THE SPIRIT AT WORK
Revelation is
given by God to the Holy People
(Apostles and Prophets) by the Spirit. The
eligible recipients or stewards of the revelation and the mysteries of God for
the generation of the righteous are only the holy ones, hence, the command for
people to be holy. The holy people are the ones who devote themselves to God.
The revelation
we know from Ephesians 3:1-7 is
that salvation is no longer exclusive to Israel in the flesh but to Israel who
are circumcised in the heart or Israel in the Spirit. Simply put, Israel is in the Spirit and not
in the Flesh! To be an Israelite is not to be a Greek or a Jew. This idea is not a new one in the times of
the apostles, then.
Matter of
fact, God has been talking to all men and peoples and nations! God talked with Adam and his generations (all
of them were drowned for the evil of their imagination_ a chosen people who went
corrupt, violent and evil). God talked
with Noah and his generations.
Genesis 10:5 By these were
the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue,
after their families, in their nations.
Again, God
talked to Melchisedech who was not of the seed.
God talked to Hagar the bondmaid of Sarah about Ishmael’s life. God talked to Abimelech of Gerar who was not
of the seed. God talked with Abraham giving a promise that the seed will come
from his own bowels named Isaac and then went on to talk to Rebekah who was a
Syrian, not of the seed and mother to Jacob and Esau, that Jacob is the seed
and not Esau. God talked to Israel who sojourned in Egypt for 430 years and the
same seed multiplied in Egypt as prophesied.
God talked to Pharaoh of Egypt in the time of Joseph by a dream who was
not of the seed. God talked (prophesied) against the sons of Noah the Canaanites
of the sons of Ham that they will be replenished by Israel. By all accounts and by the Godly vestiges
found in all religion, sciences, philosophies and in many areas of discipline God
is talking and revealing to all men but man would not hearken because of their
flesh or natural mind, thus, the deviation from the Word of God.
Yea, by
biblical history the idea of gentiles being subjected to the judgment of God is
not new. In fact, these gentiles were
turned into believers before if to cite one of the many facts!
2 Chronicles 17:11 Also some of
the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat
presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians
brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand
and seven hundred he goats.
You can only
imagine how Paul struggled to witness on this revelation which has actually
happened already, and as written, where Israel turned dogmatic of their belief
that they are the only people on earth loved by God. They failed to recognize that God loved the
world even as Abraham failed to discern that Gerar under king Abimelech is a
nation with the Fear of the Lord.
Now, know that
the love of God is manifested by his judgment to all:
Deuteronomy 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart,
that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but
he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Hebrews 12:7 If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the
father chasteneth not?
It is now
clear that, really before Jesus was crucified, the love of God is unto all
men! What then is new?
In matters of
ways of saving people, God sent Noah to preach righteousness but was ignored,
hence, the unbelievers were drowned to include the infants which you may now
protest, had the flood happen today, as an ungodly act for Noah. Know that Noah did not act by his own will
but by the command of God.
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not
the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
God also sent
(divine providence or a blessing in disguise we may now call) Lot the nephew of
Abraham to Sodom and Gomorrah to preach righteousness there but was not able to
convince anyone, not even the husbands of his daughters. Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities
were burned on the day appointed.
Luke
17:28 Likewise also
as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold,
they planted, they builded;
Luke
17:29 But the same
day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and
destroyed them all.
2
Peter 2:7
And
delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
God called and
sent Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt and the very people whom he saved were
eventually wasted in the desolate wilderness after 38 years of hard heartedness
and rebellion against Moses and against God.
God chose and
sent Joshua to continue the task to fulfil the promise of God to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in order to annihilate seven abominable nations but the people
who were with Joshua were also tempted in the way as they were ensnared by the
foolish prophet Balaam in the plains of Moab (Zimri and Cozbi being the cause of the plague).
Up until the
times of the Judges God raised up servants to save Israel from their enemies
everytime they repent from their sins which they committed. In sinfulness they are minished and brought
low.
Psalms
107:39 Again, they
are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Judges
2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal
and Ashtaroth.
Judges
2:14 And the anger
of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of
spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies
round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges
2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the
LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn
unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges
2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which
delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Judges
2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their
judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto
them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying
the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judges
2:18
And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and
delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for
it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that
oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges
2:19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted
themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and
to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their
stubborn way.
Judges
2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot
against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
God sent
prophets in the times of the Kings of Israel and Judah but the same were
imprisoned and persecuted and killed.
The people of God are the most controversial and misunderstood people in
the world of old and expectedly today for their teaching is never of men.
Know that the
prophets sent were not only exclusive to Israel but to the other nations as
well! The Gentile thing is not a new
thing. The people who profess to be wise
were actually the fools for not knowing the ways of God and having not the
Spirit of wisdom and understanding.
Now, is the
idea of Jesus dying for the world a new one? Fools for lack of knowledge
perish. Now, is the idea of God being
angry at sin a new one? Was there a
paradigm shift to the ways of God in that believing in him is salvation?
