8.87 The power of the Spirit replaces performance by the flesh in the New Covenant
In the Old Covenant, they had to do their best with all their might and power. In the New Covenant, everything that the believer does has to be empowered by His Spirit. Zech 4:6 says, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.” This is called the anointing.
In the New Covenant, the important event is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The baptism of the Holy Spirit changed everything for the believer.
(Acts 1:8)
“But you shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come UPON you; and you shall be WITNESSES to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Jesus is our Baptizer in the Holy Spirit because the Christian life under the New Covenant is not meant to function without the empowerment of His Spirit. “Performance by the flesh” is antithesis to the “empowerment of the Spirit”. Today, we need to be baptized and continuously filled with His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has also given His gifts to empower the saints for the work of ministry. The fastest growing Churches in the world today are those that depend on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Christians who value the anointing but who are not established on the foundation of grace may even strive in the flesh to earn the anointing. They may think that God gives them the anointing based on their self-performance. This is an irony because the Spirit and the flesh are antithesis.
The anointing comes when a person responds to the grace and love of Jesus by faith. They grow in the anointing when they grow in grace, love and faith. A person who walks by faith in the anointing will produce a lot of works of faith. Works of faith is the outcome of the anointing, not the reason for it. We cannot earn the anointing.
Today, the law of the Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). He is the Life of Christ living in us and through us. Christianity is about walking in the Spirit and bearing fruit of the Spirit instead of walking the law.
(Gal 5:16, 25)
I say then: WALK in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also WALK in the Spirit.
It is about depending on His anointing instead of laboring by the flesh. The more grow to depend on, and yield to the Holy Spirit, the more we manifest His Life within us.
In the New Covenant, the important event is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The baptism of the Holy Spirit changed everything for the believer.
(Acts 1:8)
“But you shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come UPON you; and you shall be WITNESSES to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Jesus is our Baptizer in the Holy Spirit because the Christian life under the New Covenant is not meant to function without the empowerment of His Spirit. “Performance by the flesh” is antithesis to the “empowerment of the Spirit”. Today, we need to be baptized and continuously filled with His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has also given His gifts to empower the saints for the work of ministry. The fastest growing Churches in the world today are those that depend on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Christians who value the anointing but who are not established on the foundation of grace may even strive in the flesh to earn the anointing. They may think that God gives them the anointing based on their self-performance. This is an irony because the Spirit and the flesh are antithesis.
The anointing comes when a person responds to the grace and love of Jesus by faith. They grow in the anointing when they grow in grace, love and faith. A person who walks by faith in the anointing will produce a lot of works of faith. Works of faith is the outcome of the anointing, not the reason for it. We cannot earn the anointing.
Today, the law of the Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). He is the Life of Christ living in us and through us. Christianity is about walking in the Spirit and bearing fruit of the Spirit instead of walking the law.
(Gal 5:16, 25)
I say then: WALK in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also WALK in the Spirit.
It is about depending on His anointing instead of laboring by the flesh. The more grow to depend on, and yield to the Holy Spirit, the more we manifest His Life within us.
posted by Joshua Lye @ 10:38 PM
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