Thursday, February 21, 2013

Names of the Spirit, continuing with

Rev 3:1
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things says He that has the seven Spirits (which have the mind ) of God, and the seven stars (the spiritual house of God or the true Israel of God, the house in which He rules as promised to Abraham as his heirs: Gen 15:5, 22:17, 26:4; seven being God's number of completeness, the meaning of the “ha” added to his name of Abram); I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.”

Rev 4:5
“Out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”

Rev 5:6
“I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”

1Co 12:1-3
“Now concerning spiritual (gifts, here is added to enhance the word spiritual), brethren, I would not have you ignorant. We know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”

There to this day are many who will not call Jesus “LORD” or even Lord of their lives nor allow God to be God within them by faiths activity of receptivity because they refuse to honor God and His Christ by the acknowledging of Him as their personal, LORD. Why is this so? The answer may surprise you, but here it is, they are bond by what can be called “the spirit of religion,” a name or title we've not searched out nor sought to find as of yet. But this one thing is sure it is a spirit of this present evil darkness or the spirit of the world.

Because religion for the most part remains as it was in Jesus' day, an external, physical and practical ideology of religion theory and antithesis (against God in Christ) of Christ. To make it short, it opposes both God and His Christ and their work and functionality within the receptive ones “Christians”. Through the activity of the anti-Christ's of religion, and within the first estate of redemption. It operates by causing doubt of being saved, by causing those saved to mistrust God, to misunderstand His word, to not hear clearly His words, to lack a prayer life, to cause them to not miss a day the doors of the religious house doors are open, to give of their wealth though NOT required of them by Him, to cause them to search the scriptures for what ever subject moves them or who knows what as a rabbit trail or smoke screen to keep them busy doing....doing something not required or needful, by delusion, and seeking for the paranormal (ie signs, wonders and miracles), to cause conviction for failing to attend religious services even though there is NO presences of God or the Holy Spirit among those present. This spirit will cause them to argue over all religious things (words, genealogies, church rites, theology) such as holidays, rituals, customs of men, Sabbath days for religious observances of none required holy-days and foolish religious opinions (based on titles and/or names of God, for example and others) of men. These all indeed have a form of piety or godliness but there is NO power within them to overcome the evil one. We'll reveal more along this line of thought later when we quote from James' letter.

1Co 12:4-14
“There are diversities of gifts (we're to bear or carry the gifts as fruit which the ontological essence of Christ's presences within us produces in His power of presences, as He is so are we in the world), but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit (to bear or carry; to contribute for the mutual benefit of all) withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom (1); to another the word of knowledge (2) by the same Spirit; To another faith (required of all) by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing (3) by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles (4); to another prophecy (5); to another discerning of spirits(6); to another kinds of tongues (languages); to another the interpretation of tongues (7): But all these work that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether bond or free; and have been all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.”

This then goes alone with the Lord's prayer as found in John chapter 17. Wherein He prays that all men every where would become one in Him as He was One with God the Father of spirits. You see in His kingdom there are NO nationalities, ethnicity, sexes, slave or freeman but as One Body all having of the same "Spirit". This is also found where God tells the Hebrews that He'll circumcise the heart in Deuteronomy 30:6 and related passages.

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