The
purpose to be lived in Pentecost.
After
Calvary when Jesus was resurrected, he is no longer in the tomb and yes, he is
live. It is beautiful and wonderful to know that Jesus did not stay on earth,
for this he had told his disciples that the kernel must die, but would not
remain alone. Jesus was raised and after that he was ascended to heaven, and
sent us the Comforter that He has promised us. He said he would produce much
fruit. The fruit that He produced was a lot of eternal life to all who accept
the price He paid for us. One day Jesus had told the disciples that He would
send another Comforter like Him to be with us. Jesus said that He had to go to
the Father to send another Comforter.
In Jn.
14:16 says: "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor to be with you forever--." The Holy Spirit is with us forever,
this is a very high purpose to be lived, for God to dwell within us forever.
The Holy Spirit came to dwell in us is another stage of life with a purpose
that God has for us. God does not leave us orphans, He comes and makes a living
in us. Here we do not want to debate how to receive the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, but the purpose to be lived this fact. You see Jesus had said that the
Church would do the same works that He did and in Jo. 14:12, for this to
happen, he had to come to dwell even greater in us.
Let me ask
you something. Have You given our wonderful God room to have the opportunity to
live the purpose He has here on earth through you? Or is your "I"
seated on the throne of your life and Jesus cannot use you? God is aware of the
fact that Satan will do everything possible to ruin what God does in us and
through us. For this reason God comes and dwells in the human to be in Him and
protect him from the attack of the enemy.
For this
reason God comes and dwells in human beings in order to be able to be in them
and protect them from attack of the enemy. Just as satan tried to destroy the
human being the first time, he will try to do this always. us. God had a very
high purpose in coming to dwell within us. With God living within us it becomes
impossible that evil will be able to harm us. The Bible says that evil cannot
touch us. - "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the
one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him"
- 1 Jn. 5:18 Once we are born of God, the devil cannot touch us anymore. We are
kept in the palm of our God. God saves us, this is the purpose that is to be
lived, we are saved by God himself. "See, I have engraved you on the palms
of my hands; your walls are ever before me" - Isaiah 49:16.
Therefore,
God then sends the Spirit of Truth to dwell in us while we walk here on earth.
In this way, God can use us as He used Jesus to continue the good work that He
started. Jesus promised to send the Comforter. “And I will ask the Father, and
he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-” John 14:16. Jesus
had given them every instruction as they should wait in Jerusalem until they
were endued and filled with the Holy Spirit from above. The day of Pentecost
came, and you can read it in Acts 2. God sends the Holy Spirit to the Church of
Jesus here on earth. He came down and filled them all, and he fills all who
believe the promises as we seek God's Word. Every child of God by seeking His
presence receives Him. The purpose to be lived in this factor is the fact that
with God Himself living in us that makes us God's Family. We are one with Him
as Jesus prayed before He was crucified. Jesus wanted us to be one with Him as
He was one with the Father Jesus made a point of declaring all here in his
earthly life that was necessary to constitute that his purpose in us.
John describes
in the priestly prayer of Jesus in chapter 17. Vs 18-23 tells us the following:
18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent
them into the world.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too
may be truly sanctified.
20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I
pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as
you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may
believe that you have sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you gave
me, that they may be one as we are one:
23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought
to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them
even as you have loved me.
Have you
ever meditated on on the fact how precious it is to be sent by Jesus as the
Father sent him? Jesus, the human being, sanctifies himself according to verse
19, here on earth so that he could sanctify us in the truth. Then he goes on
saying that his prayers are not only for them but for those who will believe in
Him through their message; that is You and I, as well. Check out the verses
above taht we just quoted.
Both you
and I by believing in Jesus, we receive Him as Lord and Savior of our lives,
because we believe in the Word by the fact that we hear and believe in Him.
This blessing has reached us also, and will reach many more. Jesus wants to
reach every human being for this He asked His Father, He wants us to be one as
He was with the Father, and the Father was in him. And Jesus wants all of us
who form the Church of Jesus here on earth be one with Jesus and God the
Father, so that the world may believe that God the Father sent Jesus to this
Mission.
