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The Holy Spirit Within, and The Holy Spirit Upon.

Posted on 12/12/2025 | Leave a comment

Understanding the purpose and ministry of the Holy Spirit is essential for us to walk in the fullness of Christ. It is an indictment against the Church that there is so much ignorance, confusion, and misinformation about the Holy Spirit.

We are going to start with the very basic understanding of the present-day ministry of the Holy Spirit and what we all should expect to experience as believers in Christ.

It is only by the Holy Spirit that we can experience the fullness of Christ.

If we limit or somehow quench the Holy Spirit through ignorance, wrong thinking, wrong believing, and wrong practices, we will never grow up into Him in all things (Eph 4:15). We will not give God the glory He deserves. We will not complete our mission and fulfill our purpose. We will limit the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit through our lives, and we will not bear the fruit we could have, had known and embraced the truth about the Holy Spirit.

There are two Primary ways Believers are to experience the Holy Spirit

We see overwhelming evidence in the New Testament that believers in Christ are to experience the Holy Spirit in two ways. We must understand both experiences to fully grasp the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the life of Jesus.

Unfortunately, the Church is overrun with confusion about the Holy Spirit. So much so that we have become divided, weak, and powerless as a people. It is no surprise, because the devil knows that he is powerless against the work of the Holy Spirit, and powerless against us when we understand what has been made available to us.

This teaching should bring some clarity and understanding about the present-day ministry of the Holy Spirit and empower us to walk in the authority to control, limit, and destroy the works of Satan in our entire circle of influence.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN: The first way we experience the Holy Spirit

The first experience we have in our relationship with the Holy Spirit is our new birth. We receive the Holy Spirit within us as the incorruptible seed that reconnects us to God, removing the separation caused by sin. This experience transforms us spiritually into a new creature that has never existed before that moment.

This experience gives us access to a personal and intimate relationship with God. This is what the Bible calls being born again or born of the Spirit.

John 3:5-7 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.’

This experience translates us from the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light.

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 

Being born again of incorruptible seed is what makes us a new creature. It is this experience that gives us eternal Life. The life of the Spirit of Christ inside us is evidence of our adoption into God’s family and a down payment on the promise of eternal inheritance.

Ephesians 1:13-14 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

I think most Christians have a good basic understanding of what being born again means and most agree upon the Holy Spirit’s work at salvation. The purpose of the Holy Spirit within us is to gain us access to the Father, citizenship in Heaven, it opens our understanding to the truth of the scriptures and is the seed of the kingdom of God that is necessary for spiritual growth and sanctification.

THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON: The second experience of the Holy Spirit

The second way we are to experience the Holy Spirit is by being filled with or being baptized with the Holy Spirit. This experience is to equip and empower us for ministry to others. This experience is the Holy Spirit upon us, not within us. This activity of the Holy Spirit is what the Bible refers to as the anointing. The Holy Spirit upon (anointing) is supernatural empowerment to minister to others, exercise Kingdom authority and fulfill God’s purposes on the Earth.

The anointing is God’s chosen method of moving through us with power and demonstration.

The Holy Spirit within us restores relationship and reconnects us with the Father in a way that allows us to have intimacy with Him. The Holy Spirit upon us equips us to minister to others supernaturally on the Father’s behalf.

In the Old Testament, the anointing was the only way people experienced the Holy Spirit. They were spiritually dead, without the life of God’s Spirit inside them. We see many stories of people being empowered by the Holy Spirit to do amazing and miraculous things. But when that task was fulfilled, the Holy Spirit would depart, and they would be left just as spiritually dead and empty as they were before the Holy Spirit came upon them.

We now have that same Holy Spirit living and abiding inside us. When we experience the Holy Spirit upon us to minister and the anointing eventually leaves, we don’t feel empty and dead, but encouraged and more alive!  

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is an experience that follows our initial salvation. We see this modeled in the apostles’ lives, in the upper room, in many instances throughout the New Testament, and even in the life of Jesus.

It is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that prepares us for ministry, giving us the supernatural power and abilities to be a witness for Christ to the world. 

The Apostle Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus. He had a supernatural encounter with Jesus that blinded him and caused Him to become a believer. He was born again at that moment. For three days, he was without sight until Ananias laid hands on him to restore his sight and be filled with or baptized in the Holy Spirit.

After Jesus was resurrected, He appeared to some of His disciples. He walked through the wall

John 20:21-23 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

When do we receive the Holy Spirit? When we are born again. The disciples in that room were all believers, but the Holy Spirit had not yet been given. When Jesus walked through the wall as the resurrected Lord, He breathed on them just like the Father breathed the breath of life into Adam in the beginning. The Holy Spirit was now available again to all mankind.

Later, we see Jesus giving them instructions to tarry in Jerusalem to receive the promise from the Father, which is the filling, or baptism of the Holy Spirit. So, we see clearly that there are two experiences with the Holy Spirit that are available to us, and they both are necessary to fulfill God’s purposes in our lives.

