Spiritual Gifts part 288: Spirituality: marked by the life of the risen Lord.

Spiritual Gifts Part 288: Spirituality means we are marked by the life of the risen Lord.

The Lord brought on His full tool set in transforming the worst sinner who ever lived into the trophy of grace, Paul , apostle to the Gentiles.

This is God’s tool box to manufacture invisible heroes.

First, we have nine kinds of difficult circumstances, pressures of adversity.

The next nine describe the resources that God brings
on the scene
to manufacture invisible heroes.

The final nine present the pairs of total opposites, paradoxes that the growing believer is thrust into in order to prove out the work that the Lord has done.

And this strength of God’s might? It is the same power that raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead!

The same power that raised Christ from the dead is now available to work in you to produce a gracious forbearing attitude toward others.

The same power that raised Christ from the dead is now available to produce a supernatural ability in you to bear up with hope under difficult circumstances.

He takes that same resurrection life force and puts it to work in bringing many sons and daughters to glory.

He does this by bringing spiritual fruit to maturity and ripeness. Fruit like patience.

The Holy Spirit is reproducing in the Church on earth the life and mind of the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, God’s perfect Man.