4:6
“And because ye are sons, God sent forth
the SPIRIT
of His Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” Strong’s #4151
PHILLIPIANS
1:19 “For I know that this shall turn
to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the SPIRIT
of JESUS CHRIST.”
Strong’s #4151
1 PET.
1:11 “Searching what, or what manner of
time the SPIRIT
OF CHRIST which was in
them [the prophets, verse 10] did signify, when IT
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that
should follow.” Strong’s #4151
ACTS
20:28 “Take heed therefore to
yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which
the Holy Ghost (SPIRIT)
hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He
hath purchased with His own blood.”
(There is only ONE who purchased us with His own blood! Jesus Christ)
Strong’s #4151
Watch and listen to
what happens in Revelation. This is absolutely fantastic!
LETTERS TO 7 CHURCHES:
REV.
2:1 “Unto the angel of the church of
Ephesus write; These things
SAITH He
that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, [Jesus Christ has in
His right hand seven stars! Rev. 1:16] who walketh in the midst of
the seven golden candlesticks.” (In the midst of the seven
candlesticks is Jesus Christ! Rev. 1:12,13) Notice it is Jesus Christ
who SAITH these
things!
REV.
2:7 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
Churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
2:8 “And unto the angel of the church
in Smyrna write; These things
SAITH the first
and the last, [Rev. 1:11] which was dead, [Rev. 1:5] and is alive.”
(Rev. 1:18) Notice it is Jesus Christ who SAITH
these things!
REV. 2:11 “He
that hath an ear, let him hear
what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
Churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
2:12 “And to the angel of the church in
Pergamos write; These things
SAITH He
which hath the sharp sword with two edges.” (Rev.1:16). Notice
it is Jesus Christ who SAITH
these things!
REV.
2:17 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
2:18 “And unto the angel of the church
in Thyatira write; These
things SAITH
THE SON OF GOD, who
hath His eyes like unto a flame of fire, and His feet are like fine
brass.” (Rev. 1:14&15) Notice it is Jesus Christ who SAITH
these things!
REV.
2:29 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
3:1 “And unto the angel of the church
in Sardis write; These things
SAITH He that
hath the seven Spirits of God, [Rev.5:6] and the seven stars;.”
(Rev.1:16) Notice it is Jesus Christ who SAITH
these things!
REV.
3:6 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
3:7 “And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write; These things
SAITH He that
is holy, [Acts 13:35] He that is true, [1 John 5:20] He that hath the
key of David, [Isa. 22:22] He that openeth, and no man shutteth, and
shutteth, and no man openeth.” Notice it is Jesus Christ who
SAITH these
things!
REV.
3:13 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
churches.” Strong’s #4151
REV.
3:14 “And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These things
SAITH the Amen,
the faithful and true witness, [Heb. 2:17, Rev. 19:11, Rev. 1:5] the
beginning of the creation of God.” Notice it is Jesus Christ
who SAITH these
things!
REV.
3:22 “He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT
SAITH unto the
churches.” Strong’s #4151
In every
letter to the churches it is Jesus Christ that is speaking, and at
the end of every letter He admonishes us to hear what THE SPIRIT
says! These truths are undeniable. This is incredible. Jesus Christ
is the SPIRIT!
Strong’s
Concordance for SPIRIT
#4151 is:
Mental disposition, SPIRIT,
CHRIST’S
SPIRIT,
the HOLY
SPIRIT,
MIND.
Compare to #5590:
SPIRIT,
MIND.
JOHN
6:63 “It is the SPIRIT
that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I [Jesus] speak unto you, they
are SPIRIT
and they are LIFE
[#2222, from #5590: SPIRIT].”
Strong’s #4151
JOHN
20:22 “And when He [Jesus] had said
this, He breathed on them,
and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost
[SPIRIT].”
