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4. THE FIRE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS GOD'S ETERNAL LOVE AND MIGHT

God the Father's deepest motivation and longing for man is to express to man His immense, eternal and perfect love. This longing of His heart guides God in all His dealings with man. It is impossible for a person who has lived in a state of sin to comprehend the power and scope of His love without being immersed in the Fire of the Holy Spirit. In the fire of the Holy Spirit is God's innermost essence, motivations, feelings, aspirations and eternal purposes.

When the Holy Spirit begins to touch you, your false image of God begins to disappear and you begin to understand and know God more and more. The immersion in the fire of the Holy Spirit has an extremely deep and irreversible effect to unify you with God's love. In the Fire of the Holy Spirit, you really die from your old self and merge into the reality of God's love, power and glory.

In the anointing of the Holy Spirit, we feel the Father's love, plans and power. At the same time, however, we are able to operate in the natural world and serve people. But in the fire of the Holy Spirit, we move into God's spiritual realm where the natural world has disappeared. Jesus is the door to this dimension which is ruled by God's fire. In Him and through Him we are able to come back to natural life from this realm of God's fire and glory.

The church of the coming revival will experience many transitions to God's spiritual world under the Fire of the Holy Spirit. This dimension of ministry has been rare in the body of Christ until now. Now cast aside all limitations of what God can do with you when you believe with Him. Ask, seek and knock, and you will receive and find. The door into God's spiritual world will be opened to you.

To sinful man, the fire of the Holy Spirit is an abomination. But for believer who seeks the form of Jesus, it is the healing and transforming touch of Jesus. The Fire of the Holy Spirit touches you through the blood of Jesus and the work of His reconciliation. Do not be afraid of the Fire of the Holy Spirit, but eagerly seek His Fire into your life. God the Father wants to express his love and omnipotence to you more than you can believe!

The more you become immersed in the Holy Spirit, the more you will feel the Father's love. The more you come to know the Father's love, the further the love of this world will fade away. The greater and more abundant the blessings of the Father and satisfaction of your spirit, soul, body and whole life will come.

1 John 2:15-17 15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

God created you with His perfect love to be filled and overwhelmed with His love. He did not mean for you to survive in a world ruled by hatred and darkness. That is why you are doing badly in slavery to the prince of this world. God the Father knows this and therefore He has saved you into His communion through Jesus. Your spirit knows His loveliness and goodness. Inside you is a receiver of God's love, with which the Holy Spirit constantly communicates. Jesus sent the Fire of the Holy Spirit for you too, so that you can get in touch with God's love and glory.

God's love delivers you from religious and worldly deception and slavery. Your spirit and renewed soul want His glory. Your true inner man wants to build a real new life in unity with God. You want to build of gold and silver in the Fire of the Holy Spirit.

Eph. 4:17-24: That is what I say and warn in the Lord: do not walk any more, as the heathen walk in the vanity of their minds, those who, darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts, have let their senses be numb and have thrown themselves into licentiousness to power, to practice all kinds of impurity, in greed...

...But this is not how you have learned to know Christ, if otherwise you have heard of him and received instruction in him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you should put away your old self, according to which you used to walk and which corrupts itself following deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man, who according to God was created in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.

People alienated from God's life think that God would deny them all the joy and pleasures of life. They do not separate their own traumatic lusts and cravings from real life and the satisfaction that comes from living in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. God the Father is an extremely rich, generous and abundant Father who wants to give his best gifts to his children.

The soul corrupted by the trauma of sin and orphanhood resists the Holy Spirit and Fire. It despises Jesus and resists surrendering to Him because the enemy of the soul has alienated this soul from reality and life with God. This way is the way of death. God the Father sent His Son to save you and give you true life in His relationship. Through the blood of Jesus, you have access to the immersion in the Holy Spirit. Everything is prepared for you to receive.

1 Cor. 3:11-15: For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which has been laid, and that is Jesus Christ. But if anyone builds on this foundation, whether he builds with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the work of each will be seen; for it must reveal the day that will appear in the fire, and the fire will try what each one's work is. If a building that someone makes endures, he must be paid; but if what one does returns, he will be harmed; but he himself is saveable, yet as though through fire.

Every person who received Jesus will be saved to Heaven after death. But here on the earth, he can choose what kind of building of faith and ministry he builds on the foundation of Jesus. As a believer in Jesus, you can choose two paths:

1. BUILD FROM HAY AND STRAW

You can keep the major part of your life in this world or surrender all your life unto Jesus in the Holy Spirit and Fire. You can try to stay so much under the influence of the Holy Spirit that you can believe to be saved after your death. Then you would live on the terms of this world. You would experience many deceptions and destructions from the darkness.

You would not have the power of the Holy Spirit, the revelation and the faith to serve Jesus. This is how you would build religious life and ministry based on your natural talents and people. This would will satisfy the needs of your religious flesh, but your spirit and life will not be satisfied. You build with hay and straw, which will burn in the fire.

2. BUILD OF GOLD AND SILVER

You can put away your old man who loves this world and hates God. You can surrender more and more to Jesus and surrender to His presence and be totally purified. You can surrender yourself to be a disciple of Jesus and pursue becoming like Jesus, the Anointed One. You can surrender to the process of inner deliverance and healing and get rid of your corrupted nature.

You can be immersed in the Fire of the Holy Spirit and overcome the powers of darkness in your life. You can accept Jesus' invitation to enter the ministry of His kingdom. You can surrender and be immersed in the Fire of the Holy Spirit so deeply that Jesus gives your life an apostolic call, anointing, mission and authorization.

God knows that only building with gold and silver will satisfy the needs and purpose of your spirit, soul, body, and entire life. Passing through the narrow gate releases Father's love in you. There you face the darkness of your soul and let the blood of Jesus cleanse you. The power of the Holy Spirit descends increasingly in your life. Your inner man rises in increasing love, authority and power with Jesus – in the Fire of the Holy Ghost.

Matt. 6:19-21: Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

hen you build with gold and silver, you build the kingdom of God on earth. Your ministry can be seen and felt both on earth and in Heaven. Your influence will forever be recorded in the book of life in Heaven, as well as in the books of the lives of those whose lives you have influenced with Jesus. When you build with gold and silver you become a vessel for noble use. Jesus will exalt you to His glory when you have fulfilled your ministry in this world. Whatever you build with gold and silver on the earth, you will have that as your treasure in Heaven.

Building of gold and silver means that you surrender your life to Jesus and let the Holy Spirit transform you into the image of Jesus. All your ministry in the anointing of the Holy Spirit is building of gold and silver. There will be no corruption and no fire will destroy it – because it is born of the Fire of God.

As a result of being immersed in the Fire of the Holy Spirit:

You live in forgiveness of Jesus, in love of the Father, in the revelation of the Holy Spirit and in the faith of God – in the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Your unity and communion with God and your neighbors are completely restored.
The Fire of the Holy Spirit has burned away all the works and effects of the powers of darkness. Jesus rules your inner man in the Holy Spirit.
Your inner person lives within His salvation and carries out His work of salvation in this world with Jesus.
You are the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, where Jesus constantly appears. You live free and happy and enjoy all the blessings of Jesus' salvation.
You have released your soul and body as a "living sacrifice" to God. Your inner man praises and worships Jesus and proclaims His unlimited sovereignty.
You are blessed and free to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit and Fire according to the guidance of Jesus.