2 Corinthians 3:6 - "The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."
People who are spiritual can only be fed with spiritual food. Jesus says He does not speak or act of Himself:
"The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works." (John 14:10).
Hunger for life in the Holy Spirit immerses us into an intensity of zeal, into a likeness to Jesus; it makes us into pure, liquid metal so hot for God that it travels like oil from vessel to vessel.
This divine life of the Spirit will let us see that we have ceased, yet we have begun. We may be filled with the letter without being filled with the Spirit. We may be filled with knowledge without having divine knowledge. And we may be filled with wonderful natural things and still remain natural men.
We must live in the Spirit, and be growing in the life and works of Jesus, "in season and out of season" (2 Timothy 4:2), always beholding the face of the Master, Jesus (Matthew 18:10).
People who are spiritual can only be fed with spiritual food. Jesus says He does not speak or act of Himself:
"The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works." (John 14:10).
Hunger for life in the Holy Spirit immerses us into an intensity of zeal, into a likeness to Jesus; it makes us into pure, liquid metal so hot for God that it travels like oil from vessel to vessel.
This divine life of the Spirit will let us see that we have ceased, yet we have begun. We may be filled with the letter without being filled with the Spirit. We may be filled with knowledge without having divine knowledge. And we may be filled with wonderful natural things and still remain natural men.
We must live in the Spirit, and be growing in the life and works of Jesus, "in season and out of season" (2 Timothy 4:2), always beholding the face of the Master, Jesus (Matthew 18:10).
