The Holy Spirit is the comforter that leads Gods servants into all truth (Jn. 14:16,17,26). Our capacity to understand all truth depends upon our relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. It’s only by developing our relationship with God through the Holy Spirit that we can understand the Bible, otherwise it is just words. Many people don’t understand it because their relationship with the Holy Spirit is not being developed. It is not just a question of power; and the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of power and it will be witnessed in us in the Last Days as a power, and of a sound mind, and of understanding of truth. To many people the Bible is just words because they are not obedient and growing in the Holy Spirit. It’s only through the Holy Spirit that Peter could say what he did (cf. Mat 16:13-17). That is why Christ said to him, “Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah.” He understood it because the Holy Spirit had given it to him to understand. We cannot blame anybody who has not got God’s Spirit. It is that some people are not called and they are not given to understand. We should pray for them; we shouldn’t hold it against them. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are recorded in 1Corinthians 12:7-11 and the fruits are described in Galatians 5:22-23 (see the paper Fruit of the Holy Spirit (No. 146)). They are not given by measure from John 3:34 (RSV) and Romans 12:6. It is the means by which God can finally become all in all from 1Corinthians 15:28 and Ephesians 4:6. The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit do not come through a ministry and they are not concentrated in a hierarchical structure. Some people have power of discernment of the spirit, of understanding, of interpretations, of teachings; some have healings; some have faith capable of moving mountains, more so than any people placed in administrative stations. That is something the Church has not understood in hierarchical government. Hierarchical government destroys the capacity to understand the operations of God. Trinitarians assert that the Holy Spirit is a third person of a closed Godhead. That is false. That teaching is to limit the capacity of the Holy Spirit to extend to us, making us elohim or theoi.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0000
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