Even Jesus needed to have the Holy Spirit upon Him before He started His earthly ministry. The Spirit of Christ is the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 4:6-7 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Why would Jesus need to be filled with the Spirit?

Jesus could not complete His Earthly ministry without the Spirit upon Him. The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus and remained when He was baptized in the Jordan River. The Holy Spirit never lifted and never waned. Jesus was immediately tested and tempted in the wilderness and then preached and ministered supernaturally the rest of His life. This is our model. If it’s good for Jesus its good for us.

The Holy Spirit within is a mystery like a man and woman being married and becoming one flesh. Marriage creates a unique, permanent kinship where two individuals become a single, integrated entity, mirroring God’s design for complete unity and reflecting His covenant love

The Holy Spirit upon us empowers believers and sets them apart for ministry. 

The Holy Spirit upon is the anointing that equips individuals to do God’s work, which often involves proclaiming good news, healing the sick, delivering the oppressed, and breaking spiritual strongholds or “yokes” of bondage and limitation. Jesus’ own ministry was defined by this purpose, as He declared: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor… to set the oppressed free”.

Ephesians 4:18-21 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.

If we can be filled with the Spirit, we can also be emptied. It is important to be continually filled with the Spirit. This passage tells us that it is God’s will for all believers to be constantly filled with the Holy Spirit. The phrase “Be filled with the Spirit” in verse 18 uses the continuous verb, which is always present tense. Our Christian lives should be filled with activity that fills us with the Spirit.

Regardless of whether we believe that we receive all of the Holy Spirit at the new birth or that there is a subsequent event of being baptized in the Holy Spirit after we are born again. We can’t deny the scriptures that instruct us on being filled with the Spirit.

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Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Am I guilty?

Posted on 02/02/2025 | Comments Off on Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Am I guilty?

The New Testament is clear that there is an inseparable bond between faith and works. Faith lays the foundation of our spiritual journey. We manifest our true beliefs through our works of faith. We are justified before God by these actions. It is not enough to say we believe. We must prove it with corresponding works.

James 2:14-24 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

A dead faith will not get you to Heaven.

Works that must accompany our faith are acts of obedience, words and acts of grace, words and acts of mercy, compassion, and the love of God.

When we receive salvation, we receive the Holy Spirit inside us. We become God’s house swept clean of all evil, and our lives should become an ever-growing expression of God’s love.

Matthew 12:43-45 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

The Holy Spirit immediately begins to work in our hearts changing how we think, speak, and behave. He changes our desires and gives us a hunger and thirst for God that causes us to desire Him and His ways.

However, when we refuse to change, desiring our old life, denying God’s right to be master over His own house, our justification is incomplete. God’s new house is a house divided. The kingdom of God within you is divided. Instead of Jesus being king, our selfishness is king. If we continue, our salvation is eventually forfeited. Claiming salvation without works of repentance results in spiritual death.

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

Luke 16:6-9 He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ 8 But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9 And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.”

In this parable, we are the fig tree. Jesus is the vineyard’s keeper. The man seeking fruit is the Father. We see from this parable that the Lord Jesus advocates on our behalf with the Father. He asks Him for more time to help us change and repent. This allows us to bear the fruit of the Kingdom of God in our lives.

John 15:5-6 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

If we hold on to our old life, we will lose it. If our words and actions remain carnal and selfish, there will be no evidence of the Holy Spirit’s work in our life. When we meet the Lord, He will be forced to say, “I never knew you.”

Matthew 16:24-25Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Our journey of faith is not merely about receiving salvation. It is about cultivating a life that reflects the transformative power of the Holy Spirit. Our hearts and lives must be in alignment with God’s will, producing the fruits of righteousness that He desires. As we abide in Christ, allowing Him to shape and guide us, we ensure that our faith is not in vain. By denying ourselves and following Jesus, we embrace the fullness of life He promises, avoiding spiritual rebellion and eternal separation from Him

If we confess Jesus as our Lord but never demonstrate that love, there no longer remains anything God can do. There is no salvation without acts of repentance.  God gave us the ability to say NO to HIM! He will never violate that right.

Repentance is the act of faith that demonstrates our belief in Jesus Christ. However, if we refuse to change and turn from our old lifestyle, sinning willfully, we insult (Blaspheme) the Holy Spirit. We commit the unpardonable sin.

Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The Unpardonable Sin

We cannot accept Jesus as our Savior and not honor Him as Lord and King. If we remain Lord of our lives after our initial confession of faith, the Kingdom of God in our hearts is divided, and IT WILL NOT STAND.

Matthew 12:25b-26 “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Matthew 12:30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

It is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit within us to say, “I am a Christian” and have no expression of Christ in our lives. This is a dead faith and a reproach on Christ.

Matthew 12:31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Only a professing Christian can commit the unpardonable sin.

Our faith requires more than a mere verbal confession; it demands a life surrendered to Christ, reflecting His love and lordship. By abiding in Him, denying ourselves, and bearing the fruits of the Spirit, we honor God and are justified in His sight.

