Jesus said in John 16:12-13 (Amp), "I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. 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)."
The fellowship we have with the Holy Spirit, is the direct Word from our Father. We don't only have access to the Father, but through the Holy Spirit, He has direct access to us. We can fellowship with Him not just anytime, but all the time. Things Jesus couldn't share with His disciples at that time, are now all available to those who "have ears to hear." Mark 4:9 (Amp) says, "And [Jesus] said, He who has ears to hear, let him be hearing, and let him consider and comprehend."
One of the greatest advantages we have as born-again new creation children of the Most High God, is that we've been restored to right standing and now have a right to come into God's Presence again, through Jesus. We've been brought back into God's Presence, to be able to talk, fellowship and walk with Him, like Jesus did here on earth. Do you realize what Wisdom and understanding have been made available to us, if we would only take time to talk with God?
I'm not just speaking about praise and worship or even prayer, but about fellowshiping with, asking questions of and seeking the Hidden Mysteries that mankind did not or could not know, until Jesus made us one with Him. Psalm 25:14 (Amp) says, "The secret of the sweet, satisfying companionship of the Lord have they who fear, revere and worship Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its deep, inner meaning."
The Father wants us to know Him, to know about His ways and to know His will for us. After hearing about their Love walk, Paul writes to the Church at Col lose in Colossi ans 1:9 (Amp) saying, "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make special request for you, asking that you may be filled with the full, deep, clear knowledge of His will in all Spiritual Wisdom (in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, and in understanding and discernment of Spiritual things."
God doesn't want us to be unsure or not know what His will is or to lack understanding about Spiritual things. It would be unjust if God held us accountable, for things that He deliberately denied us the ability to understand. God is just and has justified us. God wants us to know His very nature and has given us His Word and His Spirit, by the new birth, do live in the times He's chosen for us to live in as "His ever present help." Satan as tried keeping us in the carnal mind and earthly understanding, not the Father. Satan can't stop us from being born-again, but he can prevent our going from faith to faith, by having unrenewed minds. Romans 1:17 (Amp) says, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith (disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith). As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."
God's Intent has always been that for us to be family and in unity with Himself. He was always to be our Father, Teacher, Provider, Protector and we would never be separated from Him. Adam's transgression resulted in our being separated from God and mankind could do nothing to change this, but Jesus died to give us Life. Jesus Himself provided our right standing and returned us to a place where we had a right to come into God's Presence again. After giving up His Only Begotten Son, why would God try keeping us at arm's length and keeping us in the dark about Who He is and what He desires for us? Only a devilish deception could convince God's children that God doesn't want us to know His will for us. Only a deception of satan, could keep God's children cringing at the Outer Court, when the Throne of Grace is open to us.
1John 4:18 (Amp) says, "There is no fear in Love (dread does not exist), but full grown, complete, perfect Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror, for fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection)." If you're still afraid that God is out to punish you for some dumb thing you've done and you're afraid to come into His Presence, then you don't know Him as Love, but only as God.
We're foretold about Jesus coming to be our Sacrifice and Substitute on Calvary's cross, in Isaiah 53:11 (Amp), which says, "He shall see the fruit (you and me) of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself which He possessed and imparts to others shall My uncompromisingly Righteous One, My Servant justify many and make them righteous, upright and in right standing with God, for He shall bear their iniquities and their guilt, with the consequences says the Lord."
Jesus has already bore the consequences of all our sins, iniquities, and trespasses. Those who are truly seeking God with understanding, shouldn't have fear of His punishment. We're not Old Testament servants, who are only flesh and live under the Law. We're born-again, new covenant children who are born of His Spirit and Grace. God doesn't discipline us by the physical calamities, physical tragedies and disease of the Law. God disciplines us by His Word and His Holy Spirit, from within our spirit. We've been delivered from the Curse of the Law, which was physical and not Spiritual. The Law was given to those in the old covenant, in order to reveal their sins to them and cause them to avoid the penalties of that sin.
Now, in the new creation covenant or family of God, we're not just physical people who are under physical rules. We're Spiritual people again and alive in our spirits to the Father, so He deals with us through our spirits, like He did with Jesus. The Church has misunderstood this for centuries, because we read and study God's Word, from a carnal point of view. Most of us still know God in a carnal way and we miss so much in God's Promises and His Word. Paul instructs in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amp), "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."
Many of us still see Jesus as the Man from Bethlehem, instead of the Risen Christ and the Lord of Glory. We continue to pattern ourselves after the natural man, instead of the First Born of the new creation. Jesus showed us how to live in this physical body by the Holy Spirit. He was led, discipline, directed and spoken to and through the Holy Spirit. The new creation family of God, is to be led and trained in the True things of God, by His Spirit and His Word. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatsoever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you, are Spirit and Life."
Jesus' physical Man died, in order to produce the new creation spirit man/woman and so that God could again have access to the true part of His creation. God doesn't have to deal with mankind from the outside-in, the flesh and the Law, any longer. God can again deal with His children from the inside-out, from our spirit (the real us).
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