Truth comes from the Holy Spirit

Truth comes from the Holy Spirit

John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said,
Of a truth this is the Prophet.

Yesterday’s message was strong meat, so also is today’s message.

I have mentioned before about the 3 Fruits of the Spirit - Truth,
Righteousness and Holiness which are not mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23 but
mentioned in Ephesians 5:9. These 3 unlike the 9 are purely gifted to us
from the Holy Spirit, Son and Father respectively (some 9 Fruits need to be
grown though they in some quantity can be received as gifts for a period).

Today’s scripture talks of people noticing truth in the speech of Jesus
even though they had not received the Holy Spirit and thus called Him a
Prophet.

Like in a ‘Treasure Hunt’ game one needs to find the first treasure and
then only can find the second and thereafter the third and so on...
Similarly unless we do not have the Truth we will not receive Righteousness
and without Truth and Righteousness we cannot receive Holiness.
Righteousness means to be in right standing with God and if we do not know
God, His Kingdom fully can we claim to be in right standing? That is why
the more we know the truth the more we are able to walk in the path of the
truth and thus be righteous. But this righteousness is just an image of the
true righteous of the Son since it will come only when the Truth is
complete in us.

God alone is Holy. Holiness means perfection / complete and no being is
perfect. God the Son, when He humbled Himself / gave up His glory and
became man said He is not perfect. The Son experienced corruption when a
third of the Angels fell. Perfection / Holiness is not about having or not
having sin but about being complete. Sin corrupts the spirit being thus
does not allow holiness. Nothing corrupt can dwell before Holiness for it
will not live.

Bible says no being (including the Angels) has seen the Father other than
the Son before He humbled Himself (it is believed no being can dwell before
the Father unless he is Holy). Man who had access to Heaven was deprived
when he lost the Fruit of Truth and Righteousness after eating of the Tree
of Good and Bad (Doubt).

People mistake holiness with purity, one can be pure yet not holy.
Cleanliness and completeness are two different things. Perfection needs
purity but one can attain purity without perfection.

Jesus as man was without sin and even though He had the complete image of
God in Him yet was not complete for He had given up His glory and humbled
Himself. At the end when He finishes His task of restoring renewed man’s
access to Heaven and becoming one in Him, He will receive back His glory
from the Father and becoming one with the Father He will be complete again.
When we read Genesis 3:22 will this understanding the scripture explodes to
reveal when the Son humbled Himself and how man could stand before God (the
Son) and yet not die.

Bible says at the end we will be not only restored to God the Son (become
Heavenly Angels / The Heavenly Temple restored) but will also become one
with the Father (we along with the Heavenly Angels). Proverbs 8:22-33
captures this partly, very beautifully.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord You are God and there is none other than You. A part of You humbled
and created man so as to restore the Heavenly Temple. Mere man who is like
worm is lifted up and made higher than an Angel to be partaker of your
glory. Lord we pray this understanding be rooted in us so that overcoming
the things of this world will be easier…

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Galatians 3:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of
us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the Father’s
bosom {creek}, he has declared him.

Proverbs 8:22-33
22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of
old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon
the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his
commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily
[his] delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were]
with the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they
that] keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Dated 08 April 2019
Bro Rollwyn

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