Our actions must eventually align with our professed faith or we commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This is a dead faith, without works, and without justification.

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God said: “Help ME Answer Your Prayers

Posted on 12/21/2023 | Comments Off on God said: “Help ME Answer Your Prayers

The other day, while wasting precious time surfing and scrolling through ridiculous videos on YouTube, the Lord spoke to me. He said:

“Help me answer your prayers.”

I knew it was the Lord. I felt like He was urging me to write it down, so I did. As I started to write, I believe he expanded on what He said, and these words came to me as quick as I could write them down.

“If you cooperate with the My Spirit, I can answer your questions and your prayers more quickly. Demonstrating faith in Me is cooperation with the Holy Spirit.

 When you ask me for something, you are asking for my assistance. I can only apply my assistance when I can add it to your faith. You must demonstrate your faith in Me if I am to answer your questions and answer your prayers.

One of the greatest demonstrations of your faith in Me is abiding in My word. The greatest demonstration of faith is obeying it.

If you abide in my word you abide in Me and I and you. This is what keeps your motives pure, your heart clean, and your mind renewed. This creates the soil that a living faith can grow in and flourish.

Help Me answer your questions and prayers.”

God was telling me to guard my heart. Not pollute it with mindless and ungodly things and He could more easily assist me on this journey through life.

What we look at matters. What we allow ourselves to be exposed to matters.

John 15:7-8 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Proverbs 4:20-27 My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;
22 For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life.
24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
And your eyelids look right before you.
26 Ponder the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be established.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
Remove your foot from evil.

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Old Testament Law – Made to be Broken?

Posted on 11/26/2017 | Comments Off on Old Testament Law – Made to be Broken?

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          Understanding the purpose of Old Testament Law is the beginning of understanding your imputed righteousness in Christ.
I’m going to make a statement that may be foreign to most Christians.

“God never gave man the Law to keep, He gave man the Law to break.”

          Does that sound contradictory or confusing? It shouldn’t. No man in history was able to keep the Law, except Jesus Christ. Never has any man succeeded in making himself acceptable to God by keeping the Law. Didn’t God know this? Of course He did. So why did God give us a Law that we are unable to keep? So that we would come face to face with the fact that we are incapable of doing anything right or just apart from His grace.Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.
          The Law exposes our true nature apart from God. It teaches us that we need something far greater than our own strength and will to please God. The Law helps us to see our inadequacies so that we can be honest with ourselves and say: “I am a sinner through and through, and of myself I can do nothing to please a holy God.”
          The Law was not given with the expectation of us keeping it. It was given in the full knowledge that we would break it; and when we have broken it so completely as to be convinced of our absolute need for a Savior, then the Law has served its purpose. It has fulfilled the role of a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, so the He may Himself fulfill it.
Galatians 3:24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
          We are all sinners by nature because of Adam’s transgression. The Law makes that sinful nature manifest. When a holy Law is applied to a sinful man, then that sinfulness comes out in full display making the fallen nature of that man manifest.
          God knows who we are. the trouble is, WE don’t know who we are. The Law brings us to a place where we see who we are apart from Him and shows us our utter helplessness under the Law, and our need to be saved from it. If not for the Law we would never see how weak we are apart from Christ. We would continue in the futile pursuit of trying to please God with our own righteousness.
The Law was given to make us lawbreakers, to expose our sin, not to the world, but to ourselves.
Romans 7:7-9 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
          We need to have our weaknesses proved to ourselves beyond a shadow of doubt. It is at that point we are able to understand our need for deliverance from the Law. We must be delivered from the Law to receive the free gift of the righteousness of God.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

“The Law shows us our need to be free from it. Free from our own works of righteousness so that we can see our need to embrace the grace of God and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.”

Law vs. Grace

          In a nutshell, Law means that I do something for God. Grace means that God does something for me. If Law means that God requires something from me for it’s fulfillment, then grace means that He no longer requires it from me, but He provides it for me Himself.
          Where we fall into trouble is our tendency to live by Law. We are far more comfortable with a “quid pro quo,” mentality. Do this to receive that, receive something for doing something. This is rational and easy to wrap our head around, but it is not faith. Faith doesn’t come natural because with faith, we don’t have the ability to understand everything. We feel the need to do something to earn what we have been given.
Galatians 3:19-25 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
          Once faith in Christ has come, we no longer have need of the Law. We then must transition from operating under the Law of sin and death, to the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
          Old habits can be hard to break. We are born and raised under the Law of sin and death. Faith in Christ, in His imputed righteousness, in our change of status from slaves of sin to adopted children of God takes a concentrated effort. Learning to live by the new Law of the Spirit is a process. We are born into this new life as infants, and for us to mature properly and thrive under this new Law we must reckon ourselves dead to sin, and alive to God by what Jesus did on the cross.

Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
          So why do we continue to try and live by the Law? Because we don’t understand that the Law was never intended for us to keep. It was intended to show us how futile our efforts are to keep it, and to expose our fallen nature to such a degree that our only option is to believe in our Savior.
JC

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