I have been so surprised by the amount
of christians who do not know about walking in the Spirit. Perhaps I should
have realized this with the revelation that half the church will not get
raptured, as I discuss here:
Are
You Prepared for the 2nd Coming?
Walking in the Spirit is a direct result
of being Born Again. And thus many who are saved are not yet even Born
Again. I know, because I was saved for several years before being Born
Again. I discuss such differences here:
Believing
vs. Being Born Again
Before reading this page below, I suggest
you get a basic understanding of how the soul is saved, separately from
the spirit. I discuss this here:
The
Salvation of the Soul
Walking in the Spirit is a balance of work
and rest. We must rest in Christ and let His finished work transform us.
We work, by submitting to God's Word in our lives and letting the Holy
Spirit guide us.
Heb:4:1: Let us therefore fear,
lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of
you should seem to come short of it.
11: Let us labour therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Heb:4:10: For he that is entered into
his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
The only work we do, is to labour into
His rest. This is an act of submission. While our spirit is saved instantaneously,
our soul is saved progressively. It is a work. But the work is trusting
in God to do it, for the soul is saved in this manner:
James 1:21 MKJV
Therefore putting aside all filthiness
and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which
is able to save your souls.
The Word of God changes the soul. It renews
it, cleans it. All we must do is what James 1:21 says; receive it with
meekness. The Word will do its work in us.
Isa:55:11: So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto
I sent it.
The Word of God has power:
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 and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Word will manifest the difference between
our soul which is not saved from the spirit which is saved, in so doing
allow us to submit to God's direction, thus when we then walk in the direction,
because God made it aware to us, it is the spirit walking in the truth
of God's word in us.
Ps:119:105: Thy word is a lamp unto
my feet, and a light unto my path.
Thus we are a temple for God, and Jesus
walks in us, through us.
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.
It is the 2nd work of the Tabernacle that
accomplishes this in us (as seen in the page Believing
vs. Being Born Again ).
Rom:6:4: Therefore we are buried with
him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
We are dead, it is the newness of Christ
we should walk in.
Rom:8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit.
Why is there no condemnation when walking
in the SPIRIT?
Ezek 36:
27: And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them.
Thus:
Rom:8:4: That the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.
2 Cor:5:7: (For we walk by faith, not
by sight:)
Faith tells me, I am dead on the cross,
and Jesus now lives in me, and I am seated in heavenly places.
Eph:
1:3: Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
in heavenly places in Christ:
2:6: And hath raised us up together,
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
1 Cor:3:16: Know ye not that ye are
the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
God walks in us, we must labour to enter
into that rest. Are you laboring into it? Or fighting against it?
Gal:5:25: If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit
Col:2:6: As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
1Jn:2:6: He that saith he abideth in
him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
If you have no idea what I am speaking
about, it may be you have yet to cross Jordan, and are not living in faith,
but are living by religion. I highly suggest this page:
Believing
vs. Being Born Again
I have another page that discusses this
kind of christian, of which will not be raptured:
The
2 & a Half Tribes that didn't Cross Over
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