TABERNACLE: SPIRIT
INTENTION:
Whom we are in the
core is a spirit. In essence, we are a spirit, with a heart, soul, and mind, in
a body. Our actions (will) all stem from our spirit inside-out. And as we clear
hindering filters from our heart, soul, mind, and body, our Born-Again Spirit
can flow freely—doing the Will of the Lord in us.
Our body may die, but
our spirit exists in eternity; and will either eternally live WITH the Lord in
Heaven/New Earth or live SEPARATED from the Lord in Hell. When we believe
through the heart in Christ Jesus, our spirit is Born Again into a Holy Spirit—becoming
the Spirit of Christ!
I.
TOPIC (PART 6 – SPIRIT):
In the continuation of our series “Tabernacle: Body, Mind,
Soul, Heart, Spirit” we want to focus on Spirit. This is the inner-most aspect
of whom we are. It is the “Most Holy of Holies” place in the Moses Tabernacle
and where the Lord Himself indwells—not only making our Spirit Holy upon
believing, but then co-habiting His Spirit with our Born-Again Spirit… “His
Spirit testifying with our Spirit”.
When we chose to believe in Christ Jesus, the “sin of not
believing” is eliminated. Our sins of the flesh were all forgiven at the Cross,
and now that spiritual sin of unbelief is eliminated too! We will tackle
this in Lesson 018.
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Refer also: https://cbadenhorst.blogspot.com/2019/06/forgiveness.html
As humans, we are influenced both by the world around us
(outside-in) and the spirit / Spirit inside us (inside-out). this is the
eternal core of who we are; whether Born-Again or not.
NB: when I discuss the Spirit, I will use lower-case
“spirit” as a means to identify a spirit not Born-Again; and use upper-case “Spirit”
as a Spirit Born-Again.
Everything we do (our will) originates in our spirit /
Spirit. It travels through the heart, through the soul, through the mind,
through the body, and becomes our action. The person’s will can then change as
it gets filtered passing through each part of our being which may have unbeliefs,
strongholds, conflict, doctrines, etc. However, if from the Spirit we have
cleared the debris and items of resistance (i.e. having a clear heart, soul,
and mind), then His Will becomes our Will. This is exactly as Christ did, as He
was able to do only what He saw His Father do. He was in complete unity with
the Father through the Holy Ghost in Him: three-in-one, unified! In-turn having
unity in His Spirit, Soul, and Body. Overcoming all aspects of His flesh from
His Spirit within.
This is why we must have a clean conscience, no unbelief,
not a troubled soul, a renewed mind, and a sacrificed body. In doing so, we
open the way for the Spirit out through us!
When we become Born-Again (through believing in the heart into
the spirit), our spirit is made Holy: a Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost then seals
that doorway of the heart that we cannot lose that belief or salvation to come.
Since there is only one kind of Holy to the Lord, when our spirit is made Holy,
it is made a Holy Spirit. This is the exact same Spirit that Christ has. We
have the Spirit of Christ! Our Born-Again Spirit has the same Holiness as Him
and His Holy Spirit. And when we get in-filled with the Holy Ghost, our Spirit
and His Spirit are unified as one. Just as mixing two identically pure glasses
of water into one, they become inseparable, and we are unable to tell them
apart: they become one (two-in-one).
Our communication and understanding of the Lord are through
the Spiritual realm—for we must “worship Him in Spirit and Truth”. This realm
and understanding helps us cut through misunderstandings of scripture often the
result of us trying to interpret Spiritual with the flesh.
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Refer also: https://cbadenhorst.blogspot.com/2017/05/misunderstanding-and-misinterpretation.html
II.
READING: 1
Corinthians 2:1-16 (HCSB)
When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of
God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom. 2 For I didn’t
think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My
speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a
powerful demonstration by the Spirit, 5 so that your faith might not be based
on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.
6 However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a
wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7
On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God
predestined before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age
knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written:
What eye did not see, and ear did
not hear, and what never entered the human mind—God prepared this for those who
love Him.
10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit,
for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who among
men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In
the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now
we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from
God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13 We
also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But
the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is
foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated
spiritually. 15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he
himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.
16 For who has known the Lord’s
mind, that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
III.
RELATED VERSES AND QUESTIONS:
A. Born
of the Spirit:
John
3:5-8 (HCSB) {PoG}
Jesus answered, “I assure
you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
kingdom of God. 6 Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born
of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be
born again. 8 The wind {Spirit} blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound,
but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with
everyone born of the Spirit.”
John
4:21-24 (HCSB)
Jesus told her, “Believe
Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We
worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But an hour is
coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. 24 God is
spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Question: What are ways you recognise the Spirit
inside of you?
B. The
Holy Spirit with us and all humanity:
John
14:16-17 (HCSB)
And I will ask the Father,
and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the
Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him
or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in
you.
Acts
2:16-18 (HCSB)
…this is what was spoken
through the prophet Joel:
17 And it will be in the
last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your
sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and
your old men will dream dreams.
18 I will even pour out My
Spirit on My male and female slaves in those days, and they will prophesy.
Question: What does the Holy Spirit being poured
out on all humanity bring to this earth? Is there a benefit to having Him in us
versus just having Him with us?
C. The
Spirit lives in us, shared (joined) with our Spirit:
Romans
8:9,14-17 (HCSB)
You, however, are not in
the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if
anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
All those led by God’s
Spirit are God’s sons. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall
back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out,
“Abba, Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that
we are God’s children, 17 and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs
with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified
with Him.
