The Holy Spirit and Jesus

T. Austin-Sparks says,

"The ministry of the Holy Spirit has ever been to reveal Jesus Christ, and revealing Him, to conform everything to Him. No human genius can do this. We cannot obtain anything in our New Testament as a result of human study, research, or reason. It is all the Holy Spirit revelation of Jesus Christ. Ours is to seek continually to see Him by the Spirit, and we shall know that He - not a paper-pattern - is the Pattern, the Order, the Form. It is all a Person who is the sum of all purpose and ways. Everything (in the early church) then was a free and spontaneous movement of the Holy Spirit, and He did it in full view of the Pattern - God's Son."

Because the revelation of the beauty and power of Jesus is imperative to a whole and holy people of God, it shouldn't surprise us that the enemy works to obscure this revelation by whatever means he can; this includes the forms and patterns that we as His people have used.

In light of this, I want to spend the next few weeks looking at Watchman Nee's book, "The Normal Christian Church Life". If you are interested in the book, it is available at amazon.com or you can find it in its entirety online if you go to Google books.

God bless you this week and may His Spirit increasingly magnify Jesus to you as you seek to know Him!