ARE YOU MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE CREATION, INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR?

ARE YOU MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE CREATION, INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR?

ROMANS 1:25 

WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN

People get excited over things that God does and not God. 

For instance, The Day Of Pentecost, the tongues instead of The Holy Spirit Himself. The Holy Spirit came and made men understand in their own tongue the Words Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. Jesus said that The Holy Spirit speaks what He Hears. The Holy Spirit was cloven tongues. (Cloven means split or divided in two). Peter was speaking in Hebrew and other nationalities heard in their natural tongue or language, yet tongues is what everyone is excited about. The Holy Spirit came into men to live inside of men, so that men could teach Jesus for the first time to every nation, yet the method of cloven tongues, the manner that GOD used, is most important to some. That's all they preach about when they preach The Book Acts, Chapter 2. 

What about the feeding of five thousand or more, yes that is also a true miracle of GOD,  but look at The Miracle Maker, not the result of it.

What about stilling the troubled waters, He Made The Water, He Made The Wind. He can control them because He Created them.

Translation, is also something He does, a boat, other people, or Himself to other places, He Created time, earth, space, air, motion, gravity, everything. 

What about healing the sick, raising the dead, of course, He can Heal, Raise The Dead, He Created All The People, He Created All Life. Those that can do these, HAVE RECEIVED THE POWER TO DO SO, BY GOD, IT IS NOT OF YOU.

Look at THE GOD, not the result. We have to understand that THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE THE FULLNESS OF GOD! WHEN JESUS CAME HE TAUGHT US ABOUT THE FATHER, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES HE TEACHES US ABOUT JESUS. WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT ALL THREE, WE KNOW THE FULLNESS OF GOD. WHEN JESUS CAME IF HE ONLY TAUGHT  ABOUT HIMSELF, WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE FATHER. IF THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME AND TALKED ONLY OF HIMSELF THEN WE WOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT JESUS. IT IS ALL IN ORDER SO THAT WE CAN KNOW THE FULLNESS OF GOD, NOT IN JUST PART. 

SAME WITH THE GIFTS OF GOD, PEOPLE FOCUS ON THE GIFTS AND NOT THE GIFT GIVER! IT IS ALL ABOUT GOD! IT IS ALL ABOUT GLORIFYING HIM AND MAKING US CLOSER TO HIM. IT IS NOT ABOUT MAKING OURSELVES SHINE OR BECOMING FULL OF PRIDE. GIFTS ARE JUST THAT, GIFTS. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS DIFFERENT, WE GROW THE FRUIT INSIDE OF US BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS DOING HIS WORK IN US. THE FRUIT IS THE CHANGE THAT GOD MAKES INSIDE OF US, ETERNALLY. 

GIFTS ARE TO HELP OTHERS GROW IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FULLNESS OF GOD! GIFTS ARE TO EDIFY THE CHURCH. IT IS NOT SO OTHERS WILL THINK THAT -WE- ARE SPIRITUAL, BUT, IT IS TO SHOW THE POWER OF GOD! IT IS ALL ABOUT HIM, NOT YOU. ANYTIME YOU SAY "I" YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF, WE ARE TO TEACH AND PREACH GOD FOR ALL TO BE EDIFIED!!!

JOHN 16:13-14 

HOWBEIT WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, IS COME, HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH: FOR HE SHALL NOT SPEAK OF HIMSELF; BUT WHATSOEVER HE SHALL HEAR, THAT SHALL HE SPEAK: AND HE WILL SHEW YOU THINGS TO COME. HE SHALL GLORIFY ME: FOR HE SHALL RECEIVE OF MINE, AND SHALL SHEW IT UNTO YOU.

GALATIANS 5:22-25 

BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH, THERE IS NO LAW. AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

EPHESIANS 5:9-10 

(FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS IN ALL GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH;) PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-7

NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT. AND THERE ARE DIFFERENCES OF ADMINISTRATIONS, BUT THE SAME LORD. AND THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF OPERATIONS, BUT IT IS THE SAME GOD WHICH WORKETH ALL IN ALL. BUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT IS GIVEN TO EVERY MAN TO PROFIT WITHAL.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:12 

EVEN SO, YE, FORASMUCH AS YE ARE ZEALOUS OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS, SEEK THAT YE MAY EXCEL TO THE EDIFYING OF THE CHURCH.

ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE ZEALOUS OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS,

YOU EXCEL BY THE POWER OF GOD, FOR HIS GLORY AND

YOU EXCEL TO THE EDIFYING OF THE CHURCH, NOT YOURSELF!

DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT TO EDIFY 

1 CORINTHIANS 14:1-3 

FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY, AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT RATHER THAT YE MAY PROPHESY. FOR HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKETH NOT UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD: FOR NO MAN UNDERSTANDETH HIM; HOWBEIT IN THE SPIRIT HE SPEAKETH MYSTERIES. BUT HE THAT PROPHESIETH SPEAKETH UNTO MEN TO EDIFICATION, AND EXHORTATION, AND COMFORT.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:19-20 

YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. BRETHREN, BE NOT CHILDREN IN UNDERSTANDING: HOWBEIT IN MALICE BE YE CHILDREN, BUT IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN.

Donna K Purifoy

7/3/2022