SER GUIADO POR EL ESPIRITU SANTO

La Escritura es la Palabra de Dios y tenemos que buscar en la Escritura, la Biblia y meditar en la Palabra de Dios. Es la "espada del Espíritu" y el Espíritu Santo a través de la Biblia se revelan la voluntad de Dios para nuestras vidas.

LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Scripture is the Word of God and we are to search the Scripture, the Bible and meditate on the Word of God. It is the 'sword of the Spirit' and the Holy Spirit through the Bible will reveal the will of God for our lives.

WHO IS ANTI-CHRIST

The spirit of Antichrist has ways been in this world. It has shown itself in open opposition to Jesus Cbrist and also in very subtle ways to even replace Christ. It is an anti-God force lead by Satan. He works through leaders who are simply manifestations of the spirit Satan.
The term Antichrist applies basically to one man but has a broader principle and can be manifest in men, this which has occurred in every generation. These individuals have either been blatante opponents of God and Christ, or have tried with their own form of deception to replace the truth of God.  There are cults which superficially claim Christianity, yet doctrinally deny the truth. 

‘THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT’ Sermon given at Quacco Baptist Garden City GA 2/15/2015

‘THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT’

PREVIOUS I SPOKE THAT JESUS HAD GIVEN A CLEAR COMMAND TO HIS DISCIPLES AS WRITTEN IN THE 28^TH CHAPTER OF MATTHEW. TO GO TO ALL THE NATIONS AND MAKE DISCIPLES AND TO TEACH THEM TO OBSERVE EVERYTHING THAT HE HAS COMMANDED THEM.

THE COMMISSION GIVEN TO THAT FIRST GENERATION OF BELIEVERS AND EXTENDS BEYOND THEIR TIME, IT IS GIVEN TO ALL GENERATIONS OF BELIEVERS. AND I SAY, IS GIVEN, BECAUSE GOD’S WORD IS ALIVE, IT IS, AS WRITTEN IN HEBREWS 4:12> “ALIVE AND ACTIVE. . .” – ALWAYS IN THE PRESENT.   THE VERY SAME CHARGE GIVEN TO THE FIRST DISCIPLES IS IMPLICITLY GIVEN TO US AND TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER US. 

IF YOU RECALL I SAID THAT IT IS MY VIEW THAT THIS IS ONE, OF THE MANY, CRUCIAL VERSES IN THE BIBLE. OUR LORD JESUS SAID ‘GO THERFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS; HE WAS GIVING THE METHOD TO USE, A SYSTEMATIC PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW IN EVANGELIZING THE WORLD.  THE SAME METHOD HE USED.  AND TO WHOM DO WE GO? WE GO TO THE UNBELIEVERS; TO THE LOST. RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

 WE NEED TO KNOW THAT WHETHER ONE GOES BY THEMSELVES, OR WHETHER THERE OR TWO OR MORE, REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING AT IT ALONE. JESUS PROMISED TO BE WITH HIS FOLLOWERS- ALWAYS.  LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS IN MATTHEW 28:20, 

“TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.” 

JESUS WAS EMPHATIC! HE DIDN’T SAY, “I WILL BE WITH YOU.” BUT, “I AM WITH YOU…” JESUS USED ‘I’, THE SINGULAR PERSONAL PRONOUN; AND ‘AM’, WHICH IS GIVEN IN THE PRESENT INDICATIVE- A FACT HAPPENING AT THE TIME AND CONTINUING TO HAPPEN. IT WASN’T SAID IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, SOMETHING THAT WILL OCCURE IF. JESUS DID NOT SAY GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES, AND WHEN YOU GO THEN I WILL GO AND BE WITH YOU.

THERE IS NOT A MOMENT WHEN JESUS IS NOT WITH THE BELIEVER TO HELP HIM WITNESS OR WHEN HE IS NOT WITNESSING.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me" (Hebrews 13:5-6).

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?  REMEMBER IN JOHN CHAPTER 14 VERSES 15-17 JESUS SAYS TO HIS DISCIPLES, “If you love Me you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”

NOTE THE LAST FIVE WORDS, “AND WILL BE IN YOU”. THE COMFORTOR, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WILL BE INSIDE OF THE DISCIPLES, INSIDE OF ALL TRUE BELIEVERS.

