Who Is This Spirit In Us? (Part 2)

2nd Corinthians, Chapter 13, verse 5

                     "Test yourselves to see if you are of the fail; examine yourselves! Or do you
                     not recognize this about yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you--unless
                     you FAIL THE TEST?"

Again I say notice, EXAMINE YOURSELVES! With Paul writing a sentence containing one of the few explanation points in the bible, it is something we must take notice of.  Paul wrote this so that you would know who Jesus is and who this Holy Spirit is that you have been baptized with, born again with, and filled with.  The God of the universe, who is the Holy Spirit, desired to be referred to as Yeshua (Jesus) The Lord Our Salvation.  The Profit Isaiah wrote this in his 45th Chapter, verses 21-23;

                       "...And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a SAVIOR;
                       There is none except Me. Turn to Me, and be SAVED, all the ends of the earth;
                       For I AM God and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself, the word has
                       gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to
                       Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance."

Philippians Chapter 2, verses 10-11, Paul wrote;

                       "...that at the name of JESUS every knee shall bow, of those who are in
                       heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should
                       confess the JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father."

Isaiah Chapter 44, verse 6.... GOD who is the HOLY SPIRIT said;

                       "Thus says the LORD, the KING of Israel, And his REDEEMER, the LORD
                       of hosts; I AM the FIRST and I AM  the LAST, and there is no GOD besides
                       Me.

Revelations Chapter 1, verses 17-18.....Jesus said;

                        ...."Do not be afraid; I AM the FIRST and the LAST, and the LIVING ONE,
                       and I was dead, and behold, I AM alive forever more, and I have the keys to
                       to death and Hades."

And in Revelations Chapter 2, verse 8.... Jesus said to the church in Smyna referring to Himself;

                       "The FIRST and the LAST, who was dead, and has come to LIFE, says this:"

Ephesians 4, verses 4-6, Paul wrote;

                       "There is one body and ONE SPIRIT, just as also you were called in one hope
                       of your calling; ONE LORD, one faith,  ONE BAPTISM, ONE GOD and
                       FATHER of all who is over all and through all and IN all."

Remember the first commandment;

                       "I am the LORD your GOD, you shall have no other gods before you."

If there is ONE SPIRIT, and GOD is SPIRIT, then GOD is the HOLY SPIRIT

If GOD is LORD, then the LORD is the HOLY SPIRIT

If there is ONE LORD who is GOD

And  JESUS is LORD, then JESUS is GOD

If  the ONLY GOD is the ONLY SAVIOR and JESUS is the SAVIOR, then JESUS is GOD

If God is the HOLY SPIRIT, and the HOLY SPIRIT Fathered JESUS, then the HOLY SPIRIT is the FATHER

If there is ONE SPIRIT, the HOLY SPIRIT, that we have been born of and baptized with through the death and resurrection of JESUS and ONE GOD and FATHER who is in all, and GOD is the LORD, and the LORD is the HOLY SPIRIT, and the LORD your GOD and Father is the HOLY SPIRIT, then JESUS IS LORD and the HOLY SPIRIT.

Understanding who Jesus is, is how these 4 verses would make sense.

Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6;

                        "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the
                        government will rest on HIS shoulders; And HIS Name shall be called
                        Wonderful, Counselor, MIGHTY GOD, ETERNAL FATHER, Prince
                        of Peace."

John Chapter 14, verse 6-9;

                         "I AM the Way, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no one comes to the FATHER,
                         but through Me.  If you had known Me, you would have known my
                         Father also, from now on you know Him and have seen Him.  Philip said
                         to Him, 'Lord show\ us the Father, and it is enough for us'. Jesus said to him,
                         Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me Philip.
                         HE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER.; How do you say,
                         'Show us the Father'?"

John Chapter 10, verse 30;

                         "I and the FATHER are ONE."

In Deuteronomy, Chapter 6, verse 4.... Moses said;

                         "Hear, O Israel! LORD our GOD, the LORD is ONE!

