Thursday 29 July 2010

The Spirit of Jehovah

No human being feared God as much as Jesus did. This Jesus, upon whom the Spirit of Jehovah rested upon(Isa.11:2) delighted in the "fear of Jehovah" (v.3). He neither judged by what His eyes could see, or by what His ears could hear (v.3b). Instead "He walked by the Spirit and lived a life in, with,by and through the Spirit. In His human living the Spirit was manifested with all the attributes mentioned in this verse" (verse 2, footnote 1). Through His human living Jesus showed us a pattern of the Christian life, the God-man living, which was according to the Spirit (Luke 4:1). We too, as those indwelt by Christ ("the Spirit is the reality of Christ", John 14:16-20, 2.Cor.3:17) are not to judge according to what we see or what we hear but live according to the Spirit.

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