The LORD JESUS clearly defines the work and ministry and status of the PERSON of the HOLY SPIRIT ….. brethren, being able to function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS is crucial to all of our well-being and to every aspect of function in the Name of YESHUA.
In John 6:63 (NASB), YESHUA declares: < “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” >
This work of the HOLY SPIRIT manifests the peculiar and specific dynamic of the New Covenant in our inward parts – in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets, as the fullness of CHRIST JESUS is progressively perfected and completed into us (Matt 5:17; John 1:16-17, NKJV; Col 1:26-28; 2:9-10).
2 Corinthians 3:4-6 (NKJV) tells us that as a consequence of the HOLY SPIRIT’s work in us: < … we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. >
Several things are being proclaimed in this passage, as a result of each one of us progressively becoming Epistles of CHRIST, by the HOLY SPIRIT:
o the HOLY SPIRIT’s work enables a growing “trust through Christ toward God”.
o the HOLY SPIRIT’s work causes us to know that “our sufficiency is from God”.
o the HOLY SPIRIT’s work unveils us as “ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit”.
In John 16:13-15, YESHUA explains the infinitude of the HOLY SPIRIT’s ministry: < However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. >
The HOLY SPIRIT will ….
o Guide us into all truth: “whatever He hears He will speak”.
o “Tell you things to come” so that we will navigate the challenges of our life and times.
o Take what is of YESHUA and declare (NASB: disclose) it to us.
o Take all things that the FATHER has given to YESHUA, and reveal it, and develop it, in us, amongst us and, through us.
In Acts 1:4-5 and 8, we read: < And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ….. “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” >
Acts 2:1-4, describes the nuclear church being baptized in the HOLY SPIRIT:
1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
John the Baptist prophecied that it is YESHUA MASHIAH that baptizes us with (in) the HOLY SPIRIT:
o In Matt 3:11, John declares: < I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me … . He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. >
o Similar proclamations are made in Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:16 and John 1:32-33.
The Baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT comes with an array of gifts that communicate the practical power-dynamic of CHRIST’s ministry (see John 16:14-15).
1 Corinthians 12:1-13 gives us an overview of the gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT and the manner in which they are operated:
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
So we see that the HOLY SPIRIT is absolutely necessary for the practical dynamic of the Testimony and Ministry of JESUS CHRIST coming to life in His Body.
Without the active ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT we will all be shut under Law and Principle having no avenue to actualize the living dynamic of CHRIST in us and amongst us.
Everything that is of the fullness of YESHUA can only be disclosed and developed by the active ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT.
“Come HOLY SPIRIT” is a necessary invocation during prayer, worship, the study of the Scriptures and, in every aspect of the ministry of JESUS CHRIST in the Body of MESSIAH (CHRIST). Amen!