For those that hear & for the little ones that He may prune in the knowledge of Him:
How will we know the Holy Spirit personally?
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
How will we know that the spirit is NOT the Holy Spirit?
1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world....4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
The Holy Spirit will not be giving the sensation of being around you or felt outside of you. What would be the point other than to take your eyes off of and away from seeking the face of our Lord Jesus Christ in worship to sensational signs in the flesh?
The Holy Spirit has no need to be felt in the place of worship. Only seducing spirits would want to draw believers attention to themselves & thus away from the Son in worship from honouring the Son.
Remember this self examination in regards to the faith in Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Most often misuse of scripture is Matthew 18:20, but if a believer reads verse 19 with verse 20, they would realize that the Son of God was referring to Himself in being the Mediator between God and man.
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The Son of God is talking here and so when He says "I", then He is referring to Himself. Jesus had always referrred to the Holy Spirit as seperate from Himself by referring to the Spirit as "he" or "him" and not "I" or "me".
Yes: God the Father, the Son of God, & the Holy Spirit are One, but Jesus is making a promise here in regards to His future role as our only Mediator between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Only the Son of Man Whom is also the Son of God can be the only Mediator between us. The risen Saviour is our only Mediator out of this Triune God.
The phrase "in the midst of them" is rendered from the Greek text "mesos" as it is used in context of those two verses is meaning inbetween us & God.
This"among them" which is not aligning with the message of those two verses is how believers are using the phrase "in the midst them" today in that verse as implying a presence outside of us in the worship place.
So regardless of your "good feeling" experience, that was not the Holy Spirit. That was seducing spirits at work in seducing you to seek after them for that sensation in the flesh again.
Consider this: to say that it was the Holy Spirit that you had felt outside of you, then you have made the line of discernment in 1 John 4:4 of "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world" null & void of meaning.
There would be no point for Jesus informing us in how we would know the Holy Spirit personally as being in us.
The real indwelling Holy Spirit would always lead believers to honour the Son in worship by testifying of the Son in seeking His glory.
Only seducing spirits will be at work to take your eyes off of the Son in worship in seeking that presence again to feel and to worship them in with their visiations of signs and lying wonders, therefore the Holy Spirit has no reason to be oustide of you where the spirits of the antichrist dwell otherwise, how then can anyone test any spirits to KNOW the Holy Spirit from seducing spirits which are in the world?
What about Pentecost?
Read what it actually says and don't ignore the rest of scripture in favour of what you are reading into it just because you want to believe that what you felt was from God.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
A sound of a rushing mighty wind filled the place: that is not the same thing as saying the Holy Spirit came and filled the place. BIG DIFFERENCE! The Holy Spirit filled the believers: not the place where they were meeting. It was the sound of a rushing mighty wind that filled the place.
Errant believers contend that you can't put God in a box, but by ignoring that line of discernment, then no one can test the spirits if the Holy Spirit would manifest outside of the believers to be felt in the worship place, but the fact that we can test the spirits MEAN that the Holy Spirit WILL NOT BE FELT outside of us for us to be seeking after.
1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
Psalm 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
There is no other way to honour God the Father other than by honouring the Son which is what the indwelling Holy Spirit is leading us to do. So when supernatural phenomenons occur, do not believe every spirit, but test them:
If you are feeling them outside of you or coming over you, even to induce speaking in tongues that comes with no interpretation? Then that is not the Holy Spirit when He is already within you leading you to keep the spotlight on the Son to glorify the Son.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me:
John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
So when supernatural phenomeon occurs in the worship place with visitations of signs & lying wonders, then that is not the Holy Spirit. He would never steal the spotlight away from the Son nor share in that spotlight for He will not speak of Himself in order to seek to glorify the Son & those led by the Spirit of God will do the very same thing.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Those that hear will know the importance of not believing every spirit and why the Holy Spirit will not be manifesting to be felt outside of us when the real indwelling Holy Spirit is leading us to testify of the Son to glorify the Son in honouring God the Father.
With the Holy Spirit within us, no believer can get any closer to God than that.
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
No manifestation of the real indwelling Holy Spirit will bring any other report than this below.
1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
To say otherwise is to testify of the spirit of the antichrist which is in the world.
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
So when any believer confess that spirit coming in the worship place presently thus to the meaning of "is come", that is the spirit of the antichrist that is in the world.
Many believers & educated scolars have misread 1 John 4:2 as meaning a denial of Jesus ever having come in the flesh and thus alluding to some false teaching in the early church's past which did occur, but John was not talking about that false teaching. John was instructing us in how to test the spirits so when you read 1 John 4:2,
1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christis come in the flesh is of God:
... it is the same thing as saying this below.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
How important is this issue?
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
There can be no rationalization nor blurring of this line of discernment as to where the Holy Spirit will be and where the Holy Spirit will not be so that we can test the spirits, and keep the faith in Jesus Christ which is the good fight. May the Good Shepherd help us to keep our eyes on Him to be found abiding in Him when the Bridegroom comes, and may the Good Shepherd restore the wayward to the path of righteousness for His name's sake. Amen.
