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Greetings,
As leaders we lead others into the growing testimony of being New Creations in Christ. We don’t lead people to merely discipline their flesh through the Old Covenant standards of the Law. We lead people to know the saving grace of Christ working in them. This is how the knowledge of the glory of God is seen in the earth.
Isaiah 11:1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. 3 His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears…
Jesus is our salvation. He is the eternal Adam by whom we are born again. The old tree has been cut down, and the eternal tree of life has sprung up where our self-seeking nature once ruled. We are new creations in Christ, and the sevenfold Holy Spirit transforms our lives by God’s work of grace within our hearts. He gives us new desires, as He works as the Lord in our hearts. We are empowered by faith as Holy Spirit is the source of God’s wisdom from within. Holy Spirit gives us understanding through heavenly transformations seen as the mystery of God’s word working in our hearts and personal experiences with His presence that changes the testimony of our lives. Holy Spirit is the counsel who anoints us to be givers of life to others in our world. We are clothed in the resurrection life of Christ by the supernatural might of Christ to walk in the works of Christ as members of His body. We have become members of the family of God with the intimate knowledge of God’s love. We are growing in the zeal of His house as Holy Spirit gifts us with the fear of the Lord in our lives.
Jesus made a way for us to be delivered from the old Adam of flesh and to know the life-giving testimony of sons and daughters in Christ. Jesus is the head and we are His body. Jesus is the tree and we are His branches. The Branch from the Rod of Jesse is both Christ the head and Christ the body. Jesus was manifested as both the head and the body of Christ that made a way for us all to become part of His body through the blood of His mercy and the Spirit of His grace. The sevenfold Spirit upon our lives anoints us to live by a different justice system than that of the knowledge of good and evil and mere judgments of right and wrong. Holy Spirit empowers us to delight in the awe of God and to judge things by a different standard than what can be seen or heard naturally.
Isaiah 11:3 His delight is in the fear of the LORD, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears…
Holy Spirit empowers us to make judgments for the poor by a righteousness of life. With the equity of who we are we can make decisions for those who do not qualify according to the standards of right and wrong. They simply qualify through a judgment of love. As people of God, we must set the example of destroying evil through the power of love. When the devil strikes the earth, it is with a blow of hate and death, but the breath of God is a wind of love, and the measure of His mouth is a life-giving expression that destroys the power of evil.
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist.
The substance of who we are in Christ is enough to give life to those who lack it. We are the substance of good news to the destitute, healing to the broken hearted, liberty to the captives, an open door to freedom for the bound, restored heritage and inheritance to the enslaved, deliverance to the controlled, comfort to the mourning, clarity to the confused, beauty to the destroyed, joy to the sorrowful, and praise to the oppressed. Who we are is a testimony to who all can become! We are the people of God and our love for another is not dependent upon them loving us – it is an anointing upon our lives given to us by our Father in heaven! We are trees of righteousness; the planting of the Lord that God might be glorified! This is the growing testimony of leaders in the body of Christ, and this is the testimony that leaders lead others to know.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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