03-03-2011, 12:00 AM
Ac 2:1
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Ac 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Ac 2:3
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Ac 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1co 3:9
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1co 3:10
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1co 3:11
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1co 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1co 3:13
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1co 3:14
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1co 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Heb 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Mt 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
The last verse is John the Baptist speaking about the baptism that Jesus would bring.
In the verses of Acts above they were filled with the Holy Ghost.
No one unmanifested!!! It was not the end of something it was the beginning of a process. That is what Initiation means. The start of another level of instruction. That was what John's water Baptism was. Both are "Death" to something and "Rebirth" to something else.
Specifically, as Peter points out, a few verses later, what was happening was a fullfilment of a prophecy by Joel, an old testament prophet.
Ac 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Ac 2:18
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Ac 2:19
And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
So there is an initiation here. A person going from being taught by men to being taught by God.
A cleansing that makes it possible for Spirit to come in without killing them.
But the cleansing is ongoing and what they allow into their house
is now more regulated by the right thought that they are now able to discern.
So the question here seems to be do we become a house or temple of Spirit here in Earth or do we become pure Spirit?
And is the choice even ours at the time of the experience?
2co 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth
such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Ac 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Ac 2:3
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Ac 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1co 3:9
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1co 3:10
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1co 3:11
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1co 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1co 3:13
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1co 3:14
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1co 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Heb 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Mt 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
The last verse is John the Baptist speaking about the baptism that Jesus would bring.
In the verses of Acts above they were filled with the Holy Ghost.
No one unmanifested!!! It was not the end of something it was the beginning of a process. That is what Initiation means. The start of another level of instruction. That was what John's water Baptism was. Both are "Death" to something and "Rebirth" to something else.
Specifically, as Peter points out, a few verses later, what was happening was a fullfilment of a prophecy by Joel, an old testament prophet.
Ac 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Ac 2:18
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Ac 2:19
And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
So there is an initiation here. A person going from being taught by men to being taught by God.
A cleansing that makes it possible for Spirit to come in without killing them.
But the cleansing is ongoing and what they allow into their house
is now more regulated by the right thought that they are now able to discern.
So the question here seems to be do we become a house or temple of Spirit here in Earth or do we become pure Spirit?
And is the choice even ours at the time of the experience?
2co 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth
such an one caught up to the third heaven.