I made the statement the Holyspirit's main ministry is revealing Christ and that is so. But it really is the only ministry He has, it is the ministry of the Holyspirit to reveal Christ in the believer to the believer. Why would God do that? Because believers need to know Christ in them. When men are in a jam and begin to pray and believe for help, we get help most of the time because that is how our father works out life for us. But that is not why the Holyspirit was given. He was not given so he could get me out of a jam everytime I get in some situation. He was given so men/women would know the Christ in them. You can not know the Christ in you without the Holyspirit revealing Him to you.
You may have some feeling for knowing Christ in a outer way but that is not the Christ you need to know. Paul even said we are to "know no man after the flesh not even Jesus." 2 Corinthians 5:16.
(Outer way; would be seeing Christ anywhere other than in you. Even if it is seated at the right hand of God or some other form)
What was Paul saying? We cannot know Jesus of Nazareth, that is not the Jesus we need to know. The Christ you need to know is the Christ that has been in you from the moment you believed.
What makes Paul so important to a believers understanding is; he gave us in written scriptures body soul and spirit. No one had ever knew body soul and spirit until it was revealed to Paul.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
Paul delivers to the saints what it is that God is going to do with them in this world. It will be a training ground, a school for the children of God to be instructed by the great instructor Himself the Holyspirit. He will be the teacher of every classroom that the believer will pass through. He will lead them and guide them to their life, giving sound instruction along the way. In sickness they will learn "the healer is in you" He says with a still small voice. In every circumstance and situation that can ever surface He leads you to Him who is your life "Christ."
They learn nothing in this world can separate them from the love of their Father. They learn "for them to live is Christ," they understand they are a living expression of the Christ in them. They learn they may need to find the right doctor or the right pill or they may get a miracle by prayer, but it doesn't matter the healer is in you. What ever method He chooses to heal a believer does not matter it is still Him that is doing the healing. That is how the Holyspirit leads you and guides you through life, the way you come to it is to see Him, Christ, who is your life. That is what the Holyspirit will reveal to you.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: - Galatians 1:15-16.
You may have some feeling for knowing Christ in a outer way but that is not the Christ you need to know. Paul even said we are to "know no man after the flesh not even Jesus." 2 Corinthians 5:16.
(Outer way; would be seeing Christ anywhere other than in you. Even if it is seated at the right hand of God or some other form)
What was Paul saying? We cannot know Jesus of Nazareth, that is not the Jesus we need to know. The Christ you need to know is the Christ that has been in you from the moment you believed.
What makes Paul so important to a believers understanding is; he gave us in written scriptures body soul and spirit. No one had ever knew body soul and spirit until it was revealed to Paul.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
Paul delivers to the saints what it is that God is going to do with them in this world. It will be a training ground, a school for the children of God to be instructed by the great instructor Himself the Holyspirit. He will be the teacher of every classroom that the believer will pass through. He will lead them and guide them to their life, giving sound instruction along the way. In sickness they will learn "the healer is in you" He says with a still small voice. In every circumstance and situation that can ever surface He leads you to Him who is your life "Christ."
They learn nothing in this world can separate them from the love of their Father. They learn "for them to live is Christ," they understand they are a living expression of the Christ in them. They learn they may need to find the right doctor or the right pill or they may get a miracle by prayer, but it doesn't matter the healer is in you. What ever method He chooses to heal a believer does not matter it is still Him that is doing the healing. That is how the Holyspirit leads you and guides you through life, the way you come to it is to see Him, Christ, who is your life. That is what the Holyspirit will reveal to you.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: - Galatians 1:15-16.
