The doctrinal reasons that cause these devoted things to take a place among the congregation is put on the back shelf. One is a devotion to a system of mans philosophy. People love to have practical explanations for relationships. They make these rules equal with the scripture and that kills the devotion. Devotion to scripture is a work of the Holy Spirit as the scripture is ingested into the heart. After awhile grace becomes bigger than life bu the Spirit causing the desires to grow. A supernatural unity is developed from single mindedness to the scripture. The Spirit and the scripture work to change a persons heart for better fellowship and a deeper holiness. The behavior change comes as a result of an inflamed heart spurred on by grace in the working of the Spirit with the word inflame the heart. Any thing that is introduced as relational equivalent to the scriptural motif kills the unity of the church by creating pharisee-ism.
Another thing that kills devotion is quenching the Spirit. The church is not necessarily an institution that offers teaching, but it is an organism. Gifted people are educated by the Spirit to use their gifts in the service of one another. Quenching the Spirit is placing service as the central goal, and ignoring the organism motif. The Holy Spirit regenerates each person of whom He adds to the church for a specific purpose. The Holy Spirit works in each individual heart to bring about the unity that was originally purposed for that individual in regeneration. The Holy Spirit lust for control, by cause us to praise our Father, in corporate prayer and to go directly to the Father individually so that praying without ceasing is keeping us holy. We will not be guilty of quenching the Spirit. The Holy Spirit causes a believer to long for the word of God, desiring to experience revival, causing a person to devote himself to spiritual things, illuminating us to apply these truths as He works in the unity of the fellowship so that a we can discern spiritual forces of evil and pray accordingly.
When we react to the charismatic movement we quench the Spirit. Our struggle in the church is with spiritual forces in the heavenlies. We must bring these Satanic attacks are under control in order to bring a unity that mirrors a Christo centric focus in the revived desire. The difference in a charismatic focus and the working of the Spirit is a doctrinal focus rather than worship style. All spiritual battles are won when sin is dethroned and deliverance occurs.
Spiritual
battles begin by deception of the mind first and
they effect the emotional well-being of the church. First armininism
mans mystical experience by misunderstanding the work of the filling of the Spirit. It grows into complete confusion in the of the unity of the
church. When human faith becomes the
focus, a competitive spirit is more attractive than the work the Holy Spirit. This Satanic attack violently creates disunity.
When we focus on the absolute sovereignty of
God through the Spirit in the work of regeneration, then we are letting
God be God in exercising His sovereign will. Once we see that God does
as He pleases we will trust that our regeneration
is the work that will not quench the Spirit. We will learn to rest in Christ , embracing
justification by faith and our inability to control how much the Holy
Spirits works in us. We will grow in our spiritual understanding of the nature of His
filling. We will not be deceived, we will know how to war against the
wiles of the devil. We will grow in distrusting our own abilities .
When
we accept Calvinism we glory in our weakness because
we experience the Spirit witnessing with our Spirit. We will experience revival by rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
In understanding of the Spirits work in us and a submitting to His will we acknowledge God to be God. We eat of the riches of all of the good things of the doctrines of grace. We will be filled up with devotion that is warmed by the Spirit filling. We will learn to recognize Satanic schemes and false forms of worship. We will begin to battle in the Spiritual realm. There is no turning back. The amount of over flowing joy causes us to lust for more of the Spirit and the fellowship in the word.
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