or The Option to Reject the Voice …
… of Holy Spirit & Jesus’s Blood
– Many in the church have been praying for ‘Revival’ for years, for Holy Spirit to pour out again.
“He showed (His) hands and side to them; ( … Selah … )
… Jesus, therefore, said to them again, “PEACE to you;
according as the Father has sent Me, I also send you,”
and THIS having said, He BREATHED ON [them]
AND SAYS to them, “RECEIVE HOLY SPIRIT;
of whomever you release [-by-forgiving] (their) SINS,
they have-been released [-through-forgiveness]
to them …”
– (excrpt frm Jhn. 20:20-23 – frm Grk Txt)
. Yet this one initial Resurrection breath of Jesus, breathed with His words that flow with that Holy Spirit impartation, have hardly been taken to heart.
“And when they came to the place called The Skull
[Golgatha], there they crucified Him … Jesus was
saying, ‘Father, FORGIVE THEM; for they do not
know what they are doing.’ ”
– Luke 23:33a,34a (NASB)
” … Jesus, the Lord of us, …
– Who was delivered up on account
–of the transgressions / the trespasses OF US,
–and was raised on account of the justification OF US.
–(carries the weight of ” on account of our being made
–AND declared “Justified” [connoting, “by God’s forgiveness–graced US through Jesus’s death}).
–Having been justified, therefore, ‘PEACE’ we have
–towards God through the Lord of us, Jesus Christ,”
–– Romans 4:24b-5:1 (Lit frm Grk txt)
“with all humility and gentleness, with patience,
–showing forbearance to one another in love, …
–be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
–FORGIVING each other, just AS GOD IN CHRIST
–also HAS FORGIVEN you.”
– Ephesians 4:2,32 (NASB)
– The cornerstone of the work of the cross and what Jesus accordingly FIRST decrees to those seeing Him for the very first time since God’s Spirit, not twenty hours earlier, breathed life into His dead body (for OUR benefit – Rom. 4:25), the whole reason we have a foundation and Grace-gifted ‘Right’ to stand naked before God with PEACE … UNCONDEMNED … with not one single sin – past, present, and future – henceforth ever remembered again (Jer. 31:31 & 34; Heb. 8:8 & 12; 10:15 & 17; Ps. 32:1-2a; Rom. 4:7-8) – each of us having been totally and utterly FORGIVEN – with ALL that this word, from the Greek, means in denotation and connotation – hardly bleeds out of God’s people towards one another as a living overflow of such mercy and grace.
– “Revival” is exciting. It puts believers in awe of God. Yet what we understand as “Revival” is oftentimes reduced to only the lost or back-sliders returning and receiving forgiveness from God.
– Father is after way more than this.
“The LORD said, … “indeed as I live, ALL the earth
–WILL BE FILLED with the GLORY of the LORD.””
– Numbers 14:20-21 (NASB)
“Therefore, having been justified by faith,
– … we exult in hope OF THE GLORY”
– Romans 5:1-5 (NASB)
“for whom He foreknew, He also predestined
–TO BECOME CONFORMED to the image of His Son,
– … and whom He predestined, these He also called;
–and whom He called, these he also justified;
–and WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THESE HE also GLORIFIED.”
Roman’s 8:29-30 (NASB)
“For God, Who said, “Light shall shine out of
–darkness,” is the One Who has shone in our hearts
–to give the light of the knowledge of THE GLORY
–OF GOD IN THE FACE OF CHRIST.
– … WE HAVE THIS TREASURE
– IN EARTHEN VESSELS,”
– I Corinthians 4:6-7a (NASB)
– This word “Glory”, both the Hebrew O. T.’s & Greek N. T.’s combined definition denote the “Weighty estimation” by God Himself (concerning something).
