God's Will, The Doctrine Of Baptisms, God's Covenant, Noah, Abraham, Issac and Jacob Indwelling of the Holy spirit Part 4

20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things (not some things but all things).

21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also (notice that that is in italics, meaning that it was not in the original Greek, but that the translators gave these extra words to give you an understanding what the words were before it).

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth (Jesus said, I am the truth, I am the way, I am the life, no man can come to the father except by me), and is no lie (the Holy Spirit it says is truth, but Jesus said I am the truth, so the holy Spirit and Jesus must be one and the same), and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

So, who is the teacher – verse 27, the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

God! And yet he had a greater message than all of the disciples that were with Christ for almost the whole two and a half years. He had to come and kick them. He was teaching, ‘You guys are getting off target. You’re bring the circumcision back in again. He had to go, a we say in our terminology, ‘kick ass’ the hard way. Because they weren’t teaching right. Yet, why shouldn’t they; they were with the Christ, shouldn’t they know better. But he says I was not taught by flesh and blood, meaning natural man, but I was taught by the Holy Ghost. So what is the purpose of the teacher. They say that God has set in the church teachers. The purpose of the teacher, the purpose of the prophet, the purpose of everyone else, the evangelist is to excite the church in the Word of God that they will go after the Word and use the Holy Spirit to teach them. Now why is it that the Holy Spirit is supposed to do the teaching? It is so that you don’t have four thousand denominations.

Yeh. We’re supposed to all have one teacher within the church with the Holy Spirit teaching every man. Now when the Holy Spirit is doing the teaching, they will all have the same message. They won’t have something different in one church and something different in another and all say we are of God. Sorry! That’s why the Moslems and all these other religions think that we’re crazy. The don’t have different sects. Even the Jews have two sects. But not the Christians. We’ve got thousands. Now I thought that it was like two thousand till they came on the news one day and said that there was like four thousand. How can you have four thousand sects, or two thousand or one hundred or fifty of anything and say your of God? So they all think we’re crazy. They all would rather choose not to accept the Bible at all because everybody interprets it different.

Right. So can you imagine if you were raised in another religion and then a Christian comes to you and he wants to preach Chistianity to you. You would say, ‘Which Christianity?’ Do you all have the same Bible? Oh, you all have the same Bible but you say, ‘No that one’s nuts.’ ‘There is no Holy Spirit today, that was for two thousand years ago, but they are good believers.’ Ya, sure, okay. So it is the Holy Spirit that is supposed to be the teacher. That’s why it says, ‘those with itching ears’, they want to hear what they want to believe. They’ve got itching ears. They will hear what is best suited to their religion, and then run with it. Those that are ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Well, then that means that there are those that will be ever learning. That means that they don’t know anything that God wants them to know. The letter of the law killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. That’s why Jesus said, you heard in the law, it said, he would then quote form the Old Testament what the law would say but then he would say, ‘I say unto you...’ then He would give the revelation of what that law meant, in not bondage but freedom. Only God gives us liberty. He said, don’t let your liberty be a license to do evil. Even though you are not under the law an longer let the law be as your guide, as your schoolmaster to bring you to Christ. But the law is saying ‘Thou shalt not, thou shalt not… but Jesus said I give you a new law, ‘Love thy neighbor as thy self, in this is fulfilled, not some of the law, but all of the law.

Kevin: So that is the fulfillment of the law. You become water baptized, you have more of a perfect understanding, you can set aside the external restraints because now God has internalized through you.

Exactly! That’s why now when you go preach, you preach the freedom that Christ has given in us. Not Bondage any more. God has not put things in a box and say you can only do it this way except basic doctrine. Under doctrine He wants us to understand this doctrine. Otherwise if you do it without the understanding it doesn’t mean anything. You go down in the water, you come up wet. But he wants you to go down in the water with the understanding while your going in the water and you come up with the understanding that I have been circumcised in Christ, I’ve made a covenant like Abraham did with God.

Kevin: And what is this covenant, what are we committing to? What is the crux of it?

Good! Back to Galatians again. Galatians, where we just read is telling us what that covenant is. Because, in chapter 3 it tells us that since we are no longer under the law at verse 21:

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ (for what reason?), that we might be justified by faith (by Christ).

Made righteous by faith in Christ. So your justified, and wait till I show you a scripture on that, by faith in Christ.

25 But after that faith (or Christ) is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

27 For (how?) AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON (enduo, to put on a garment)CHRIST.( put on Christ)

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: FOR YE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.

