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The Holy Spirit is the Zeal of God
(2Co11:1-6; Rev3:14-19)

God is zealous (Is37:32).
He has zeal for His name (Eze39:25) and
What He spoke in zeal (Eze5:13), His zeal accomplishes (Is9:7).

Faith is being moved by His zeal and
Faith life is being zealous with godly zeal (2Co11:2) for
God is irrelevant to the religious who with their own zeal are zealous for asceticism or sacrifice.

It is no exaggeration to say that
Human history is made by a small number of fanatic enthusiasts for
A zealous person accomplishes whatever he sets out to do and
His passion has a great influence on others.

The Bible is written of the zeal of God (Ps119:139).
All things that God made into their own kinds,
As well as the chosen people of Israel reveal this.
Hannah (1Sa1:10-20), young David (1Sa17:45-51), Elijah (1Ki18-19), the Pharisees etc
All showed how Israel is the most zealous people of all peoples.
They were zealous for God (Ac22:3), His holy name (Eze39:25), His temple (Ps69:9),
The Law (Ac21:20), and their flesh and blood (Rm9:1-4).
The zeal of Jehovah was fulfilled through them and
It was prophesied that a son who would be given will reign on David’s throne (Is9:6-7).

According to the prophecy,
The zeal of God came as man and became Immanuel, Yeshua (Is7:14; Mt1:21-23), and
He 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 (Jn2:17-22),
He would be consumed by the zeal of God (Ps119:139).
As such, until He was handed over to death
By the Pharisees who followed and opposed Him fiercely (Lk11:53) and the people (Mt27:25),
Without rest, He worked zealously.
He laid His hands on each one of all who had various kinds of sickness and healed them (Lk4:40).
He prayed earnestly as his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground (Lk22:44).

As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Surrendered to the Father’s zeal that gave the Son’s life (Jn10:18; Php2:6-8);
2) Put on the garments of vengeance against the devil, and wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak (Is59:17-18);
and
3) Became a ransom for many, and with His blood showed His zeal for His people (Is26:11; Mt20:28).

He resurrected and sat on the heavenly throne and
He has the marks of having worked with the greatest zeal in the history of mankind (Rev5:9).

The Holy Spirit lets believers
Be zealous with the zeal of God
For the Son of God, the name of Yeshua, the Truth, the Church, and souls.

The man of the Spirit is
Always ashamed before the zeal of the Lord (Rev3:14-19) and
Even if he is mocked or opposed as a fanatic or heretic,
He struggles to keep the purity of faith for the souls entrusted to him (2Co11:1-3),
Denouncing other Jesus, other spirit, other gospel (2Co11:4) and
Risks his life to keep, defend and teach the truth for
He fears of becoming lukewarm and being spat out by the Lord’s mouth (Rev3:16).

O Lord,
We are shameful people who have done nothing right…
But from now on
When we pray or when we serve,
Let us do it with the zeal of God.
And above all, let us burn with the passion to save souls!
Let none of us be spat out on the last day! Amen.