THE QUESTION NOW NEEDS TO BE ASKED: "WHY DO WE NEED TO SPEND TIME CONSIDERING THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT- WHO IS HE AND WHAT HIS PURPOSE IS HERE ON EARTH?"
PLEASE NOTE IT IS STATED "WHO IS AND WHAT IS HIS PURPOSE..PRESENT TENSE! THUS HE IS!
FIRST OF ALL, WHERE DO WE FIRST EXPERIENCE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURES?
GENESIS 1:1 "IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH." (NKJV) AT FIRST GLANCE, ONE COULD WELL ANSWER.."WHY, GOD DID"! AH...THIS IS WHY IT IS SO CRUCIAL THAT WHEN WE ARE READING AND HOPEFULLY STUDYING THE SCRIPTURES, THAT WE NOT JUST SKIM THE SCRIPTURES, BUT GO DEEPER AND DISCOVER WHAT THE ORIGINAL HEBREW (OT) OR THE GREEK (NT) IS SAYING......OTHERWISE, WE WILL MISS THE SIGNIFICANT TRUTH OF WHAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE REALLY DECLARING!.
MAY I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE LIKE THE BEREANS (ACTS 17:11) "TO FIND OUT WHETHER THESE THINGS WERE SO".
"GOD" IN GENESIS 1:1 IS NOT SINGULAR, BUT PLURAL - "ELOHIM", MEANING "GOD THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, i.e, THE TRIUNE GOD - THE TRINITY.
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT "THE EXECUTIVE IS THE FATHER, THE ARCHITECT IS THE SON, AND THE CONTRACTOR IS THE HOLY SPIRIT". (PAUL WALKER, NKJV -HOLY SPIRIT GIFTS AND POWER)
ONE WILL FIND IN AN EXCELLENT STUDY SOURCE, EXEGESES - A LITERAL TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION OF SCRIPTURE,THAT ALL THROUGH
GENESIS 1, IT IS NOT GOD IN THE SINGULAR, BUT ELOHIM ,THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE CREATION..THUS, AS WE READ GENESIS 1, IT NOW GIVES US A NEW REVELATION JUST WHO WAS INVOLVED IN CREATING THE UNIVERSE. WHAT A MIGHTY TRIUNE GOD WE SERVE...AMEN?
I NEED TO ASK AT THIS JUNCTURE, "JUST WHERE ARE YOU, IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRIUNE GOD"? REMEMBER IN BLOG 7, WE READ FIRST AND FOREMOST..... THAT ONE MUST BE BORN FROM ABOVE (BORN AGAIN) AS JESUS TELLS NICODEMUS IN JOHN 3:3, AND AS WRITTEN IN ROMANS 10:9,10 - "THAT IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, THE LORD JESUS AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED. FOR WITH THE HEART ONE BELIEVES UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION (BORN AGAIN). WHEN THIS HAPPENED TO ME, I WAS ASKED THE PROFOUND QUESTION..."IF YOU WERE TO DIE RIGHT NOW, DO YOU KNOW BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT WHERE YOU WOULD END UP...HEAVEN OR HELL?" IF YOU DON'T KNOW, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY THIS SALVATION PRAYER. AND SETTLE THE MATTER HERE AND NOW:
"LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, I AM TOLD IN THE BIBLE, THAT I MUST CONFESS THE LORD JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD., AND AS WELL, IT STATES THAT "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME". (JOHN 14:6)
AND JESUS TOLD NICODEMUS THAT IN ORDER TO INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ONE MUST BE BORN AGAIN. LORD, I SO DESIRE TO BE BORN AGAIN AND INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. LORD JESUS, I SURRENDER MY LIFE TO YOU. I WANT TO BE YOUR CHILD. MAY MY LIFE BE USED TO SERVE, HONOR, GLORIFY, A.ND PRAISE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. THANK YOU FOR FORGIVING ME OF ALL MY SINS, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE BECAUSE OF YOUR SHED BLOOD ON THE CROSS. HOLY SPIRIT, I AM ALSO TOLD THAT I CANNOT 'WALK THIS WALK' BASED ON MY OWN EFFORTS', THEREFORE, I ASK AS IT DECLARES IN BLOG 7 THAT YOU FILL ME/BAPTIZE ME AND EMPOWER ME AS YOU DID JESUS AT THE RIVER JORDAN. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME. IT IS IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS THE CHRIST THAT I PRAY THIS PRAYER. AMEN AND AMEN."
IF YOU PRAYED THIS PRAYER, PLEASE SHARE WITH SOMEONE (CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH) WHAT JUST TOOK PLACE IN YOUR LIFE. PRAISE GOD.
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT IN BLOG 9.
BE GLORIFIED, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, BE GLORIFIED
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