How Jesus did church, baptism etc

So as we journey through the book of Luke some amazing Spirit observances come to the forefront. Really the bible has become a new book and continues to be new. It really is an amazing occurrence that a book we have read so much is constantly alive and changing in the revelatory rhema of what it means to our lives. Probably one of the greatest contrasts of Holy Spirit life in religion we read a verse and gain knowledge of it and understand it hoping something deeper arrives. But in Spirit we read as rhema because a Holy Spirit being is living rhema. As the bible says we are a living epistle known and read by all men. As living epistles the word is in our hearts and what a wonderful act of intimacy to read bible to reveal who we are not what we should be.

But back to our Luke journey. What a fascinating example of true Holy Spirit church to see the life of Jesus. Now in chapter 4 of Luke He flows into and with the new Holy Spirit default in His life. It may be troubling for some to read but Jesus was simply being what we are to be. He was baptized in the Holy Spirit and then was led into temptation by the Holy Spirit to pass through the other side and come out a Holy Spirit defaulted being on this earth. Remember religion has us run from temptation but Holy Spirit leads us into and out the other side of temptation. Then carnality cannot hold us as Holy Spirit men an d women. You see because of this Holy Spirit work his natural or carnal man was living as dead. He now was walking in the Holy Spirit and being true to Himself, true to who the Holy Spirit enlightened and enabled Him to be. It was in this power of the Holy Spirit He goes to the synagogue and as his first act of Spirit He incites the religious. Not to be a trouble maker but to be Holy Spirit life and the first people that will be offended at Holy Spirit life will always be the religious. As it is the religious that seek to be like God, the same sin Adam and Eve fell into. They seek to attain what a Holy Spirit being has already attained. Religion repeats the self righteousness of the Garden of Eden. Eating fruit to be like God. Where Holy Spirit beings are co-joined with Christ and as such are God. If you think that is to create worlds and walk around in white robes with a beard and have people pray to you, there is a distinct possibility you may not be the smartest individual and don’t understand what is going on here.

Jesus tells them of His uniqueness by giving a few examples of how when in Spirit it is because God selects individuals, He predestines. Jesus talks of Elijah and widow and Elisha and Naaman. It was an example of how God selects with no natural logic and it was a slap on the face of religion that teaches we can all follow a knowledge path to God that looks the same. They hated Him and tried to kill him as all religious people today do the same. What they don’t understand they either persecute or isolate from. But always in carnal love which really is hate to the Spirit. If you demonize an individual it excuses treating them like a devil, such is church today with people who differ from the pastor in his attained religious knowledge. But let’s get back on topic.

Jesus then stops demons proclaiming He is the Christ. There are multiple reasons for that I am sure but one was any Spirit being is not looking for earthly recognition they are here to glorify God and His will. A spirit being cannot take credit for a righteous life or act as they are the flow of the Holy Spirit life. Co-joined with Christ how can they take glory to themselves, they are co-joined glory. If any man had the right to take glory it would have been Jesus and He did not. Really it was an extension of why He was led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted. Remember He passed through temptation and this immediately highlights why. If He was religious and had run from temptation he would never have stopped running. The devil again tried to bring His temptation back. A little cheap test by the devil to try and get Him to take glory to his carnal man again. If any deserved it , Jesus did but he knew the futility of carnal recognition and brushed it aside. His default was Holy Spirit now, not carnal recognition. Sure there was aspects of timing and purpose as there is with all Holy Spirited beings. There never is a time on this earth to be exalted by this world system that is carnal and demonic. We are here to be life and as life, Holy Spirit IS.

So the next fascinating Spirit revealing in the life of Jesus again points us to how we are to BE Holy Spirit church. Jesus just went about life and people started to flock to Him for healing and life. In religion I used to think that was because they followed the miracles and I missed the spirit truth, happening here. Jesus did not do miracles He was a miracle. Just as we don’t do miracles we are a miracle and what carnal men will call miracles, Spirit men will call Holy Spirit life. Jesus just lived and people were drawn to the Holy Spirit life in Him. As mentioned previously in writings one obvious revealing in a Holy Spirit being is the fact people are drawn to the person. They have no reason and often stand next to the Spirit person with not a lot to say they just want to be there. Holy Spirit church is such and keeps us real. Paul says to Timothy to test yourself and see if you are in the faith. One great test of Holy Spirit in us is people being drawn to us without us advertising. A Holy Spirit person just lives life and is a fool if they think people are drawn to their charisma , talents or knowledge. People are attracted to life and the bible reveals to us we are life when co-joined with Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit. Corinthians tells us mortality is swallowed up by life.

This was Jesus church. He lived Holy Spirit life by just being Jesus and peoples mortality sensed that life and caused them to seek Him out. A sobering example of Acts church. After Pentecost the example Jesus gave us of Holy Spirit church was made available in greater ways to you and I. As now Jesus went to the Father and intercedes for us. You have to love John 14 and 17 where Jesus talks of us being one with the Father because we are one with Him. Jesus then talks of how it is better that He goes as the comforter will come and lead us into all truth and teach us what He says. The Holy Spirit had already arrived as a dove on Jesus but now as the Holy Spirit entered Jesus they moved as one complete koinonia called the Godhead. Now because of Jesus sacrifice on Calvary we enter the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit enters us. As Jesus fulfilled baptism in the Jordan he then died at Calvary and led us into new life by revealing unless we are baptized into Christ by repentance and remission of sins then we can never have the Holy Spirit baptism through the Holy Spirit entering Him. Do you follow what is happening here the water changed. We still get baptized but now when we enter Christ who fulfilled baptism in the Jordan we are open to the baptism of Pentecost water and the requirement is we what Ephesians 4 translates. Lets “be being filled” I am baptized by being Holy Spirit because I am co-joined with Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus Himself from Pentecost.

You and I can only ever be one with God if we are co-joined with Christ. Christ did it all and completed it all that is why when crucified His last words were “IT IS FINISHED” There is nothing left to do. Do we get that? When I enter Christ, IT IS FINISHED! Through Him my baptism is complete but only when I live through Him. He is our hands and feet and eyes and ears. Something that can only happen as we are the living baptism lived in and through Him. As I live inside him and He lives inside me my baptism is fulfilled because it was fulfilled by Him. Now Pentecost is freely available to all men who live in Christ and Christ live sin them. A simple act of surrendering the carnal natural man to a Spirit God to awaken our Spirits that was once dead in sin as the bible says. Now as I enter the Holy Spirit of Pentecost I understand it is not about manifestations as any true Spirit being is a manifestation of life. The bible reveals how from glory to glory He is changing me. Christ in me the hope of glory, I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. For one reason when Christ is one with me, I stood in the Jordan with Him and the Holy Spirit flew onto our head as a dove. But only because of Calvary and Pentecost, a testament to the fact there is no time in the Spirit.
The creation of man is complete as now we can be one with the Godhead through the life of Christ in us. Koinonia with the Godhead is new testament church.