No flesh will glory in His sight: Part two

Welcome back dear reader,

In part one we began to teach about the life of faith in the Holy Spirit. Before you read this second part, please go back to part one on the previous blog and read part one so part two will be able to make sense to you!

The Holy Spirit is a person and much more. He is the life that flows from the vine (Jesus Christ) to the branches, (every believer in Christ). He is the life source of faith, because He communicates it’s very purpose and power in us to “will and do” the Father’s good pleasure. He brings the voice of God to us and in us. He quickens the very things of God to our Spirit enabling us to do all God desires by FAITH! To walk by Faith REQUIRES us to WALK IN THE SPIRIT! Listen to God’s word on this topic:

(Rom 8:1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after he flesh but after the Spirit.

(Rom 8:4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk no after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

(Gal 5:16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

(Gal 5:25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Why does the Lord require us to walk in the Holy Spirit or walk by faith? SO THAT NO FLESH CAN GLORY IN HIS SIGHT! So important is His Glory that in Genesis 11:1-8, when man kind had a plan to make a “ tower to reach into heaven, to make a name for themselves. The Lord came down to stop them by confounding their language. The reason is found in verse 6, “that nothing they imagined they would not be able to do.”

Ability is not man-kinds problem, taking God's glory is! Lucifer, the chief angel of worship tried to lift his heart above God and take His glory and launched a rebellion against God. It did not work for him, and it did not work at Babel when man lifted his heart above God either. It will not work now or forever!

God gave us His own creative ability to express ourselves by or we would never have the beautiful art, music, entertainment we have today, (godly kind of course). Mozart, Leonardo Devince, Thomas Kincade, and others have shown us the creative beauty God has put in us.
However; this beauty was never intended to be APART from God and His Glory! It was never given for us to glory as if we were the creator of things and not God. Our life comes from God, or breath, our strength, our gifting and talents are all on loan from God. When we are in right relationship with God through salvation, we will give GOD THE GLORY HE DESERVES.
We do this by acknowledging Him in all our ways. If we paint well, we glorify Him. If we sing will, we glorify Him. If we succeed in anything we NEVER take the credit or the GLORY, but we give it all to God who is the very source of that success.

This is the reason God has not chosen many noble, or wise in this world.But he has chosen the weak, feeble, lowly, and things which are not as though they are. The only reason to chose the weak and lowly, and feeble is that He alone should RECEIVE THE GLORY! He wants to be known for WHO HE IS! God is not arrogant and does not need a pat on the back. Those who walk by faith in Him alone want to Glorify Him as their CREATOR because it is RIGHTEOUS to do so!

Those who recognize their inabilities and weakness are far more likely to honor God and glorify Him for all that they our and all they have. THEY WILL GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY! That is why God chose a Gideon, Abraham, David, Peter, Steven and others to show His might power and strength. That which the world would despise God would use to show His love and power and what a “true life of faith” really is.

Steven was such a man as we readh Acts chapter 6. The Apostles were getting to busy trying to distribute food to the widows and orphans that they would have to neglect the Word of God and Prayer if a solution was not found. So it came to them to select 7 men to do the job of giving out food. So they chose seven, one being Steven who was a man “full of faith, and full of the Holy Spirit.”

Beloved, Steven was such a man filled with both. Why was he chosen? I believe he was chosen to show us why a “true life of faith” was needed to even distribute food. For in the distribution of food he was able to “hear the Holy Spirit’s voice” and work great signs and wonders in the midst of the people as a deacon! (Acts 6:8) “And Steven full of FAITH AND POWER, did great miracles and wonders amongst the people.”

His life was so full of faith and the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit Himself used him to preach to the religious leaders about the Holy Spirit Himself. “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY SPIRIT, as your Fathers did, so do you.”
Could this rebuke be spoken to our generation as well? Can we as Christians continue to try to live this Christian life in the flesh? The church tried this in Galatia and the Apostle Paul had to rebuke them by saying, “who has bewitched you and cast a spell over you. You started this life IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, why are you trying to reach perfection dependant upon the flesh.” (Gal. 3:3)

The choice for our generation is this, are we are going to live a life of “ the true faith of God" or not? Are we are going to learn how to“walk by faith and not by sight?” Will we be a people whose faith will please God? Will we learn how to walk in the Holy Spirit and live in Him as the scripture tells us we must? Or are we going to continue to be like the church in Galatia? Remember Beloved, the mind of the flesh which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death. (Rom. 8:6)

I encourage each reader to re-read this series. Let the Holy Spirit quicken in you the divine ingredients necessary to live a life of "the true faith of God" and walk in it. It is going to be an absolute necessity to walk in the “God-Kind of faith” to make it in the days that are to come. In this time of terrorism, murders, natural disasters, wars and rumors of war, we will not be able to survive with out the “living faith of God.” We will not be able to survive without a life lived in the Holy Spirit and His life being lived in us.

We must come to the Lord now while we still have time to develop this intimate relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit has been given to us so we can live every moment of our life led by Him as our constant GUIDE. He will show us what to do, where to go, what to speak, and even show us the things to come. (Mathew chapter 10, John chapters 14 and 16)

We must press on to know the Lord as He wants to be known, so we can do His will and know His ways. The Holy Spirit is living in us to show us the way we are to walk, so we will be ready and not overtaken. His mission in these last days is to prepare a people ready for the coming of the Lord, and that day not overtake us like a thief in the night. (1st Thes:5:2) Today beloved, if you hear His voice, harden not your heart! “When the son of man returns will he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).