If you notice, these are two more of the few statements in scripture that contain explanation points.  If the LORD our GOD is ONE, and JESUS and the FATHER are ONE, then they together are GOD.  If GOD is the HOLY SPIRIT, then they together are the HOLY SPIRIT.  Jesus explains this as He continues His conversation with the disciples in John's gospel.

In John 14, verse 18, Jesus tells His disciples;

                         "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."

If Jesus is not going to leave them as orphans, then Jesus is their parent, a FATHER who will come back to them.

In John 14, verses 19- 20, Jesus tells them;

                         "After a little while the world will behold Me no more, but you will behold
                         Me; because I live, you shall live also.  In that day you shall know that I AM
                         in My FATHER, and you in Me, and I in you."

Jesus is telling them that He would not be here on the earth too much longer and the world will not see Him anymore.  He was telling them that because He will overcome death and live, they will live also.  They are already alive, so what is this new "live"?  They will receive this new "live" when they receive the sacrifice He is about to make on their behalf, to give them eternal life.  He will put a New Life in their souls.  They will have a second "live" that has been born of the HOLY SPIRIT.  Thus the phrases, born again, born of above and born of the SPIRIT.  When Jesus returns as the HOLY SPIRIT and a FATHER,  He will put a piece of His Spirit, the very LIGHT of GOD Himself in the soul of ANYONE who will acknowledge Him as LORD, accept the sacrifice He made, and invite Him into their souls.  This is why the soul was created.  The soul is an egg that when being fertilized by the light of the HOLY SPIRIT, for HE is LIGHT, will become a NEW CREATION born of the Spirit.  When this occurs a new believer(saint) will then know that JESUS is in the FATHER and the believer(saint) is in JESUS, and JESUS in them.

Jesus said this in John Chapter 14, verse 10;

                        "Do you not know that I AM in the FATHER and that the FATHER is in Me?

In John 14,verse 23 Jesus goes on to tell them;

                         "If ANYONE loves Me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him,
                         and WE will come to him and make OUR abode with him."

The WE is the FATHER and JESUS.  The OUR are the FATHER and JESUS.  The abode is where they will live and that will be in the soul of the believer(saints).

Remember, in verses 16 and 17 Jesus said you will receive a Helper, the SPIRIT of TRUTH, that will be IN YOU.  We just learned that this will be the FATHER and JESUS.

In John Chapter 14, verse 26, Jesus says who this Helper is:

                         "But the HELPER, the HOLY SPIRIT, whom the FATHER will send in
                         My name, (JESUS), He will teach you all things, and bring to your
                         remembrance all that I (JESUS) said to you"

So if you notice that the HOLY SPIRIT comes having the name JESUS and that the HOLY SPIRIT is referred to as HE, singular, then this is in agreement that JESUS and the FATHER are ONE.  Both of them together are JESUS(YESHUA) meaning THE LORD OUR SALVATION in Hebrew.

I am about to put this all together in a summation that I hope will make all this make sense.  It starts off with what Jesus told His disciples in John Chapter 16, verse 7;

                         "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do
                         not go away, the HELPER shall not come to you, but if I go, I will send
                         HIM to you."

If JESUS is not the HELPER, who is the HOLY SPIRIT, then why would JESUS have to go away before He could send the HELPER.  It only makes sense that Jesus had to loose the fleshly part of Himself, His earthly body, because Jesus said that flesh and blood can not enter the Kingdom of God, the spiritual realm.  For JESUS to be able to send the HELPER, who He is part of Himself, He would have to die, rise from the dead, in the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, ascend in to heaven, shedding His earthly body, like we will also at the resurrection.  Why didn't the Father, who is the HOLY SPIRIT, just come HIMSELF? The reason is because the part of the HOLY SPIRIT that understood the suffering, the pain, the sorrow, the struggles of humanity, was the part of the HOLY SPIRIT that was JESUS.  Before the HOLY SPIRIT came into this physical realm, He existed in the heavenly realm where there has never been any pain, sorrow, suffering, struggles, and no tears.  How could the HOLY SPIRIT be a comforter unless He had experienced humanity?  That is one of the reasons He came here Himself and why that part of Him, JESUS, had to return with that experience to really be able to be a HELPER and a the COMFORTER.

