In John 4:23-24 (Amp) Jesus said, "A time will come however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. God is a Spirit (Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
Jesus went on to say in John 6:63 (Amp), "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."
Galatians 3:14 (Amp) 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." When through faith, we accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord, we received "the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit." Have we used our faith to the realization of the Holy Spirit? Most of what we know or realize about the Holy Spirit, is that we will speak in tongues and be given the Gifts of the Spirit, found in 1Corinthians 12.
Is this really the realization of the Promise? Is this all that God's Own Spirit, Who lives in and through us, is capable of and expected to do in our lives? Many of God's people believe that the Gifts of the Spirit and speaking in new tongues have passed away or that they're not for us today. Tradition and religious eyes see the Promise of the Holy Spirit that we've so long awaited, isn't necessary or not beneficial to us.
I don't believe this to be true and I believe we know little about the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus paints a picture of the Holy Spirit in John 16:12,13,14-15 (Amp), which is different than what most of us have either seen or known. Jesus says that the realization of the Holy Spirit isn't just speaking in tongues or having the Gifts of the Spirit, but is the actual Presence of the Father's Wisdom ability, understanding and everything He is, revealed in and through us.
Thus, Jesus says, "I still have 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." We have no idea Who God really is and we don't have any idea what this Promise means in the life of the believer, without the Holy Spirit. Jesus says in Verse 13a, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth)." We're like those Jesus was speaking too, without the fulfilling of the Promise of the Holy Spirit and are unable to grasp this Truth or bear it. Jesus says that, "He, (the Truth-Giving Spirit), will guide you into ALL THE TRUTH (the whole, full Truth)." Why will He guide us into the whole, full Truth? Because, "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 Him) and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
The realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit, goes far beyond our religious idea of goosebumps and being slain or falling out in the Spirit. It's the Revelation given from God Himself, about who and what we've become in Jesus, as He brought forth this Promise and Spirit, according to Verse 14, where Jesus says, "He, this Holy Spirit that is the Promise, He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare disclose, transmit) it to you."
The Promise of and through the Holy Spirit, is knowing, receiving and drawing upon the inheritance we've been given as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus. The Holy Spirit will transmit it to us, according to Romans 8:16-17 ((Amp) which says, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
Jesus went on to say in John 16:15 (Amp), "Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He (the Spirit) will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, and transmit) it to you." The Promise of the Holy Spirit tells us that He will take everything the Father has and reveal it to us. This is a staggering Revelation that came from Jesus Himself. The realization of the Holy Spirit is God's ability to do "exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ask or think." When we have faith in this Promise, the doors of the Hidden Mysteries of God, will open for us on this side of Heaven. If we have faith in the Promise of the Holy Spirit, then we'll actually live God's Own Life in and through the Spirit, with all of His knowledge on how to live it, by His Spirit living in us. The Hidden Mysteries the Spirit reveals to us, give us God's Own ability and authority over everything that would oppose us.
We must have faith in the Promise of the Holy Spirit and that His Word are Spirit and Life. We live and walk in Life itself, by God's Word. Deliverance, healing, righteousness and redemption are Spirit and Life, because "the flesh profits nothing." The flesh causes doubt and fosters excuses for our failures.
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