House Church Talk - Re: cessation of spiritual gifts

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Let the dead bury the dead.  You were dead in your trespasses and sins.
Awake, O sleeper from the dead and Christ will shine on you.  The Lord said
"I am the Resurrection and the Life".  Lord, may we turn to You for Life,
You are the Life, that we maybe much more saved in Your Life.  Seen anyone
raised from the dead lately?  Oh, if we may somehow obtain to the
Resurrection from the dead, obtain to the Life.  Seen the Lord heal any
broken legs for their walk lately or any lame hands for the good work they
were created for or open any blind eyes so that they could see?  Only in
Christ is the veil removed. Only in Christ, as His disciples, can we drink
the enemies poison, handle the vipers, and not be harmed.  How is it then
brothers that you have a prophecy, etc., when no prophecy is of human
origin?  All prophecy is given by the Holy Spirit, it is all by the self
same Spirit.  Not that you may prophecy one by one, but the Greek text is;
you may all prophecy by or down from One.  Prophets be subject to prophets,
in so doing this, you are subject to the Lord, Who speaks through prophets
by the Holy Spirit.  As we behold the glory (expression) of the Lord we are
being transformed by the Lord Spirit or by the Lord Who is Spirit.  The last
Adam became a Life giving Spirit.  Has not the Spirit of Jesus Christ come
in the flesh.  Has not the Holy Spirit spoken to you, has He not spoken
through you, has He not spoken to you through a brother.  Prophets discern.
Let all men speak the oracles or words of God. We are not waterless clouds,
but ones in which springs of Living Water will flow forth.  These that
overcame obeyed, they had not their own testimony, but had the testimony of
Jesus, Jesus speaking through men by the Holy Spirit, and loved not their
own life even onto death.  Lose your soul in this life, deny yourself, take
up your cross, that you may gain your soul in the life to come.  Let God
have the glory, the expression in the church, to Him be the glory and honor
for ever and ever amen!  No longer we who live, but Christ in us.  He says
follow Me daily, the Anointing will teach you, One is your teacher.  Is not
your doctrine (teaching) to be by the Holy Spirit?  Those that are led by
the Spirit are sons of God.  Be no longer children, but adults.  Do not be
like children carried away by teaching by the trickery of men.  The law was
a child conductor, but now we have the Law of the Spirit.  Not the outward,
but the Kingdom of God is with in, It does not come with observation, It is
joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.  Case out demons by the Holy Spirit, the
Kingdom of God. Be eager for the greater gifts, and let us see a way beyond
comparison.  Jesus said I am the Way.  Faith is the thing not seen, no one
has seen God, God is Spirit, Spirit is Spirit, invisible.  The scriptures
call it the Spirit of Faith, and faith is also the Fruit of that Spirit.
Faith is the thing hoped for.  Christ is the Hope of Glory, Christ is your
Hope.  Faith is the substance (substance is something) of the thing or one
hoped for.  God is Love.  The Father is greater.  The greatest is Love.  We
see indirectly now, as through a mirror, and in another place; beholding the
glory of the Lord as in a mirror.  But when that which is perfect or
complete is come.  Only One is perfect, only One is righteous, only One is
good.  Only the New Jerusalem is complete. When that which is perfect comes
we will see face to face, not books to face or some other thing.  Some day
you will see the Lord face to face, then there will be no need for the
things we have now, the indirect, the in part, the knowing in part, etc.
Then we will fully know as we have been fully known.  Will the Lord say to
us I did not know you, are we lawless ones, because we would not be under
the Law of the Spirit.  Does the Spirit of God bear witness with your spirit
that you are a son of God, are you known? Love is patient, kind, and these
are the Fruit of the Spirit.  God is Spirit.  Love delights in the truth.
Jesus said I am the Truth, in another place it is called the Spirit of
Truth.  God only delights in His Son.  The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit
of Prophecy.  May the Spirit of the Lord be with our spirits, may we be led
by the Spirit, may we be fully known until we see Him face to face, then we
will fully know.  Lord, may we continue to see you give Life to the dead,
you are the Life, we were the dead in darkness, to heal the lame so they can
have the walk, to give sight to the blind so that they may see You, speaking
to the dumb so that You may speak through them, earring to the deaf so that
they would turn to the Spirit, to the Lord Spirit as Life and the Will of
the Father as You did, You did nothing but what You seen from the Father,
You walked completely by the Spirit.  It is not by chance the Word of God or
the Word of the Lord, is also called the Word of Life, the Word of Truth,
the Word of Faith.  It is not by chance that the Holy Spirit is called the
Spirit of Faith, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Life.  It is not by
chance that the Lord said I am the Truth, I am the Life, and that the
scripture say He is our Faith.

The Spirit of Grace to you all,

Mike