The answer is yes, even to you! - But first off, you must realize that we cannot understand how the Spirit moves, neither can we understand how it operates in our lives; Be honest, we do not even comprehend God’s dynamic forces at work not even when it comes to our own experience. All we know is this - When we surrender our lives to Christ we become “born again” This is a spiritual rebirth and we receive a new Spiritual nature. with it, comes the ability to abide in the vine, and to feed of off God. But it is quite a mystery to us. Can you explain the transformation that takes place, the power that indwells you in your Spirit Filled walk with God? The mystery of a God’s Spirit living inside of you? I think not! But yet, it is required! We can accept it by faith and by faith alone!. So, we are busy laying a foundation on which we can build on. This is an important study and you should neither speed read, nor skip read it!
Nicodemus, a highly educated Rabi, wrestled with this very same question; he didn’t understand it either, so He asked Jesus “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? John 3:3 In reply, Jesus explained to Nicodemus: Rather than being born physically, this birth is a change of heart; by surrendering your will to God and making Him the Lord of your life. It is the renewing of the mind. Then after salvation you must internalize your decision by being Baptized Rom 12:2“ So, Jesus is saying: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. You might not understand it, but 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. And you are thinking - this is all good and well, but I still don’t get it! Don’t even try to decipher it, you won’t be able to: Just remember this: “The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”. Heb 4:12 Take a hint: Jesus is saying: Study My Word diligently and you will discover that My Word is Spirit and it is life John 6:63. The Word will be a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your path. Psalm 119:105
So, Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. John 3:7 Jesus then further explained: look fellow- you don’t understand everything, just trust me and believe me, I do understand! I am talking about heavenly things, which I have seen. John 3:12 Nevertheless, if you want to inherit eternal life, you must believe. Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6 (diligently seek is the key words here!)
If you really believe in my existence, you will also believe my salvation. If you come to me I can save you to the uttermost Heb 7:25 You might be tempted to think, “I just can’t make it and you are so right, you can’t but I can reach you, for sure Isaiah 59: just keep on asking Luke 18. 1 and I will keep you on the path and I will complete your faith unto the end 1cor 1:8 matt 28:20 I exist and this fact remains: you must experience a Spiritual rebirth and renewal, by believing in me- Trusting and obeying every Word. Do not miss your cleansing ceremony either, be baptized already!-By doing this you are making a statement, a public declaration, declaring that you will follow me, wherever I may lead you. - Or are you ashamed to admit it? You being, so bad, could become witnesses, testifying to God’s power through your unique salvation experience. It could soften another person’s heart. Don’t be ashamed of the Gospel, it is the power unto salvation. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (You don’t want that!) mark 8:38
Say with me: I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;Rom1:16 Baptism is a outward symbol of and inward change, it is a ceremony testifying to your death to sin, this is burring the old man of sin, in the water grave, and it is the resurrection of your spiritual nature. You are born again now and this becomes your new birthday, celebrate it as such! A new life in Christ Rom 4:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; Mark 16:16-17
John 3:8 Think about the wind for a moment, it is blowing and you can hear it, but you can’t see it, you can only see its effects on nature, and you don’t even know where it came from, neither where it is going “so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” The Spirit moves in your life and it blows you a little at a time, bit by bit, ever closer to Christ; it changes you –little by little – baby steps- slowly but surely, it is a very slow process.
When you accept Jesus He will give you the gift of the Holy Spirit. When He does, you will surely notice its infulence working in and through you. In fact, you will hear it’s still small voice. 1Kings 19:12 Pay close attention to this voice, and listen real good! The Holy Spirit will impress your mind and you will think – Oh, It’s only my conscious. No, this is the Holy Spirit speaking through your conscious. He will empower you acts1:8 The voice of the Holy Spirit will guide your feet and it will direct your path Prov 3:6 as you take small little baby steps towards the Kingdom, you will hear a whisper giving you turn by turn instructions 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Isaiah 30:21 I will guide you in my paths of righteousness through the indwelling of the Holy spirit. He will guide you into all truth and He will proclaim my messages to you John 16:13 God will give you the petitions of your heart 3psalm 37:4 But only if you pray according to His will. John 4:3
Remember, 31Jesus explained, Faith and our growth in the Word start of very small. It’s like a mustard seed. When we receive the Gospel message for the first time it affects us in a very small way.32 but it grows and it grows and it grows. As we A.S.K. (ask seek and knock) As we Pray without ceasing. 1thess 5:17 The seed of the Word will mature in your heart; It will grow and it will expand, like leaven. If you keep on asking you would become a giant in faith, You will draw, very, very close to God. We root ourselves firmly in the Word of God and we grow strong branches and we reach out to others. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking, “you are working out your way to heaven, it is just impossible” Eph 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” So, even though your works do not contribute to salvation, don’t forget, your works still count for something. You will be judged by your works, rev 20:13 but Please don’t brag. The works you do are still important though “Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, Luke 3:8 they will be like Gold purged with fire in the day of Judgment Mal 3:3 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecc 12:14 So, keep on working the works of God. You may ask: did you not say, we are we saved by grace, and not by works. Exactly! But, do not lose sight of the fact that there is still some works that count. 29 There is some work you must do in order to be saved-Jesus said so himself! He said “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. John 6:29
Don’t rely on yourself 17 you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; but you don’t know, you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: “21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Jer 5:21 18 “ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” Rev 3:17-18 Remember, if you reject my will, what are you doing; you are looking for an excuse to sin John 6:28-29 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecc 12:13 My Ten Commandments of the Moral Law are not done away with, don’t believe this lie from satan, He is a liar and there is no truth in Him, also, there is no truth in a lie either. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matt 5:18. (Heaven did not pass away yet, did it now? Neither did the Law, Take a hint!). Also, please remember my seventh day Sabbath - I made it for you personally. I intently blessed the Sabbath day and I have set it apart as Holy, for you! So, 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ex 20:8 &10-11 It is a day of rest and not a burden, is it a burden to rest??
