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Faith is a lease, not the title deed |
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Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The key word in understanding this verse is the word “evidence”. One of the evidences or signs is speaking in tongues. Tongues is one the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So the gifts of the spirit which are also constitute the substance of the faith are on loan to us, like a lease. 2Co 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2Co 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. The earnest of the spirit or the down payment, 10%, will become 100% and our possession, our virtue, a reinstatement in our souls that we once had before the fall when the soul or our “old man” dies. It’s like God does a by-pass surgery on your heart/soul/mind and puts your body on a temporary life support called the baptism (earnest) of the Holy Spirit until the heart is taken out (death to the ‘Old Man’) and a new heart/soul/mind is put in. Now you get the Spirit in 100% measure, and the Soul becomes the dominant player. This can also be called being married to Jesus, or the full stature in Christ. Ga 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Now many will say, hey no problem, I believe that. Really? So, lets see the Kingdom of God (that refers to the body of Christ, btw) suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force, but some one is going to come along and do a mental ascent program and they got it. This same attitude is manifested by those who say that all the promises of God are theirs, yeah and amen….but yet know not the voice of their God or His will and apply the cookie cutter method/ spiritual mechanics/power of positive thinking/witchcraft exclude the living Jesus, and keep the “old man” (the devil) alive and then call it a walk God and just like Watchman Nee said in “The Latent Power of the Soul”, the immature Christian will produce the same results as those that have a new soul. Even St. John of the Cross would say that the soul should be like a clear pane of glass to allow the spirit of God to shine thru. My argument goes a step further and makes a new soul by the work of the Cross. Now the new soul is like a faucet, and the spirit is like the water. Before the work of the Cross one is spirit led, but after the work of the cross all power in heaven and earth is given a person, just like it was given to Jesus, after all Jesus showed us the way. So follow him, but pick up your cross. |
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