"In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." (Psalms 72:7) Not that I have gone anywhere, but isn't hard to know for yourself if you have? Really, you're like the last to realize that you have lost it; everyone around figures it out way before you, because you are living in your own little world. By the way, even Jesus' brothers and sisters thought that He was nuts, that is until He rose from the dead; talk about mistaken identity, they sure missed that call. Speaking of "call," His visit here was very brief, but it's impact upon the earth was everlasting! Thirty-three and half years was all that He had, and only three and a half were spent in ministry; the first thirty years were spent making furniture. I heard something rather interesting the other day, it was a discussion about the 'Ark of the Covenant' and whether or not God took it to heaven; as strange as that might sound, I think it may have some validity. After all, it was not just a box that God had men fashion according to His specifications, it represented His presence! Oh, by the way, Dr. Chuck was talking about something else rather interesting yesterday; something about the Holy Spirit being represented by "unnamed servants" and how that any where in the Old Testament that the Holy Spirit is represented as leading the way to Christ, He is in the form of an unnamed servant. It all has something to do with John 16, and how the Holy Spirit will never represent Himself, but He shall speak of Jesus Christ. Wow, now that is rather interesting; how do you explain those services where the Spirit is blamed for causing people to roll around in the isles, or lay on the ground and laugh hysterically? I am thinking it might be a cause for some discretion when it comes to representing the Holy Spirit, because the way I read the words of Jesus, He says that the Holy Spirit will not draw attention to Himself. It's like the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" in Acts 2:3-4, which caused all the believers to begin to speak in "other tongues" for all the non-believers present to hear. The interesting thing about that occurrence, was that they did not speak in an unknown tongues, but in "other tongues" which were meant for all of those that had gathered there from all over the earth for Pentecost. Not only that, but if you read further into the text, all those different languages being spoken were all saying the same thing, they were speaking about "the wonderful works of God" (Acts 2:11). Now I wonder who they were all speaking about...
"But now I am going away to the One who sent Me, and not one of you is asking where I am going. Instead, you grieve because of what I've told you. But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don't, the Advocate won't come. If I do go away, then I will send Him to you. And when He comes, He will convict the world of its sin, and of God's righteousness, and of the coming judgment. The world's sin is that it refuses to believe in Me. Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see Me no more. Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged. There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can't bear it now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring Me glory by telling you whatever He receives of Me. All that belongs to the Father is Mine; this is why I said, 'The Spirit will tell you whatever He receives from Me.'" (John 16:5-15) NLT
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