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. I made it for man as a day of worship and relationship building mark 2:27 It will never pass away, You will keep on keeping it when you get to heaven Isaiah 66:23. So why are you so against it now – is it maybe that you want to work and play on my day? I am the Lord of the Sabbath – Remember that!
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: also, 19 if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev 22: 20 (You don’t want that!) I come quickly. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. and lo I am with you even unto the end of the age. The ten commandments when lived out, is Love, and I am Love 1John 2:4 John 14:15
Speaking about being born again and the mysteries of God
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 15 whosoever believeth in him will not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 30 I must increase, but you must decrease.
I can still give you a double portion of my Spirit – But want to be more generous towards you 34: God giveth not the Spirit by measure. If you keep on asking, that is! 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
I just want to ask you, Please be respectful?“ ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. I will show “mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Rev 20:3 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.Eph 4:32 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?luke 11:13 34 Remember, I will give you the Holy spirit without measure. John 3:34 When you receive it, don’t stop asking, do not sit back thinking, I have arrived! - don’t brag! John3:34 Eph2:8-9
We are worried about our lives, our work, our marriages, our kids our salvation and we doubt the fact that we can receive the Holy Spirit without measure, but God is asking: Is any thing too hard for the LORD? Psalm 8: 4 God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. John14: 16 “your Father which sees in the secret will reward you in the open.” He would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; cor 13:9 we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord. 22
Live by faith: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Nothing is too hard for the LORD? Psalm 8: 4 Psalm 8:5 your life is but a wisper and you wonder, what is man that you are mindful of Him Psalm 8:5 But I made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned you with glory and honour. 1 Peter 1:22 I have Elected you according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Eph 3:14-2114 Knowing this you should bow your knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,15
But you are still hesitant, wandering - is it possible that I can receive the Spirit without measure?“ My ways higher than your ways says the Lord God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. John14: 16 “your Father which sees in the secret will reward you in the open.” He would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
But I don’t understand , 1cor 13:12 we see through a glass, dimly; 2 cor 3:18 beholding the reflection the glory of the Lord, cor 13:9 we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord. 22 But be doers of the word, and not forgetful hearers only, deceiving your own selves. If 23 any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was25 But whosoever looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.When Jesus comes, we will see him face to face: then shall I know even as also I am known.(you will get it) 1cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.The intentions of the heart will be made known by My “Unsearchable love” but when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth ?Luke 18:8 – ask yourself this very important question 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; Matt 24:44which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Heb 2:3
To receive this Gift
James 1: 6:7 17 You mustAllow Chirst to dwell in your hearts by faith; 1Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Matt 20 believe in him whom God has sent, that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,18 be able to comprehend 19 the knowledge which passeth, all understanding to know what is the length, the breadth, the height and, the depth, of the love of Christ, that ye might be filled with all of the fulness of God. John14:1
Jesus said; The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Fill 4:7the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. It is not yourself, it is asking!
Where will I learn these things, you ask! I will teach you Jer 31:34 and Matt 11:27 : the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 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. Isaiah 30: 20 thine eyes shall see thy teachers: (remember, you cannot remember what you never heard!)
2 cor 3: 12 Seeing then that we have such hope.John14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.John14:2 John14:8
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jer 33: 3
Your strength is of the Lord Psalm 118:14 so ask to that you can learn the wisdom of God eph 3:10-11
john 6: 28 When the diciples asked Jesus, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely saith the Lord Rev 21:6, 13rev 1:8, 22:13
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. Rom11:36 This is why I am saying: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matt 7:7-8
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. I will “ give the Holy Spirit to them that ask” me
So, 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Test them by My Word of thruth 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20
Are you still fussing about the ten commandment Law: This is my ten commandment Law “whereby you will be judged So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.”
Are you worried about your Spiritual groath
Don’t threat: With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1John 4:4 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 22:14
Say with Me: 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, rom in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.Rom 8:37
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8:39
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. – see?
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. eph 5:9 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 2Tim 4:3-4
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.Eph5:9-11 14
Beware 3 “the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Matt 5:9” Just a reminder: 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20” The work of the Holy spirit is to convict you of sin. when you die He cannot anymore and you are lost, this is the Sin against the Holy spirit matt 12:31 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt 5:16
Rev 14:3-4
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD shall rise up that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
The heart is desperately wicked who can understand it
Still small voice
Nothing shall separate us from the love of god
(Job 9:9 and 38:31, as well as Amos 5:8).
John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
So How do we get a double portion of Gods Spirit. God had promised
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
What do I think of you you ask? 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: carried away captive.Jer 29: 11-14
