Mark0
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Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you And will be a Father
unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (II
Corinthians 6:17, 18). Notice the three commands in the verse above are
followed by a promise. If you don’t complete the first three commands, you
don’t get the promise, being received by the Father.
The Holy Spirit is the fountain of all holiness. You can’t receive the
indwelling presence of the Spirit of God also called the baptism by the Holy Spirit, if
you are still entwined in uncleanness. He can hover over you, encourage you,
love on you and try to show you the way when you allow Him, but God can’t
live in an unclean vessel. You must not touch the unclean thing. God is
clean. He can’t make his home address inside of you. Two cannot walk
together unless they are in agreement.
Genesis 8 recounts the story of Noah when he was ready to leave the ark. He
sent out two birds. The first one, the raven, didn’t have to return to Noah
because there were lots of goodies for him to feast on, rotting carrion. But
the dove had to return. He was a clean bird and couldn’t eat carrion or
garbage.
The dove was a type of the Holy Spirit. When John baptized Jesus in
the Jordan River he saw the Holy Spirit descending on Him like a dove. For
Him to actually come down and make His abode with us, live in us and baptize
us in His Spirit, like He did to Jesus, we have to remove ourselves from uncleanness.
Most times that requires deliverance, which may require the laying on of hands.
We don’t like confessing our sin, so we just keep on living with it, but that doesn’t
work for God.
That’s why I believe the Holy Spirit has been lifting from off the church
for several years. There aren’t many clean places for the dove to rest the
sole of His foot. It’s not God’s idea, it’s ours. When our lives reek of
worldliness before Him, when we indulge our flesh and believe that that’s
just fine with God, but it doesn't work for Him. We grieve Him with our lives.
Did you ever drive by the city dump in a large town? How would you like to
live there? That’s what we’re telling God we want when we continue to live
in our flesh and expect Him to continue indulging our voluntary
disobedience.
We are at the very end of the Gentile era. It’s like sitting in a movie
theater and watching the movie end. We’re right at the part where the screen
credits roll by at the end and the lights come on and everyone leaves. The
church is in the most perilous time it has ever faced. There’s nothing more
destructive to the church than the lure of its own flesh and the world.
Jesus said in Luke that it would be like the days of Noah: For as in the
days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark (Matthew
28:38).
Lots of people are praying for America to awake. I don’t know
whether America will wake up to Godliness or not. I just agree with what
Peter said in Acts 2:40: And with many other words did he testify and
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
< Message edited by Mark0 -- 11/12/2009 8:18:38 PM >
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