Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (psyche) and spirit( pneumatos) , and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1
Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of
peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit(pneuma) and soul(psyche) and body(soma) be preserved blameless
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
·
It is crucial for us to learn how to differentiate between our
souls and our spirits, and even know that the two exist.
·
In the original Greek New
Testament the distinction is radical.
Man’s spirit, or God The Holy Spirit, is defined as a pneuma. Our word pneumatic originates
from this, and has to do with air or breath.
The Meridian Webster dictionary defines pneumatic as something that
is “moved or worked by air pressure”.
· Our spirit is the organ that God has given us to embrace, discern, and manifest the pneumatic or windy movements of the Holy Spirit. Our souls were never equipped for this function!! The human spirit is the organ that gives residence, or is home to God’s Holy Spirit.
·
The role of the human
spirit is generally a passive or inactive one.
The soul on the contrary is always active. Our spirit works
as a protective womb for the presence and the motions of the Spirit of the
Living God within us. It is very much
connected with our hearts, and our consciences. Through its abilities, the human spirit embraces, discerns, and
reveals what Jesus does in the Holy Spirit.
John
4:24 God is a Spirit(pneuma): and they that worship him must worship him
in spirit(pneuma) and in truth.
John 3:8 The wind(pneuma) bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every
one that is born of the Spirit.(pneumatos).
What is the Soul?
·
The soul (pyche or psuche in the Greek) is the combination
of faculties that consists of the mind, intellect, will, and emotions. The soul performs rational and intellectual
functions. The rational will never
capture the wind! This is why
we are unable to discern God with our souls alone.
·
As we shall see later on,
it is also impossible for God to dwell in our souls. One of the reasons for this is that our
souls are open to the attack and deception of the enemy. This occurs because quite often our
decisions are based on feelings. God
then, had to create an organ within us which is not affected either by our
emotions or intellect; mainly our human spirits. Let us observe the distinction between the soul and the spirit.
·
The soul,
as I said earlier, is a combination of our mind, will, intellect and
emotions. Its function contrary to the
spirit is not to reveal, but to actively work and choose. It is the mediator between our bodies and
our spirits. The soul is constantly involved
in a struggle to choose between the promptings of the Holy Spirit and the
promptings of our carnal flesh, our un renewed minds, the world, and the
trickeries of Satan. The Spirit of the
living God within us, must become manifested enough to win the battle for the
soul.
·
The
responsibility of the soul then is to submit itself continuously to the Holy
Spirit. When it does that, the soul
will take us in the ways of the Lord.
God must bring our will to a point where it has no more desire than to
submit itself to the wishes of the Holy Spirit. Our emotions must be healed and stilled before the Lord so that
we can attend to that “still small voice within”. Immature believers, or believers that are still bound in the
throes of demonic oppression or past hurts, are unable to discern clearly the
quiet voice of the Lord within. Because
the emotions are still screaming out, they drown out the presence of the Lord.
All deliverance, inner healing, counseling, and therapy must be directed at
setting us free to hear and uncompromisingly obey the Holy Spirit. Healing is the means of becoming spiritual
or pneumatic Christians. Our mind and
intellect must be renewed by the word of God so that it can adequately
understand what the Holy Spirit wishes.
·
The
spirit must become totally free, and delivered from all impurity and bondage so
that it stands out supreme.
The
Revelation of Christ in the Spirit
1Co
1:24 But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of God,
and the wisdom of God.
1 Cor 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by (By or In Him) him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
Re 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And
he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy
brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony (The revelation) of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy
Eph
6:10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power (dominion) of his might (inner strength).
Romans
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The Works of the Father In The Spirit
1Cor 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them( taking the lid off) unto us
by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth(sounds
out) all things, yea, the deep things of God.
John
14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? the rhema words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but
the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the rhema words which thou
gavest me; and they have
received them, and have known surely that I came
out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 15:26 ¶ But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me
1 Cor 12:4
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are
differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are
diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
John 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Greek: In the beginning
was the logos, and the logos was in fellowship and communion with God, and God
was the logos.
· The word of God is comprised of the logos and the rhema
word. Both are absolutely essential in
furnishing us with the fullness of God’s knowledge and will, both as individual
believers and corporately in our churches.
The logos word defines God in general concepts and ideas to give us the
“big picture” of who God is.
