Unbearable Revelation
A couple of years ago, the Holy Spirit told me “I reveal the Kingdom in layers and levels.”
At the time I thought I knew what that meant, but I only understood that layer that he revealed, the one I could see. He continues to reveal a little at a time, as much as I can take.
He doesn’t hide the Kingdom from us, he hides it for us.
He doesn’t give us a revelation so that we can boast that we know one more thing about God.
He doesn’t reveal truth for us to enhance ourselves, as in “Look at what I know.”
He reveals his promises because he’s preparing us to walk into them.
When the Father reveals the Kingdom to us – it’s an invitation to walk into that reality.
To live in that and learn from it, to enjoy it, and to bring others into it — because he desires to build on that in your life. We learn to move more fluently in these areas. For instance, if the Lord has given you victory over fear, or anger, or a sickness or disease, or an emotional trauma — then you have gained authority in that area.
So, for others going through that same situation you have something to impart to them to help them in their victory.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Every revelation is an invitation to deeper relationship and greater partnership with the Father.
Any and All spiritual understanding comes through the Holy Spirit and the more we come to know him the more spiritual understanding we will have.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Spirit of truth
John 14:15-17 (Yeshua speaking to his disciples just before his crucifixion)
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you (in Yeshua) and will be in you (at Pentecost).
Q: Why is the Spirit of truth so important for the early church?
Q: Can modern churches function without the Holy Spirit?
John 15:26
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit was absolutely necessary for those first disciples, and is crucial for every believer since, to carry and deliver the spiritual revelation and truth of the gospel of the kingdom.
The Holy Spirit allows us to represent (re-present) Yeshua to the world.
The indwelling Spirit of God is absolutely necessary for us to carry the weight of the gospel, to give it away, but he is also essential for us to receive and understand spiritual principles.
That was true then and it’s true now.
John 16:12-15
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now (Gr: “not empowered to carry spiritual truths”). 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Notice that he takes what belongs to God and gives it to you. What an immeasurable treasure!
How does he give you these treasures of God?
“He declares it to you”. He speaks to us.
Q: How does this work? How does the Holy Spirit declare something to us?
The Anointing
That’s why the anointing is so essential. “Anointing”? …Another term the church uses but has a hard time defining how it works.
I believe one aspect, or perhaps definition, of the anointing is this:
The Spirit of God rises up inside the human spirit to bear the weight of divine revelation in order to empower the renewed mind to acknowledge or understand or carry or deliver that revelation.
The Holy Spirit empowers our human spirit and our natural mind, the renewed mind, to receive the seed of God’s word. (See Luke 8, the parable of the sower. The seed is the Word of God.) This process occurs because of the anointing of the Spirit.
Think of the womb. The womb of a woman could be said to be a natural equivalent to the spiritual anointing of the Holy Spirit.
The womb is God’s design to conceive and nurture a child until it’s time to be delivered.
The same process happens in the spiritual with the seed of God’s Word.
The Holy Spirit oversees the Word of God that has been planted in our hearts until it is ready to be delivered.
John 7:37-39 (Last day of Feast of Tabernacles)
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart (“belly, womb”. see below) will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
That “drink” of the Spirit becomes a river.
Vs.38 – “heart”:
Strongs: koilía, koy-lee’-ah; from koîlos (“hollow”); a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart:—belly, womb.
Vines: Belly: from Gr: koilos, “hollow” (Lat: coelum, “heaven,” is connected), denotes the entire physical cavity, but most frequently was used to denote “the womb.”
Here, In John 7:38 it stands metaphorically for the innermost part of man, the soul, the heart.
We can understand why the translators use “heart” instead of “womb”. Do men have wombs? But – aren’t we the spiritually the “bride of Christ”? ………Just a thought………
Men or women without the Spirit of God cannot conceive or bear or carry a revelation of God’s truth. But ALL who are filled with the indwelling Holy Spirit are empowered to bear witness to the Son of God. This empowerment, this anointing, is not only for preachers or leaders, but for ALL who seek to re–present the son of God accurately.
In order to bring a child to full term a healthy womb is necessary.
In order to bring a revelation to full term and deliver it the Spirit of God must enable the spirit of man to carry and bring forth the new revelation.
He speaks it into your heart and it becomes a reality – “on earth as it is in heaven”.
Q: How important is it to hear the Holy Spirit?
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word (Gr: Rhema- spoken word) of Christ (Gr: anointed- ).
This is NOT saying that faith comes from hearing the word of God. If that were true, then anyone could just listen continuously to an audio version of the Bible and develop great faith.
Hearing the Holy Spirit comes as a result of a relationship with the Word of God.
Q: What is truth? Is it a level of knowledge, or a hidden knowledge, or is it relative (your truth, my truth) ??
Q: Where does truth originate?
Truth is a person, the Person of the Holy Spirit.
For those WITHOUT the indwelling Spirit of God, true spiritual revelation is more than they can bear. The disciples, although they loved and trusted Yeshua, could not bear the deeper revelation at that time. Both the revelation of truth and the task of carrying that revelation hi was too weighty for them, until they fully received the Holy Spirit.
Even today, those without the indwelling Holy Spirit have no ability to process spiritual revelation, especially truth.
In unbelievers, there is literally no internal structure or power to carry or bear or process or retain spiritual revelation.
This is why the Holy Spirit does not reveal truth to unbelievers. They are spiritually dead. The Holy Spirit has no fellowship with our old sin nature. He does not speak to our flesh or even our soul, he speaks to our spirit. And we hear his voice to the degree that our soul is subject to our spirit.
The Father does not entrust the Spirit of God to any person that has not been washed by the blood of Yeshua, the blood of Jesus.
I believe this is one reason that the disciples were not filled with the Holy Spirit until after they were washed clean in the blood of the resurrected Messiah.
But once we have been cleansed by the blood of the lamb, the Father then trusts us with the presence of the Holy Spirit.
“He trusts us with the presence of the Holy Spirit.” ??? That might sound like a strange statement, but think about it this way:
The degree to which the Father trusts us is revealed in what he entrusts us with.
What greater treasure is there then the presence of his Holy Spirit?
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
Now we have received NOT the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit (Here we have Paul, by the anointing, taking what is Yeshua’s and declaring it to the Corinthians — through preaching and teaching.) ,interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Pentecost, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, was the event that would begin to prepare all of God’s people to experience supernatural revelation and minister in the miraculous power of his kingdom, to participate in “on the Earth as it is in heaven.”
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit makes it possible for ordinary believers to carry
(to carry or bear or process or retain) extraordinary revelation, and establish the Kingdom in our midst.
We’re not “clothed with power from on high” to simply tell a story about the great and mighty works that Yeshua did many years ago. You don’t need the Holy Spirit to help you tell a story. You DO need the Holy Spirit to bear the Father’s image and to manifest his name.
End of Lesson 6.
