Salvation is the Gift of God - PART 100

Acts 2:1717 speaks about the last days. That is during a period of time when God will pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh. A period when "your sons and daughters shall prophesy, telling forth divine counsels" and your young men shall see visions, divinely granted appearances. The scriptures also state that during these last days, your old men shall dream divinely suggested dreams. Indeed, God will pour His Spirit on servants and handmaidens, both slaves and slave- girls, men and women alike.

"I will pour out in those days of my Spirit and they shall prophesy, telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God’s kingdom." If you continue on and read verse 19 concerning future predictions, please note that these will be discussed later. Verse 21 then states there will come a time when whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, will be saved. By calling upon the name of Jesus, we mean invoking, adoring and worshipping the Lord Jesus the Christ. No ands or maybe.

That’s right, we are undeserving of grace. We do not deserve God's love but salvation does not emerge from us. Salvation is the gift of God. Take the gift of eternal life. God promised that you will never perish, neither shall any one pluck you out of His hand. Only you can ask the Lord Jesus into your life. Only you can ask and receive. However when you do ask Jesus into your life, immediately be baptized  (immersed in water) into the Name of Jesus. Then you shall receive the gift of His Holy Spirit to indwell you.

There is only one Spirit. God who is Spirit is the Head of all. So why not let the Spirit of God breathe inside His own spiritual body which is the Church? Just as we need air to keep our natural physical bodies alive, and without air we die, likewise God who is Spirit life desires to inhabit His own Spiritual body.


Christ was the natural body in which the Spirit of God was pleased to dwell in. The Spirit of God’s plan from the outset was to make Himself a Spiritual Temple in which to dwell. But sin got in the way and seemed to thwart the plan. That is, until God Himself as a Son re-established it. Jesus died and rose again. The spiritual Word of God was shelled in a body of flesh. As such, the flesh had to die, and like every other seed on this planet it must be buried. The carcase shell discarded before the real in- dwelling seed potential can be realized.


God redeemed all His children in a Son’s body. Therefore, we are now the offspring of Jesus. Jesus' spiritual word seeded us and then His Holy Spirit quickened us. We became alive in Jesus. Admittedly, we still have the old carcases our natural bodies. However, because we have been quickened by the Spirit of Jesus our natural bodies ought to prosper. All the members of that Spiritual body are kept alive when the life of the Spirit of God that was in the man Jesus the Christ is allowed to rule and reign.


Unfortunately, the natural flesh demands dominion. Recall Abraham had two sons? One by a bondmaid and the other by a freewoman. As long as the bondwoman was around there was disorder. So it is in the worship meetings. The flesh wants to pop up and instead of being a one headed body we have another horn seeking to have dominion. Again, what does the scripture say?


Cast out the bondwoman and her offspring, for the son of the bondwoman will not be heir with the Son of the free woman. What does this mean?  It means that when we gather together unto the Lord, let each and everyone of us believers assemble in unity of His Spirit, allowing the Spirit of our saviour to speak to and from the members of His own body. We need an atmosphere of praise and worship not a program formulated by the children of the bondwoman.


Our steeples of faith look up to you. Come sweet Spirit we need you, YES LORD ! Come in your own special way! Stand in the Offering Plate. The new testament promise is simple. I will be to you a God and you shall be to me a people. Peace Be to all who are in Jesus.