– It is the weighty estimation of Christ Jesus, His Son, manifested to us, manifested for us, with God the Father’s intentional purpose towards TRANSFORMING US by the power of the glory of the resurrection, by God, of Jesus … (Eph. 1:4-6, 11-12, 3:16-19; Col; 1-9-11, 3:1-4)
. …
– … so that we can’t help but bleed out – overflow – exactly as Jesus, when He showed them His hands, side, and feet in the weightiness of God’s glory of Love’s uncondemning, UNCONDITIONAL forgiveness,
. … the weightiness of this glory of God’s beyond comprehension, crazy awesome Love through the resurrection breath of Christ Jesus breathed into us, imparting Holy Spirit breath into us which can only declare to one another and to the world, “PEACE towards God!”.
. This, Beloved, is that hope of glory which we carry – each of us who has believed into Christ Jesus – in this earthen vessel called our body.
. (Let this truth sink into you … You will not remain unchanged).
– This is the weighty estimation by God Himself, which He destined before creation for each of us in Christ, that “Tetelestai” goal of conformity into the image of His Son, this side of the cross … (see Grk. interlinear of Hebrews 10:14 / ref. also Rom. 8:29-30; Eph. 1:4; Col. 2:19).
. Are you listening?
– THIS, Beloved, is that seed implanted, that initial breath-of-Holy-Spirit breathed by Jesus, intertwined as one single cord with His succeeding words … breathing out the very transforming power of the resurrection voice, in the disciples, AS ONE SINGLE impartation …
“He showed (His) hands and side to them; ( … Selah … )
… Jesus, therefore, said to them again, “PEACE to you;
according as the Father has sent Me, I also send you,”
and THIS having said, He BREATHED ON [them]
AND SAYS to them, “RECEIVE HOLY SPIRIT;
of whomever you release [-by-forgiving] (their) SINS,
they have-been released [-through-forgiveness]
to them …”
– (excrpt frm Jhn. 20:20-23 – frm Grk Txt)
– … Do you see it?
– … Selah …
– Jesus’s BREATHING HOLY SPIRIT INTO THEM, (confirming their having been forgiven, utterly, totally, completely, unreservedly – by God), in accordance with His immediate following words – ALL ONE impartation – was to forever be the reality of that Grace-gift transformation OUT OF THEM … OUT OF US!
– THIS, the very cornerstone – set by Resurrected Jesus, with the evidence of His exceeding and forever love towards us in the kept nail holes in His hands and the gaping spear hole in His side – this very cornerstone of the rest of their life in Christ on earth, from which ALL their believing through ALL of their daily lives, even ALL the outflow of ministry, of the signs and wonders and miracles and demons being cast out, this establishing and building these first pioneer ‘leaders/bond-servants/shepherds of the church’, was how ALL leadership was to be forever aligned, and accordingly by which the Bride of Christ, in each and every generation, was forever to be built up (Eph. 2:5-7; 3:8b-11, 21) …
– …
– … for this manifests to the principalities and powers in the heavenlies – to angels and to demons, even to the world around us, to poor and to rich, to the small and to the great – that that resurrection day’s impartation breath-of-Holy-Spirit by Jesus in each one of us IS also OUR Cornerstone … having become the very breath of His life …
. … which WE breath out!
(Heb. 8:10-12; Rom. 5:1-11; 1 Pet. 2:1-7a, 9-10; Gal. 2:20).
. …
… Selah ! …
. …
“Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and voice
came out of the cloud, “This is My beloved son, Hear Him!““
– Mark 9:7 (NASB)
– Having ears to hear, are you listening?
…
“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded
–this, that One died for all, therefore all died;
–and He died for all, that they who live should
–no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and
– rose again on their behalf.
–Now all these things are from God, Who reconciled us
–to Himself through Christ, AND [HE-]gave [to] us – the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was
–in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
– NOT [ac]counting their trespasses against them,
– AND HE HAS COMMITTED TO US
– the word of reconciliation.
