ABBA & Sons
JESUS was baptized in the Jordan River, thereafter, anointed with the Holy Spirit. Afterward, He began to move in power, knowing the mind of His heavenly Father, as revealed by the Holy Spirit! This same Holy Spirit, now reveals the heart, desires, will and thoughts of God to us. The will of God cannot be naturally discerned! It comes by revelation of the Spirit, to His Born-Again, Holy Spirit-born sons! We cannot know the things of God, unless they are revealed to us.
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 2 Corinthians 4.
It is this regenerating power of the LORD, that is working in us! He is not an elusive inane power, thing or it. The Holy Spirit is God-Present in Personality! As Jesus came in flesh and blood, and personality; So the Holy Spirit comes in Spirit like…! The descriptions are many and defined by how He came in that moment! He comes, His Presence, His Power, immerses us into God-Life-Relationship as sons of God-to know the LORD-experientially!
The Holy Spirit baptism, immerses us in revelations of ABBA; JESUS; HOLY SPIRIT! It is a baptism into a dynamic relationship, unique to each one of us, as distinct as a Parent with each of their children.
The same Holy Spirit who gave us the Bible, also, filled Jesus and 120 believers in Acts 2, and subsequent 3000. He also filled Peter to launch into preaching a Rhema-Living Word message, never understood before until that precise moment! It was in deed a prophetic and interpretive preaching of God’s Word. There was no way to understand this Prophetic Word in Joel 2, nor could it have been understood by study, or natural-human reasoning, until God made it manifest:
19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1.
God, the Author of the Bible, is also the One who gives us the understanding that transforms these Words into our life, called Rhema: “Living Word”. Scriptures or Word of GOD, “made alive” to us. Suddenly, His Word, has power to illuminate our minds, and to cause us to act, on what we read! These are engaging encounters with the Holy Spirit and His Word!
This is what makes the Bible totally unique, from all other books written by men, no matter how smart or spiritual, they claim. God alone ignites His Word in us! His Spirit cause us to change! While being alive in this world, we contain in our knowledge, that this world is not our home, but our Home is in Heaven-being a child of God!
Christ: Holy Spirit-Anointed One!
Christian: Holy Spirit-Anointed; like Christ!
Now, many make claims to be “Christian” but are not walking like Christ, with mind nor attitude of Christ. We should have a love for the Bible-The written Word of GOD, and to actually want to pray desiring to be with Lord Jesus Christ! We should love the world, as ABBA does in sending JESUS; A love for the world to know JESUS and be saved!
As men, we like having a Jesus in our own way of seeing Him, not the way the Bible reveals. Even those of Jesus times, who studied the Scriptures, did not recognize JESUS-The Son of GOD, standing in front of them. They had a Christ, formed after themselves, a power monger, strategist, warrior, political leader, and ambitious leader or king, setting the nations of this world in order by subduing them!
Jesus was meek-like an excavator with all the power to destroy buildings and move earth, yet being used to make sandwiches so carefully so as to not destroy the bread and makings! Men want power! Yet they cannot hardly control their own tongue; body; __: fill in your issue!
Jesus said if you could control your tongue-taste or words, you can control your whole body! Read: James 1.
Even those Christians who have once been filled with Holy Spirit, after a while start presuming they already know what God wants, so start doing their own things! They assume that all they think is from God! Well, in reality, they have learned enough to think they know everything, and start thinking their ways are God’s Way! The truth: we must stay in step with HIM, never thinking “we got it” and start doing things our way, without Him! Ugh!
Accept the Lord Jesus Christ:
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1.
Romans is a most powerful book written by Paul, through the Holy Spirit. In particular, chapter 8, is on the sons of God! Who are they and what motivates them? Why? Once we are Born Again, how does the Holy Spirit fill and stir us toward Christ-likeness?
Being freed from indwelling sin:
1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 …Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from… sin and death. 3 … God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8.
From suffering to glory:
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God… 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren…” Romans 8
God’s Everlasting Love
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8 (NKJV)
Romans 8 is a beautiful chapter on Holy Spirit, giving us technical insight into the mind and ways of the LORD! He desires us as His sons, like Jesus did, to move with our Heavenly ABBA-in step and relationship with Him! This is the very reason for Christ death and resurrection! That we might live! Not to ourselves, fulfilling the lusts of our sinful nature, but live with heart of ABBA, Heart of Christ, being raised to life and live, as it was intended in the beginning.
For GOD so loved us in this world, that whosoever wills! What an amazing open door and invitation to repent and come without condemnation, back into relationship with the LORD. It is called, being reconciled into relationship-with our Creator, but greater as our: “ABBA!”
This is what was demonstrated at Jesus baptism-when GOD open heaven and spoke over His Son: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!” Jesus Christ opened that door for each of us as fallen men, to come, be reconciled, and be made right in relationship with our amazing heavenly ABBA-Father, unlike any father, or leader, we have ever known!
Come! Be reconciled-it is what we as men all groan for in being made free, to live! To know and be known-and loved; Valued; Celebrated as accepted, forgiven, and affirmed: “Son!”
Welcomed Home!
Your New Name: “Son!”
HIS Name: “ABBA!”
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