In a way,
believing is a vital point in salvation but it is not salvation itself. One has to endure and continue to obey the
command which commands are changing from time to time and from one nation to another
people.
God is alive
and God is sending his holy people to bring the good tidings to a thousand
generations and in every generation there is a definite peculiar people who
will be sanctified and justified and then sent to preach unto the world.
So holiness and perfection is the key to serving
God which is in ministering the word and the spirit. How can the scholars nowadays say holiness
and perfection is passe?
How can people
say, straining gnats and swallowing camels on the requirement in serving God
which is holiness and perfection? How
can an unholy people receive the Spirit of God like the Spirit of Truth and
Revelation which alone can perfect a man?
Behold,
perfection and holiness is possible only when God is come in the flesh or when
he raises up a man to deliver people from this evil and wicked world. Perfection is possible because the man he
will send is going to declare the command for man to obey to become holy and
perfect. Perfection and holiness becomes impossible only when man
is yet filled with his flesh lust, emotion, evil imagination and uncleanness in
the flesh and the spirit.
Therefore, man has to fight against his own self
which is the natural enemy of God, saying, the flesh
is against the spirit and the spirit is against the flesh. This two are at enmity against each
other. This doctrine is not being taught
to the people which is the doctrine of Godliness, that is, man must be holy and
perfect before they are to be sent for the service.
This world
should know that salvation is but a very light thing with God for, firstly, this
is only a result of serving God and, secondly,
salvation is granted to men according to God’s mercy and compassion for
we are all sinners and, thirdly, because salvation is the concern of God and
not man’s. The real concern of man is
really on how to make himself available for use by God. Therefore,
the very much weightier matter is perfection and holiness for this is the crux of
man’s service to God. Cunningly, the
deceivers of this world romanticize salvation as the ultimate and primary goal
of man in this world!
How can man teach people of salvation when man is
not perfect? How can man be an author of his salvation being not perfect?
Remember, the Man of God or the ones raised by God to be his servant(s) will
come in a volume of Book and it is written of them for a testimony! The reason why you can compare spiritual with
spiritual because the life they will manifest is a prophecy in the Holy Bible.
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author
of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
To magnify the error of the present day
interpretation on the scriptures is to compare side by side the teaching
on salvation with the teaching on perfection and holiness,
among others:
Table
1 – 1 Quick look Table
|
The One Teaching
of Salvation |
The One Teaching of Godliness
(Perfection & Holiness) |
|
Prosperity |
Fear
of the Lord |
|
Great
Commission |
Sanctification
and justification as a requirement to the Great Commission |
|
Purpose
Driven Life |
The
Plan of God to Replenish the World with his holy people |
|
Rapture |
Creation
of Man: Change / New Man / Rapture |
|
|
Suffering
in Well-doing |
|
Love
of God without the Fear of the Lord |
Judgment
of God unto his People & Righteousness unto the world |
|
|
Growth
of a Christian / Process: Born Again, Born of Water and Spirit and Born of
God |
|
|
Word
of God |
|
Salvation
not of Works |
Ways
and Works and Acts of God |
|
|
Manner
of God |
|
Love
thy Neighbor |
Love
of God is equal to the Fear of God: Loving the Neighbor is subject to the
Puprose, Will, Intent, Time, Counsel, & Pleasure of God |
|
Eternal
Life upon belief in Christ |
Eternal
Life a Process which starts in belief in Christ |
|
Holy
Spirit |
Spirits
(of God, of Man, Holy & Profane, Good and Evil) |
|
|
Revelation
and Mystery of God |
|
Grace
through Faith Not of works |
Not
of Works because the Work is of the Spirit of Grace through the Spirit of
Faith |
|
No
Prophets in the church |
The
Complete Church: Prophet is needed |
|
Jesus
as Written (Law) _ as antichrist |
Jesus
the Risen and is Come Again (Present Truth) |
|
|
Perfection
and Holiness |
|
New
Testament Heavy |
The
Old and the New Testament (Full Gospel) |
|
Faith
(Written Based / Reason Based) |
Faith
(Heard from the Man of God / Revelation Based) |
|
Self |
Denial
of Self |
|
Abundance
out of Covetousness |
Flesh
Profits Nothing: Abundance out of Bounty |
|
The
Name of Jesus (This Name is not accepted by the Old Testament Jews) |
The
New Name of God (His Name is always Changing from time to places and to
peoples: His Name is declared or Ascribed by Men) |
|
The
Coming of Jesus (He is yet to Come): No God in this World |
Jesus
is Come (Without Him man can never be perfect and holy): the Living God |
To temporarily
close my “arguments” (actually a revelation from the Spirit of God and I claim
not to be alone in this work today_ God is talking to many of us who has a
relationship with him) and to cut the story short, The teaching of man is based
on the goodness of God on Man which is in the flesh, meaning, they anchor on
blessings (material and spiritual unto themselves) but the teaching of the Man
of God is obedience unto death not for a prize, a reward, or for a promise.
Amen.
