5th April 2003 at 07:44 AM Blackhawk said this in Post #117
I guess an evangelical would just call it being spirit lead. Howver I think everyone can be spirit lead and do not need to receive any other gift after conversion besdes just the continual indweling of the Holy Spirit.
Other than helping you to discern what is of God, sensing the annointing has very little to do with being lead by the Spirit. You have to be able to hear God in order to be lead by the Spirit, which you can do without ever feeling the annointing. Because the annointing is on everything that is of God you can not rely upon it to lead you anywhere, because God's leading is personal. You can only use it to help you discern whether or not the leading that you are following is of God.
As I have said, the annointing is a fingerprint, a sign if you will, that this belongs to God.
Hmm sounds like Origen. Is this belief influenced by him in anyway? He thought there were three inerpretations to ever scripture. And what he said sounds much like what you just did. The problem with what he did is that he could make scripture say what he wanted it to say not what it did say. Vut this si another topic. We can discuss it more if you want to start another thread.
I don't know who this person is. The idea that I was talking about is that has three different meanings in how it relates to us. In other word it effect each level of us and is not just limited to one part of our being. The word of God was not just written for our mind, so that we know how God thinks, or what He is like. It was not just written for our flesh, so that we can read some nice stories. It is also written for our spirit so that we can know God on a intimate level.
How? And then what do you do when you sin? Do you say you are not of God then?
Huh? How is sin from the spirit but not from the rest of the body Where do you find that in scripture?
If you start with the basic premiss that in Christ there is no sin, It is not hard to understand that if you get in Christ you can not sin. Being in Christ means that you are constantly aware of Him, you think like Him, you constantly hear Him, you always know what He is doing and what He is going to do next. And you only do what you see Him do. As soon as you sin, you cannot be in Him anymore (but your spirit still is, since your spirit always remains holy).
Obviously, when you sin, your mind is not on God, or anything that God wants. The mind is filled with selfish desires, that give way to the sin. You cannot say that such a mind is in Christ at that point. But if the mind were to stay focased upon Christ, aware of His leading and comunication, then it is very difficult to sin because that would mean imediate seperation from the comuication with God. When you are having that type of fellowship with God you don't want to leave. Your spirit doesn't lose comunication with God, but your soul stops listening to your spirit (God talks to us through our spirit) and takes control.