1
Corinthians 3:16 (HCSB) {PoG}
Don’t you yourselves know
that you are God’s sanctuary {Temple} and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
1
Corinthians 6:17 (HCSB)
But anyone joined to the
Lord is one spirit with Him.
Ephesians
1:13-14 (HCSB)
When you heard the message
of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were
also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. 14 He is the down payment of our
inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.
Galatians
4:6-7 (HCSB)
And because you are sons,
God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” 7
So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
1
John 4:13 (HCSB)
This is how we know that
we remain in Him and He in us: He has given assurance to us from His Spirit.
Question: As Born-Again, do you believe you have
His Spirit? Do you sometimes doubt you are a child of God?
D. Holy
Spirit Gifts, Fruit, and Insight:
Matthew
10:19-20 (HCSB)
…don’t worry about how or
what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour, 20
because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through
you.
John
6:63 (HCSB)
The Spirit is the One who
gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you
are spirit and are life.
John
16:13-14 (HCSB)
When the Spirit of truth
comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own,
but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to
come. 14 He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare
it to you.
1
Corinthians 12:4-11 (HCSB)
Now there are different
gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different ministries, but the same
Lord. 6 And there are different activities, but the same God activates each
gift in each person. 7 A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person to
produce what is beneficial:
8 to one is given a
message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the
same Spirit, 9 to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of
healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another, the performing of miracles, to
another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another,
different kinds of languages, to another, interpretation of languages.
11 But one and the same
Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.
Galatians
5:22-23a (HCSB)
But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness,
self-control.
Question: We all have been gifted the same Holy
Spirit; hence we all operate with all the Gifts—do you feel you can operate in
all these Gifts and “eat” of the Fruit of the Spirit?
E. Other
spiritual forces (as we read in 1
Corinthians 2:12 about the “spirit of this world”) are at work—but that we
have authority over:
Matthew
10:1 (HCSB)
Summoning His 12
disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and
to heal every disease and sickness.
Ephesians
2:1-2 (HCSB)
And you were dead in your
trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of
this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower
heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
Ephesians
4:22-24 (HCSB)
You took off your former
way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires; 23 you are
being renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24 you put on the new self, the one
created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
2
Timothy 1:7 (HCSB)
For God has not given us a
spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
1
John 4:1-3 (HCSB)
Dear friends, do not
believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God,
because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you know the
Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is from God. 3 But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from
God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming,
and he is already in the world now.
Question: What are ways we can discern / test
the spiritual realm to see if what is presented is of the Lord?
IV.
FURTHER THOUGHT:
A. James
2:26a (HCSB)
…the body without the
spirit is dead.
Thoughts: Whom we are in our core reality is
as a Spiritual being, in a body (Temple / Tabernacle) on this earth. When we
die, our spirit/Spirit departs our body, and our body returns to the earth it
was created from. Our spirit/Spirit then continues to exist for eternity,
whether with the Lord, or separated from Him in Hell.
Let us make a clean
understanding in our hearts and minds that this life we experience on earth is
not the be-all-end-all of things. We can rejoice that we are more than just
limited and temporary beings, but that we were created by an Eternal being to be
eternal ourselves. So, rejoice as a believer, your existence will be with the
Lord for ever and ever and ever!
B. Spiritual
realm and the Quantum realm.
Hebrews
11:3 (HCSB)
By faith we understand
that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been
made from things that are not visible.
Colossians
1:15-17 (HCSB)
He is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For everything was
created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created
through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all
things, and by Him all things hold together.
Thoughts: I have taken interest in many of the
Quantum concepts, theories, and understandings. I have found it fascinating
that this “unseen” Quantum realm has many ties into the Spiritual realms that
is of the Lord. Here are some Spiritual concepts / beliefs I like to bounce off
Quantum concepts / theories (including infinite realities / dimensions):
·
Time does not exist in both the Spiritual and
the Quantum; thus, disregarding any limits to how fast anything can be (no
light-speed limit). Without time, the velocity equation V=d/t become V=d. For Entangled-Particles,
their distance apart is irrelevant. And because no time exists, there is no
definitive “beginning” or “end” to the Spiritual (Revelations
1:8).
·
Both the decisions of the flesh and the spirit
co-exist (double-slit experiment), until one makes a decision (it is observed)
to which only one exists (Galatians
5:16-17). And, since each spirit/flesh reality exists, only until our
decision is made does it affect our reality—to which, each opposite decision
creates its own reality.
·
Both these realities the Lord knows of (as He
knows the best choice for us, even if we don’t choose it). Our existence is
both life (spirit) and death (flesh) until it is observed / manifests—like Schrödinger’s
cat.
·
God is light (1
John 1:5) and spoke all things into existence (Genesis
1). Jesus is the Word that was spoken made physical, and the light that
existed prior to a physical source of light (John
1:1-5). And it is Jesus that holds all things together—both as light and as
sound (both Waves and Particles).
·
The world existed in a universe of darkness (Dark
Matter) until light existed to separate the darkness—a darkness that cannot
overcome light.
·
The Spiritual (Quantum) created the physical;
for God is a Spirit (John
4:24 & 1
Timothy 6:13-16).
·
Like Quantum, the Spiritual does not have to
abide by the “laws of the natural / physical realm”. This can be seen in the
likes of:
o
Jesus walking on water.
o
Philip being instantly transported from one
place to another.
o
Healing the sick.
o
Casting out spirits.
o Raising
the dead.
You can also look into
Super-Symmetry, Super-String, Super-Gravity, and the Theory of Everything.
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