Spiritual Encounter Part 1

New Creature

1. You are of this world; I am not of this world.  - Joh 8:32
2. My Kingdom is not of this world - John 18:36
3. He got his directions from the heavenly realm – John 12:49; 5:19
4. His food was from another world – John 4:32, 34
5. He taught the principles of the other world
6. He demonstrated the power of the other world

Jesus leaves & returns to the heavenly realm

He sends His Spirit back to live in us

John 16:7.  It is to your advantage that I go away; when I leave, I will send Holy Spirit to you.

1. But I chose you out of the world - John 15:19
2. You are a New Creature - 1 Cor 5:17
3. He gives us a new heart and puts a new spirit in us – Ezek 36:26
4. We are to renew our minds – think from another world – Rom 12:2
5. We are to live from our heavenly position
6. We are to act from our heavenly position

New Realities

You are a Spirit Creature:  You are born of the Spirit

That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit – I can do what He can do

We have quenched the Spirit – 1 Thess 5:19  limit work in our lives

These are the answers given for having Holy Spirit

14:26. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name,

1. He will teach you all things,  (Kingdom Truths)
2. and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 
3. (16:8) He will convict the world of sin, of righteousness, & of judgment
4.  (16:13) He will guide you into all truth;

16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth (reality), has come, He will guide you into all truth (reality);

for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.  14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and make it known to you. 

Deal from the reality of heaven – See & do what others can’t

ex. Elisha; 2 fish & 5 loaves; Peter’s shadow

New Revelation

1 Cor 2:9-16  NLT

That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined

what God has prepared for those who love him."  (Is 65:4)

10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. 11 No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit. ¹² And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths.

14 But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. 15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. 16 For,

"Who can know the Lord's thoughts (mind)?

Who knows enough to teach him?" (Is 40:13)

But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. 

New Abilities

John 14:12.  "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

Eph 3:20.  Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Know the power

Eph 1:15-21

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,  ²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

I have the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead

Peter & John to the lame man  (Acts 3:1-8)

“Silver and gold I do not have, But what I do have I give you”

1 Cor 12:7-11

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 

8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.