· The rhema word is a moment-to-moment portion of the logos
word uttered by the voice of God’s Spirit and “tailored made” to equip us with
God’s commands, guidance, and the fulfillment of our needs in accordance to our
specific circumstances.
· With God: Not that Jesus was with God as one who was next or alongside Him,
but as one that is with God because He lives in continual fellowship and
communion with Him.
· The word was God. More
correctly, “God was the logos”.
Jesus, as God the Son, is first found in an eternal and continual communion
with God the Father, so He can then come to mankind as the logos word,
which translated and interpreted to us the conceptuality of the Father.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
·
This one was from all
eternity is in constant communion and fellowship with God. (John repeats the theme of verse one to
emphasize the complete sufficiency of Jesus to assume the role of “God, the logos word” to
humanity.
Matthew 4:4 But he
answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every RHEMA that
proceedeth( from moment to
moment) out of the mouth of God.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. The literal interpretation of this verse is
as follows: Every “rhema” of God has absolute
power to come to pass!
Luke 5:5 And Simon
answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken
nothing: nevertheless at thy RHEMA I will let down
the net.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the RHEMAS that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 15:7 If ye abide in
me, and my RHEMAS abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 17:8 For I have given
unto them the RHEMAS which thou
gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out
from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Romans
10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the RHEMA of God.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:26 That
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the RHEMA.
Ephesians
6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the RHEMA of God:
Peter 1:25 But the RHEMA of the Lord
endureth for ever. And this is the RHEMA which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in (Have the “God kind” of faith, or the faith OF GOD!) God.
(God is in the genitive Greek case signifying possession; therefore it is “God possessing something”; in this case, “God’s possession of faith”)
Gal 2:20 I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith, of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
·
The life which I now
live in the flesh, I live in faith, this being the faith which dwells in the
Son of God. (Genitive Greek case signifying possession)
·
What
is the faith OF CHRIST?
·
The faith OF CHRIST is His rhema word. This is a crucial point!
·
God’s
rhema word is a specific word, which the Holy
Spirit speaks into our hearts when He wants to minister His purposes into a
specific circumstance.
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Rhema word of God.
·
So then faith gets its
life from hearing, but the type of hearing, which describes faith, must be
exclusively one, which comes through the rhema word of God.
Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The rhema word is
nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the rhema word of faith,
which we preach;
·
First,
every rhema word represents an itemized
description of God’s measure of faith, as He has tailored it for
every situation in which He speaks the rhema
word into. It is therefore an account of what the Lord
can accomplish within a particular circumstance.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing( Rhema word) shall be impossible.
·
For with
God every rhema word has the (indwelling)
dunamis power to come to pass.
·
Secondly,
every rhema word carries God’s measure of dunamis power
adapted for, and greater than the circumstance into which God speaks it into,
assuring God a complete victory.
· Thirdly, every rhema word reveals the Person of Christ. As Christ is revealed, the faith and power that He possesses, is manifested alongside with Him.
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith
speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
(that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that
is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8
But what saith
it? The rhema Word
is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the rhema word of faith,
which we preach;
Verse six and seven of Romans ten tells us
that we are not forced to take extraordinary measures to bring the Lord down
from heaven or to bring up from the dead.
In other words, we do not have to travel far and wide to find the
Lord. As we go on to verse eight we suddenly
find that the apostle Paul has switched gears from the Lord Jesus and is now
talking about the rhema word. He says
that Christ is not far from us, because the rhema word is near to us; even in
our mouth and in our heart. Therefore
the rhema word is the revelation of the Person of the Lord Jesus
Christ, or is what brings the Lord Jesus to us as we walk in the Spirit.
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the rhema words which thou
gavest me; and they have
received them, and have known surely that I came
out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth
him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than
these, that ye may marvel.
·
For the Father is fond of the Son and shows Him all things
that He does in a way that can be proven and for proof, and greater than these works will he show
you with the goal in His mind that you may wonder.
·
Ministers of God must know that continually, at all moments, the
Father is exhibiting within them all that He does in way that the minister can
understand and prove the work of God, and then manifest it as proof into the
world.
·
The individual workings of God’s Spirit are translated into rhema
words that we know instinctively. Many times God does not require us to
understand the rhema word. As we step out in faith, the understanding comes.