What have I achieved? What have I done all of this for? Why am I making the covenant for? So I can be one in Christ. So that it is no longer you that liveth anymore, but it is God Himself now that indwells you, so act like it. We don’t always act like it. That’s why he wants our soul and our body to be conformed to that new spirit. Because, when you go into that water, He gives you the power and the ability to become like He is, in the flesh. But He makes your spirit absolutely perfect. Because when He gave you the Spirit in the first place, it was already from God, it was already perfect but the soul and the body was not yet perfect. So He wants you to have the ability to bring it into perfection.

Kevin: So, the whole thing about this is to bring the soul into accordance with the spirit.

And the body in accordance with the spirit. Now, Christ said went he went to go into the water of baptism, ‘It is necessary, it becommeth us to fulfill all righteousness.’ You don’t get the righteousness there is no forgiving of sins. It says that when you go into the water of circumcision baptized into Him, it says wiping away all transgressions that were against us, nailing them on the cross. Jesus said, ‘it becommeth us to fulfill all righteousness.’ I got to enter the water, I got to make a covenant with God to become righteous. That’s why He said that ‘Your righteousness is as filthy rags.’ But the righteousness of God is fulfilled when we make the covenant with Him in water baptism. That’s why of Abraham, it said that it was imputed unto him for righteousness sake because he believed the promises of God. Christ didn’t die on the cross yet. But because he was willing to take those promises and believe them, God accounted it unto him for righteousness sake. Why? Because he made a covenant with God. The covenant. When he circumcised himself, God had not made His part of the covenant yet. Man circumcised himself but God hadn’t shed His blood yet. So the covenant hadn’t yet been fully fulfilled until He died on the cross, shed His blood, now both part of the bargain now was sealed by both bloods. First, with Abraham, the other through the Christ. But Christ gave and extra, not only did He say you have a covenant with me, and have become one with me, but you have become my son and beyond that, you have become one with me. Instead of you being with Christ, you become the Christ, you are heirs of the promise. That’s why it says that it is no longer you that liveth, but Christ that liveth in you. Know ye not that you have the mind of Jesus Christ. How did you get the mind of Jesus Christ? I thought that it was supposed to be the mind of Kevin. He says, ya, you have the mind of Kevin, but do you want to use my mind or do you want to use yours. Because, I am the head and you are the body. The body can’t think on its own. I am the Head, then leave me as the Head. So, when you want to do your thing, say, Lord, I will do this if you be willing. Now let me prove it too you. Let’s go in James chapter 5 it shows that when you go to do anything in business, you go to do anything for whatever it is you are to see if it goes along with God. In James chapter 5 He makes a remarkable statement and when we go to do things, we wonder what method that we go to do them, and God says, ‘No.’ We have to make it in what God wants to do instead of what we want to do. He wants everything to be in relationship with Him. So you don’t leave Him out of nothing. He wants to be involved, he said I am your friend. Well, friends stick together in all things. But then he really makes it clear when He says, ‘Heh, I’m the Head, and you’re the body. The body does no thinking on its own, it only obeys what the brain tells it to do. The brain does the thinking. It makes the commands; the body obeys. So you want to bring your body into conformity, make your body a living sacrifice unto God. So the body is no longer under your control any more. You want it under the Lord’s control and you need the obedience in order to achieve something. So He says in James 4 starting at verse 10:

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

So if I want to go into a business or do whatever, what I should say is If the Lord be willing I would like to do this business, that business, work here, work there, or whatever. But God says, you got your will, you can go do that if you want, it will be my permissive will but it may not be my exact will. But if you put ‘me’ in it and say, ‘Lord, if you want me to work over hear and do this job or do that job, then show me that that’s what you want me to do and why.’ as if you are gong to do it. God does not expect you to stand there and wait for an answer. As you are going as he said in Isaiah whether you go to the left or whether you go to the right there will be a still small voice behind thee saying this is the way walk ye in it.

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Kevin: In the terms that I look at it, to me is if it fells right, do it, when it feels right to be following His path.

You say, ‘Father, in the name of Jesus, here is a path that I seem to think that I should go, what do you want me to do.’

Imagine, I’ve got an enormous amount to teach you and it may take possibly years for me to do so, but in that period of time, whether it is one, year, two years, or whatever, notice that with Christ it was two and a half years that the disciples were being taught. But when Paul was out in the wilderness it was two and a half years he was being taught by the Holy Spirit.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

Now here it comes, about business. People that want to say, ‘Well, I will decide to go and do something, especially in the Think And Grow Rich with Napolean Hill, you got to set a goal and go after the goal. Well, in general, in all selling, that is what you do. Set the goal and go after it. But God says, ‘No, you don’t set the goal that way. Here’s how you set it.

