John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
These Spiritual Blessings came by Truth, so it's important that we know Truth and understand Spiritual things. Many dismiss the Spiritual Blessings as being "for when we die and go to Heaven." The Spiritual Blessings will of course be in Heaven, but they're available to us while we're here on earth. Everything we have and will receive from the Father, must come first through and by the Spirit. This also includes the Blessing of Abraham, in the earthly realm.
Over the years, the Church has separated the influence of the Spirit from the life we live in this earthly body. If anyone ever needed the Spiritual Blessings, then it would be for his/her life in our natural body. The flesh (soul and body) will never yield to God's Word, without the Spiritual Blessings that come through and from the new creation spirit. We must embrace the Holy Spirit, in order to know what these Spiritual Blessings are. One can educate the brain by reading God's Word, but Only the Holy Spirit can reveal the Words to you, as Spirit. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "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."
We were born-again by the Truth that the Holy Spirit revealed to our spirit and not by what our intellect dictated to us. We've seemingly stopped hearing the Truth that the Spirit shows us, after we were saved. Salvation is the beginning of our walk in Truth. The Same Holy Spirit Who revealed God's Plan of salvation to us, will reveal more Truth and Spiritual Blessings, if we listen to Him.
Jesus prayed in John 17:16-19 (Amplified), saying, "They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them, purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy by the Truth; Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And so for their sake and on their behalf I sanctify, dedicate, consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified, dedicated, consecrated, made holy in the Truth."
The Holy Spirit revealed to Jesus, the work He was to do on this earth. It's the same Holy Spirit Who reveals this work in us. The world can't reveal the work of the Father to us, they have no idea at all of who we are or what we're to do. Jesus spoke the Truth, when He said, "The flesh profits nothing." He spoke The Truth and not just a truth. When we received salvation and were born-again, our journey with God just began.
When we hear the Holy Spirit and He reveals Jesus in Truth, we must continue with the Father. If we drift back into what the world trained us in, then we leave all the Spiritual Blessings and Truth behind. The flesh profits nothings and there is no benefit in it. The Church has done so many things in the world, that have little profit in the Spirit.
We've received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, but haven't allowed Him to become "Lord" to us. The Holy Spirit Who revealed to Jesus' followers that "Jesus isn't dead but is alive," is the Same Holy Spirit Who reveals Jesus as still living today. Jesus was raised from the dead and is alive forevermore. The Holy Spirit reveals to us, how to Live in Him.
Everything the Holy Spirit reveals to us, is a Spiritual Blessing. We receive from the Spirit and apply it to this realm, doing what we were sent to do. If we don't have the Spiritual Blessing of the Holy Spirit, then we're just flesh talking to flesh. There is no Life in it. Jesus couldn't get the people to hear Him, if they refused to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus' Words (Truths) to the spirits. Some people tried to kill Jesus, when He spoke. Jesus' Words were anointed, but the Truth couldn't bring Life to the people who listened only with their ears.
We must receive God's Grace, in order to live in this earthly realm and we must accept His Grace, in order to hear and be led by the Holy Spirit. If we read God's Word by only our carnal minds, then there is no profit in it. Jesus said, "The Words (Truths) I speak to you are Spirit and Truth. This is such an important thing for us to understand, but it must be received in and by our spirit, through the Holy Spirit. He must be the Filter, by how we received words or seeds. In Mark 4:24 (Amplified), Jesus said, "Be careful what you are hearing, the measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you and more besides will be given to you who hear."
The only virtue and knowledge that will be measured back to you by the Holy Spirit, will be the measure of Truth that you hear. You hear many things, but not everything is Spirit and Truth. Only Truth will be rewarded and measured back to us, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus admonished, "Be careful what you are hearing!" This doesn't mean we cannot talk or listen to others, but we must allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Truth from the Words (Seeds) we receive. Many well-meaning people speak well-meaning words, but if those words aren't Truth, then we must not allow them to be planted and grow in our hearts (spirit). God cannot and will not, bring forth virtue and knowledge from anything other than His Seed, which is Spirit and Truth.
We constantly hear that, "God will use anything in order to reveal Himself, including accidents, sickness and calamity." We might come through these ordeals into a place where we finally "do hear," but that doesn't mean God measured it back to us. These were seeds that satan and the world sowed into you, because of not being "careful what you heard." All words are seeds, but all seeds are not TRUTH. Let the Holy Spirit, through your spirit, be the Filter to filter out wrong seeds. Let Him reveal the Words of Truth that you hear, to your spirit.
The world has it's own idea about what truth is and it almost always contradicts the Truth. People might speak a truth, but not the Truth. The world seeks confirmation of what they believe by their senses (or flesh). By the Holy Spirit, we don't need "proof" by what our natural eyes can see. By faith through the Holy Spirit, we can be led into Truth.
Jesus said in John 16:13 (Amplified), "But when He (the Spirit of Truth, the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message, on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father; He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
Now you can understand what I mean, when I say that the Holy Spirit is the Filter by Whom we hear and accept seeds or words. He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). Not everything we hear, is Truth. You might not be able to shut out the seeds (words) that the world is sowing around you, but through the Holy Spirit, you can filter them out before they produce in your life.
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