Spirit within upon

The Spirit within… the Spirit upon

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The relationship of the believer with the Holy Spirit is vital in every way and it has many expressions but only two divisions. Our relationship is both familial and ministerial.

When we come into God’s family we do so by the Spirit of the Living God coming and taking up His perminent dwelling within us. Like when Jesus breathed on His disciples and told them to recieve the Holy Spirit -the Spirit came within them!

Subsequent to this (50 days later) the Spirit of God fell upon them to empower them as witnesses of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus.

We witnessed this same pattern in the Samaritans in Acts 8 and later in the Gentiles with Cornelious – not to mention in the life of Jesus Himself!

These two relationships are very different! The Spirit within is close, intimate, nurturing, encouraging even mothering. The Spirit upon is more functional and goal oriented in that it directs, commissions, empowers, commands.

Both are intimate, but in very different ways. We will explore more of this as we move forward in this series, but for today we are simply establishing the very existence of the two and separate relationships from scripture to provide a firm foundation to build upon in future teachings.

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Psalms David

Psalms 9-14

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These Psalms cover God being the judge of individuals, nations and the whole world. He is upright and just in all He does which is reason for the righteous to express gratitude to Him even in the middle of dispair out of a certain knowledge that God will eventually right all wrongs.

David is even confident that at the end of life all who are righteous will see God face to face.

In these Psalms God is seen as being in His very person a refuge to those in trouble. All that being said, the world at large has its heart set on worthless things, exalting in things which possess no real value. Their wicked hearts are restless being unstable and aimless in their wanderings mentally, emotionall, spiritually and even sometimes physically.

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Psalms David

Psalms 6-8

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Psalms Book I: Psalms 6-8

These Psalms cover God’s chastening of His Own. Pleas for His correction to come with mercy. Grief and weeping all night from the evil attacks of enemies. Cries to God for deliverance. God’s protection and rescue.

This set of Psalms ends with a Psalm of God’s sovereignty over His creation which is also a prophetic foreshadowing of Messiah and events in His earthly life.

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Lamp Virgin Wedding

Empty Oil Lamps & a Wedding Feast

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Part of rising with Jesus is a life lived unot Him. Where we are living witnesses – saltto make people thirsty and Light that leads them to Him.

In the Parable of the 10 Virgins, the lesson was regarding getting and remaining ready for the return of Christ. This is accomplished most naturally by loving devotion to Him which swells into a deep desire to be with Him where He is. It aids our souls in maintaining the excited anticipation of His return which could take place at any moment.

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