Intimacy In Him Part II

     Let's continue now with our teaching on   Intimacy In Him.

     It's only by knowing God that we learn to truly Love and it's only by Loving can we learn to understand Him, because Love comes from God, Love leads to God and His word tells us that "God is Love". 

     We can't physically see God as we see each other, because He is Spirit, but what we do see is the effect of His creation. We can't see the wind, but we can see what it can do and how it feels.

     And in the same way we can't see electricity, but we sure can see what it produces and we know that if we stick our finger in a light socket we will feel the effects of that electricity.

     The effect (which is the result produced by a cause) of God is His Love and when God comes into your life, you are clothed with the "Love of God" and the "Love of Man". An example would be:  A new Christian and how they want to love on and witness to everyone they come into contact with.  Have you lost your first love?

     So what happens is that God becomes known to others by the effect (the results that are produced in our lives) of that love.  Believe me, people are watching us to see if what we preach (Jesus and His love) is what they see and for some of us we are the only Jesus they will ever see.  This is why the enemy fights us and attacks us relentlessly and never gives up.  He knows that God's love breaks down emotional walls, heals the broken hearted, and sets captives free.  He knows God's love is a powerful tool in the hands of a believer because it saves, heals, delivers and causes hearts to be pliable in the hands of the Holy Spirit. This love is what the world is searching for but looking in all the wrong places.

     The second word I want to focus in on from our main text in Acts 17: 28 is the word "Live".   And what does this word mean?   Life enjoyed to the fullest, to experience something lively and to continue to persist. 

     In Galatians 5:25 it tells us:  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.  If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.

     To "live" in Him we need the breath of life which is the Holy Spirit.  When the Holy Spirit breaths life into us, our spirit man comes alive, and if we allow Him, He will live through us.  He will quicken us with power, over coming power and strength to live a life separated from the life that we once lived while we were in the world and a life that was dominated by the flesh.

     We know that at the moment of salvation the Holy Spirit comes and lives in us, and when He comes, he quickens our spirit man and we become truly alive.  He breaths the breath of life into us spiritually and He imparts life, His DNA and this word impart means:  to give a share of something to and to import information.  Think about it!  He, the creator of the universe and all living things imparts His precious Holy Spirit, His DNA into us which changes our spiritual DNA.

     Through science we know that all of us have our own genetic codes or DNA in the natural.  These genetic codes are what determines our hair color, eyes, skin, height and what gender we will be.  Also what our physical features will look like, what our emotional and natural characteristics tendencies will be as fallen man.  And they set in motion the development of every organ inside and out as we are being formed in womb where life begins. 

     

     And what is this spiritual DNA?  It is the defined element of Him in us that transforms us into His likeness through the process of sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit.

          In John 6:63 it tells us:  It is the Spirit (He is the life giver) who gives life; the flesh (our fallen nature, weaknesses) conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit or life in it).  The words ( the truth) that I have been speaking to you are spirit (which is the element in man  which gives him a vertical window to see God) and life (the highest and best which Christ gives to us).

     The Holy Spirit regenerates us which means; He gives us new life, He restores us to moral and spiritual health.  He is the life giver.  He teaches us and leads us into God's rest.  He helps us to communicate with God through our spirit and when our spirit is joined  intimately with the life giving Spirit, it is filled with the life of God and nothing can limit that life (intimacy)
except you.

     Listen to what the word Intimacy means:  Being on familiar affectionate, personal terms with someone.  It is sharing your inner most thoughts, it an emotional bond, warmth, closeness and allowing yourself to be vulnerable. 

     Let me leave you with this one thought.  If you say the word Intimacy slowly what is the Lord saying to you?  Into-me-see

Blessings,

Elma Garlock