Defining and Sustaining God's Fire: New Wine
Glory to glory, new wine in new wine skins.
Salvation, working out your salvation through fear and trembling.
At salvation, the start, Jesus turns water to wine. This symbolizes your spirit being transformed into the Holy Spirit. Initial transformation does not require new container.s The Holy Spirit just replaces your sinful spirit as an equal deposit. The jars at the Cana Wedding were full to the brim and then the water turned to wine. When you get salvation, the jar doesn't need to be broken. However as you continue in faith and go from glory to glory, the jar needs to break, the wine skin needs to be replaced with something new that can hold the new wine. There are definite levels of salvation. How do I know? It says continue to "work out" your salvation. What happens when you work out, but only an increase! You gain new muscle, new flexibility, new stamina, new weight, new confidence. The old is gone the new has come. The old things are being removed, and new strength is being added. We are jars of clay. Strong, but easily cracked open to reform, restructure, re-purpose. Jesus will not and has not stopped transforming you since the first time you met him He has to change you and mold you and craft you. It is His nature to make you into who you were destined to be, He will not leave you at the lower level. He is constantly drawing you to a new level of glory, so that you can have deeper intimacy with Jesus.That is the purpose of salvation: to start the trip to deeper intimacy. Salvation is not the end all prize. It is the ticket to your destination. It is merely the beginning. Christ wants us to know him and to be with Him. Salvation is like a new baby, hence the phrase being "born again." It is only the beginning.
Salvation, working out your salvation through fear and trembling.
At salvation, the start, Jesus turns water to wine. This symbolizes your spirit being transformed into the Holy Spirit. Initial transformation does not require new container.s The Holy Spirit just replaces your sinful spirit as an equal deposit. The jars at the Cana Wedding were full to the brim and then the water turned to wine. When you get salvation, the jar doesn't need to be broken. However as you continue in faith and go from glory to glory, the jar needs to break, the wine skin needs to be replaced with something new that can hold the new wine. There are definite levels of salvation. How do I know? It says continue to "work out" your salvation. What happens when you work out, but only an increase! You gain new muscle, new flexibility, new stamina, new weight, new confidence. The old is gone the new has come. The old things are being removed, and new strength is being added. We are jars of clay. Strong, but easily cracked open to reform, restructure, re-purpose. Jesus will not and has not stopped transforming you since the first time you met him He has to change you and mold you and craft you. It is His nature to make you into who you were destined to be, He will not leave you at the lower level. He is constantly drawing you to a new level of glory, so that you can have deeper intimacy with Jesus.That is the purpose of salvation: to start the trip to deeper intimacy. Salvation is not the end all prize. It is the ticket to your destination. It is merely the beginning. Christ wants us to know him and to be with Him. Salvation is like a new baby, hence the phrase being "born again." It is only the beginning.
- Salvation:
- New Spirit
- John 2:1-12
- Without salvation it is not possible to sustain God's fire because you are not even connected to His Spirit.
- New House
- John 2:13-22
- New Power
- Signs & Wonder: John 2: 23-25
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