Praise the Lord for the Winter School of Truth 2011! The main topic was, The Two Spirits. We all should be happy that we have these two spirits – our human spirit and God’s divine Spirit (John 3:6; Romans 8:16).
The divine Spirit is none other than the Lord Jesus. God with all His divinity was not able to mingle with man because God did not have element of humanity in Himself. So He had to take the form of a man and come to this world so that He could be “processed” in order to get into man. He had to pass through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension so that He could come into man.
Did you know that it was not only Jesus as the Second of the Divine Trinity who came to this earth? The complete Triune God came to this earth by taking the form of a man.
The Triune God had to be “processed and consummated” and now we have the Triune God in us as the divine Spirit. This is a marvelous Spirit! It is not just “a Spirit”, but it is “a life-giving Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). Hallelujah for this Spirit who gives us life (Romans 8:11)!
How do we receive this Spirit? All we need to do is to believe into Christ. The moment we believe into Him, we will receive this life-giving Spirit (John 7:38-39). What is this divine Spirit doing in us? This Spirit carries out the process of transformation in the believers.
It renews our whole being and transforms us into a figure that God wants us to be so that we can express Him fully. Isn’t it wonderful that our inner man is transformed and renewed day by day? “But though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Cor 4:16). All we need to do is just turn to our spirit!
Is there anybody who prevents us from turning to the spirit? Yes, Satan interrupts and wants to destroy man’s fellowship with God. Satan never allows a man to carry out a sweet communication with God and one way he does this is by reminding us of our sins.
We all need to have a clear conscience before we try to contact the Lord. A clear conscience is the most important thing when we want to fellowship with God. If our conscience is not clear, Satan keeps reminding us of our sins and makes us guilty to contact God. In order to have a clear conscience, we need to ask God to forgive our sins AND to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 says “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness”. Both sins and unrighteousness refer to our wrongdoings. Sins indicate the offence of our wrongdoings against God and men; unrighteousness indicates the stain of our wrongdoings, which causes us not be right with either God or men. The offense needs God’s forgiveness and the stain requires His cleansing. Both God’s forgiveness and God’s cleansing are needed for the restoration of our broken fellowship with God, that we may enjoy Him in uninterrupted fellowship with a good conscience, a conscience void of offense (taken from the footnotes in 1 John 1:9).
I really enjoyed the fact that we have the key to both “death” and “life and peace”. This key is non other than our mind. “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace” (Romans 8:6). The moment I got to know this, I found the answer to lot of problems in my life. Can the flesh do any good to you? No, the flesh cannot do any good for you. The Lord Jesus said “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing” (John 6:63). Hallelujah – our flesh profits NOTHING! So if the flesh profits nothing, let us set our mind on the spirit because He gives us life!
Hallelujah saints, we need this life! We need the life of Christ in us. We need to turn to our spirit with a clear conscience, and we need to fellowship with God. We need to allow Him to carry out His process of transformation in us so that one day we could say with a true heart that “I am crucified with Christ; and is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me” (Gal 2:20).
[sharing from brother N. F. (UK) from his top enjoyment in the 2011 Winter School of Truth in London, UK. We have the key – setting our mind on the mingled spirit! If we have any problems or guilt, we can confess our sins! Hallelujah! Read other testimonies of the young people and serving ones from the 2011 WST or send us your testimony at [email protected]]