Strong’s #4151
JOHN
7:38,39 “He that believeth on Me, as
the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. (But this spake He [Jesus] of the
SPIRIT,
which they that believe on Him should receive:
for
the Holy Ghost [SPIRIT]
was not yet given; because that Jesus was
not yet glorified.)” Strong’s
#4151
Do the
Father and the Son have the same SPIRIT?
ROMANS
8:9 “But ye are not in the flesh, but
in the SPIRIT,
if so be that the SPIRIT
OF GOD dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the SPIRIT
OF CHRIST, he
is none of His.” Strong’s #4151
Notice this scripture
says that we have the Spirit of God AND the Spirit of Christ. How can
this be? Let’s continue to look at the Scriptures for the
answer.
JOHN
3:34 “For He [Jesus] whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God:
for God giveth not the SPIRIT
by measure unto Him.” Strong’s #4151
ACTS
2:33 “Therefore being by the right hand
of God exalted, and having received
OF THE FATHER
the promise of the Holy Ghost [SPIRIT],
He hath shed forth
this, which ye now see and hear.” Strong’s #4151
Notice
that the SPIRIT
comes from The Father! It is OF the Father it is not separate from
the Father! It is likened to the spirit that is in man, it is not
separate of man. If I say my spirit is grieved you would know that I
was talking about myself not another person. Even so no one knows the
deep things of God except the Spirit of God. Man’s spirit is
likened to God’s Spirit and is explained in this way in 1Cor.
2:10-12. we will see this scripture shortly in this study.
The
SPIRITof
GOD, comes from the Father through the Son to
us!
The
scriptures tell us that there is ONE SPIRIT!
EPHESIANS
4:4 “There is one body, and ONE
SPIRIT,
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.” Strong’s
#4151
EPHESIANS
2:18 “For
through Him [Jesus] we both have access
by ONE SPIRIT
unto the Father.” Strong’s #4151
JOHN
15:26 “But when the COMFORTER
[Counselor, Helper] is come, whom I [Jesus] will send unto you FROM
the FATHER, even the SPIRIT
of truth, which proceedeth from the FATHER,
he shall testify of me.” Strong’s #4151
It is the SPIRIT of GOD the FATHER:
FATHER
JOHN
14:10 “Believest thou not that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me? The words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but THE FATHER
that dwelleth in me,
HE DOETH THE WORKS.”
Jesus was baptized and the Spirit of God came upon Him. The scripture
says that the Father was in Him doing the works.
MAT.
10:19,20 “But when they deliver you up,
take no thought how or what ye shall: for it shall be given you in
that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but
the SPIRIT of
your FATHER
which speaketh in you.”
ACTS
2:22 “Ye men of Israel, hear these
words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles
and wonders and signs, which GOD
did by Him in the midst of you, as ye
yourselves also know.” NKJV says “through Him.”
Notice that the FATHER
did the miracles, signs, and wonders by Him, or through Him.
2COR.5:19
“To wit, that
GOD [the
Father] WAS IN
Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.”
JOHN
5:19 “Then answered Jesus and said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The
SON can do NOTHING of Himself, but
what He seeth the FATHER
do: for what things soever He [The FATHER]
doeth, these also doeth the SON likewise.”
JOHN
5:30 “I can
of mine own self do NOTHING: as I hear, I
judge: and My judgment is just; because I SEEK
not My own will, but
the will of the FATHER
which hath SENT Me.”
1 COR.
8:6 “But to us there is but ONE
GOD, THE
FATHER,
OF WHOM ARE
ALL THINGS, and we in Him; and
ONE LORD
JESUS CHRIST, BY whom
are all things, and we by Him.”
1 COR.
2:12 “Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world, but the SPIRIT
which is OF GOD;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us OF GOD.”
Notice that the Spirit is OF
God the Father.
Strong’s
Concordance for SPIRIT
#4151 is: MIND.
MIND
The
scriptures that we have looked at that have the #4151
is SPIRIT,
MIND.
The Spirit of God is the MIND
of God! It is not a separate person but is the MIND
of God.
