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Pentecost 60 Syndrome or 'Sin-drome?' Looking Ahead
Pentecost 60 Syndrome or ‘Sin-drome?’ Looking Ahead
“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (1Jn.3:8 KJV).”
When you are fishing there is nothing worse than a backlash on your reel. It looks like a pile of spaghetti. While others in the boat are casting away you are stuck trying to work through the tangled mess. You pull on one loop and another tightens. This is exactly what happens when we try to solve our own spiritual lostness. Attempting to tackle one problem without being able to see the whole tangle only complicates the others that need the same attention.
In the same way our heart is entangled in the many strongholds it carries. They are unseen, unmanageable and unyielding without God. This is why Jesus promised the Holy Spirit after His ascension. Only the Holy Spirit can untangle and remove the subtly interconnected ‘backlash’ of emotions, self-justification and rationalization that the spirit of fear keeps tightening. Sin is at the root of our ‘I’d-rather-do-it-myself” syndrome (really a fancy word for ‘stronghold’) or should we say ‘sin-drome?’
What the Holy Spirit does is to draw us into a relationship with Jesus who then directs the process of undoing the tangles that make up the ‘sin-dromes’ in our hearts. The biblical term for this process of untangling our ‘sin-dromes’ is sanctification. This must be the important process for every believer because the night before His crucifixion Jesus prays it for His disciples, “15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified (John 17).” What sanctification does is to expose the ‘sin-dromes’ one by one, heal the place they took up in our heart and fill us with His Spirit that we no longer operate in fearing aloneness but enabled to offer a healing relationship with Jesus to others.
The Holy Spirit opens the Word to rehabilitate our minds and move our hearts outwardly. In the Word we find the spiritual building blocks to grow within and spread the truth without. This is what sanctification is all about. It is about getting us to look like the image of God as He intended. “It is God's will that you should be sanctified….(1Thess.4:3).” Sanctification leads us to the inner chambers of His Kingdom. It is the Holy Spirit who begins to identify the courts of the Lord for us. He moves us to the inner chambers of the Lord’s Kingdom as we open our minds and hearts to the work He does in us by the Holy Spirit. As the Spirit fills us with His fruit we discover there is a never-ending expanse in those courts. One place to identify them is in Galatians 5, “22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
In the Message Bible they read this way, “22-23But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.”
And there are other gifts the Holy Spirit brings that carry us into His courts, gifts that we are given to minister to the hearts of others…stay tuned.
“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (1Jn.3:8 KJV).”
When you are fishing there is nothing worse than a backlash on your reel. It looks like a pile of spaghetti. While others in the boat are casting away you are stuck trying to work through the tangled mess. You pull on one loop and another tightens. This is exactly what happens when we try to solve our own spiritual lostness. Attempting to tackle one problem without being able to see the whole tangle only complicates the others that need the same attention.
In the same way our heart is entangled in the many strongholds it carries. They are unseen, unmanageable and unyielding without God. This is why Jesus promised the Holy Spirit after His ascension. Only the Holy Spirit can untangle and remove the subtly interconnected ‘backlash’ of emotions, self-justification and rationalization that the spirit of fear keeps tightening. Sin is at the root of our ‘I’d-rather-do-it-myself” syndrome (really a fancy word for ‘stronghold’) or should we say ‘sin-drome?’
What the Holy Spirit does is to draw us into a relationship with Jesus who then directs the process of undoing the tangles that make up the ‘sin-dromes’ in our hearts. The biblical term for this process of untangling our ‘sin-dromes’ is sanctification. This must be the important process for every believer because the night before His crucifixion Jesus prays it for His disciples, “15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified (John 17).” What sanctification does is to expose the ‘sin-dromes’ one by one, heal the place they took up in our heart and fill us with His Spirit that we no longer operate in fearing aloneness but enabled to offer a healing relationship with Jesus to others.
The Holy Spirit opens the Word to rehabilitate our minds and move our hearts outwardly. In the Word we find the spiritual building blocks to grow within and spread the truth without. This is what sanctification is all about. It is about getting us to look like the image of God as He intended. “It is God's will that you should be sanctified….(1Thess.4:3).” Sanctification leads us to the inner chambers of His Kingdom. It is the Holy Spirit who begins to identify the courts of the Lord for us. He moves us to the inner chambers of the Lord’s Kingdom as we open our minds and hearts to the work He does in us by the Holy Spirit. As the Spirit fills us with His fruit we discover there is a never-ending expanse in those courts. One place to identify them is in Galatians 5, “22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
In the Message Bible they read this way, “22-23But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.”
And there are other gifts the Holy Spirit brings that carry us into His courts, gifts that we are given to minister to the hearts of others…stay tuned.
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