For God So Loved the World - PART 82

John 3 :16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life. Although we often hear this verse quoted, the love that God has for us does not end there. In Timothy 3:16, the scriptures state, "And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, believed on in the world, and received up into glory." In Acts 1:2, we discover that it wasn't until the day that He was taken up, that He, through His Holy Spirit, gave commandments to the apostles. Acts 1:11 states that this same Jesus, which is taken up from you shall so come in like manner as you have seen Him go.

And in I Corinthians 12:1, the scriptures state "Now concerning spiritual gifts, my fellow believers, I do not want you to be uninformed. We ought not to have any misunderstanding concerning the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They are spiritual gifts imparted to believers. Jesus breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit when we receive the gift of Jesus Holy Spirit. We inherit life giving gifts as gifts, imparted to us as a result of us being born again of water and of the spirit.

Yes we are born again into the kingdom of God. The experiences transpiring now within us are experiences that were previously unbeknown by/to us. For it is written, that eye has never seen nor has ear heard of the things that God has prepared for all them that love Him. No doubt you have prayed the Lord's Prayer. Thy Kingdom come. Well, lo and behold, we are now citizens of God’s kingdom and the King's name is Jesus. The same Jesus who when He was in the world as a man, revealed to Adam’s fallen race a pathway to the Kingdom of God.

Jesus Himself being the way. Jesus also revealing that He, and He being Jesus is also the door. Those people who redirected their footsteps as suggested  by Jesus toward the Kingdom of God found that Jesus' words were not empty hollow words. Rather the words of Jesus were transforming words. Words that fired up faith and hope, forever inspiring life. Today, we have entered through the door. (Jesus' crucifixion opened the door in Acts 2 )

The Kingdom of God now dwells within us. Jesus is no longer with us on the outside. Jesus' holy spirit is now IN us. We now have to go back to the ABC's of the Kingdom of God, which of course we have never previously been introduced to. So, lets eat humble pie and sit at Jesus feet. Let this phantom writer, the holy spirit of Jesus, feed us with the bread of heaven, in order that the mind of Christ  might become established in our forehead's foremost thoughts.

The gifts of Jesus' holy spirit is being distributed to every believer. Jesus is enabling individual edification whereby we are enabled to fulfill the appropriate individual ministry as manifest in our personal lives. In other words, our lives are complete when we live a purposeful life with Jesus living within us. We are now the body of Jesus, the anointed one. As Jesus' offspring was fathered by Himself at Calvary.

Therefore we ought to walk even as Jesus Himself walked. We being living tabernacles, a habitation of God's spirit now being manifest. Our God has washed our lives. Even though we are still clothed in sin prone flesh, we are able to overcome because greater is the holy spirit of Jesus now living within us than the sin prone spirit of the world. God's desire is that we partake of His spiritual gifts. Step into the offering plate.