 PAUL IN HIS FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS WRITES, “. . . Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? . . . the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. . . do you not know that your body is a *temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (6: 15 – 19).

IN ACTS 1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” 

THE BELIEVERS ARE EQUIPPED WITH POWER, THAT POWER IS THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF. THE DISCIPLES POWER, AND OUR POWER TODSY WAS, AND IS SUPERNATURAL AND SPIRITUAL. THE VERY POWER OF GOD HIMSELF; OF THE SUPREME BEING OF THE UNIVERSE; OF HIS PRESENCE; OF HIS SPIRIT.  GOD’S VERY OWN SPIRIT DWELLS IN THE HEART AND LIFE OF EACH BELIEVER. THERE IS NO GREATER POWER THAT COULD EVER BE POSSESSED BY ANYONE.

THE BELIEVER IS GIVEN A TASK TO CARRY OUT. WE, THAT IS, THE BELIEVERS, DO NOT HAVE THE POWER TO CARRY OUT THIS TASK ON OUR OWN. THE POWER OF GOD HIMSELF, THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS NEEDED.  THAT IS WHY JESUS PROMISED, “YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS COME UPON YOU” (ACTS 1:8). THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND EQUIPS THE BELIEVER TO CARRY OUT THE TASK FOR GOD.

AND THAT TASK IS TO BE WITNESSING JESUS CHRIST, SHARING THE GLORIOUS SALVATION WE HAVE IN HIM. NO GREATER TRUTH BUT JESUS CHRIST.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER. “And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” (LUKE 24:49).

 SO BACK THEN THE DISCIPLES STAYED IN JERUSALEM AND ON THE FEAST   PENTECOST, “suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them CLOVEN tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and IT SAT on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, DIALECTS as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” (ACTS 2:1-4).

CLOVEN TONGUES APPEARED AND EACH TONGUE RESTED UPON EACH OF THE DISCIPLES; SYMBOLIZING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL DWELL IN EACH BELIEVER. THE WORD SAYS “IT” [KJV] SAT ON EACH BELIEVER. THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF DESCENDED ON EACH ONE. THEY RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF GOD. TODAY EACH PERSON WHEN BORN FROM ABOVE, RECEIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT, AT THAT PERCISE MOMENT, SOMETHING OCCURS THAT THE BELIEVER HAS NO DOING IN.

THEN WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT DO WHEN HE INDWELLS THE BELIEVER? FOR NOW LET’S LOOK AT WHAT I’LL CALL AN INTRO TO THE GUIDING, THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

JOHN 16:13 “WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS COME, HE SHALL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL THE TRUTH: FOR HE SHALL NOT SPEAK FROM HIMSELF; BUT WHAT THINGS SOEVER HE SHALL HEAR, THIS SHALL HE SPEAK: AND HE SHALL DECLARE UNTO YOU THE THINGS THAT ARE TO COME.”

BEING LED OF GOD IS ONE OF THE GRANDEST REALITIES. THE TRUE BELIEVER MAY BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO PATHS CHOSEN BY THE INFINITE LOVE, THE INFINITE POWER, AND THE INFINITE WISDOM OF GOD.  WE HUMANS ARE SO DESIGNED BY GOD HIMSELF IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE CANNOT GUIDE OURSELVES. JEREMIAH STATES IN 10:23, “O LORD, I KNOW THAT THE WAY OF A MAN IS NOT IN HIMSELF: IT IS NOT IN MAN TO DIRECT HIS [OWN] STEPS.”

LOOK AT THE EXPRESSED HELPLESSNESS OF DAVID IN NEED OF DIVINE GUIDANCE; LOOK AT PSALM 5:8: “LEAD ME, O LORD, IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE MINE ENEMIES; MAKE YOUR WAY STRAIGHT BEFORE MY FACE”;

PSALM 31:3. “FOR YOU ARE MY ROCK AND FORTRESS; THEREFORE FOR YOUR NAMES SAKE LEAD ME, AND GUIDE ME”

NOW I DON’T THINK THAT THERE IS A COMMAND RECORDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH DIRECTS A BELIEVER TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT; HOWEVER, IT IS ASSUMED AND A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT APART FROM THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT NO ONE, NO BODY CAN FOLLOW THE PATH OF GOD’S OWN CHOOSING. 