– 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, 18-19 (NASB)
– … WE HAVE THIS TREASURE
– IN EARTHEN VESSELS,”
– 2 Corinthians 4:7a (NASB)
The glory of the LORD that is to cover the earth, the “knowledge of the glory of the LORD” that will fill the earth, is the hope of glory which we possess as a result of Holy God our God‘s forever unconditional forgiveness – His complete release AND REMOVAL of sin (Jhn. 1:29: Rom. 6:5-7;1 Jhn 3:5a) THROUGH FORGIVENESS … because of HIS Son’s life’s blood shed to pay the redemption price and to wholly cleanse and remove from you and I the stain, the guilt, and the condemnation of every single “missing the mark of His glory” sin of our entire life-span … the very definition of what means our being “Justified“! (Rom. 3:24-5:2).
– This overflow, Beloved, of the glory of the good news – the gospel of Jesus Christ – only shines with His glory when that initial resurrection breath, which gave life to Jesus’s dead body, which He Himself then breathed as Holy Spirit into His disciples as the initial “born again” new life, it only shines increasingly through each of us when we as believers “naturally” breathe out, from out-of our hearts, out of our transformed nature, this life breath received,“FORGIVEN – from my heart – unconditionally, whether you asked for it or not.”
– … Selah! …
Mark Dingemans
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** – Beloved, you are free to print this and any Kairos for your own study. Take the time to go through these scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit write them and bear witness to them in your hearts and minds. Let the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus and the witness of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you wash through you and renew your mind. These blogs are meant to be Bible studies, so you are free to print up any newsletter of this blog site for your own study. Feel free to copy and reset these Newsletter with lines in them for notes.
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– If you have never believed into Jesus Christ, you can do so now, from your own heart and words. If you wish help to pray, pray, “LORD Jesus, I believe You died for me and as me because You love me. I receive Your Forgiveness for my sin. Thank You for shedding Your blood to cleanse me, for making me clean, for breaking the power of sin in my life, for transforming me as a gift of Your Grace to me. I ask You to live inside of me. I thank You, Jesus, for giving me eternal life, that I might know You and Your Father, as my God, forever. In Your Name, LORD Jesus. Amen!”
. If you just believed into Jesus, if you prayed this prayer to believe into Jesus, it is of great importance that you be water baptized (Mk. 16:16a; Acts 10:47-48a; Rom.6:4). And ask Jesus to baptize you in Holy Spirit & fire. Share your faith, what Jesus has done for you.
. For those of you who have believed into Jesus; take communion often (I Cor. 11:23-26; Lk. 24:30-31a). Let communion be a refreshing of the Blood and the Spirit (Heb. 9:14) to cleanse your conscious from sin consciousness to righteousness consciousness, that you are indeed clean, as a gift of His grace. You are no more, Dearly Beloved, under condemnation; rather, you are under justification – eternally! (Rom. 4:25b, 5:21;b; Heb. 9:11-12). You will find the Holy Spirit of Jesus unveiling Jesus to you from the scriptures like you’ve never seen Him before.
kairos – (Kahee-ros’) – Strong’s concordance defines this word: “an occasion, I.e. set or proper time.” The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (NASB) defines this word; “season, time, but not merely as a succession of moments, which is chronos,” [from which we derive the English word ‘chronology’]. “Kairos, however, implies not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the task at hand, whether the time provides a good, convenient opportunity or not.” This must be understood. Strategic times of the Lord do not necessarily imply good or convenient times. We are in Kairos times. Maybe not good or convenient times, but definitely strategic, opportune times because of the season we are in. We must have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches,” (Rev. 2:29), so as to respond correctly to the Kairos time.
* Some Scripture for this letter is taken from the (NASB) – NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Other references translated from Grk. Txt as presented in T. Newberry’s Englishman’s Greek New Testament, Zondervan Publishing – 1982- originally published in London, Eng. 1877 Scripture references not showing a Translation in Brackets are this writer’s translation from the Hebrew Massoretic Text as it appears on the web-site “qbible.com”, our from the Greek text of Thomas Newberry’s “Englishman’s Greek New Testament”. Some definitions given to Hebrew words are also referenced from qbible.com website, as well as from Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Baker Book House Company, (C) 1979
Several Translations and study guides to which this author refers are taken from biblehub.com website.