We've heard many things taught about Grace, but we continue overlooking the Power of it's Truth. John 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Galatians 3:14 (Amplified) says, "To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit." Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you shall receive Power (ability, efficiency, and might), when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, And you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."
This Promise of the Holy Spirit was an act of Grace and Truth, for all who would trust and believe in Jesus Christ and His Word. This was the Promise God made to Abraham, that was yet to be fulfilled. Speaking in tongues and fire accompanied this event in Acts 2:1-4 and many still see these as the totality of receiving the Holy Spirit, but this was and isn't wasn't the Father intended it to be. Jude 1:20 (Amplified) says this about the speaking of tongues, "But you, beloved, build yourselves up founded on your most holy faith, make progress, rise high like an edifice higher and higher praying in the Holy Spirit."
God restored a language, in and by the Holy Spirit, which put us back into a place where God's family had direct access to Him and the hidden mysteries of His will and intent for us. Paul writes in 1Corinthians 14:2,4 (Amplified), "One who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning because in the Holy Spirit he utters secrets truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding." Many have failed to differentiate between the ministry Gift of Tongues and Interpretations to the congregation and the personal language of the individual to the Father.
In Verse 4, Paul writes about the individual who seeks and prays to God on his/her own and the individual God uses to speak through, to the people. Thus, he writes, "He who speaks in a strange tongue edifies and improves himself." Jude 1:20 said, "But he who prophesies (interpreting the Divine will and purpose and teaching) with inspiration edifies and improves the Church and promotes growth in Christian Wisdom, piety, holiness and happiness."
Every believer who has received the Holy Spirit in Grace and Truth, has a language of the Spirit, in our spirit, that is in direct contact with our Heavenly Father. Since you're born-again into the Spirit realm, there's also the language of the Spirit. Paul tells the Church in Corinth that, "There's a language from God to the people, which is to be used as a ministerial tool, to edify the people." The Holy Spirit uses another individual, to interpret what the Father is saying and doing to and for the people. God isn't speaking to the people through the individual speaking in tongues, but the individual is speaking to the Father, by the Holy Spirit.
Most people who are born in France, will learn to speak French, while those born in Germany, usually learn to speak German. So it is, that when you are born in the Spirit, you will speak spirit or the language of your new creation being. Speaking in tongues isn't the end of your quest for the Spirit, but is the beginning. This new language has made it possible for you to receive insight, Wisdom, and the answers to "secret Truths and hidden mysteries, which are not obvious to your own understanding." In other words, this language speaks directly to God. There are so many things God's children need to know, that are revealed to us, when we pray in the Spirit. This Revelation Knowledge is only received by and through, the Holy Spirit. 1Corinthians 14:2 (Amplified) says, "He utters secret Truths and hidden mysteries not obvious to the understanding." Man's wisdom cannot interpret God's hidden Wisdom and His secret Truths."
God made the Promise of the Spirit, to and through Abraham, which was about the coming of Jesus and the restoring of God's children back to Him. We've been brought back to what God intended His family to be from the first. Your being born-again, didn't only mean that you'd go to Heaven after dying. It meant that Heaven would be restored to you and God could now become to us, what He always intended, which is family. We are spirit and not just flesh. God's Grace has granted us access into His "secret place."
Psalm 91:1 (Amplified) says, "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the Shadow of the Almighty Whose Power no foe can withstand." In Ephesians 3:3-5,32 (Amplified) Paul writes, "And that the Mystery (secret) was made known to me and I was allowed to comprehend it by direct Revelation as I already briefly wrote you. When you read this you can understand my insight into the Mystery of Christ. This Mystery was never disclosed to human beings in past generations as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles (consecrated messengers) and prophets, by the Holy Spirit."
Jesus is the Secret Place, that the above Psalm speaks about. Paul continues writing to the Church of Ephesus in Verse 32, where he explains the relationship of a husband and wife becoming one. Thus, he writes, "This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the relationship of Christ and the Church." 1Corinthians 2:7 (Amplified) says, "But rather what we are setting forth is a Wisdom of God once hidden from the human understanding and now revealed to us by God, that Wisdom which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification to lift us into the Glory of His Presence." This is God's Original Intent for His family and is now a Truth by Grace.
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