Jesus told His disciples this in John Chapter 15, verse 26;

                        "When the HELPER comes, whom I will send to you from the FATHER,
                        that is the SPIRIT of TRUTH, who proceeds from the FATHER, He will bear
                        witness of ME."

He is saying that when a believer (saint) is indwelt by this HELPER, HOLY SPIRIT, that this HELPER will reveal to the believer (saint) who JESUS is. So who is JESUS?

This is the order of what happened from before the earth to the present.


The LORD our GOD existed as the HOLY SPIRIT, before the earth existed.

The LORD being a Spirit had no visible existence.

The LORD GOD created Angels who had a visible existence.

One third of the Angels rebelled and followed after the most beautiful angels, Lucifer, who they could see.

The Angels who rebelled were cast as fallen and rename demons.

The LORD formed a plan before the earth was formed, "The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world" Revelations Chapter 13, verse 8

The LORD GOD had a two fold purpose and maybe a third.

1st) To make a visible Spiritual Body for Himself, so that the angels could behold Him in all His Glory.

2nd) He wants to create a NEW CREATION, in His glorified likeness. Colossians Chapter 3, verse 4;

                        "When Christ Jesus, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be
                        revealed with Him in glory."

This NEW CREATION will be different than the angels and above the angels, because they chose to be create anew when they accepted the sacrifice that JESUS made for them on the cross.  Unlike the angels who were just spoken into existence by the word of GOD.  I don't think they understood the nature of God, or one third of them would probably never have rebelled.  In the plan that the LORD your GOD came up with, He would show His true nature, by doing Himself the most remarkable act of LOVE imaginable.  God, who is LOVE, will prove He is LOVE and WHOSOEVER will chose Him for that act of LOVE, He will make a NEW CREATION that will have everlasting life.  They will be a CREATION, made from HIS LOVE, that will NEVER rebel against such a LORD and SAVIOR.

 3rd possible reason) The LORD your GOD wanted to know that the two thirds of the angels, that had not rebelled, didn't do so out of fear of the consequence of, receiving the same fate as the fallen angels.  By what He was planning to do would show them His nature and LOVE and assure them that they had made the right decision.

The LORD your GOD therefore created the Earth and put Adam and Eve on it with an eternal life existence.  They were given one command, " Do not eat from the tree of good and evil, on the day that you do, you will surely die."  They both did eat and on that day they continued to live, or did they? Something about them died.  It was the part of them that had eternal life.  The eternal life that was in their souls was now dead. They now had empty, dark souls. Their souls were now void of the life of God.  Because of their disobedience, the Lord your God now had the mechanism in place by which there could now come into existence human beings with empty souls, void of life, that could now have the ability to get that ETENAL LIFE back by choosing what He will do for them on the cross.  People that would choose Him for His act of LOVE, dying that they might live.  It was not just a man dying for them, it was the LORD your GOD dying for you.

So:

The Lord GOD, the LIGHT of the Universe, the HOLY SPIRIT, put a piece of His SPIRIT, LIGHT, in the virgin Mary, by which she conceived a child that would be call YESHUA, JESUS, because He would be a SAVIOR.  JESUS was not conceived by the seed of a fallen man, but by the seed, LIGHT, very essence of the LIVING GOD Himself.  John wrote this in his gospel, Chapter 1, verses 9-13;

                         "There was the true light, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
                         he was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world
                         did not know Him.   He came to His own, and those who were His own did
                         not receive Him.  But as many as would receive Him, to them He gave the
                         right to become the children of God, even to those who believe IN HIS
                         NAME, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of GOD."

The HOLY SPIRITS body, JESUS, is filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, FATHER..  In Luke's gospel, Chapter 3, verses 21-22, he wrote;

                         "Now it came about when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also was
                         baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit
                         descended upon Him like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, "Thou art
                         My beloved Son, in Thee I am well-pleased."

JESUS, the body of the HOLY SPIRIT, filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, the FATHER, would perform so many remarkable, supernatural miracles, that John ended his gospel with this in his 21st Chapter, verse 25;

                         "And there are also so many other things that Jesus did, which if they were
                         written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the
                         the books that were written."

