Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of October
Verses:
Phil. 1:19 “…This will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.”
Excerpts:
After His resurrection and in His resurrection, Christ has become the pneumatic Christ. The pneumatic Christ is identical to the Spirit. The pneumatic Christ is constituted of certain elements: incarnation, humanity, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension. In the entire universe He is the only One who possesses these six qualifications. Only He is qualified. The Spirit of Jesus is the realization of this qualified Jesus. The Spirit of Jesus [who is also the Holy Spirit] is the totality of such an all-inclusive One.
The kind of work we do for the Lord depends on the kind of Spirit by whom we are guided, directed, instructed, and constituted. Paul was not constituted of the Spirit of God or of the Spirit of Jehovah but of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus. As a vessel containing the Triune God, Paul was fully constituted of the Holy Spirit, who was involved with the Lord’s incarnation and birth, and of the Spirit of Jesus, who was involved with the Lord’s humanity, human living, all-inclusive death, life-imparting resurrection, and ascension. Paul was a person constituted of this all-inclusive Spirit. Thus, when he came out to preach, he could truly preach Jesus Christ.
We need to be impressed with the fact that the kind of work we do for the Lord depends on the Spirit by whom we are guided and of whom we are constituted. Actually, this Spirit should become our constitution. Then our work will be the expression of this Spirit. (Life-study of Acts, ch. 44)
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