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                                         A Message From Peter James 

                             

                               The Holy Spirit Is God.

                        The Holy Spirit Is Not A Power.

 

            God is Holy

            Psalms 99:9  Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill;

            for the LORD our God is holy.

 

            God is a Spirit.

            John 4:24  God is a Spirit:

            and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

            It would be quite accurate to say that The Eternal God is Holy Spirit.

 

            It takes spirit to communicate with Spirit.

            In order to bridge the gap, we have a mediator Jesus Christ, who is both God and man.

            Many of unsound mind, claim that they are also a mediator between God and man.

            This is heresy, whether this is claimed by an individual or a group, it is sin.

            The Roman Catholic Church claims that Mary is a mediatrix with Christ.

            This is blasphemy.         

 

  The Apostle Paul said:

            Timothy 2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,

the man Christ Jesus;

    

            Christ could see that the Holy Spirit was then, and would be a huge stumbling block.

            He said that sins against the Holy Ghost, which means exactly the same thing,

            will not be forgiven.

          

           Matthew 12:31  Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven

            unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

    Matthew 12:32  And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man,

  it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost,

  it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

 

            If the Holy Spirit is just a power I do not believe that such a statement would be made,

            but the Holy Spirit is purely God without any human interface.

 

            We should therefore be very careful how we regard the Holy Spirit/Ghost and what we ascribe

            to Him.

            I would worry a great deal if I said that the Eternal God is acting as the lowest

            of the creatures which He created, o r any similar thing.

            To claim that barking like a dog is of the Holy Spirit,

            does not by any stretch of the imagination glorify the Eternal God, but rather debases Him.

 

            I cannot stress too much how careful we need to be.

            If someone is a genuine servant of The Eternal God, and the genuine servant of the Most High God,

            is then accused of serving Satan rather than the Lord, I see this as a very serious problem.

            Of course we should not get into this position because we should carefully consider the fruit,

            and seek guidance on the matter, rather than pouring forth accusation based on emotion.

 

            There are countless aspects of the Eternal God,

            but that does not make God multiple personalities.

           

            God is our Father.

            God is Holy.

            God is Righteous.

            God is Saviour.

            God is Creator.

            God is Law Giver

            God is the Giver of life.

            God is Perfect.

            God is Peace.

            God is all Powerful.

            God is all Knowing.

            God is omnipotent.

            God is our Healer.

            etc., etc.

 

            But He is still just one God.

 

            My children know me as father.

            My work colleagues knew me as someone who worked with computers.

            Others knew me as someone who conducted choirs.

            Others knew me as a gardener.

            etc. etc.

           

            The various groups might not have known anything at all about my other

            activities, but at the end of the day I was just one person.

            My children and close family would know the different aspects

            of the person who is me.

           

            In my experience almost all of the churches that I have encountered have regarded

            the Holy Spirit as a Power.

            This teaching is not in the bible.

            As I have just stated the Eternal God is all powerful.

            The power of God is an attribute of the Lord, it is not something separate from Him.

            It is true that as the apostle Paul said we only see through a glass darkly.

 

     1 Corinthians 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:

     now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

             

            So we can be assured that regarding the Eternal God our ideas, and our understanding

            will be very limited. However, this does not mean that we have to create our own

            reality, because of our limited knowledge.

            There is no shame in acknowledging that we do not know.

 

            The bible clearly states that there is one God, and it means what it says.

 

            Jesus said, and he should know:

 

 Mark 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel;

  The Lord our God is one Lord:

 

  The Apostle James said it is good that you believe that but that is not such

            a big deal as even the devils believe that. They know it from their experience.

 

  James 2:19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:

             the devils also believe, and tremble.

 

 When they were going to stone the Deacon Stephen what did he see when the heavens opened?

 

            Acts 7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven,

             and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

            56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing

             on the right hand of God.

 

  Here there is no direct mention of the Holy Spirit occupying a separate place

  in the heavens.

 

            Analogies  always quickly break down, but here is one anyway.

 

  Let us say that God is a massive block of magnetized steel.

            Any piece of iron coming into contact with this steel will automatically be magnetised.

            It is inevitable.

            The piece of iron does not become the magnetized steel, but it has dramatically been

            changed. I believe that under normal circumstances it will not lose its magnetism.

            It has the same qualities of the block of steel, but it might only be able to lift

             things like pins and needles, as opposed to objects of several tons.

           What is certain is that they are of the same type.

 

            We will be of the same type as God as we become His children, but the gulf between Him

            and us will not only always be gigantic but also completely unbridgeable.

 

            Those who teach that we will  become God as God is simply nonsense.

 

  You cannot take away the quality of magnetism and still have a block of steel

            with the same qualities.

            Neither can you take away any of the attributes of the Eternal God, and still have ‘God’.

 

  God by definition is all powerful, but you cannot separate His power from Him,

             and still have God. 

 

 The idea that you go to a meeting and you effectively ‘pray down the power of God’,

             is quite false.

 

  Just like the small piece of iron you are either magnetised or you are not.

            You either have the Holy Spirit or you do not.

            Of course it is possible for the Eternal God to pour out more of His Spirit

             on a person as He chooses, for whatever reason.

             It is not a matter of going to a meeting, and somehow becoming ‘slain in the spirit’,

             and all these other things that take place.

 

 What was the power that was in action in Genesis chapter 1?

            Was it just the power of God floating around doing this that and the other?

 

 We are told that Christ the Creator spoke, and it was the power of His word,

            which brought everything into existence.

 

            Psalms 33:6  By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;

             and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

 

 Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

  3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

  These three verses are all referring to exactly the same God.

  Verse 1 tells us that in the very beginning long before the recreation with Adam and Eve,

  God created the heaven and the earth.

            We know that this is Christ from John chapter 1.

 

  John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

     2  The same was in the beginning with God.

     3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 

     Jeremiah 10:12  He hath made the earth by his power,

     he hath established the world by his wisdom,

     and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

 

This same God is mentioned in:

 

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government

shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,

The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

 

Verse 2 tells us that at a much later time when the original perfect creation had resulted

in a world that was waste and empty and confusion, God as the Holy Spirit moved over

the waters.

Note verses 2 and 3 are full of conjunctions ‘and’, the translators choose to put full stops

before each ‘and’, but in reality it is one continuous thought leading to a conclusion.

The Spirit of God and God are one and the same.

It could quite easily have said and the Spirit of God said.

 

The power was in the spoken word of God, who said ‘Light Be’, and there was light.

We then see a whole list of the activities of God.

 

God saw

God called

God said

God made

God created.

 

The word most used is God  said’.

 

As a power you would never assign speech to the Spirit of God,

but the reality is that the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit does communicate with our spirit.

 

Anywhere you see God said, you can be assured that whatever is said, is said with power,

and it will come to pass. Also if the Eternal God tells someone to say some thing, that will

also come to pass.  The power is in the spoken word.

 

Job said that he was made by the Spirit of God.

 

Job 33:4  The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

 

It is very clear that:

            The Holy Spirit Is God, and

The Holy Spirit Is Not A Power.

 

                                     The only way out of our dilemmas is Jesus Christ.

                                                     He is the only way of escape.

                                                                Praise the Lord.

                                                        Come soon Lord Jesus.

                                                                      Amen.

                                                                   

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