SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING

The spiritual effectiveness of contemporary Christians in the world has been very very low.

That is why they have been running helter skelter in their Christian life.

They are bewildered, frustrated and confused because they have not been able to realize what their leaders promised them in Christ Jesus.


The Great Commissions have been turned to the Great Omission.

It is now a matter of competitions, money making and earthly enjoyment of mundane things of this world rather than of spiritual conviction, spiritual maturity, spiritual effectiveness and eternal life.

The lack of spiritual understanding of the Holy Book is the beginning of powerlessness and was caused by carnal understanding of the Good News.

Remember to be carnally minded leads to death while to be spiritually minded leads to life and peace (Romans 8v 6).

The blessings received from carnal understanding of the Holy Scriptures include worldly wealthy, bodily health, social belongings and disillusionment caused by the absence of the spiritual gifts resulting from spiritual interpretation of the Bible.


The blessings of spiritual understanding is obviously as promised in Mark 16v15-17 which states that,” He said to them,’ Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well”.

This is the standard for knowing a confirmed believer of Jesus Christ.

Please know that He did not say that you should court troubles and problems by deliberately picking up snakes or drinking deadly poisons. But He is saying that perchance they faced any problems, His Grace will be sufficient to see them through the problems.

We emphasize this particular verse because we realize that in Christendom today, there are some sects who tempt God by testing whether snakes poison will affect them. They bring snakes to the church and let them bite them as a test that they are true believers. They invariably get harmed in the process of practicing their fanatical and carnal interpretation of the Bible.

What we need as true Christians is spiritual interpretation of the Holy Book in order to enjoy the promises of the Lord.

What do we mean by spiritual interpretation?

First of all, let us highlight the injunction of our Lord to what is expected of us in worshiping God in John 4v21-24 which says,” Believe me, woman a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this (Samaritan) mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samarians worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and the time has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the father seeks. God is spirit, and His worshippers must worship Him in spirit and in Truth.”

In order to be able to worship God ‘in Spirit and in Truth’, Believers must be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Remember Act 19v1-6,when Paul met some Believers in Ephesus and asked them,” Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” And they answered him,” we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit”,

In the same way, many believers in contemporary times have not heard of the Holy Spirit, yet they claim to be Christians.

Those who have heard of the Holy Spirit at all are misconstrued about his role, works and functions in salvation and Christian living. That is why they are not effective for Christ Jesus.

In order to have the fuller understanding of the promise of our Lord Jesus Christ concerning the Holy Spirit, the part the Holy Spirit will take in our salvation, the basic works of the Holy Spirit in our lives, kindly read the following passages in the Bible:-

-THE FIRST PROMISE OF OUR LORD ON THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR BELIEVERS
JOHN 7v37-38;
-THE SECOND PROMISE OF THE LORD FOR GIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BELIEVERS
JOHN 14v16-17, 26;
-THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE COMFORTER AND THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS TO TESTIFY FOR THE LORD JESUS THROUGH THE RELEASE OF POWERS TO THE TRUE BELIEVER
JOHN 15v26;
-THE BASIC WORKS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LIVES OF TRUE BELIEVERS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
JOHN 16v7-15;
-THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BE GIVEN IS TO BE PLACED IN THE HEARTS OF TRUE BELIVERS
GALATIAN 4v4-7;
-THE HEARTS OF TRUE BELIEVERS IS TO BE SEALED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD
2 CORINTHIANS 1v21-22;
-THE SPIRITUAL AND PRAYER LIVES OF TRUE BELIEVERS OF THE LORD JESUS
ROMANS 8v 1-17,26-27;
-ONCE A TRUE BELIEVER IS ANNOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE NEEDS NO OTHER TEACHER EXCEPT THE HOLY SPIRIT, OTHERWISE HIS ANOINTING IS COUNTERFEIT
1 JOHN 2v 27;
-TRUE BELIEVERS WILL BE AIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WALK(AND DO EVERYTHING) LIKE JESUS
1 JOHN 2v6