I could change the world - part 2

  

   I could change the world if I could get Christians to embrace Christianity as God presents it in the New Testament, book of Acts.  That book describes the birth of the redeemed church.  It describes the Gentiles being drawn into relationship with God, such as Abraham had and having been given the Holy Ghost.  Consider a few things they knew well which we (church in general) don't seem to know.

1.  The knew Jesus went away but sent another Comforter who was just as real as was Jesus.  They embraced the Comforter, they knew the Comforter.  We don't. 

2. They knew that to embrace and relate to this new Comforter required being baptized, saturated and filled to overflowing.  We don't.

3.  They knew that to receive or experience the Spirit they had to drink (experience).  They knew they were made to drink.  They knew that was how the Spirit was presented.  We don't.

4.  They knew they were spirit beings and that their spirit was empowered by The Spirit.   They knew they were filled with the dynamite (dunamis) power of God and the authority (exousia) to use the power.  They knew the Greater One lived in them.  We don't.

5.  They knew that Holy Ghost baptism was the seal of all God's promises.  We don't.

6.  They knew that the Holy Ghost was the earnest, the down-payment, the security deposit of all that God has in store for us.  We don't.

7. They knew that Holy Ghost baptism and every subsequent touch of the supernatural Spirit made them witnesses of the resurrected Lord.  We don't.

8.  They knew that the Kingdom of God was to be found in the Holy Ghost, not in education or religious activities.  They knew they were to seek that Kingdom. We don't.

9.  They knew that the way to defeat sin and the flesh was to walk in fellowship with the Spirit.  We don't.

10.  They knew that by being filled with The Spirit, they could talk directly out of their spirit to God.  We don't.

11. They knew that to mind the things of the Spirit made them a friend of God but to mind the things of the flesh (natural mind) put them at enmity with God.  We don't.

12.  They knew that to embrace the Spirit put them in a new covenant with God causing a vail to be lifted off their eyes and allowing the glory of God to be renewed.  We don't.

  If we knew what they knew we could have and be what they were.  The recipe is the same in God's plan.  The product would be Christianity as seen in the book of Acts. And, that would change the church and that would change the world.