ROMANS 8:14 TELLS US. “AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.”  THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE ‘CHILD’ OF GOD (TEKNON IN THE GREEK) AND THE MATURE SON (HUIOS), THIS IMPLIES, THAT EVENTHOUGH ALL THOSE WHO ARE BORN FROM ABOVE ARE UNIFORMALY CHILDREN OF GOD, NOT ALL ARE MANIFESTING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE GROWN TO MATURITY.  

IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT IT’S NOT WISE TO SUBSTITUTE INFINITE WISDOM FOR FINITE GUESSING. YOU CAN’T OVERESTIMATE THIS FACT. FOR EXAMPLE, GOD’S PURPOSE IS FOR A CHILD INSIDE A HOME, THROUGH OBEDIENCE, AVAIL HIMSELF AND LEARN FROM THE WISDOM OF HIS PARENTS. IN THE SAME WAY, GOD WANTS HIS OWN CHILDREN, THOSE BORN FROM ABOVE, TO BE GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, TO AVAIL THEMSELVES TO THE INIFINTE WISDOM OF GOD, TO COME TO KNOW HIS WILL.  

AND THE MANNER IN WHICH WE CAN KNOW THE WILL OF GOD TODAY? AS I SEE IT, IT IS MUCH GREATER THAN AND MORE ADVANTAGEOUS THAN THE METHOD OF GUIDANCE USED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; I AM SPEAKING WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF BEING THIS SIDE OF THE CROSS

 WE AS TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD CAN’T MAGNIFY TOO MUCH THE TRUTH, THAT FOR US IN THIS RELATIONSHIP OF GRACE WE LIVE AND SERVE IN SUCH AN EXTREME CLOSENESS WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND THINK, THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WE OCCUPY THE SAME BODY, THE SAME PHYSICAL BODY, AND AS PARTNERS WE ENTER INTO THE SAME ENTERPRISES THAT GOD THE FATHER MAY APPOINT.

IN A VERY LARGE DEGREE THIS IS SUPERNATURAL; AND NO CHILD OF GOD, ONE BORN FROM ABOVE, SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THINGS SUPERNATURAL.

CAUTION -

1 JOHN 4:1 TELLS US TO “TEST EACH SPIRIT TO SEE IF THEY ARE OF GOD…”  EACH OCASSION OF THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SHOULD BE EXAMINED.  THERE ARE THREE WAYS; BEFORE THE EXPERIENCE, AT THE TIME OF THE EXPERIENCE AND AFTER THE EXPERIENCE WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS REVIEWING THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF. SO, A SPIRIT-FILLED BELIEVER IS ALWAYS PREPARING FOR THE EXPERIENCE, ALWAYS BEING LED, AND ALWAYS LOOKING BACK UPON GOD’S FAITHFUL DEALING.

AS FOR THE PREPARATION LET’S LOOK AT TWO VERSES THAT I THINK COULD GIVE ALL THE NEEDED INSTRUCTION: -

“TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING” [PROVERBS 3:5]; THE SECOND FROM ROMANS 12:1-2: “AND SO, DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I PLEAD WITH YOU TO GIVE YOUR BODIES TO GOD BECAUSE OF ALL HE HAS DONE FOR YOU. LET THEM BE A HOLY AND LIVING SACRIFICE—THE KIND HE WILL FIND ACCEPTABLE. THIS IS TRULY THE WAY TO WORSHIP HIM.  DON’T COPY THE BEHAVIOR AND CUSTOM OF THIS WORLD, BUT LET GOD TRANSFORM YOU INTO A NEW PERSON BY CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK. THEN YOU WILL GET TO KNOW GOD’S WILL FOR YOU, WHICH IS GOOD AND PERFECT.

IT IS ALSO NECESSARY, THAT ONE WHO IS BEING LED NOT ONLY POSITIVELY BE DEPENDING ON THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR LEADING BUT TO BE AT ALL TIMES WILLING TO BE LED. 

