Uncovering The Unimaginable Series

For instance, let me give you some examples of things that God did not tell people to do: God did not tell David Caresh to deceive and organize a group of believers, barricade themselves in an armed compound, have sex with most of the women and even some of the children, and claim to be Christ. God did not tell an un-named television evangelist that he had to raise a million dollars from the believing public within a certain time period or else the Lord was going to take his life.

God does not tell us parents to withhold treatment from our dying children when they could easily be saved by a simple medical procedure.

Our Father in heaven doesn’t tell us to do any of these things.....yet people are doing even stranger things than these every day under the impression that what they are doing is God ordained.

For instance, did you know that the Ku Klux Klan has very close religious connections and convictions? In effect, they claim that the prejudice that they harbor and represent, the hate crimes against blacks, Jews and homosexuals are all, in a sense, carried out “for the glory of God.”

And believe you me, that countless individuals are being led astray by such people as these who claim to have received some sort of commission and authority from God and may even really believe it themselves. Are we talking only about religious fanatics and mentally disturbed people? I wish. Because you see, if it were only those types of people, they wouldn’t be able to deceive so many so easily.

If you make a movie and are a good actor or actress you become a sound bite on the next late night show sharing about God and life and it’s meaning. Pretty silly actually!

Look at the next few verses.

Uncovered through the maturing of Our Spirit

14 A person who does not have the Spirit does not accept the truths that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks they are foolish and cannot understand them, because they can only be judged to be true by the Spirit.

15 The spiritual person is able to judge all things, but no one can judge him. The Scripture says: 16 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Who has been able to teach him?” (Isaiah 40:13) But we have the mind of Christ.

To think as God thinks about life takes a special gift.

Let’s sum it up…

The Work of the Spirit of God in us

1) For two spirits to become as one

Marriage is the illustration and gift until it is complete in heaven

Through direct testimony – His spirit to our spirit

You have to hang with God! Prayer and meditation is not an option – it is a necessity. This is why we have been given the gift of “worship”. It is not that God needs us to praise him. It is that God wants our spirits to connect and be together. Worship is really just “hanging” with God. He’s pretty cool actually.

2) For God’s Spirit to teach us God’s ways

Jesus life is our example and a gift to guide us to an abundant life

Through direct teaching – divine revelation

2 Peter 1:20-21 (NCV)

20 Most of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in the Scriptures ever comes from the prophet’s own interpretation. 21 No prophecy ever came from what a person wanted to say, but people led by the Holy Spirit spoke words from God.