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The Holy Spirit Is Father
(Jn14:16-20; Rm8:12-17)

God is the Father (1Co8:6).
With His blood He gives birth to children (1Pe1:23) and
By His Spirit He nurtures His children (Rm8:14, 29).
 
Faith is knowing that God is my Father and
The life of this faith is, in order to become heirs, gladly receiving the Father’s discipline (He12:5-13)
and doing His work.
 
As all fathers love their children and
Want to inherit the best things, such as the family’s honor, properties or business,
They teach the children to grow up through discipline so
They become those who know the father’s heart and do the father’s work.
 
The Bible is the story of God nurturing His heirs.
Angels by their one-time sin wait for the judgment and punishment (2Pe2:4) for
They are ministering spirits (He1:14), never planned to become God’s children, His heirs (He1:5).
For man who committed the same sin (Ge3:4-6), however,
God clothed him in garments of skin, as he was driven out of the garden (Ge3:21-24) because
God planned to tear His skin and pour out His blood to give birth to children one day.
 
Chosen as the servants of Jehovah (Ps113:1),
Israel received the spirit of servant to fear (Ex19:12-15; Rm8:15).
They received the increase of their seed, the land and the kingdom as
The heritage of the servants of Jehovah (Is54:17), and
The certificate of debts as the teaching of Jehovah (Is54:13; Col2:14).
So if they obeyed fully, they would be the people of Jehovah (Ex19:5);
If not, they would be cut off from the land (1Ki9:4-7).
 
Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21),
He would cancel the certificate of debts and
With His own blood give birth to children and give them His kingdom (Lk12:32).
As such, He made known what servants cannot know (Jn15:15):
God is one (Mk12:29);
The Son and the Father are one (Jn10:30, 14:7, 9, 11);
The Father is greater than the Son (Jn14:28); and
The Son hastily left for the Holy Spirit to come as the nurturing Father (Jn14:18-19, 16:15-24).
 
As Yeshua died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that:
1)    His soul went in the Father (Lk23:46; Jn14:20);
2)    He judged the separator the devil; and
3)    He tore His flesh and shed His blood — the Spirit of Christ (Rm8:9), the Spirit of adoption to sonship (Rm8:15, 23) — and gave birth to children.
 
He resurrected and ascended to heaven and He is now in the Father (Jn14:20), and
The Holy Spirit entered the spirit of those who became sons (Gal4:6),
Not leaving them as orphans (Jn14:20).
He teaches them until they conform to the image of Christ (Jn14:26; Rm8:29).
 
The man of the Spirit is he who became a true son through the Holy Spirit (He12:8).
He knows the one God as his Father, that is,
The Holy Father who made his flesh,
The Holy Son who bore his spirit and
The Holy Spirit who raises his spirit.
Therefore, even if he sins (1Jn2:1),
Even if he is disciplined (He12:5-13),
Even if he is isolated (2Co6:14-18),
Even if he is faced with trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness or danger (Rm8:18-29)
He only cries out to Abba, Father (Rm8:15), and overcomes all things.
For he longs for the Father’s success, he does the Father’s work, the Father’s will (Jn6:39-40).
 
O Lord,
Even if I have not seen You,
Even if my breath taken away,
I know that the one God is my Father.
While I live in this world, I will continue to cry out…
Father~~~~~
This is my inheritance!  Amen.