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David Understood This
Before we get drawn into technicalities and the pursuit of skills, which we must do, let us get the heart attitude right first.
A Prayer of Repentance
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David When Nathan the Prophet Went to Him, After He Had Gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your lovingkindness;
According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
Blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight—
That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.
18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.
” (Psalm 51:title–19, NKJV)
Background
There are two points in the Bible and gospel around which everything hinges, the CROSS and the SPIRIT.
The Cross & the Spirit
20. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.21. “I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
Galatians 2:20-21
God’s Eternal purpose
The eternal purpose of God, the reason for the creation of the Earth, the creation of man and the incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is to make us (the elect) into living stones built into a house for God in the Spirit.
Living stones are created by crucifying us in Christ so that we are dead to the Adamic nature and resurrect us by the Spirit .
Free from Indwelling Sin
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ” (Romans 8:1–8, NKJV)
5. you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5
This House is the New Jerusalem
12. “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.13. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’
Revelation 3:12-13
The flesh and the Spirit
We find in the Bible “THE FLESH” and “THE SPIRIT” and these two are contrary to one another.
16. I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.17. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5:16-18
What does “IN THE SPIRIT” mean?
Let’s start by saying it is a mystery, a “spiritual” mystery.
Jesus
5. Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.6. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7. “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8. “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:5-8
Paul
9. But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.11. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.12. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.13. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.14. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.15. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.16. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9-16
God is Spirit
23. “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.24. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:23-24
God is Spirit. We need a profound revelation of the Spirit. We need to see the vision of this Spirit found in the Bible and abide in Christ and be diligent to enter that “rest” called “the Spirit”.
The Spirit of Jesus Christ
19 For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,” (Philippians 1:19, NKJV)
Christ became a life-giving spirit
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
” (1 Corinthians 15:43–49, NKJV)
God’s Holy Spirit becomes “one-spirit” with our spirit
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
” (1 Corinthians 6:16–17, NKJV)
Salvation is a sexual union between God’s Spirit and our own Spirit. This is a great mystery.
God forms the spirit of man within the man
1. …. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:
Zechariah 12:1
19. “Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,20. “that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
This is the outworking of God’s eternal purpose. This is what God intends to accomplish is IN THE SPIRIT. If we would have ongoing real spiritual experiences, we must have a clear understanding that the focus of God is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit.
Verses speaking about “IN THE SPIRIT”
Ezek 37:1 The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out IN THE SPIRIT of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
Matt 22:43 He said to them, “How then does David IN THE SPIRIT call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
Luke 1:1 7“He will also go before Him IN THE SPIRIT and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced IN THE SPIRIT and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.
John 11:33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned IN THE SPIRIT and was troubled.
Acts 19:21 When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed IN THE SPIRIT, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
Acts 20:22 “And see, now I go bound IN THE SPIRIT to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,
Rom 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, IN THE SPIRIT, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but IN THE SPIRIT, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
1 Cor 14:2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, IN THE SPIRIT he speaks mysteries.
Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun IN THE SPIRIT, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Gal 5:16 I say then: Walk IN THE SPIRIT, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:25 If we live IN THE SPIRIT, let us also walk IN THE SPIRIT.
Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God IN THE SPIRIT.
Eph 4:23 and be renewed IN THE SPIRIT of your mind,
Eph 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication IN THE SPIRIT, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
Phil 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God IN THE SPIRIT, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,
Col 1:8 who also declared to us your love IN THE SPIRIT.
1 Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified IN THE SPIRIT, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
1 Pet 4:6 For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God IN THE SPIRIT.
Rev 1:10 I was IN THE SPIRIT on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,
Rev 4:2 Immediately I was IN THE SPIRIT; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away IN THE SPIRIT into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away IN THE SPIRIT to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem,
