Spirit in Flesh

'In the synoptic Gospels - Matthew, Mark and Luke - the Holy Spirit is pictured in direct relationship to Jesus Christ in two experiences - His birth and baptism.

The conception is spoken of as "out of the Spirit." (Matt. 1:18, 20b: "of" is the translation of the Greek preposition, ek, literally, "out of.") Luke records the announcement to Mary by Gabriel of God in "flesh appearing." Gabriel stated:      The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy [spirit] which shall be born of thee shall be called the God. (Luke 1:35)

The word, "thing" is supplied in the KJV because the adjective "holy" is in the neuter gender. But this adjective is the same as the adjective describing "Spirit" in the same verse, and thus the missing word to be modified could likewise be the word, "spirit. "

This concept is well stated in the Writings: "He (Christ) united humanity with divinity: a divine spirit dwelt in a temple of flesh." (4BC:1147) That "divine spirit" dwelling in a temple of flesh was called "the Son of God."

In Mark, there is a key reference to the Holy Spirit in relationship to the final witness.

In Jesus' prophetic discourse, He stated:      When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. (Mark 13:11)

So fully will God's witnesses be in-filled with the Holy Spirit at that hour, that when they speak, the voice which comes forth will be the Holy Spirit. It will be the "manifestation of the sons of God" as foretold in Romans 8:19.

Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

And Jesus gives the time when this shall occur - "the gospel must first be published among all nations." (Mark 13:10) He also tells us where this witness will be given - in councils, in churches, and before rulers and kings. (13:9)'

('Another Comforter -- A study on the Holy Spirit' -- by W. H. Grotheer)

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Jesus became (DIVINE) spirit dwelling in flesh- He became Human. We are spirit in flesh as well. Only with us, we allow our flesh nature to rule us, to overcome the spirit. We do NOT have the divine spirit in us, we were NOT born with the divine spirit. We are born with the ability to be born again in spirit. We are born spirit beings with the need inside of us to be with God, our Creator, our Redeemer. This is truth!

Our Savior came and lived as a human being and when He left us He did not leave us without help, He left us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit with a very active desire to unite us all with our Creator, our God, our Savior, with life eternal, with a life of LOVE as LOVE is truly- NO PAIN!  Sin has warped our sense of love and we tell ourselves that the struggles, the pain only make the love stronger, we say things like without the hardship we wouldn't know the good and we make ourselves believe this stuff, these lies.  

We imagine that sin HAD to exist, but it's not true!

How long were Adam and Eve in the garden without sin? We don't know the length of time, we aren't told. Yet I can't believe they were tempted away early on. There was so much in that garden and Eve wasn't created unintelligent, she wasn't created to be impulsive, she wasn't created with any imperfect traits.  Knowing this we can't begin to believe that Satan could have tempted her away the day after her creation.  What we must realize is a lot more time passed, many more days, enough for Eve to wander away from Adam and enough for her to entertain the conversation of a beautiful serpent and speculate upon what was said.

Until sin entered the world Adam and Eve lived in perfection. It wasn't out of anything evil that Eve sinned. She was SUBJECT to temptation like all. The angels themselves had the capability of choosing to disobey. God did NOT want to create intelligent beings that would believe in His love and obey Him by force.

Created to live with God, even after sin we were still created to live in harmony with our Creator.  God made a way for us to be able to live with him even after we sinned. God made it possible for us to be BORN AGAIN IN THE SPIRIT!  The Holy Spirit would have access to our hearts once more.

More tomorrow by the GRACE of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

All through HIS LOVE!