Like a good father The Holy Spirit is there in labour and birth and childhood through to maturity so you can be children of God by following Him. This is real not theory or mere metaphor - it is a present person making you God's all along the way with visits like fraternal visits of a hard working father who is out and about but still makes time to ensure he stays in your life too among all the other lives he gets involved in. You can put confidence in His doing this to make you holy as He is holy and you need not put confidence in rites like circumcision and feaste which were an old way before this way that trunps those human flesh things. So many depend on human action to keep them from unworthy living - and Gid did give those at one time to hekp before He gave a new way. Even Moses was compelled by God's wrath against him to get circumcised and keep the way of Law and flesh but now that Christ has been crucified and the Spirit is given therenis a eay of Spirit and life in the Spirit. So find it. Let it find you.
The Spirit is given as you truly believe in that cross, God's cross, the cross of the crucifixion of His own dear Son Jesus, as you receive THIS TRUTH: that it includes YOU. That God's grace reaches even you. Yes you. That it is even for you.
I too have to realise that Jesus of Nazareth did actually die and His death's benefit to others actually includes me - he died on that cross for me - but he did so also for you. Yes I have to realise you reading it was also for - that the death that makes the Spirit rightfully given was for you the reader of this. You who read this are one for whom Jesus the Christ of God died. This qualifies you, if you receive this truth of his crucifixion death, for the Spirit to come to you and give you truth and truthfulness and power of truthfulness within you. The way is to let this take over and lead.
Not only is it Spirit being given you that Christ dying for you entitles you to (when you receive the truth of it) but when floods of judgment come from God then mercy in the midst of it by power from Jesus - living Jesus the true Christ and Son of God - here and now in this day and age we live in.
It is for you WHO BELIEVE - for you who have faith in God the Father for whom Jesus taught and in whose authority Jesus leads and does His work.
Just like God honours my faith - your faith you who have real faith in Him - so He honours Jesus' faith and loves Jesus.
This gives me - you too who have real faith in God - real unity with Jesus.
In Jesus' case though this honouring by the Father has been that Jesus is alive from the dead raised by the Father - eternally. So I realise even as I think of these things.
But say it - He is blessed who comes in Jesus' name such as the Spirit who comes in Jesus' name and Jesus is blessed who comes in the Father's name and the Father is blessed who sends the Spirit and sent and sends and will send Jesus and raised Jesus from the dead and can raise those worthy of it too as Jesus does this in the will of the Father who sent Him and sends Him.
The Spirit is given as you truly believe in that cross, God's cross, the cross of the crucifixion of His own dear Son Jesus, as you receive THIS TRUTH: that it includes YOU. That God's grace reaches even you. Yes you. That it is even for you.
I too have to realise that Jesus of Nazareth did actually die and His death's benefit to others actually includes me - he died on that cross for me - but he did so also for you. Yes I have to realise you reading it was also for - that the death that makes the Spirit rightfully given was for you the reader of this. You who read this are one for whom Jesus the Christ of God died. This qualifies you, if you receive this truth of his crucifixion death, for the Spirit to come to you and give you truth and truthfulness and power of truthfulness within you. The way is to let this take over and lead.
Not only is it Spirit being given you that Christ dying for you entitles you to (when you receive the truth of it) but when floods of judgment come from God then mercy in the midst of it by power from Jesus - living Jesus the true Christ and Son of God - here and now in this day and age we live in.
It is for you WHO BELIEVE - for you who have faith in God the Father for whom Jesus taught and in whose authority Jesus leads and does His work.
Just like God honours my faith - your faith you who have real faith in Him - so He honours Jesus' faith and loves Jesus.
This gives me - you too who have real faith in God - real unity with Jesus.
In Jesus' case though this honouring by the Father has been that Jesus is alive from the dead raised by the Father - eternally. So I realise even as I think of these things.
But say it - He is blessed who comes in Jesus' name such as the Spirit who comes in Jesus' name and Jesus is blessed who comes in the Father's name and the Father is blessed who sends the Spirit and sent and sends and will send Jesus and raised Jesus from the dead and can raise those worthy of it too as Jesus does this in the will of the Father who sent Him and sends Him.
