Stumbling Over The Words of Christ

                             

                                           

The main theme in this blog is that with out the Holy Spirit in your life ,   I am referring to the experience the disciples received in the verses of  Acts 2:37- 38 the whole book of Acts is a testimony to us as to the promises and power Jesus speaks of in many places of his word.    Jhn 14:15 ASV - If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Jhn 14:16 ASV - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
Jhn 14:18 ASV - I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.   Jesus says above he prays to the father for another comforter , Jesus being the physical  comforter in that day after his death he becomes our Spiritual comforter .    I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you                                                      
 Jhn 14:23 ASV - Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and WE will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Jesus said I and the father are one you see me you are looking at the father also .
Jhn 14:21 ASV - He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. 
 It is more than the every day church teaches today ,  To be filled with the spirit of God is an actual experience ! you know when the spirit of God has made his home in you.   WE will come unto him, and make our abode with him .    Rev 3:20 ASV - Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.    The door is your heart  of Christ's "entrance" into a repentant believer's heart  to strike, knock," is used in the NT of "knocking" at a door,     For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.   He will manifest his presence in you ,     Manifest  Greek: emphanizo   Appear, Appearing:
from en, "in," intensive, and phaino, "to shine, metaphorically, of "the manifestation of Christ" by the Holy Spirit in the spiritual experience of believers who abide in His love, Jhn 14:21. It has another, secondary meaning, "to make known, signify, inform." This is confined to the Acts, where it is used five times, Act 23:15, 22; 24:1; 25:2, 15. There is perhaps a combination of the two meanings in Hbr 11:14, i.e., to declare by oral testimony and to "manifest" by the witness of the life.     Jhn 1:4 ASV - In him was life; and the life was the light of men.   And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.   There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.    He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.     Greek: katalambano  Apprehend:   with a beneficial effect, as of "laying hold" of the righteousness which is of faith   "to lay hold of" with the mind, to understand, perceive, e.g., metaphorically, of darkness with regard to light to seize, to apprehend," whether physically or mentally, is rendered "attain" in the sense of making something one's own, appropriating a thing, Rom 9:30, said of the Gentiles, who through the Gospel have "attained" to, or laid hold of, the righteousness which is of faith
 The church the body of Christ in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost received the power of the Holy Ghost ,  Luk 24:49 KJV - And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.   Tarry is to set down to wait,  the lexcon says it a dead man restored to life . It is also called the feast of the first fruits.
Endued        Greek: enduo  Clothe:
(Eng., "endue"), signifies "to enter into, get into," as into clothes, "to put on," e.g., Mar 1:6; Luk 8:27 (in the best mss.); 24:49 (AV, "endued"); 2Cr 5:3; Rev 1:13; 19:14.      to sink into (clothing), put on, clothe one's self
Rom 13:14 ASV - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.         Isa 61:10 ASV - I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.     For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.  The robe of righteousness that the saints obtain will come through there life of holy and righteous living and being washed in the blood of the Lamb.   To be wash in the blood of Christ is to take hold of his word and feed upon his word , we feed our flesh daily and see to our flesh needs . So to must we feed our spiritual man , Jesus said his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed .
 Jhn 6:53 ASV - Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. And the word became flesh and dwells among us .   Jhn 1:14 ASV - And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
Jhn 6:54 ASV - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  The word of God is the flesh of Jesus and his blood is his very life , Lev 17:11 ASV - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.   To drink his blood is to take on his nature his very character all that Jesus is .        Jhn 6:55 ASV - For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.     Jhn 6:56 ASV - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
 Lev 17:11 ASV - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.     Jesus said Jhn 10:17 ASV - Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. He said he lays down his life willingly no one takes it from me , I lay it down.  The greatest thing that Jesus did for man was to go to his cross for you and I and than he had the power to take it up again.

Jhn 10:18 ASV - No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.                   And this commandment to us is to  have everlasting life ,    Rom 6:4 ASV - We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.  Jesus was and is the example we live by as he lived his life before the disciples and manifested his fathers word of grace to the world so to we do the same in our life .    That which is spirit is spirit that which is flesh is flesh.                                                                                                                                                                                       Jhn 13:15 ASV - For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.
Jhn 13:16 ASV - Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him.      Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.   For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:  for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
To be born again is the spiritual aspect of the newness of life the word speaks of . We must lay down our natural life that our fathers gave us in the natural , the carnal man the man of flesh and rebellion . To obey the flesh is to rebel against Gods plan for our life's , it creates sin in our life's and has to be dealt with on a daily basis.   Jas 4:4 ASV - Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.         but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;     because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.                                                                                                                                       Rev 19:7 ASV - Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 ASV - And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.  
Rev 19:9 ASV - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are true words of God.
  But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:  and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few chosen.   2 peter 1:10   Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:
 Jhn 12:47 ASV - And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 ASV - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.  The words Jesus was speaking is the true gospel of his father . This very word will come back to judge us of the life we live  today.                     
2Co 5:10 ASV - For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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The man at the wedding feast was speechless because he did not believe this very word you are reading ,  Rev says that if we believe his word and obey it with our heart we shall be clothed with the bright gleaming garments of salvation .  And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.   Jesus said if we do not pick up our cross and follow him we are not worthy of him.
Jhn 12:49 ASV - For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Jhn 12:50 ASV - And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.                                                                                                     
 Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.