Revelation only comes by and through the Holy Spirit. Even when the Word of God is taught in the street or the church, it is only education and not revelation unless the Holy Spirit reveals it to your spirit. We've had our senses educated throughout the years, but it's only produced religion and not revelation. We've mostly made behavior modification of our flesh (which is good) from this, but we've failed to "become new creations in Christ."
We continue trying to change our flesh, without the revelation of "righteousness" to strengthen our spirits. The enemy has magnified our failures in our flesh above our victories in the Spirit. And, because of this, we still see ourselves as we once were, instead of who we now are in Christ Jesus. Once the revelation of who we are now comes into our spirit, we'll be able to pray and fellowship with our Heavenly Father in an entirely new and powerful way.
The Holy Spirit is the Only One to ever realize the power of this new birth in the heart of the Church. We read about being made righteous with His righteousness in 2Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified) which says, "For our sake He made Christ (virtually) to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become (endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of) the righteousness of God (what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness)."
The natural, carnal man will believe that the above things are for when he arrives in Heaven, without the Holy Spirit's revealing this passage to his spirit. The revelation of being righteous before God, now and in this world, seems too incomprehensible for the carnal mind to accept. We can read the Word and be educated as to what it says, but still not have the revelation of what it truly says to us now. Man's unrenewed mind enforces a sense of being unworthy deep within the natural man. The renewed mind allows the Holy Spirit to lift us out of the natural, into the Super-natural (or spirit realm) where our Father's Kingdom and family abide.
Then, the behavior modification will come from the inside and work out and not the work of the flesh from the outside in. Ephesians 5:25-32 (Amplified) says that a husband and wife are like Christ and the Church and that, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning (the relationship of) Christ and the Church. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her; So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word. That He might present the Church to Himself inglorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things (that she might be holy and faultless)."
It's only by revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit, that the above Word can actually wash you clean in your natural man. The natural man cannot receive this truth in his own mind. As revelation comes into your spirit, you begin seeing yourself like God sees you and not as the way the natural man, as well as satan, will allow you to see yourself.
Paul stated that only the Holy Spirit can bring this truth into your heart in 2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified), saying, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a (purely) human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). (No) even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now (we have such knowledge of Him that) we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)." Verse 17 goes on, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away, Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Without the revelation by and through the Holy Spirit, most of us will still see Jesus after the flesh too, as a human viewpoint, and as a Man. "Yet now we know Him no longer (in terms of the flesh)." The revelation of the Risen Christ will help us no longer just see "the Son of Man," but the Risen Son of God. We will no longer see Him as just the Man who died on the cross, but as the Christ Who was raised from the dead, ascended into Heaven and justified us in the presence of His Father, by His Own sacrifice. Now, through the revelation of the Word by the Holy Spirit, we can see beyond the cross and into eternity. We will see how we are now righteous in our Father's eyes, because of Jesus' righteousness.
Many of us continue struggling because of our flesh's weakness and don't realize that our strength is in our spirit, which has now been made one with Him in Jesus. We can modify the behavior of our flesh with willpower, but can never quiet the voice of the flesh without the Holy Spirit power, because "It's not by might, but by My Spirit, says the Lord." Only the revelation of the Word, and not the education of the Word, will set the captives free.
John 8:31-32 (Amplified) says, "So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My Word (hold fast to My teachings, and live in accordance with them), you are truly My disciples and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."
John 6:63 (Amplified) tells us, "It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." Only the Holy Spirit can reveal the truths and life of the Word that will set you free. The freedom has already comes, but it take the Holy Spirit to reveal the Truth that will set you free.
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