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

So, God tells us that he wants him to be involved in our lives at all times. And to be truthful, even with my wife and I, when it came to have a relationship with one another sexually, we asked the Lord to intervene and to show us things and the Lord began to speak and show us things that aren’t in the books and having a sexual relationship between the husband and the wife and He will do it for any and every individual, so instead of going to another book to find out how we should behave the one to the other – because it says that the husband’s body doesn’t belong to the husband any more, it belongs to the wife – the wife’s body doesn’t belong to her any more, it belongs to the husband. Well, why does He say that? What is it spiritually He wants done and physically done? As husband, our whole attitude is how to please the wife. Not ourselves. And the attitude of the wife should be how to please that husband, because in pleasing the husband and the husband pleasing the wife, we meet each other’s needs. But the husband wants his own need met and thinks only of himself or visa versa the wife of her needs, neither one gets truly met. Because only God knows what the wife’s need really is, because every woman is different. And one that would please one wife may not necessarily please the other. So the husband should be asking the Lord, ‘She belongs to me but she is yours. What shall I do to meet my wife’s needs that she may not even know about.’ And let God begin to guide. Then you both get excited together, realizing that God has intervened, and God relating and teaching the husband and teaching the wife to meet the need. Then you will look and say ‘How did you know that that would excite me?’ ‘But I never knew it would excite me before.’ ‘Well, the Lord told me.’ Things such as that. So with Betsy and I, we realized that the only way to do this properly was to go before the Lord and have Him teach us what each other’s needs are. Because a woman as well as a man can look and say, ‘Well, no I don’t want that, no this would not be right, that wouldn’t be right before God instead of saying, ‘What does God want of us.’ Because the scripture says that the marriage bed is undefiled. All things are open unto the two partners that are looking to glorify and edify each other but each one has to find out what the need is of the other. You won’t know because half the time they won’t even know what to tell you. But the Spirit will know what the partner needs. And if you ask the Spirit He will begin to reveal it to you. It will shock the living daylights out of the other partner of how great it is. ‘Gee, how did you know that?’ ‘I didn’t, the Spirit told me.’ And they know it had to be somebody else, it couldn’t have been you. And then it gives them that loving relationship to see that you’re being led by the Spirit of God and not over your own selfish desires. We all have the desires. We all have sexual needs. It all needs to be met. But how and what arrangements does the wife need to meet it and so on. So these are things that we ask of God. So we go to do a job and we ask the Lord instead. Here is a job, now you gave me that job. How do you want it done? Bring in the right people to have it done and so on. So I had a problem with the computer, and my guy is getting sick, I said, ‘Lord, I have a computer problem. I can’t go ask him again. You haven’t healed him yet. Yet he will do it if I ask him. I know that. Lord, you said that for me to ask of you to get this thing fixed, then, fine, send him in. Mindy was already here. But she never once said that she knew anything about computers. Not an inkling of it.

Naturally! Nothing comes into your life or mine, the scripture says, except sent of God. I sure needed you. Amen, brother! Now, let’s continue with the Holy Spirit and water baptism. Turn now to Acts in chapter 8 in a wonderful scripture that shows both water baptism and baptism of the Holy Spirit. Starting at verse 5:

6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God (Jesus Christ), and the name of Jesus, they were baptized (but it doesn’t say whether it was the Holy Spirit baptism or water baptism yet does it), both men and women.

13 Then Simon himself (the sorcerer) believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem (not Philip) heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John (why did God send an entire different disciples and apostle for? Why didn’t He have Philip do it? Because he knew that someday there would be a teaching that when you were baptized in water, you received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the same time and that they were one and the same. That there weren’t two different baptisms. So God puts this in the scripture for stupid people like us who someday would have that belief. So he sent different people, different disciples and apostles because watch what it says):

15 (Peter and John) Who, when they were come down, prayed for them (Samaritans), that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (colon)

16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

So here’s your water baptism. But they hadn’t received the Holy Spirit baptism yet.

Well, how can you tell a spirit has fallen on anybody? Next verse.