·
John
5:19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The
Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth (To habitually glance at what the Father does in the
Spirit. This is not discernment with
understanding) the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these
also doeth the Son likewise. ( Greek word
“homos”
·
Glancing in the
Spirit to what the Father does, gives us that momentary instinctive knowledge,
which on many occasions, is enough for us to step out in faith and do with
identicalness what we have acquired instinctively in our spirits.
·
Our right to
do so is based on the fact that we have an equal inner spiritual nature to that
of the Father, giving us identity with Him in our outward actions. We are responsible to work with
identicalness to what we see on the Spirit.
This is what the term “homos” means.
I Sam 9: 18 Septuagint ¶ And Saul {1} drew near to Samuel into the midst of the
city, and said, Tell me now {2} which is the house of the seer? (Which is the
house of the glancing one?)
John
3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know (We utter prophetically what we know
instinctively in the Spirit in one moments time, and not as needing the
acquisition of knowledge in the continuum of time), and testify ( but
however bear acquired knowledge as with a prophetic vision)
that we have seen (only
when we see with discernment and understanding); and ye receive
not our witness.
· For us to know by instinct, in one moment
of time, what the Father speaks in us (without understanding what He is
saying, and without having to get the whole message of what the Father wants to
say first) is what we need to begin to open up our mouths and speak
prophetically.
·
Look at how
Jesus worked in the flowing verse.
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick
of the palsy, Son, thy
sins be forgiven thee.
·
Verse five tells us
that Jesus saw their faith. This is the
same Greek word for “instinctively knowing.” Whenever Jesus instinctively sees a grain of pure faith in us, He always acts.
Mark 2:8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that
they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these
things in your hearts?\
·
Perceived: The word for perceive is defined as having a thorough, accurate,
and precise knowledge of an object, so that by our thorough understanding of it
we can grasp it and make it our own.
Jesus’ command of spiritual gifts was so complete and the clarity of the
Father’s voice was so precise within Him, that His discernment of the rhema
word was thorough. Yet it was
knowledge and not understanding!!
Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
·
Knowing: As with the word perceived in Mark 2:8; Jesus knew in this same accurate and through
knowledge of the rhema word, that dunamis power had gone out of Him.
John
5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing:
as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
·
Hearing the
voice of the Spirit allows us to administer the kingdom step by step alongside
the “continuum in time” of what we are hearing
Discernment with
Understanding, or Communion With God, In Order to Bear Witness (Visions,
Interpreting Dreams)
1 John 1: 1 That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of
life;
·
Hearing in the perfect tense
·
That which we have discerned with understanding in the perfect
tense
·
That which we have beheld as a movie in a theater.
2 (For the life was
manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that
eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
John 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know
(We utter
prophetically what we know instinctively in the Spirit in one moments time, and
not as needing the acquisition of knowledge in the continuum of time), and testify ( but
however can only bear testimony as with a prophetic vision or
dream) that we have
seen (only when we see with discernment and understanding);
and ye receive not our witness.
John
8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do
that which ye have seen with your father.
·
I speak prophetically what I have discerned in fellowship with the
Father.
The Holy Spirit
and the Conscience
I Tim 1:5 ¶ Now the end of the commandment is
charity out of a pure
heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
· Watchman Nee tells us that the conscience is a component of or a barometer of the voice of the Holy Spirit. Let us look at what the apostle Paul has to tell us about the conscience.
Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the
mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
· Greek: Their consciences also bearing witness with their hearts, and between one another (in their conscience) their collective thoughts constantly accusing or defending. (Seems like the operation of the voice of the Holy Spirit!)
Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost,
·
My conscience bears witness to me in the realm or world that
belongs to the Holy Spirit. (My conscience operates within the world
that belongs to the Holy Spirit.)
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that
in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of
God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to
you-ward.
·
We use the testimony (of accusing or defending) that our conscience gives to conduct
ourselves in this world.
Ministry in the
Spirit
John
1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the
same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with (Greek case of location: into the domain, world, and sphere of) the Holy
Ghost.
· I once read an excellent example on Biblical baptism. In the days of Christ there was a recipe to create a “pickled” vegetable. It was said that a vegetable was BAPTISED into THE LOCATION or SPHERE of a vinegar solution. After awhile, the vinegar WORKED INSTRUMENTALLY BACK through the vegetable and “pickled” it.
· Tofu, likewise, acquires the taste and texture of any food that it is baptized into. We can say that with whatever food the tofu is BAPTISED INTO, it is INSTRUMENTALLY influenced back by that food to make the tofu like it.
