{"id":1923,"date":"2010-05-27T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2010-05-27T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:42:04","slug":"the-life-to-know-him-5-27-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"The Life To Know Him 5-27-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Life To Know Him<\/h2>\n
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May 27 0\u00a02010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
. . . tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high \u2014Luke 24:49<\/a><\/div>\n
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The disciples had to tarry, staying in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost, not only for their own preparation but because they had to wait until the Lord was actually glorified. And as soon as He was glorified, what happened? \u201cTherefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear\u201d (\u00a0Acts 2:33<\/a>\u00a0). The statement in\u00a0John 7:39<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 \u201c. . . for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified\u201d\u2014 does not pertain to us. The Holy Spirit has been<\/em> given; the Lord is<\/em> glorified\u2014 our waiting is not dependent on the providence of God, but on our own spiritual fitness.<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit\u2019s influence and power were at work before Pentecost, but He<\/em> was not here. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the world, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that He is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.<\/p>\n

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. We all too often separate things that the New Testament never separates. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ\u2014 it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.<\/p>\n

The baptism of the Holy Spirit does not make you think of time or eternity\u2014 it is one amazing glorious now<\/em>. \u201cThis is eternal life, that they may know You . . .\u201d (\u00a0John 17:3<\/a>\u00a0). Begin to know Him now, and never finish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Life To Know Him May 27 0\u00a02010 . . . tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high \u2014Luke 24:49 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_o7Www0O8M&feature=related \u00a0 \u00a0 The disciples had to tarry, staying in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost, not only for their own preparation but because they had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}