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September 25th, 2011 Ben

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

John 10:10 (portion)

The only pure life is the life yielded to the Spirit.

If we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

When the disciples walked on the Earth, they had to stay with their master whom they could see. Yet, Jesus said it was better if He went away (John 16:7). This was because He was sending another comforter, the Holy Spirit.

Even His words, the words of the Kingdom (Matthew 13:19), or the words of Eternal Life, as Peter called them (John 6:68), they were more than words spoken by a human. The Word of the Kingdom is a living word, for He said, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.” (John 6:63).

There was a spiritual component, an anointing, an enduement of power in the words themselves which He spoke. In the case of Jesus, the words were perfect in both concept and thought, but also in the substance of the words themselves. The very words, in the Spiritual dimension, were alive.

In the same token, when Jesus advocated Peter for naming Him the Christ of God, and Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 16:17). Because they were heavenly words, revealed through the Father, there was a revelatory aspect to them. Because this was not of human origin, but divine, the words that Simon spoke left the realm of merely human, into that of the divine.

Even as it is written, “For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.” 2 Peter 2:14.

Jesus knew the Father, because that is where He had come from. He knew His Father, and the authority in the Spirit of His Father. He was the author of the gift of discerning of Spirits, and He knew the voice.

A voice that speaks on its own has its own authority. A voice that speaks on another’s authority speaks with its authority. Everything that is good comes down from the Father above.

The Old Covenant relied upon laws and rules to govern man’s behavior. It said, do this, and you will live.

But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILLASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THEABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved

Romans 10:6-9

This is the Word of Faith. Faith that receives, faith that believes, and faith that returns again, proceeding forth out of our mouth.

Just as we live from the ever proceeding word from the mouth of our Father (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4), the world will live by that Spirit of power that is Christ ever proceeding, first from Him, and then out from our own mouths. We are Christ to the perishing, lost, and dying world, and it does not need man’s opinion, it needs that which only Heaven can give (John 3:27).

The world doesn’t need our compromise, or our attempting to help them fit in. It needs, as a matter of death and life, the fruit of a renewed tongue, speaking the pure word of Faith, to be engrafted word, able to save their souls (James 1:21).

This is Eternal Life, that they may