Angelic Conflict part 187 : Human history (fear) – Num 14:9-24; Phi 2:12-16; 3:14; 1Co 6:18; 10:14; 2Ti 2:22; Rom 13:14; Eph 4:22-24.

Title: Angelic Conflict part 187 : Human history (fear) - NUM 14:9-24; PHI 2:12-16; 3:14; 1CO 6:18; 10:14; 2TI 2:22; ROM 13:14; EPH 4:22-24.

 

 

Walking by the Spirit presumes activity; it is not a defensive stand against the enemy, but being active in the will of God and resting in His sufficiency.

 

Walking by the Spirit is a positive approach to the problems of the spiritual life, endeavoring to be active in the will of God as well as resting in faith and trust in His ability and promises.

 

The heart of the matter remains in the continued dependence upon the Spirit and the Word to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves and to be yielded to the Spirit in all His guidance.

 

In this is grace. It is relying on Him and all that He has given to you. We have received the word of God freely and to submit to its principles and precepts is to rely on what has been given to you. And since this is accomplished by the great influence of God the HS, also freely given, in grace I am relying on the assets God has graciously given to me. And when I reject those assets, as idiotic as it is, I recover them in grace without guilt or condemnation.

 

This means the believer acknowledges sin, ceases from it, and actively changes his system of thinking from sin to divine viewpoint by means of grace without guilt or condemnation.

 

By this he walks by the Spirit who is his leader and guider. When he finds himself not walking with God the HS he acknowledges it, but he has to turn back to walking with Him. To acknowledge that I'm on the wrong path without getting back on the right one then I cannot say that I'm being led by Him or walking with Him.

 

This means the believer actively seeks from the Spirit and the word his own ministry in this world which God has graciously granted him, PHI 2:12-13.

 

PHI 2:12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

 

PHI 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

 

PHI 2:14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing;

 

PHI 2:15 that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,

 

PHI 2:16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may have cause to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

 

"work out" - katerga,zomai[katergazomai; present middle imperative] = to work out, to achieve, to effect by toil. Middle - the subject acts upon himself and in his own self-interest.\

 

This certainly not working out your eternal salvation since, as stated throughout the scripture, that occurs at the moment of faith in Christ. The Greek word soteria [salvation] denotes salvation as well as deliverance and preservation. Every believer has been given a spiritual gift. Every believer has been elected in Christ to receive God's highest and best as RF in this life and every believer has been predestined so that he may realize the fulfillment of that election in Christ and that is what is in view as something achieved by the volition of the believer and it is greatly in his own self-interest. Our motivation is the glorification of God and that glorification goes against the desires of the flesh, the world, and satan, but that glorification is tremendously in our own self-interest.

 

Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves and understand in wisdom the context of the words that make up your thoughts. Self-interest is not evil when God is glorified and is evil when the source is the flesh.

 

1CO 4:19-20

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power.

 

PHI 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

 

Press on is the Greek word dioko which is often translated persecute. It is the very word used by Paul for his persecution of the Church in PHI 3:6, but here it is used in a positive sense for the persecution or running after his election in Christ. It is a present, active, indicative.

 

Therefore, the walk by the Spirit is a delight to the heart of the believer in which the intimate joys of fellowship with God are known and the fruit of the Spirit is produced in the heart and life. Here, indeed, is a foretaste of the unstinted and unhindered blessings that will be ours when we see the glorious face of Him who suffered and rose in triumph from the tomb that we might have victory in a world over which He Himself has triumphed.