Here on
earth we can prove by DNA if a person is our child and with the birth
certificate. You and I can prove that we are children of God, when the DNA of
our God is in us. I call this the DNA of God here, to understand what I want to
say. Jesus gave us the glory which the Father gave to Him, that we are all one.
Just as He and the Father are one. This is what I call the DNA of God, this
proves that we are children of God. When Jesus comes into our life, we become
one again with God, and this oneness is what it is all about. The Bible says
that when we are in God, the evil cannot touch us anymore. We are safe indeed.
The Holy Spirit dwells only within the children of the True and Living God.
This is
concrete proof that we are of God when He sends us his Spirit to dwell in us;
and this is a very high purpose to be lived here on this earth. This was the
purpose to be lived through Pentecost, and I believe that God gives each of us
a wonderful experience; when we are filled with the Holy Spirit. Some
experience many emotions at this time and others do not, actually it also
depends on our temperaments that we have in us. Each and every one of us has a
different personality and we react and co act uniquely in our own way. God also
interacts with us in a specific way. The Holy Spirit is a respecter of Person;
therefore your experience will be in such a way that will fulfill you
spiritually to fullest. There are people in order to feel the presence of God
everything needs to be quiet and peaceful, others like lots of noise and
exteriorization in a loud voice, praising Hallelujah. God made us unique and
perfect. No two people are exactly alike here on earth. And the utterance and
the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in us is not the same in all people.
The Holy
Spirit gives us spiritual gifts to work here on earth, so we can complete the
work that Jesus began. Jesus died for all who would believe in Him might have
life. One day as the Apostle was talking about this, he began to question about
it, let us read about it in the passage. “Consequently, faith comes from
hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ” Rom.
10:17. The Apostle Paul was trying to debate how the people could get saved if
they did not believe, and how they could receive salvation if they did not know
Christ. Faith comes by hearing the message of Christ, and this is one of the
gifts the Holy Spirit gives to the believers; the gift of preaching the Gospel
of Jesus.
A person
can only believe if he hears about the love that God has for him. This is one
reason why we are dedicating our time to write this book so that you can know
God's Word in your heart as you read it. The Bible says that God speaks to us
in many ways and recently spoke by his Son. “In the past God spoke to our
ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in
these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all
things, and through whom also he made the universe” - Heb. 1:1-2.
Jesus sent
his disciples to go and preach, announcing to every creature about his love and
that Jesus came to save that what was lost. For this, the Holy Spirit descended
to enable us to go and fulfill this mandate. The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual
gifts so we can do the work He has entrusted to us. The Dictionary says that:
When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are
given the official authority to do it. (FORMAL). Jesus gave all those that
believe in Him, the authority to go and preach the Gospel in His Name. Both you
and I do not think we need to do this all on our own effort. God provided
everything for us; this is the purpose to be lived in Pentecost. You and I are
part of it as well; the same anointing and fulfilling the disciples received,
we receive it as well. We are part of the Body of Christ; the Church of Christ
here on Earth. God chose us to go and seek what was lost, so that they too can
know Jesus, He also equips us with everything we need. Being the dwelling place
of the Most High, and having gifts coming from Him, to use for the sake of
Evangelisation of the lost is the purpose to be lived in Pentecost. I do not
have conditions to understand how God comes and makes in us His dwelling place
after the we turned our back on Him; He chooses us, loves us, saves us, heals
us, cleanses us, purifies us, and makes us his ambassadors here on earth, to
represent Him and his Kingdom. You and I are ambassadors of Christ here on
earth.
The Church
of Jesus represents the Kingdom of God here on earth, so that people see God in
us, because he literally lives in us. When the Bible says God recently spoke to
us through his Son, the Son says to us: "As the Father has sent me, I send
you." You and I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we can
carry out all that He has sent us to do because we are not able to do
everything on our own qualification.
In the Lord's Service