THE QUESTION CAN BE ASKED, HOW IS ONE TO REALLY KNOW OR BE CONSCIOUS OF THE THING, WHAT IT IS, THAT GOD WILLS?  PHILIPIANS 2:13 ANSWERS THIS QUESTION: “IT IS GOD WHICH WORKS IN YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO OF HIS GOOD PLEASURE”.  GOD WORKS, [THE GREEK “ENERGON” MEANING TO ENERGIZE], GOD HIMSELF AROUSES, STIRS-UP, MOTIVATES AND ENERGIZES THE HEART, OUR INNER BEING, US, THE BELIEVERS, TO DO HIS WILL.  THESE STIRRINGS ARE OF GOD – GOD WORKING WITHIN US – GIVING US BOTH THE WILL AND POWER TO DO WHAT PLEASES HIM!

THIS COULD BE BY SOME ACTION THAT IS BEING CONSIDERED BY YOU AND IT IS CONCEDED, OR THERE IS A DELAY PUT ON, OR GOD MAY SPEAK HIS WILL THROUGH PROVIDENCE OR CIRCUMSTANCE; YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON ONE THING: HE WILL WORK WITHIN YOU AND IN THE END THE LEADING WILL CREATE A CONVINCED MIND THAT ALL OUTSIDE INFLUENCES HAVE ALL BUT STOPPED, CEASED TO EXIST.  IN OTHER WORDS, YOU AND YOU ALONE WILL KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW. THERE IS SOMETHING INSIDE YOU THAT TELLS YOU. YOU JUST KNOW. I REALLY HAVE NOT FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO EXPLAIN IT.  

GEORGE MULLER, WHO IN THE MID 1800’S ENGLAND, CARED FOR OVER 10,024 ORPHANS, WHOSE FAITH IN GOD I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE AS AWESOME.  MAYBE YOU HAVE HEARD THAT ON ONE WELL-DOCUMENTED OCCASSION IN WHICH THEY GAVE THANKS FOR BREAKFAST WHEN ALL THE CHILDREN WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT IN THE HOUSE. AS THEY FINISHED PRAYING, THE BAKER HAD LEFT OVER BREAD KNOCKED ON THE DOOR WITH SUFFICIENT BREAD TO FEED EVERY ONE, AND THE MILKMAN GAVE THEM PLENTY OF FRESH MILK BECAUSE HIS CART BROKE DOWN IN FRONT OF THE ORPHANAGE. MULLER WAS KNOWN TO NEVER ASK FOR ANY KIND OF MONETARY HELP.

HE WROTE "THAT THE WORD ALONE IS OUR STANDARD OF JUDGMENT IN SPIRITUAL THINGS; THAT IT BE EXPLAINED ONLY BY THE HOLY SPIRIT; AND THAT IN OUR DAY, AS WELL AS IN FORMER TIMES, HE IS THE TEACHER OF HIS PEOPLE”.

HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD LEADS NOT WITH SIGNS OR OUTWARD THINGS, BUT BY MEANS OF THE WILLING, AND EXPECTANT MIND.  GOD CONTROLS THE JUDGMENT, THE DECISION ITSELF OF A PERSON, AND THEN ONE BECOMES CLEAR AND CONVINCED ABOUT THE COURSE GOD WOULD INDICATE.

JOHN 6:45, JESUS SAID, “IT IS WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS, AND THEY WILL ALL BE TAUGHT BY GOD.”

THE PROPHETS WERE:  ISAIAH, FOUND IN 54:13 – “AND ALL THEY CHILDRE SHALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD; AND GREAT SHALL BE THE PEACE OF THY CHILDREN.” AND JEREMIAH 31:31-34 – “

³¹ Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
³⁴ and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

LET US PRAY – “OH LORD OUR GOD, GUIDE US, LEAD US, TEACH US OH LORD.  BLESS US WITH A RENEWING OF OUR MINDS; SEND US OUT IN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER. WE BOLDLY ASK IN THE NAME OF JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WHO REIGNS WITH YOU FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.

 MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU;

MAY THE LORD SHINE HIS FACE ON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU;

MAY THE LORD TURN HIS FACE TOWARDS YOU NAD GIVE YOU PEACE.