Gal
3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ( submerged into the domain, sphere,
or world of Christ’s influence and sovereignty ) have put on Christ (now wear Christ, whom as clothes
which totally cover us, influences and affects back through us to conform us
into His image.)
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know
that I am in my Father,
( Jesus lives continually
in the domain of the Father’s world and ye in me( We
must be therefore located in the domain of Christ’s world), and I in you.(So that
Christ can instrumentality work back through us, by pervading, influencing, and
affecting.)
Gal
5:25 If
we live in ( Instrumental (By)) in the
Spirit, let us also walk
(Greek word which
is defined as “marching in the footsteps of a soldier”) in (Instrumental (By))
the Spirit.
· Greek paraphrase) (It is a given that we
should be living our lives not in the present day world system, but in the
domain, influence, and sovereignty of the world of the Holy Spirit. Because
we are being continually affected and influenced by the Spirit, in that
influence and effect we must march in step as soldiers so that the Spirit’s
influence can go on, deepen, intensify, and continue interrupted.
·
In the gospel of John we find
number of instances in which the Lord Jesus tells us that we are not of this
world system.
·
In Galatians five and twenty
five, we then see the apostle Paul telling us that it is a given that we should
be living in the world of the Spirit.
In Galatians five and twenty-five we find a wonderful example of location
and instrumentality. We live in
the world of the Holy Spirit, and must march as a soldier in step to the
Spirit’s workings back through us as He instrumentally influences and affect
us.
·
Paul exhorts us to live
continually in the world of the Holy Spirit, so that every action of our lives
becomes permeated, influenced, affected, and controlled by the work, power,
strength, and liberty of the Holy Spirit.
·
Victory and liberty in the
Lord is found in proportion to how much the Spirit can control and take over
our every action. Victory is not found
in our trying to overcome. It is found in our being submerged deep enough into
the world of the Holy Spirit so that He can influence and affect us at ever
point. We are filled with the Spirit,
in proportion to how much the Spirit is working back through us to influence,
affect, control, and overtake our every action of ours.
·
Paul tells us in Galatians
five and twenty-five that our lives must be lived BY THE INSTRUMENTALITY of the
Spirit’s actions.
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk(
The totality of
our daily activities and the way that we conduct ourselves in them) in the Spirit) (Instrumental
(BY), and
ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (Greek double negative: and it will be impossible for you to fulfill
the flesh’s strong desire through act of your will
·
Let us now look at Galatians
five and sixteen. The Greek word for “walk” is the sum total of our
daily affairs, and the ways in which conduct ourselves in them.
·
Paul commands us TO BAPTISE every affair in our daily life
into the world of the Holy Spirit so that the Spirit through His
instrumentality can affect, influence, reconcile, control, and overtake every
one of those affairs.
· THEN, AND ONLY THEN, shall we not fulfill
the lusts of the flesh!!
2
Cor 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,(Location: sphere or domain)
there is liberty.
· Greek: There,
where the Spirit is, and ONLY within the domain and influence of the Spirit, EXCLUSIVE
OF ANYTHING OTHER LOCATIONS, DOMAINS, OR SOVEREIGNTIES, is there liberty.
· Two Corinthians three and seventeen tells us that only inside the
world of the Spirit will we find liberty, which is the result of the
availability of all things now in the state reconciliation.
John
6:28 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we
do, that we might work the works of God?
29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God (The Father works His works back through
the disciples, as He affects and influences them in proportion to how much he
or she submerges into the world of the Spirit.), that ye believe on him (Greek
“INTO”; location,
domain, submerging into) whom he hath sent.
1
Cor 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word
of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.(prophetical
speech must be
done in the domain or sphere of the Spirit.)
Acts
2:4 And they were all filled (by being baptized into the world of
the Holy Ghost) with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak( not just the content of what is
being said, but mainly the utterances or the expressions used) with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave
them(The instrumentality of the Spirit now working back through them
as they were “located and filled inside the domain of the Spirit”, to give them
prophetic utterance) utterance.
(The language of prophets, ecstatic speech, miraculous verbal impulses, the
oracles of seers)
· The Holy Spirit not only gives to us, the content
of our speech, but the expressions and utterances used to manifest it. The deeper our lives are in the realm of the
Spirit, the clearer will the content of what we must speak prophetically, and
the stronger will be the verbal expressions and utterances through the which it
is manifested.