I would like to share
my testimony to further explain this concept:
I was a heavy drug
addict, I could not go one day without doing drugs. I had just
recently asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior and asked Him to come
into my life. I was pleading that God would deliver me. One day I
heard a noise coming from our baby’s room, when we went in to
check on her we saw that she was convulsing in her crib. Her eyes
were rolled back in her head. I screamed for my husband to pick her
up and I went running frantically through the house. My husband cried
out to Jesus to save his baby girl and immediately the seizure
stopped. The ambulance came and I went with them and our baby. The
whole time I was so scared that they would know that I was on drugs
and would take her away from me. This went on for hours.
It turned out that
she had an ear infection and the fever had been real high. That is
why she had the seizure. They gave her a bath and some antibiotics
and she was fine. I was so afraid that they were going to take her
away. When we got home we put her to bed and went right back to doing
drugs.
In the
morning, I was so terribly upset that even at the thought of loosing
my baby, because of drugs, I went right back to it. Like a dog
returning to it’s vomit! I really cried out to God knowing with
all of my heart (mind) that something HAD to change! The Lord put
this thought in my mind that I WAS DELIVERED from drugs because
of what Jesus Christ HAD done on the cross.
I wrote down on a piece of paper in large letters: I AM DELIVERED
FROM DRUGS BECAUSE OF
JESUS CHRIST!
I said this all day every day and I believed in my heart (mind)! That was 20 years ago and I have never, from that day, had ANY temptation for drugs again!
What changed in me? From 11 years of being a drug addict to no desire whatsoever. A desire starts in the MIND. My MIND was changed. It was not the mind
of a drug addict anymore it was the MIND of God and His desires!
(Isaiah
53:11, “He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be
satisfied: by His KNOWLEDGE
shall My righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their
iniquities.”)
Let’s look at
some scriptures that connect the mind with the Spirit:
ROMANS
8:27 “And He that searcheth the hearts
[#2588 MIND] knoweth what is the
MIND
of the SPIRIT,
because He maketh INTERCESSION
for the saints according to the will Of
GOD.”
1
CORINTHIANS 2:16 “For who hath known
the MIND
of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the MIND
of CHRIST.”
EPHESIANS
4:23 “And be renewed in the SPIRIT
of your MIND.”
ROMANS
8:5,6 “For they that are after the
flesh do MIND
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the SPIRIT
the things of the SPIRIT.
For to be carnally MINDED
is death; but to be spiritually
MINDED
is life and peace.”
2 TIM.
1:7 “For GOD
hath not given us the SPIRIT
of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound MIND.”
ACTS
7:51 “Ye stiffnecked
and uncircumcised in heart [#2588 MIND]
and ears, ye do always resist
the Holy Ghost [SPIRIT]:
as your fathers did, so do ye.”
PHILIPPIANS
2:5 “Let this MIND
be in you, which was also in CHRIST JESUS.”
This
principle applies also in the Old Testament, you can simply study the
words Spirit, mind and heart in the Strong’s Concordance. Here
is one for an example: “Then the SPIRIT
of the LORD will come upon you [Saul], and you will prophecy with
them and be turned into ANOTHER MAN. So it was, when he had turned
his back to go from Samuel, that GOD gave him ANOTHER HEART
[#3820 the feelings, the will, the intellect, the MIND],
and all those signs came to pass that day.” (1 Sam. 10:6, 9)
Notice that when the LORD turned him into another man, God gave him
another heart (MIND).
Let’s
continue in God’s word to understand the principle that #4151
SPIRIT
means MIND:
1 COR.
2:10,11 “But GOD hath
revealed them unto us BY HIS SPIRIT:
for the SPIRIT
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
OF GOD. For what
man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which
is IN HIM? Even so the things OF GOD knoweth
no man, but THE SPIRIT
OF GOD. Strong’s
#4151
2 COR.
3:3 “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly
declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not
with ink, but with the SPIRIT
OF THE LIVING GOD;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables OF
THE HEART
[#2588 MIND].”
Strong’s #4151
GAL.
