The Wonderful Christian Experience! Part 6

The Wonderful Christian Experience! Part 6

With the help of God’s Spirit teaching us, let’s continue to look into the greatness of a wonderful relationship that every believer may experience with Holy Spirit. In this lesson, the Lord led me to look at what part spiritual maturity has to play in our relationship with Holy Spirit.

GOLD & GLORY FLASHPOINT 1:

During the Joy revival of the 1990’s, I taught on relationship with Holy Spirit every day. I also noticed that many of those Christians who started a relationship with Holy Spirit struggled. They found the relationship difficult in not being able to hear from Holy Spirit for themselves. What made their attempts to walk with Holy Spirit even more difficult was the Pentecostal and Charismatic churches themselves. All the emotion and whoopla and shouting in the churches were often incorrectly identified as spiritual things…but it was not spiritual…it was just emotional. What the churches advertised as Spirit was actually just soul. As such, as a ministry, we had to continually point out the differences between SOUL and SPIRIT.

Even today the emphasis in so called revival churches is still nothing more than emotion. Here is the shocking reality of the Christian soul life….if what was taught made sense and sounded good, it was considered spiritual instead of natural.

Bible reading and meditation on the scriptures as well as studying and memorizing scripture with the mind were all classified as being spiritual, which they were not…ever. Sadly so, these things just mentioned have nothing to do with the born-again human spirit. It is often taught that meditation in the scripture would result in what was meditated upon to just slip down into the human spirit.

Ridiculously, Christians would run tape recorders all night long, believing that while sleeping the Word would filter through their mind into their spirit. Please understand, putting God’s Word into our mind is based on the reading, studying and meditation of the Word, whereas, to get the Word into our born-again spirit-man is done by Holy Spirit ONLY. WHY? Because nothing from the outside world or your mind can penetrate your human spirit.

No effort of the soul or mind can transfer spiritual things into your spirit! No…to protect the pure life of God in your born-again spirit, your spirit is sealed from the INSIDE by Holy Spirit who lives inside your born-again human spirit (Eph.1:13). If anything from our carnal sinful minds or the outside world could penetrate our spirit after salvation, anything from the outside would immediately CONTAMINATE the pure salvation of God in your spirit and your salvation would be lost. Yet, this is the garbage many so called Holy Spirit churches teach all the time! RIDICULOUS!

These are some of the lies which are still so strongly believed on by many Pentecostal/Charismatic churches. Subsequently, a proper distinction between human soul and human spirit was never made effectively! The result was that Christians tried to develop a relationship with Holy Spirit in their mind instead of in their human spirit.

A few years ago we obeyed the Lord in publishing our book, TRUE Christian Living, which is the first of its kind ever published in the Church world. In this book, we made a clear distinction between the Christian life in the soul as opposed to the Christian life in the born-again spirit. ONE part of the true Christian life is lived in the soul which we clearly explained in chapter 3. The SECOND aspect of the true Christian life is about living the Christian life in our born-again human spirit. Living the Christian life in our spirit is far more important and far greater than living it in the soul man, yet both are required for a happy Christian experience with Holy Spirit. I encourage you to get a hold of this book, TRUE Christian Living, and ask the Spirit of the Lord to teach you as you read through it.

Another major problem in the Church is “spiritual immaturity.” As I said before, many Christians responded to my teaching about a Holy Spirit relationship back in the revival days of the 1990’s, however, they grew frustrated over a few weeks and gave up on it. There is nothing we can do as Christians, using our minds, that can positively affect our born-again human spirit.

So many Christians live in the fantasy of meeting Jesus at the Pearly Gate when they die. They picture the teaching of the Church in romanticizing meeting Jesus in heaven. However, the TRUE REALITY is much different from Christian doctrine and fantasies. Most Christians after death arrive in heaven as spiritual babies. They never developed their human spirit, even after many years on earth as Christians from when they were born again.

In I Corinthians 3, Paul tells the Christians in Corinth that although they were born again three years ago, they are still babes in Christ. As Christian infants, Paul could not speak to them in a spiritual fashion, but had to address them in the flesh which is carnal…which is their natural minds. In 1 Peter 2:2, Peter encouraged the newborn Christians to desire the sincere milk of the Word for spiritual growth. In Ephesians 4:13, Paul encouraged those Christians to grow in their faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God unto becoming a perfect man, which here means spiritual maturity of the human spirit in Christ. In the next verse 14, Paul says that having become mature Christians they are no longer spiritual children who are tossed to and fro and deceived by every wind of doctrine that blows into town. In verse 15, Paul continues to say that speaking the truth in love, they may GROW UP in the Lord in ALL THINGS, who is the head even Christ. Paul is talking here about spiritual maturity, since naturally, the Corinthians were already adult people.

The teachings of the Church have destroyed the Church over many years, for mainly two reasons. Firstly, the teachings are not New Testament teachings; and secondly, they only address the soul, the mind, and the intellect. It is nothing more than man-made theology!

Paul WARNED Timothy about this terrible practice. Paul also says that this error caused Christians to always try to learn everything, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. There are many more scriptures in the New Testament addressing the issues of spiritual immaturity!

GOLD & GLORY FLASHPOINT 2:

In teaching Holy Spirit relationship since I arrived in America in 1988, I always emphasized spiritual maturity and how to grow spiritually in your spirit man to spiritual maturity. I’ll say more about this in next week’s e-Truth teaching. Many of those Christians in the Joy revival days got excited about the teaching of relationship with Holy Spirit which I brought to them continually.

The main reason why many of them initially failed to find a breakthrough with Holy Spirit back then was because they failed to realize that although they had been born again for many years, they were still spiritual babies. Therefore, in starting to fellowship with Holy Spirit according to John 14-17…and exercise patience, they were discouraged literally within a few weeks for not breaking through with Holy Spirit by beginning to hear his voice clearly in their hearts.

Please stay with me over the next few weeks as we look closer at spiritual immaturity and how to realistically and patiently set out to establish a personal relationship with Holy Spirit, even to the point where you start having a breakthrough and Holy Spirit becomes real to you in fellowship. As a reminder…and like everything in life…this takes time!

If we appreciate the fact that we all started out as spiritual babes regardless of being born again for many years…we can appreciate that our spiritual relationship with Holy Spirit is also the starting point from where our spirit begins to develop, grow up, and mature in the Lord. All the soul stuff and screaming over the years did nothing more than excite minds and stir up emotions. There is hardly anything spiritual in any of it. It is just the regimentation of the soul-controlled Church of Pentecostals and Charismatics.

If you personally have struggled to find a two-way relationship with Holy Spirit over the years, join me over the next few weeks as we explore the reality of Holy Spirit relationship…and then take the correct steps in finding the breakthrough and coming into true and close fellowship with Holy Spirit.

This is going to be EXCITING!...and I know if we act on this, it will help many Christians who over the years have attempted to walk with Holy Spirit but were not able to find that breakthrough with the Spirit of the Lord.

I trust every one of you will JOIN US on this WONDERFUL JOURNEY, in Jesus’ name. Thank you and God bless you!