Spirit And Truth

Today, let us come to this offering in the grace and boldness of faith, knowing that we do not come as believers who are disadvantaged, or who are not as fortunate as those who knew Jesus in flesh and bones body. We are coming in the unbounded and freeing grace of the Promised Gift of the Father, the Indwelling Pentecostal Spirit, who is with us in Spirit and Truth. It is by Him and only Him that the works of faith are wrought in us. Here is the text again. 

Until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen. Acts 1: 2.

In this single verse, even before Luke, in the second chapter of his book, gets into his account of the happenings on the day of Pentecost, he mentions the Holy Spirit. True, before he writes about the actual day of fulfilment of the promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on believers, Luke introduces us to the Holy Spirit. From the text, Luke gives us information which makes it clear that Jesus shared a working relationship with the Holy Spirit. He plainly allows us to know that Jesus worked through the Holy Spirit, prior to His Ascension.

Yes indeed! Luke speaks of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus, and this is the path chosen for us as we complete this week of unprecedented freedom. I say freedom, in terms of the freedom to be taken anywhere and everywhere by the Holy Spirit, as He wills.

Jesus has aptly and simply described this to Nicodemus as a matter of fact, when He educates him on those who are Spirit-born. That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Jesus likens the Spirit to the wind. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 3: 8. Has not Jesus declared, in all that He says to this hungry and eagerly willing to be fed Pharisee, that the Holy Spirit, like the wind, is uncontrollable by humans? Has not Jesus’ infallible and forever trustworthy words, stated that the Holy Spirit is unfathomable, uncontrollable, unmanageable and totally un-gaugeable by humans? We have had and are having a Pentecost Week that takes us anywhere and everywhere the Spirit wills and we are extremely grateful.

It is with such alive and ready to be fed and strengthened faith that we gratefully welcome and anxiously desire all the mighty works to be wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. From the Bible verse, when Luke introduces us to the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus, two works wrought by the Holy Spirit are specified and identified in Jesus. Note the words, He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen

The two facts we are noting with rapt attention are that it was:-

Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus gave commandments to His apostles.

Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus had chosen them.

As the Spirit leads, we follow and in His unbounded way, unbounded and uncontrolled by carnal thoughts and human ways of operating, we are taken to the second fact first.

The first bit of Pentecostal hearing, or fulfilled hearing then, in our enabled ears, is that the very Holy Spirit who came upon Jesus’ disciples on Pentecost Day and wrought mighty works in them, is the same Holy Spirit who wrought the mighty work in Jesus, to choose His apostles. What is so mighty about choosing workers, you ask? How does this everyday task of choosing workers, helpers or even partners, warrant the superior works wrought by the Spirit? This is an ordinary, daily operation, as people are always choosing workers, partners and more. Yet, we are told that Jesus did this work through the Holy Spirit. What is this shouting out at you? What is your Pentecostal hearing in this point of place?

Holy Spirit, let Your hearing works be wrought in us. Amen!