· The prophetic flow of speech, or what the
Old Testament calls prophesying the oracles of the Lord, is a flow of God’s
speech, which bubbles up in our spirits. As we are filled with the Spirit of
God, the bubbling of God’s speech, which rides on the surface of the waters of
the Spirit, as He progressively fills us up with them, arises higher and higher
upon these rising waters until it reaches the level of our mouths and flows
out.
John
12:49 For I have not spoken of myself ( LOCATION: (Jesus is located within, or
submerged into the Father) I absolutely have not uttered anything from my
independent and exclusive self); but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment (The
instrumentality of the Father working back through Jesus), what I should say, and what I should speak. (So
permeated Jesus the Father, as to give to Him both the utterances and
expressions of speech, and the content of the speech carried by them)
John
8;28 Then
said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know
that I am he ( I am) , and that I do nothing of myself (and that from
my independent and exclusive self I do nothing); but as my Father hath taught me( but as the
Father has instrumentally penetrated, affected, and influenced me) I speak these things (these things I utter and express
prophetically, by that divine influence which has permeated me.)
1
Cor 12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit ( Agency) the (A)
word of wisdom; and to another the ( A) word of knowledge, according( reference, respect to, or in
relationship) to the same Spirit:
· A word of knowledge, or wisdom, is a mode
of prophecy. The King James is incorrect in calling it “the” word of
wisdom or knowledge. It should be “a”
word of wisdom or knowledge. In other
words, the word (of wisdom and knowledge), which is given to us by the
Spirit of God, is a type of word, which has a “wisdom or knowledge content”,
exclusively of being made up of any other contents. Because it is one specific
logos word, with a specific content, it is in fact a rehma word.
Mat
8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou
shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only By a word, or by the instrumentality of a word. The word itself healed the servant), and my servant
shall be healed.
·
Herein we see the power of
the world of the Spirit. The Greek
tells us, “speak by a logos word,” not the logos word, but
“a” logos word, making it into a specific word with a content of
healing, or a rehma word.
·
“By” a logos word” tells us that it is the
word itself influencing and affecting the situation, causes the healing. Jesus did not heal the servant. The rehma word of God working through Jesus
is the one, which healed. Jesus’ life
was so submerged in the Spirit of God, that He lived in the domain of
supernatural faith found within this world.
Secondly, He lived in the world in which all is new and reconciled to
God, and all is available. The faith
released through Him inside the word that He spoke, caused the word itself to
heal the servant.
·
Let us look at a few more examples
the rhema word, tempered or beat in every instance with an equal measure of
faith as found in the domain of the Spirit, to create a “word” itself which
heals, or casts out a demon.
Matthew
8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto
him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word (By the instrumentality of the word; Jesus
did not cast out the devils, but the word of God operating in Him), and
healed all that were sick:
Luke
4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with (Instrumental)
power.(His word had the “instrumentality of authority”; The word
itself, in the domain of the Spirit, exercises God’s jurisdiction over the
works of the enemy in the same way that a state trooper exercises jurisdiction
over the interstate highways.
Luke
7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to
come unto thee: but say in
a word( By
a word or by the instrumentality of a word. The word itself healed the servant),
and my servant shall be healed.
Luke
11:20 But if I with the finger of God(By the instrumentality of the Spirit;
Jesus did not cast out the devils. The rehma word originated in the Spirit and
operating through Jesus, cast out the devil) cast out devils, no doubt the
kingdom of God is come upon you.
John 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus,
and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day
John
5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto ( My Father never ceases working in the
Spirit) and I work.(and
I work externally, using exactly the same procedures and in exactly the same
manner in which I see instinctively the Father working within me.)
·
Worketh is defined in
exactly the same way that a company strives to be successful in producing the
services for which it is in business for.
· Hitherto: Until now. My
Father has been continually at work, producing the services that pertain to the
business of the kingdom of God in an unbroken flow, right through all of your
Sabbaths; and even now as we speak, He works.
· And I work:
I, in like manner.
·
This
is a tremendously important point of instruction for ministers who desire to
work in the Spirit.
·
Jesus
tells us that we are to work out into the world, what the Father works
into us with exactly the same intentions, intensity, and procedures used by
the Father. Our ministry must be a carbon copy of the Father’s ministry in
us. Remember that every work of the
Father is translated into a rhema word that we can understand.