4:6 “And because ye are sons, GOD
hath sent forth the
SPIRIT
of His SON into your
HEARTS
[#2588 MIND],
crying, Abba, Father.” Strong’s #4151
EPH
1:17 “That THE
GOD OF our
Lord Jesus Christ, THE FATHER OF GLORY, may give unto you THE
SPIRIT
OF WISDOM
and REVELATION
in the knowledge
OF Him.” Strong’s #4151
HEB.
9:14 “How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who THROUGH THE ETERNAL
SPIRIT
offered Himself without spot TO GOD,
purge your CONSCIENCE
from dead works to serve the living God? Strong’s #4151
EPH.
3:17 “That Christ may DWELL
in your HEARTS
[#2588 MIND]
by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love…”
We are
called by God to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth.” 2 Tim. 2:15.
I believe that God has shown us ample evidence in His word that the
Spirit of God comes from the Father through the Son to us (Acts
2:33). And that the Holy Spirit is the
presence of the Father and the Son NOT A THIRD PERSON! “Jesus
answered and said unto him, ‘If a man love me, he will keep my
words: and my FATHER will love him, and WE [the Father and the Son]
will come unto him, and make our abode [home] WITH him.’”
John 14:23. Where
would THEY make their home? In our arm or our stomach or the pump
that we call a heart? No, they dwell in our minds. Jesus said “And
this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might know thee THE ONLY TRUE GOD,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent.” John
17:3. Notice, that this scripture is in
regards to eternal life and there are two that you must know! If
there was a third would He not be mentioned? “That which we
have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have
fellowship with us: and TRULY our fellowship is with THE FATHER, AND
WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.” 1 John 1:3.
Again we have two beings that we are told to have fellowship with!
These scriptures were written by the apostle John; he was taught by
Jesus Himself!
In The
Revelation of Jesus Christ we are told about 2 groups of people,
those that worship The Creator and those that worship the beast and
his image: Revelation 14:6, 7:
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, SAYING WITH A
LOUD VOICE, fear GOD, and give glory to HIM; for the hour of HIS
judgment is come: and WORSHIP
HIM that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters.”
If we study this
carefully an angel is a message or messenger. God will give a message
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
saying
with a LOUD voice to “WORSHIP
God who made heaven, earth, and the sea and the fountains of waters.”
Jesus said to the woman at the well, “But the hour cometh, and
NOW is, when the TRUE WORSHIPPERS SHALL
WORSHIP THE FATHER in spirit and in TRUTH:
for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.” John
4:23. Ephesians 3:9
says, “God [the Father] created all things BY Jesus Christ.”
We must worship the Father and know who He is!
Rev.
14:9 says that there is another angel
(message) saying, “If ANY man WORSHIP
the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in
his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which
is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the
holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.” For God’s
wrath to be poured out without measure on someone, I would consider
what is being
said! And that this is definitely a salvational issue. There will
ONLY be TWO groups of people in the last days, those that “worship”
Him who made heaven and earth and those who “worship”
the beast and his image. It is as simple as that! It is all about who
you “worship.”
We better know who God is according to the scriptures so that we be
NOT deceived! Mat. 24:24
says, “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
possible, they shall DECEIVE
the very elect.”
In Rev.
18:4 God gives a call, a plea to His people
from heaven saying, “COME OUT
of HER, MY
PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and THAT YE RECEIVE NOT
of her plagues.” Who or what is God calling His people OUT of?
Notice He says out of HER.
In Rev. 14:8, we have
another angel (message) saying “Babylon IS FALLEN, is fallen,
that great city, because SHE
made ALL NATIONS drink of the wine of the wrath of HER
fornication.” In Rev. 18:1,2
another angel (message) “…having great power; and the
earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a
strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird.” Rev.17:4-6,
“And the WOMAN
was arrayed in purple
and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, [does this sound
familiar? We will see later.] having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of HER
fornication: and upon HER
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [Notice that she is a
Mother, she has daughters (churches) that will unite with her and
follow in her footsteps!]
