A Born Again.....has been given a measure of faith by God.
Explain fullness of the Spirit and point to scripture please?
Hang on a minute....why do you say “preachers” have failed me?
Who is our teacher, first and foremost?
You confess that Jesus is the Lord and that he is God incarnate fully God and fully man..
Ok, that’s great........so tell me.....how would you know this?
Thank You for the civil response. I Will answer your questions 1-4 The ones with Question marks above.
1 fulness of the Spirit scriptures:
Luke 4:1 for starters, Jesus goes into the wilderness full of the Holy Ghost after his Baptism and the start of His ministry. Notice full of the Holy Ghost, and led by the Holy Ghost.... He is our primary example (Christlikeness).
The second example i mentioned is the Apostles themselves....
And when he had said this, he breathed on
them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: (John 20:22)
This is when the apostles were born again, because the death of the testator and His resurrection must occur, Later After Jesus' forty day post resurrection visitations he told the disciples: wait in Jerusalem for the Promise of the Father, For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. (Acts 1:4-5, condensed) Later he said: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8, In acts 2 We see this promise come to be ....And they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:4).... So here we see an earnest of the Spirit (I Use that word because Paul uses it) and the fulness of the Spirit.... two different moves of the Spirit, one when the Apostles were Born again, and then the second the Baptism of the Spirit.
The third example is Stephen and the deacons in Acts 6, who were chosen based on their qualification of being full of the Holy Ghost. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report,
full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. (Acts 6:3) This sort of qualification is based on some not being qualified for this.... those who are faithful and have the earnest of the Spirit, but are not full of the Spirit. Most churches today do not even acknowledge this second move of the Spirit, Why?
2. As I said above, preachers have failed you if you do not understand this distinction above, the two moves of the Spirit, In earnest and in fulness. They keep the people suckling on their teachings instead of receiving the full unction of the Spirit to become teachers themselves. Paul and Peter Lamented this in suckling on milk in the Body of Believers they wrote to. It is this distinction that is the Basis of the distinction between the faithful and the saints. Take a read of the account of the ones chosen as deacons in Acts 6-7. Only one of them, Stephen, was chosen to make the saintly sacrifice... 1 of 7. I Encourage you or any here reading this to pray those prayers Paul prayed in Ephesians to Gain this insight.... That was a key for me personally.
3. Our ultimate teacher is the Holy Ghost. God Uses those full of the Holy Ghost to teach those of us who are still learning to walk in the Spirit. But Ultimately each of us responsible to learn to walk in the fulness of the Spirit, and in the end there will be no need for Prophets preachers apostles etc. in the church.... (Ephesians 4:11-16, Read this as a prophecy)
4.How do I know Jesus is God incarnate.... because the Holy Spirit revealed this truth to me when I was born again. This revelation is the sign of one being born again " for flesh and blood hath not revealed
it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 16:17). This is why this is a test of the Spirit. Paul writes; Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (1 Corinthians 12:3)
The Overwhelming Love of God that flows through this revelation is what the Born again experience is all about.
If You want to see these truths, and be taught by the Spirit pray the prayers in Ephesians 1:17ff, and 3:14ff
God Bless, and again thank you for the civil response.