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The Emphasis of The Holy Spirit

Pentecostal Christians over-emphasize the independence of the Spirit from Jesus Christ. I’ve fellowshioped with Pentecostals for over 20 years now. And I have recently noticed this repeatedly.

Frank Viola first pointed this out to me, and it is very true.

They speak as though the Sspirit was independent of Jesus.

And he may very well be in his essence and existence but in his current ministry on earth he is absolutely focused and centered of Jesus Christ.

A close look at Ephesians among many other epistles shows this strong emphasis on Jesus Christ.

“He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭1:9-10‬ ‭

Notice the will and purpose of God are along the lines of Jesus Christ summing up all things. Everything is going to Jesus Christ, everything is being defined by Jesus Christ, we understand all things by and through Jesus Christ.

Any deemphasis on Jesus Christ is a mistake for the ages. The Spirit now ushers all things on the earth to Jesus Christ. He is the emphasis of the Spirit. This is evident in the epistles by their very focus. And explicitly by what is said.

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His Grieving…Our Grieving

Sometimes at the peak of our victories, we feel grief, we feel sorrow, we feel something is very wrong.

I have learned that sometimes in our striving for what we want, in our striving for what we think we need, in our achieving, in our doing all that accomplishment requires we push God aside, we ignore him, we neglect him and we substitute his dreams for our ambitious goals.

We have to right? God is so slow it would seem!

Then after some time…after striving is over, if we are willing to feel, we feel his sorrow and we feel his grief, like how he grieved over Jerusalem rejecting and pushing him aside, going it alone for centuries.

Today for those of us with Christ living within sometimes it is him we grieve, and it is his grief we feel within.

Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Like he grieved over Jerusalem, sometimes he grieves over us.

We mistake his grief for our weakness, and we medicate, we blame it on brain chemistry, or we blame it on the devil.  Sometimes it is not weakness, sometimes it is not illness, sometimes it is Jesus grieving within.

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