Apostolic Teachings about the Holy Spirit (Lesson 2)

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Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 

[Hebrews 3]

Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest whom we confess or acknowledge, and the Word says we must "fix our thoughts" on him. This means, among other things, fixing our thoughts on his teachings. Thus, our need to devote ourselves to his apostolic teachings. Do you know what his apostolic teachings are? If the Acts church devoted itself to it, it must be important.

They devoted (or surrendered) themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. [Acts 2.42]
Among Jesus' apostolic teachings is how to be genuinely and supernaturally led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus devoted several chapters on the person and work of the Holy Spirit, so he (the Holy Spirit) must be an important part of the Trinity, even our spiritual life and ministry, especially the supernatural nature that ministries should have. 

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Led by the Spirit

Being led is being fully devoted or surrendered to God so that the Holy Spirit takes you wherever he wants you to be and do whatever he wants you to do. All saints or servants in the bible who were led by the Holy Spirit were fully surrendered. No one was wishy-washy, carnal or half-hearted. No one did anything aside from what the Spirit of God told them to do. They did not meet together to plan for programs or strategies or activities and asked God to bless them. They sought God's plan (God already had a plan) as they asked the Holy Spirit to lead them. 



The Word and the Spirit

In John, among the first things Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit is the Spirit's close working relationship with the Word. The Holy Spirit acts on the Word and the Word is activated by the Spirit. You can never separate them. To be Spirit-Led, you need to be Word-led. You need to soak deep in the spoken Word of God as he speaks it to you in real time. 
John 14: 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth.

  1. It involves the Trinity. Jesus asks, the Father gives, the Holy Spirit is given to help. Having this process, we see how important the Holy Spirit is in ministry. Listening to sermons or bible study leaders is important, but over and above this, you need to have a constant and abiding supernatural experience of learning straight from the Holy Spirit, through the voice of God.

  2. Love for Jesus means only one thing--keeping his Word. This alone puts into effect the sending of the Holy Spirit to a believer. You cannot be Spirit-led if you're not devoted to the Word. Grand worship services and touching sermons are good, but if you want to love God in a way acceptable to him, you have to soak deeply in the Word led by the Holy Spirit. There's no other way. It's all supernatural. Bible schools and seminaries are trash compared to this.

  3. The Holy Spirit is "another" advocate. The Greek word translated "advocate" is parakleton from paraketos. Parakelton: Helper, intercessor, consoler, pleader, comforter, counselor. As Jesus had these roles when he was around physically, so would the Holy Spirit (another advocate) when he was sent. By parakleton, we understand that any church ministry, no matter how "successful" it seems, is useless without him and his supernatural works.

    26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. [Romans 8]

    God, who searches hearts, sees the mind of the Spirit in us, not our own minds, if we're led by the Holy Spirit. Everything in our lives, even those unalligned with God's will, is put in their proper places in the spirit realms when the Holy Spirit intercedes for us according to God's will. Then everything works together for good, according to God's plan.

    The Holy Spirit rearranges everything so that all things eventually makes sense in the heavenly realms if we're genuiney surrendered to him and led by him alone. Just imagine if we're not Spirit-led and in our shallowness and fallibility we do a lot of wrong things in ministry, which we're apt to do no matter how spiritual we look and sound (no matter our supposed ministry expertise and titles and degrees).

    Greek word translated "another" is allon, which means not the same person as Jesus. Thus, Jesus is not the Holy Spirit. They are separate persons in one Godhead.

  4. Forever presence. He will be with you forever, from the time he is sent to you and to eternity. The Holy Spirit has been with God's servants since Old Testament times, but in Christ he is sent to indwell us forever. This also means God intends the Holy Spirit to lead us in everything forever. There shouldn't be any self-effort or initiative to do a ministry we think we should do based on how we understand things, and this is from now to eternity. True ministry is to wait for God's instructions and to do everything in his supernatural ways alone. This is a "forever" thing. 

  5. The Spirit of Truth. Being Spirit-led is only true if you are in the Truth, which is the Word of God. Your denominational doctrines or human theology is not Truth. Only what is given supernaturally by the Holy Spirit from God's spoken Word in Scriptures is TRUTH. The Holy spirit holds no other weapon in hand except his sword, which is the Word of God. Even the "helmet of salvation" is based solely on the Word revealed by the Holy Spirit, not any teachings of men. 
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. [Ephesians 6.17]

Clearly from this passage, when you take the Word, it's always wielded by the Spirit. The two cannot be separated. You cannot take the Word and then understand it through the doctrines and theologies of men. The Sword belongs to the Spirit and he alone has the expertise to hold and wield it. You want to know how to use the Sword in battle and gain skills and experise on it? Only the Holy Spirit can teach and train you, not church intellectuals or their institutions. 

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No Word, No Spirit Revelation

Revelation is so important that no less than the Holy Spirit handles its ministry. True, correct and accurate understanding can come only from the Holy Spirit and his supernatural revelations (revelatory educational system of the Kingdom). Nowhere in Scriptures did God relegate the pure understanding of his Word to human religious institutions. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things [John 14.26]. He is enough. 

We may listen to pastors and teachers who rely solely on the supernatural revelations of the Holy Spirit (not on human theology, wisdom and logic), but they should not take the place of the one spiritual Teacher Jesus sent in his name. Every believer must enjoy direct revelations from God (and prioritize it) for understanding the Word and to get knowledge and wisdom. The problem is, worldly theology and denominational doctrines have made church people alien to the moves and acts of the Holy Spirit today.
The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. [17]

The world and anything of the world will only blind those who are accustomed to it. There is even a point where the world will render even believers totally blind and unable to recognize the genuine work of Jesus through his Holy Spirit.

19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed are those who heed wisdom's instruction. [Proverbs 29.18]
Apostolic Teachings of Jesus

The apostolic teachings of Jesus are all geared towards training us to see in the spirit realms through the supernatural power and ways of the Holy Spirit in us. The world (and the worldly church) will always counter this and insist on man's intellect, logic and their invented theologies and doctrines. They sound more like Greek philosophers than God's prophets and apostles in the bible. But the church needs to go back to the apostolic teachings of Jesus and devote itself to it. 

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