The LORD GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT, was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself, as described by Paul in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 5, verses 17-21;

                         "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; the old things
                         have passed away; behold new things have come. Now all things are from
                         God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry
                         of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world
                         to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed
                         to us the word of reconciliation.  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ
                         Jesus, as through God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of
                         Christ Jesus, be reconciled to God.  He made Him, JESUS, who knew no sin
                         to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him"

JESUS, the LAMB of GOD, goes to the cross, to become sin, so sin would die with Him on the cross.

JESUS goes into the grave and while He is there buries the sin that He became, taking victory over sin and death.  Leaving the sin buried, Jesus then raises from the dead with the resurrection power of the HOLY SPIRIT.  Now having a resurrected body, JESUS, was another forty days on the earth and then ascended into heaven.

JESUS goes into Heaven, and now having a spiritual glorified body, can now join back up with the HOLY SPIRIT, FATHER.  Doing so, JESUS brings into the HOLY SPIRIT the experience of humanity in which the HOLY SPIRIT could now be the Comforter and HELPER to all those who will choose Him for what He did on the cross, allowing them to become a NEW CREATION.

Look at it this way.

The LORD our GOD, the LIGHT, put a drop of HIS LIGHT in Mary, that drop of LIGHT became a man.  At this Man's death, burial and resurrection, He became a drop of Light  again.  The drop of Light goes back up with a programed hard drive, and joins together as ONE with the LIGHT, bringing the knowledge of interacting with humans and their weaknesses and how to draw them to the LIGHT, TRUTH.  Then  the LIGHT, the ONE LORD GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT, who ARE YESHUA, JESUS, returns back to indwell ALL those who would believe, becoming their HELPER in teaching them the TRUTH of who JESUS is and how to live as a NEW CREATION.

In completing this teaching, I want to leave you with one of the most hidden nuggets in scripture.  I have been walking with YESHUA for 42 years on October 20th, my second birthday.  I have read the book of Acts many times and just found this nugget around three years ago.  It could easily go unnoticed, but I thank JESUS for allowing me to see this.  I think Jesus has been faithful in showing me things that help to teach my fellow believers(saints) exactly who He is and helping them to grow in knowing more about Him and His true nature, because He knows this is my passion and desire. This way they would have no confusion in who the Spirit is that is indwelling them, so that when they "Examine themselves!", they will not fail the test, knowing that they are indwelt with JESUS being IN THEM, their hope of Glory.

To have had the chance to find this nugget, you would have had to persevere through the book of Acts and made it to Chapter 20, verse 28, where Paul writes this;

                         "Be on you guard for yourselves and for ALL the flock, among which
                         the HOLY SPIRIT has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of
                         God which He purchased with HIS OWN BLOOD."

We have been purchased with the HOLY SPIRIT'S very own blood. 

Thank you Jesus!

I hope this helped you to grow in the grace and knowledge of the LORD, JESUS.

May the Prince of Peace guard your minds and soul.  Peace to you.





                        

                       
  

Who Is This Spirit In Us? (Part 1)

 In my last blog, I spoke about the need to be born of above to be able to enter the kingdom of God.  This was defined as being born again of the Spirit.  This happens when you receive what Jesus did for everyone, who chooses Him for what He did, on the cross, in His burial, and by His resurrection.  When you accept His sacrifice, your soul is filled with the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead. In this, Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Spirit. Now the Question, "Who is this Spirit?" Who is this Holy Spirit that indwells a person who acknowledges acceptance of the truth and believes.

The First Commandment says;

I am the Lord your God, you should have no other God's before Me.

Understanding who this Lord is, is the key to knowing who the Spirit is that is now dwelling in your soul.  When Moses asked God, at the time he was given the ten commandments,  "Whom shall I tell them you are?", the Lord replied, "Tell Them that I Am."  Not a lot of information there.  That is why He gave us the scriptures, so that we could come to know who He is. I am going to break it down this way so you can see the different ways that He has described Himself.

