Thought For The Day (August 10, 2012): Being Washed In Renewal And Regeneration By The HOLY SPIRIT, In CHRIST JESUS

Titus 3:5 (NASB) reads: < He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit >.

The washing of renewal (which makes the old brand new) and regeneration (which makes what is dead in sin to be brought to life) takes place through the quickened (rhema) Word of GOD.

Ephesians 5:25-27 (NASB) reads: < ….. Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. >

So, renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT, gives actual expression to CHRIST JESUS sanctifying the Church, so that the Church (His Body) will be glorious “having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless”!

Tongues can be used to energize the Word of GOD by the HOLY SPIRIT, in and by and through the Witness of JESUS CHRIST alive in us – in Spirit, Water and Blood – so that we can progressively experience renewal and regeneration, by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Rom 8:2)!

Renewal and regeneration is evidenced in actual change that YESHUA orchestrates by the SPIRIT into our inward parts as we choose to persevere in prayer, by praying the Word so that it will be performed by YHWH (Jer 1:11-12).

The Rhema Word quickened by the HOLY SPIRIT, through the use of tongues, energizes realities that are of the Spirit and Life of YESHUA into our inward parts.

In John 6:63 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.” >

What is energized in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA changes us; equipping us to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us (Phil 4:13, 19).

It is time to objectively prepare to be a Bride for the LAMB.

YESHUA wants to wash us using His Rhema Word (see also Heb 1:3b) so that we will be spotless and blameless through a washing of renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT! Amen!

Be warned however, that tongues must be used to energize the Word of GOD and not human desire and ambition.

If we use tongues incorrectly we will open the Mystery of Lawlessness and the spirit of error (1 John 4:6) will operate instead of the HOLY SPIRIT. See 2 Thessalonians 2:7a and Matthew 7:21-23.

In 2 Thessalonians 2:7a we are instructed: < For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work … >.

In Matthew 7:21-23, YESHUA warns us: < “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'” >