How will we know the Holy Spirit personally?
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
How will we know that the spirit is NOT the Holy Spirit?
1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world....4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
The Holy Spirit will not be giving the sensation of being around you or felt outside of you. What would be the point other than to take your eyes off of and away from seeking the face of our Lord Jesus Christ in worship to sensational signs in the flesh?
The Holy Spirit has no need to be felt in the place of worship. Only seducing spirits would want to draw believers attention to themselves & thus away from the Son in worship from honouring the Son.
Remember this self examination in regards to the faith in Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Most often misuse of scripture is Matthew 18:20, but if a believer reads verse 19 with verse 20, they would realize that the Son of God was referring to Himself in being the Mediator between God and man.
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The Son of God is talking here and so when He says "I", then He is referring to Himself. Jesus had always referrred to the Holy Spirit as seperate from Himself by referring to the Spirit as "he" or "him" and not "I" or "me".
Yes: God the Father, the Son of God, & the Holy Spirit are One, but Jesus is making a promise here in regards to His future role as our only Mediator between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Only the Son of Man Whom is also the Son of God can be the only Mediator between us. The risen Saviour is our only Mediator out of this Triune God.
The phrase "in the midst of them" is rendered from the Greek text "mesos" as it is used in context of those two verses is meaning inbetween us & God.
This"among them" which is not aligning with the message of those two verses is how believers are using the phrase "in the midst them" today in that verse as implying a presence outside of us in the worship place.
So regardless of your "good feeling" experience, that was not the Holy Spirit. That was seducing spirits at work in seducing you to seek after them for that sensation in the flesh again.
Consider this: to say that it was the Holy Spirit that you had felt outside of you, then you have made the line of discernment in 1 John 4:4 of "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world" null & void of meaning.
There would be no point for Jesus informing us in how we would know the Holy Spirit personally as being in us.
The real indwelling Holy Spirit would always lead believers to honour the Son in worship by testifying of the Son in seeking His glory.
Only seducing spirits will be at work to take your eyes off of the Son in worship in seeking that presence again to feel and to worship them in with their visiations of signs and lying wonders, therefore the Holy Spirit has no reason to be oustide of you where the spirits of the antichrist dwell otherwise, how then can anyone test any spirits to KNOW the Holy Spirit from seducing spirits which are in the world?
What about Pentecost?
Read what it actually says and don't ignore the rest of scripture in favour of what you are reading into it just because you want to believe that what you felt was from God.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
A sound of a rushing mighty wind filled the place: that is not the same thing as saying the Holy Spirit came and filled the place. BIG DIFFERENCE! The Holy Spirit filled the believers: not the place where they were meeting. It was the sound of a rushing mighty wind that filled the place.
Errant believers contend that you can't put God in a box, but by ignoring that line of discernment, then no one can test the spirits if the Holy Spirit would manifest outside of the believers to be felt in the worship place, but the fact that we can test the spirits MEAN that the Holy Spirit WILL NOT BE FELT outside of us for us to be seeking after.
1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
Psalm 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
There is no other way to honour God the Father other than by honouring the Son which is what the indwelling Holy Spirit is leading us to do. So when supernatural phenomenons occur, do not believe every spirit, but test them:
If you are feeling them outside of you or coming over you, even to induce speaking in tongues that comes with no interpretation? Then that is not the Holy Spirit when He is already within you leading you to keep the spotlight on the Son to glorify the Son.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me:
John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
So when supernatural phenomeon occurs in the worship place with visitations of signs & lying wonders, then that is not the Holy Spirit. He would never steal the spotlight away from the Son nor share in that spotlight for He will not speak of Himself in order to seek to glorify the Son & those led by the Spirit of God will do the very same thing.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Those that hear will know the importance of not believing every spirit and why the Holy Spirit will not be manifesting to be felt outside of us when the real indwelling Holy Spirit is leading us to testify of the Son to glorify the Son in honouring God the Father.
With the Holy Spirit within us, no believer can get any closer to God than that.
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
No manifestation of the real indwelling Holy Spirit will bring any other report than this below.
1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
To say otherwise is to testify of the spirit of the antichrist which is in the world.
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
So when any believer confess that spirit coming in the worship place presently thus to the meaning of "is come", that is the spirit of the antichrist that is in the world.
Many believers & educated scolars have misread 1 John 4:2 as meaning a denial of Jesus ever having come in the flesh and thus alluding to some false teaching in the early church's past which did occur, but John was not talking about that false teaching. John was instructing us in how to test the spirits so when you read 1 John 4:2,
1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christis come in the flesh is of God:
... it is the same thing as saying this below.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
How important is this issue?
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
There can be no rationalization nor blurring of this line of discernment as to where the Holy Spirit will be and where the Holy Spirit will not be so that we can test the spirits, and keep the faith in Jesus Christ which is the good fight. May the Good Shepherd help us to keep our eyes on Him to be found abiding in Him when the Bridegroom comes, and may the Good Shepherd restore the wayward to the path of righteousness for His name's sake. Amen.
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