                                 The Holy Spirit in the Spiritual realm.

I am the Lord........  who He is.

Your God ......... His position.

                                 What the Holy Spirit did in the physical realm.

Father .....  what He did.

His Son (Body)Yeshua (Jesus) "The Lord Our Salvation"....... His name.


Before the Holy Spirit became a Father and a Son, He existed as a Spirit. Since God is Holy, then He is a Holy Spirit.  This Holy Spirit, somewhere in eternity, came up with an eternal plan. In this plan, He would become a Father.  In doing so, He made a body for Himself.  With this body, He, through His sacrificing Himself as, "the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world", would make for Himself an eternal glorified body by rising from the dead.  By what He did, EVERYONE who wants to, can be made in His likeness of His resurrected body. Being born of above a person can now be made in the likeness of His eternal glorified body at the resurrection.  Until the resurrection a believer walks in the newness of life, becoming a New Creation, having the Spirit of God living in them. 

How do we acknowledge this Spirit?  What do we call Him?

 One of the most telling passages of scripture, that explains to us who this Spirit is that dwells in a believer(saint), is in the gospel of John Chapter 14, verses 16-26;

                          16"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that
                          He may be with you forever, 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world
                          can not receive, because it does not behold Him, but you know Him
                          because He abides with you, and will be in you."

Key points right here.  I call them gold nuggets.  Jesus said, "seek and you will find."  As a New Creation, born again of the Spirit of God, most saints never take the time to read the precious Word of God.  We must read the Word of God to learn who He is and find the things hidden in the sides of the river beds, the Gold, that explain to us His true nature and who He is.  If you don't, then you may be listening to doctrines of demons that attempt conceal His true identity. 

The apostle Paul stated in Ephesians Chapter 1, verse 17, that he prayed this for the saints;

                         "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you
                          a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the true knowledge of Him."

 And again in Ephesians 4:13;

                         "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the true knowledge of the
                         Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
                         of Christ". 

When Paul says he prays that we grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, he is praying that we grow in knowing and understanding who He Is.  It is not saying in these passages to grow in all He knows, although in other scripture we do learn a lot of what He knows, but only in part.

So how was Jesus describing Himself in verses 16 and 17 ?  The Father will send a Helper, who is the Spirit of truth.  We know from scripture that Jesus is the Truth.  Jesus was revealing to the disciples, that they know Him because He (Jesus) is with you and will be IN YOU. Can this be backed up in other scripture? Of course it can or I wouldn't say it.

Paul gave us this gold nugget in his letter to the Galatians, when he wrote this in Chapter 4, verse 6;

                    "And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our 

                    hearts, crying Abba! Father!"

 Paul wrote another gold nugget in the 2nd letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 13, verse 5;

                    "Test yourselves to see if you are of the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you
                     not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you fail
                     the test?"

 When Paul wrote "examine yourselves!", this is one of the few places in all of scripture where an explanation point is used.  So do you think that this is an important thing to know? Of course it is.

I see a lot of confusion among the saints on how they should worship the Lord our God.  I see a lot of Holy Spirit worship, which is not bad in itself, but it is very important to acknowledge that this Holy Spirit that you are worshiping is Himself the Lord our God, The Lord Jesus (Yeshua), The Lord our Salvation..

 Jesus said, in Mathew, Chapter 18, verse 20,

                    " For where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in their mist."

 It is important to invite the Holy Spirit (Yeshua) into your mist by gathering in Jesus name, so that everyone, and even yourself, understands who you are worshiping.  God (the Holy Spirit) was very particular about the name that He would be called when He Himself came into this physical realm in the person of Jesus.  He had told both Mary and Joseph to name the child Jesus, Yeshua, The Lord Our Salvation, because He would be The Savior to the world.

 We also know from Acts Chapter 4, verse 12;

                     "And there is no other name under that has been given among men, by which
                     we must be saved."

  So if you are really concerned about someone getting saved and becoming born of above, becoming a New Creation, we better invoke the name of Jesus.

My next blog will be the second part of "Who Is This Spirit? This is a lot to absorb.

May you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.