And I saw
the WOMAN
drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus [do these clues give us any indication of who this
may be?] and when I saw HER,
I wondered with great admiration [#2295 to wonder, from a form of
#2300 to look closely at, to perceive, behold, look upon].”
Babylon is a woman!
What is a woman in Bible prophecy?
Jer.
6:2, “I have likened the DAUGHTER
of Zion to a comely and delicate WOMAN.
Rev 19:7 “Let us
be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and His WIFE
hath made HERSELF
ready.”
A
woman in Bible prophecy is a Church. Considering some of the clues we
were given above from God’s word about this HARLOT, can we
identify HER?
Cardinals of the Catholic Church dressed in scarlet
[red] and the Bishops wore purple
at the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Is the Catholic Church decked
with gold, precious stones and pearls? Is the Catholic Church from
times past drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus Christ? Even if you go back to Pagan Rome that
ruled BEFORE Papal Rome at the time of Jesus, it TOO
was drunk with the martyrs of Jesus! Remember that SHE
has daughters! Webster’s Dictionary definition for a Protestant
is, “any Christian not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church.”
Therefore we cannot agree with any of HER
doctrines, PERIOD! To further identify the Catholic Church as The
Harlot of Revelation you can study Daniel and the little horn as well. The
little horn is also this Church.
There
are two women in the Book of Revelation; one gives birth to the Son
of God [thereby being of the truth] and the other is a HARLOT.
When the children of Israel (God’s church in the Old Testament)
turned from obeying God, worshiped idols and forgot the true and
living God, they were likened to an adulteress WOMAN
or HARLOT.
Ezek. 23:1-5 “The
word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were
two WOMEN, the
daughters of one
mother: and they committed whoredoms [#8457 harlotry]
in Egypt; they committed whoredoms [harlotry]
in their youth: there were their breast pressed, and there they
bruised the teats of their virginity. And the names of them were
Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and
they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria
is Aholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah. And Aholah played the HARLOT
when SHE was mine;
and SHE doted on HER
lovers, on the Assyrians HER
neighbours,”
Verse 7: “Thus SHE committed
HER whoredoms [harlotry] with them…with
all their IDOLS SHE defiled HERSELF.”
Verse
11: “And when HER
sister Aholibah saw this, SHE
was more corrupt in her inordinate love than SHE,
and in HER
whoredoms [harlotry]
more than HER
sister in HER
whoredoms. Verse 35: “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
because thou hast forgotten Me, and cast Me behind thy back,
therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms [harlotry].”
A
woman represents a church as we have seen in the scriptures. A church
that turns from obeying God to worship idols, other gods, and does
not follow after The True and Living God becomes a HARLOT!
She does not have the pure truth of God but is tainted by the
ADULTERY of God’s truth. There is no mixture of truth, you
either have truth or lie. There is no in between. We cannot be
lukewarm, we must be HOT! No mixture!
Jer.13:27,
“I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness
of thy whoredom [harlotry],
and thy abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O
Jerusalem! Wilt thou NOT be made CLEAN? When shall it once be? ”
Listen to the cry of your Father: Jer. 9:1-3,
“Oh that My head were waters, and Mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter
of My people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave My people, and go from them! For
they be all ADULTERERS,
an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like
their bow for LIES: but they are NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH upon the
earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, AND THEY KNOW NOT ME,
saith the LORD.”
The
Father wants us to know Him, to make sure that we are not defiled by
false doctrines, idols, false gods.
And to know and be valiant for the TRUTH. If we do not, we are in
danger! 2 Thes. 2:9,10:
“The coming of the LAWLESS ONE
is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and
LYING wonders, and with ALL unrighteous DECEPTION among those who
perish, because they did not RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE
TRUTH, that they might be saved.”
If we
go back to Rev. 14:6-12,
the message is clear. We must WORSHIP HIM who made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Or we will worship the beast and his image. Ex.
