.
There's a couple of ways to tell whether somebody is infected with God's
spirit: but since I'm ex-Catholic; I prefer to just focus on just one.
†. Rom 8:14-17 . . For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we call out: Abba, Father!
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Abba is an Aramaic word that means dad, daddy, pop, poppy, papa, padre,
dada, or father, et al. It's not a formal word; but rather, pretty much
informal because it's a family vocative. What I mean is: when I'm out in the
garage working and my son and his mother are in the kitchen talking about
me, the noun "dad" merely identifies who I am in our family structure. But
when my boy wants to get my attention by calling out: Dad! Where are you?
Then "dad" becomes a vocative.
What that boils down to is this: the spirit of His son always compels God's
children to call out to a father, never to a mother; and the reason for that is
actually quite simple. God's son never prayed, nor does he now pray, to his
mother; but always to his father; hence those infected with the spirit of His
son will do the very same thing.
That, by the way, is a pretty good diagnostic tool. In other words: If somebody
is comfortable praying to the Lord's mom, it's a reliable indicator that they're
free of infection with the spirit of God's son; which means of course that they
have not yet undergone adoption into His home either.
Freedom from infection with the spirit of God's son is potentially fatal.
†. Rom 8:9 . . If anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong
to Christ.
Cliff
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There's a couple of ways to tell whether somebody is infected with God's
spirit: but since I'm ex-Catholic; I prefer to just focus on just one.
†. Rom 8:14-17 . . For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we call out: Abba, Father!
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Abba is an Aramaic word that means dad, daddy, pop, poppy, papa, padre,
dada, or father, et al. It's not a formal word; but rather, pretty much
informal because it's a family vocative. What I mean is: when I'm out in the
garage working and my son and his mother are in the kitchen talking about
me, the noun "dad" merely identifies who I am in our family structure. But
when my boy wants to get my attention by calling out: Dad! Where are you?
Then "dad" becomes a vocative.
What that boils down to is this: the spirit of His son always compels God's
children to call out to a father, never to a mother; and the reason for that is
actually quite simple. God's son never prayed, nor does he now pray, to his
mother; but always to his father; hence those infected with the spirit of His
son will do the very same thing.
That, by the way, is a pretty good diagnostic tool. In other words: If somebody
is comfortable praying to the Lord's mom, it's a reliable indicator that they're
free of infection with the spirit of God's son; which means of course that they
have not yet undergone adoption into His home either.
Freedom from infection with the spirit of God's son is potentially fatal.
†. Rom 8:9 . . If anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong
to Christ.
Cliff
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