Review
The infilling of the Holy Spirit is not just a one time event but it is an ongoing experience.
Ephesians 5:18b
be filled with the Spirit.
“be being filled” or “keep on being filled.” (present tense) Ephesians 5:18 can be understood to mean “be continually filled by the Spirit.” (passive voice)
Sometimes we can “rest” on a previous religious experience we’ve had with God and thus stop listening to his voice. This is how a good Godly person who loves Jesus can become religious or ritualistic thus loosing connection with the Love of God and going through the motions of spirituality without God being involved.
This is easily illustrated with music styles in church.
Someone is listening to a certain type of Christian music, God moves mightily and the person builds a heart temple around the music style. Even fighting and arguing with their brothers and sisters in the Lord over it. They will actually make the style the Holy Style and place it on a level often even with the Word of God.
The Manna
Exodus 16:4,5
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days."
What happened if they disobeyed and gathered more than they needed so they could in effect take a day off from gathering?
Exodus 16
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed. 19 Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning." 20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
This is how life turns into death! Living on last years revelation or on yesterday’s word from God. We need a fresh word daily from heaven or we’ll become religious and start to stink with the stench of death.
This is the spirit that put Jesus on the Cross!
Jesus is the Bread of Life
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
The principle of the Manna still applies today in the Church. Only take enough Jesus for one day. Eat all you want but If you try and save him up and take a day off from gathering Him you’ll begin to radiate death and take on the maggot and smell of death effect.
Getting into a Religious Rut in our Giving
Psalm 50
7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you:
I am God, your God. 8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
Psalm 50
17 You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.
20 You speak continually against your brother
and slander your own mother's son.
Moses
One time Moses was instructed to strike a rock and the second time he was instructed to speak to the rock accept he struck it 2 times due to frustration and a religious spirited response to the rhema word from God.
Exodus 17
6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
Numbers 20
8 "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink." 9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?" 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. 12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."
Intensely Severe Consequences
Moses is prohibited from entering the promised land!
3 Tabernacles
Peter has a religious moment where he want’s to memorialize an event where God genuinely moves. Notice God’s response to Peter
The Transfiguration
Mark 9:2-8
2After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) 7Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" 8Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.
Worship on this Mountain
John 4:13-24 (Emphasis on verse 20 and verse 23,24)
The Test of Abiding
Are you in a religious rut or are you in love with Jesus?
John 15
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Matthew 7:20
20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
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