New Creation 3
The essence of, John 14:20,
is to pinpoint vividly the purpose of the Day of Pentecost. Once again we hear Jesus explaining the purpose of the Holy Spirit by what would happen on that day. In John 14:20, Jesus focuses the entire plan of God to the believer receiving the Holy Spirit and anchors it all to the happenings on that day. Jesus says that on that day, the Day of Pentecost, the believer will know something.
Now here is where the new creation believer is demanding the true Gospel. Jesus did not just say the believer would receive something or the believer would receive power or the believer would become someone within himself. What He plainly says is that the believer will come to know something. It is so sad that so many who claim to experience a baptism have never come to this knowing.
But look further, Jesus said the thing believers would know is that as He was in the Father, so would they know that He was in them and that they were in Him. What a revolutionary statement, a statement that Satan has generally kept away from most believers.
The modern Church has not really understood Pentecost and the Father’s purpose on that day. Jesus plainly says that the essence of the Pentecostal experience is a believer coming to the revelation that Christ is his only life.
The new creation believers will not be denied this part of the Gospel any longer. There is only one work of grace, the birthing of the Father. But the strategic ministry of the Holy Spirit is to make that birthing continuous and ever-growing.
The Church, the true Church of Jesus Christ is a formidable weapon of God against the forces of Satan.
In fact, I see the Church as the major force to perpetuate and make known the Word of God.
However, it is because of this that Satan’s major attack, aside from the individual believer, is against the Church. Satan works at causing division, bringing schisms, confusing the Word that is preached and, finally, making the Church a laughing stock. There is little wonder that there are probably more saints truly born again outside church buildings in America than inside them.
Notice that I said church buildings. Sad to say, many believers have come to believe that a building is the Church. In fact, so many are being deprived the true Gospel so much that, through the erroneous preaching of the day, buildings have become a spiritual criterion.
Preacher after preacher has made a new building, or the next building to
build the essence of the gospel.
The essence of, John 14:20,
is to pinpoint vividly the purpose of the Day of Pentecost. Once again we hear Jesus explaining the purpose of the Holy Spirit by what would happen on that day. In John 14:20, Jesus focuses the entire plan of God to the believer receiving the Holy Spirit and anchors it all to the happenings on that day. Jesus says that on that day, the Day of Pentecost, the believer will know something.
Now here is where the new creation believer is demanding the true Gospel. Jesus did not just say the believer would receive something or the believer would receive power or the believer would become someone within himself. What He plainly says is that the believer will come to know something. It is so sad that so many who claim to experience a baptism have never come to this knowing.
But look further, Jesus said the thing believers would know is that as He was in the Father, so would they know that He was in them and that they were in Him. What a revolutionary statement, a statement that Satan has generally kept away from most believers.
The modern Church has not really understood Pentecost and the Father’s purpose on that day. Jesus plainly says that the essence of the Pentecostal experience is a believer coming to the revelation that Christ is his only life.
The new creation believers will not be denied this part of the Gospel any longer. There is only one work of grace, the birthing of the Father. But the strategic ministry of the Holy Spirit is to make that birthing continuous and ever-growing.
The Church, the true Church of Jesus Christ is a formidable weapon of God against the forces of Satan.
In fact, I see the Church as the major force to perpetuate and make known the Word of God.
However, it is because of this that Satan’s major attack, aside from the individual believer, is against the Church. Satan works at causing division, bringing schisms, confusing the Word that is preached and, finally, making the Church a laughing stock. There is little wonder that there are probably more saints truly born again outside church buildings in America than inside them.
Notice that I said church buildings. Sad to say, many believers have come to believe that a building is the Church. In fact, so many are being deprived the true Gospel so much that, through the erroneous preaching of the day, buildings have become a spiritual criterion.
Preacher after preacher has made a new building, or the next building to
build the essence of the gospel.