20:8-10, “Remember to keep the Sabbath
Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy
work: but The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the LORD THY GOD…Verse
11, “For in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” When
Peter and John were released from custody and reported what had
happened to the others this is what they said: Acts
4:24, “And when they heard that, they
lifted up their voice to GOD with one accord, and said, Lord, thou
art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that
in them is.” The Seventh Day
Sabbath is a memorial of The Creator.
Rev.
14:12 gives us the antidote of how NOT
to worship the beast and his image: “Here is the patience
[endurance] of the SAINTS:
here are they that keep the COMMANDMENTS of God, AND the FAITH of
Jesus.” These are called saints that keep ALL
Ten Commandments (not some) ALL!
And they ALSO have the FAITH of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living
God!
Here
are some quotes from The Catholic Church on the topic of The Sabbath:
“The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the
existence of a PROTESTANT, by virtue of HER
divine mission, CHANGED the day from Saturday TO Sunday. We say by
virtue of HER
divine mission, because He who called Himself the ‘Lord of the
Sabbath,’ endowed HER
with His own power to teach, ‘He that heareth you, heareth Me’;
commanded all who believe in Him to hear HER,
under penalty of being placed with the ‘heathen and publican’;
and promised to be with HER
to the end of the world. SHE
holds HER
charter as teacher from Him—a charter as infallible
as perpetual. The Protestant world at it’s birth (in the
Reformation of the sixteenth century) found the Christian Sabbath
(Sunday) too strongly intrenched to run counter to its existence; it
was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescing (quiet
assent, disposed to submit) in the arrangement, thus IMPLYING the
church’s RIGHT to CHANGE the day, for over three hundred years.
The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is therefore to this day the
acknowledged OFFSPRING of the Catholic Church as spouse of the Holy
Ghost, without a word of remonstrance (to
protest) from the Protestant world.”
The Catholic Mirror (Baltimore, Md.), Sept. 23,1893. “The
observance of Sunday by the PROTESTANTS is a HOMAGE they pay in spite
of themselves to the authority
of the [Catholic] Church.” Mgr. Louis Segur, Plain Talk About
Protestantism Of Today, Boston 1868, Page 225. “Of course the
Catholic Church claims that the change [from Saturday to Sunday] was
HER act. And
the act is a MARK
of HER
ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.” –
C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons. “Sunday is our
MARK of
authority… The church is above the Bible, and this
transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”
Catholic Record, Sept. 1, 1923 (Ontario).
The
disciples said it well: Acts 5:29,
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we ought
to obey God
rather than MEN.” Acts 5:32,
“And we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the
Holy Ghost, whom GOD hath given to them
that OBEY Him.”
Babylon
is an unclean church, SHE
is “The Mother of Harlots”: The Catholic Church (the
Church of Rome). A Mother has daughters. Will this Church that is not
obedient to God’s Commandments be united with HER
daughters? And will HER
daughters be in agreement with HER
false doctrines? The answer is yes! “The mystery of the Trinity
is the CENTRAL
doctrine of the Catholic faith.
Upon IT are based ALL the other teachings of the Church.”
Handbook for Today’s Catholic, page 12. The Trinity doctrine is
a false doctrine of the Catholic Church formulated at the Counsel of
Constantinople in 381A.D. Exodus 20: 2-3,
“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS
BEFORE ME.”
Remember
that our Father calls from heaven with great love: Rev
18:4, “And I heard another voice from
heaven, saying, ‘COME OUT of HER,
My people, that ye be not partakers of HER
sins, and that ye receive not of HER
plagues.’”
Revelation
22:14, “Blessed are they that do His
Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city.”
Rev. 21:10,22-23,
“And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
mountain, and shewed me that great city, THE HOLY JERUSALEM,
descending out of heaven from God…And I saw NO temple therein:
for the Lord God Almighty AND the Lamb
are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of
the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God
did lighten it, AND the Lamb is the light
thereof.” Rev. 22:1,
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb.”
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