18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

19 Saying, Give me also this power (this exousia - this right, this ability or privilege), that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost (he was a sorcerer, he can do everything so much so that the people thought this was a man of God. But this one he couldn’t do. So the general teaching of the church today that is while this is of Satan, this is not of God. Well, if it’s of Satan, how come Simon couldn’t do it and he wanted to buy it with money. He knew it was of God because he said give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay hands that they may receive the Holy Ghost. He knew it was of God but he wasn’t able to practice it. He didn’t have the power to do it. If Satan had the ability to give it to those of his own, why didn’t he give it to this great man of God, Simon the Sorcerer? But what was it that was different. What was it that he saw that was something he couldn’t do? He knew it was something observable because he saw it happen. How can you see a Holy Ghost come upon somebody? That’s spiritual. There was an action that he had to have seen. How when three pastors met with me many years ago in the early 80’s, trying to stop me because some of those that were in my bible study were going to their church, some of which did not believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit at all and here now they are back at their church and said they had received the Holy Ghost. Well, they came to protect the members of the church. They came to me to stop me, of course, from teaching this error and one big thing they wanted to do was show me Acts 8 where there was proof that there was no speaking in tongues whatsoever. Because it doesn’t say it. And I said “But it does say it”. They said no it doesn’t. I said “But it does but its hidden and you don’t know its there. Let me prove it to you.” Now, next verse.

20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God (now notice that he says, receive the Holy Spirit in verse 19, the Holy Ghost, but verse 20 Peter calls receiving the Holy Ghost the gift of God which verifies Acts Chapter 2 where they said men and brethren what shall we do and Peter says repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission [there’s your water baptism] of sins and he shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is given unto you and your children and your children’s children. So he calls it the gift of God may be purchased with money. (Here it comes.)

21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me (in other words, once you receive that Holy Spirit you speak against somebody ouch they’re going to get their rear end kicked if there isn’t repentance involved. That’s the power you will now have).

25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Now, what is the secret? Look at verse 21 and I’m going to get the Greek text for you and show you what it says. I went and got the interlinear Greek that shows the Greek and the English underneath each Greek word and the Strongs numbering system under each Greek word and to the left will be the English translation but not in the King James Revised Standard Version. Now we go to verse 21 of Chapter 8 where we see the following:

21 Repent therefore from thy wickednessness of you and petition God perhaps will be forgiven you the thought of you of the heart of you. Now go to the verse where he talks about the Holy Spirit at verse 20 and he says:

But said to him the silver of you, (the money), with you to be in perdition because the gift of God you thought through money to get, but what does he say now in the Greek about the matter. The point here is this. Notice the verse starting here at 21. There is to you part nor lot in matter this, this matter. See the word matter; above it is a Greek word, λογω (logo). Translated is lema (the upsidedown y), omicron (the o) gamma (what looks like a y) and omega (what looks like a w) or logo. Why would it say logo? When you go to John in Chapter 1 we all recognize the magic word in the beginning was the word.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Acts and I go to John before Acts in Chapter 1. In the beginning was the word λογος (logos), lema (the upsidedown y), omicron (the o) gamma (what looks like a y), omega (what looks like an o), and sigma (what looks like an s). So in the beginning was the logos or low goas but this one is logo. What’s the different between logo and logos. Logo is 3056.

logos (log'-os); from NT:3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):

KJV - account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

The word of God. So we look up in the Greek Thayers as well as the Englishmen’s Greek for the word. Now the word here is 3056. I’m looking the in the Englishmen’s Greek Concordance here it says logos. In the beginning, saving for the cause of pronunciation for the cause the word let your communication be low gos here at the Zames. See the translation, Zames, word, word, only account, speaketh a word so the word is a spoken word. Now what is this word then in Acts, Chapter 8 at verse 21? There is no part or lot in this matter. What is it? 3056. So when you put the word of the Greek in the text instead of translated as logos in the Greek, its logo. It’s the same word.

1. a word which, uttered by the living voice, embodies a conception or idea; Heb 12:19

ε. an oracle or utterance by which God discloses, to the prophets or through the prophets, future events: Rev 1:2,9

4. in an objective sense, what is communicated by instruction, doctrine: universally, Acts 18:15

5. anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative: of a written narrative, a continuous account of things done, Acts 1:1

6. (λογω) (logo) a matter under discussion, a thing spoken of, an affair: Matt 21:24, Acts 8:21

1. reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating, Heb 4:12

III. the essential Word of God, i. e., the personal (hypostatic) wisdom and power in union with God, John 1:1,14

Genesis 9:15-17 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. (information on flood)

Acts 7, 45-49 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him a house.

48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven (Body of Christ) is my throne and earth is my foot stole: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things? Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so did ye.

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