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The Manifestation of the Spirit
(1Co12:1-11)

God is the God of revelation.
He reveals Himself of His own accord (1Pe1:20) and
He reveals Himself to those to whom He chooses to reveal (Lk10:22).

Faith is believing according to the way God reveals Himself and
The life of this faith is experiencing Him and testifying Him.
While religion is humans seeking the supernatural on their own,
Christianity is obeying God’s revelation, the faith by revelation and experience (Lk1:34-38).

In God’s revelation:
1) The general revelation—the natural revelation (Rm1:19-20)—the indirect revelation; and
2) The special revelation—the only begotten Son (Jn1:18)—the direct revelation.
Jehovah in the Old Testament is the God who appeared as an angel:
At times as man (Ge18:2, 16, 22, 19:1), as flames of fire (Ex3:2; Ac7:35, 53), as signs (Ps78:43),
As "His hands” (Ps19:1), as “the glory of the LORD” (Nu14:10), as signs and wonders (Dt4:34-35),
In dreams (1Ki4:5) etc.

By saying, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” Yeshua upset
The Jews who were attached to the temple where the glory of the LORD appeared (Nu14:10),
But through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21),
He would fully reveal God for
The Word who was hidden in eternity (Jn1:1, 14, 18)
Appeared in flesh (Rm16:25-26; 1Pe1:20).

When He said, “It is finished,” as He died (Jn19:30),
The temple veil tore (Mt27:51) and the veil was His body (He10:20), and He declared that:
1) The hidden veil opened (Ge3:24) so God is now fully revealed;
2) He judged the origin of sin, the devil (1Jn3:8); and
3) With His redeeming blood He will raise the spirit of mankind to life (Eph1:7).

The resurrection of Yeshua is the complete revelation of God.
Through much evidence He revealed that He is alive (Jn21:1-14; Lk24:36-43) and
To those who believe Him
He promised the signs in the name of Yeshua (Mk16:17-20).

After He ascended to heaven and sat on the throne,
He sent the Holy Spirit who enters the souls who have the blood of Yeshua
To reveal the Son in them (Gal1:16).
The gifts of the Spirit, that is, the manifestations of the Spirit (1Co12:7-11), are
Intended to benefit the saints
So that they can be experienced in the body (Ac2:4, 10:44-46, 19:6).

The man of the Spirit is he who,
Even if called out of his mind (Ac2:1-13; 2Co5:13),
Even if opposed by theology or doctrine,
Cannot deny Yeshua whom he has experienced with his own body (1Co14:2, 18, 39-40).
Therefore, he risks his life to become a witness of Yeshua
As he longs to have the complete experience of seeing the Lord face to face
When He appears a second time (He9:29).

O Lord,
Because of their misunderstanding of the Bible (1Co13:1-13)
While they call themselves believers today
There are those who commit follies and those who demote many souls to religious men…
Please pour out the Spirit’s various gifts on us and
Let us fully reveal Yeshua to those souls who are still veiled.
Let us testify Yeshua is alive until the day we can know You fully, face to face! Amen.