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It’s Time to Get Real 8
It’s Time to Get Real 8
“The Holy Spirit’s task is to elevate Jesus in our mind, remind us of what He said and then to encourage us to act on the insight He has given us. He does that by our reading Scripture. He starts by lifting a thought consistent with Jesus for our mind to consider, moves us to trust it in our heart and encourages us to act on it in faith in our spirit. That consistent kind of thinking is how Scripture works in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
I said last time that we would get specific about how the Holy Spirit works in and through Scripture. That statement above is from the previous article and contains three principles moving us toward being really real, I mean really real.
First, the Holy Spirit’s primary function---to place Jesus in our conscious present.
Second, to remind us of Jesus’ words.
Third, to help us apply those words to ourselves, consider them, trust them and act on them.
Let’s take a passage from Jesus’ words and peruse them. Luke 13:22-30,
“ 22 Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”
He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’
“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
28 “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”
Jesus’ context, His mindset, was His death He knew He would be facing in Jerusalem. Back in Luke 9:51 (KJV) “And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem…” Everything from that point on is done in the context of His sacrifice. For Jesus, the narrow door is the Cross; His sacrifice, His obedience to His Father’s will, His carrying all of humanity on His shoulders and carrying each one of us personally who have lived since that time. No one but God the Son could accomplish that. So for each of us Jesus is our personal door to eternal life with Him in His Kingdom.
It was natural then, in vs.23, for a bystander to ask, “Are only a few people going to be saved?” He didn’t understand that the “door” was standing there in front of him. “I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved (John 10:9 NIV).” The bystander and all of us who choose to believe in Him, would find out later after the Cross and Resurrection that Jesus was and is the ‘narrow door.’
Now the point is this. Every next moment is our opportunity to walk through the door and have Him be our companion as the Holy Spirit moves us to recognize Jesus’ presence with us, His words making sense at the moment the Spirit moves them to make sense. We may be in a conversation with someone we know or don’t know and a subject of personal concern arises. We are the ones at that moment who can point to the door or be the door though whom the Spirit moves toward and in that person. Remember Jesus’ words, “As the Father has sent me I am sending you (John 20:21 NIV).” We carry Him in our hearts every moment. He is always present. It is He who ministers when we open the ‘door’ for others to see. He gives us what we need every next moment. Jesus says it plainly, "I see what you've done. Now see what I've done. I've opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don't have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn't deny me when times were rough (Rev.3:8 The Message Bible).”
More on specifics as we go.
“The Holy Spirit’s task is to elevate Jesus in our mind, remind us of what He said and then to encourage us to act on the insight He has given us. He does that by our reading Scripture. He starts by lifting a thought consistent with Jesus for our mind to consider, moves us to trust it in our heart and encourages us to act on it in faith in our spirit. That consistent kind of thinking is how Scripture works in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
I said last time that we would get specific about how the Holy Spirit works in and through Scripture. That statement above is from the previous article and contains three principles moving us toward being really real, I mean really real.
First, the Holy Spirit’s primary function---to place Jesus in our conscious present.
Second, to remind us of Jesus’ words.
Third, to help us apply those words to ourselves, consider them, trust them and act on them.
Let’s take a passage from Jesus’ words and peruse them. Luke 13:22-30,
“ 22 Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”
He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’
“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
28 “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”
Jesus’ context, His mindset, was His death He knew He would be facing in Jerusalem. Back in Luke 9:51 (KJV) “And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem…” Everything from that point on is done in the context of His sacrifice. For Jesus, the narrow door is the Cross; His sacrifice, His obedience to His Father’s will, His carrying all of humanity on His shoulders and carrying each one of us personally who have lived since that time. No one but God the Son could accomplish that. So for each of us Jesus is our personal door to eternal life with Him in His Kingdom.
It was natural then, in vs.23, for a bystander to ask, “Are only a few people going to be saved?” He didn’t understand that the “door” was standing there in front of him. “I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved (John 10:9 NIV).” The bystander and all of us who choose to believe in Him, would find out later after the Cross and Resurrection that Jesus was and is the ‘narrow door.’
Now the point is this. Every next moment is our opportunity to walk through the door and have Him be our companion as the Holy Spirit moves us to recognize Jesus’ presence with us, His words making sense at the moment the Spirit moves them to make sense. We may be in a conversation with someone we know or don’t know and a subject of personal concern arises. We are the ones at that moment who can point to the door or be the door though whom the Spirit moves toward and in that person. Remember Jesus’ words, “As the Father has sent me I am sending you (John 20:21 NIV).” We carry Him in our hearts every moment. He is always present. It is He who ministers when we open the ‘door’ for others to see. He gives us what we need every next moment. Jesus says it plainly, "I see what you've done. Now see what I've done. I've opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don't have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn't deny me when times were rough (Rev.3:8 The Message Bible).”
More on specifics as we go.
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