John 5:19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth (To habitually glance at what the Father
does in the Spirit. This is not
discernment with understanding) the Father do: for what things soever he
doeth, these also doeth
the Son likewise. (
Greek word “homos”
· Glancing in the Spirit to what the Father does,
gives us that momentary instinctive knowledge, which on many occasions, is
enough for us to step out in faith and do with identicalness what we have
acquired instinctively in our spirits.
· Our right to do so is based on the fact that we have an equal
inner spiritual nature to that of the Father, giving us identity with Him in
our outward actions. We are responsible
to work with identicalness to what we see on the Spirit. This is what the term “homos” means.
Romans 15:19
Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so
that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel ( I have filled
the glad tidings) of Christ.
·
We have studied location and
instrumentality. I would not like to
discuss with you agency. The
agent of action, or agency, in grammar, is the vehicle through which the second
item is able instrumentality work back to affect the first item, which had been
baptized into it. In other words when
we immerse ourselves into the world of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit works back
through us. However the Spirit needs a
vehicle or agent THROUGH which He can work back to affect us. As we will study
later on, the Spirit of God uses on many occasions, our mouths and hands as an
agent to work back through.
·
1Cor 12:8 tells us in this
case the Spirit of God is the agent or vehicle by which the word of prophecy
works itself back through us as we are immersed in the Spirit of God. It would go to say, that the more that we
immersed into the world of the Spirit, the greater will be the ability for
prophecy to flow through us, in that the Spirit Himself, is the vehicle for
prophecy to flow through.
·
The second term of
significance is the preposition “according or according to”. Defined, this means: “With reference or
respect to, limited to, in relationship to, or bounded by.”
·
In other words, only the portion of the prophetical word, which is
done in, and by the Spirit of God, will be accurate. Once again, we can see
from this example, the importance of living as much and as deeply as possible
in the world of the Holy Spirit.
·
Let us look at a few examples
of agency, or the vehicle, which the Holy Spirit uses to work through and back
to us. Without an agent the Holy Spirit
has no channel through which He can affect us as we submerge ourselves into His
world.
Luke 1:70 As
he spake by the mouth
of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
·
Because the gift of prophecy
is a verbal manifestation of faith and the mouth is THE AGENT through which the
Holy Spirit affects the world back through us, we must open our mouths with
just a word or two. We will find that
our steps of faith will allow the Spirit to give to us more as the process of
prophecy goes forth.
Acts
5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in
Solomon’s porch.
Acts
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
(Greek: ..that faith apart from works is a corpse)
Hebrews 4:2 For
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached
did not profit them, not being mixed with faith ( The word “mixed” is defined as the beating,
melting, or tempering together of equal measures of two alloys, the rhema word
and faith, to create the element termed as the power of God) in them that
heard it
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In Hebrews
five and fourteen we are taught the necessity of stepping out in faith again,
and again, so that our discernment will mature sufficiently, and we will be
able to distinguish between the rhema word of God in our spirits, and the
desires of the flesh in our souls.
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised ( Greek word; naked (gymnos) and also gymnastics) to discern both good and evil.
·
(Greek: But only for the mature and spiritually
fully-grown man or woman that is attaining to Christ’s character belongs solid
food. Even to him, or her, who has a
developed the habit of entering into fellowship with spiritual perception and
discernment that can distinguish the good from the evil. Their mature perception and discernment
blossoming as the result of spiritual training performed like athletes as they
have voluntarily discarded and became naked from all worldly things, so that
their spiritual training may be vigorous and unhindered.
Romans 12:6 Having then
gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy,
let us prophesy according
to the proportion(Greek “corresponding to the word)
of faith;(belonging to
faith)
· Prophecy is faith in one of its
manifestation, this manifestation being in the “the word belonging to faith,
or which is produced in the spirit as an expression of faith.
· Faith, which produces a rehma word, is the
FAITH OF GOD working in us. The rehma
word is a translation of God’s faith into a medium that we can discern,
minister externally, and understand. When we minister the rehma word we are
ministering the faith that God Himself has.
· Prophecy is God’s faith in the verbal expression of His rehma
word. Therefore, prophecy is faith, and
must be given by faith.
· Prophecy therefore does not require our
understanding, but a simple instinctive knowing of the “corresponding word”
(proportion of faith), which God by His faith, or God’s faith, produced in us.
· To the proportion that we hear or see the
word is to the proportion that we prophesy.