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Greetings,
Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have a blessed week with a time of God’s presence this Christmas season. We were blessed to have all of our family with us this past weekend for a wonderful time together. This year we are up to the number 14 and our time together is precious.
Today I am going to continue to address the subject of the mark of God in our lives. I have presented that the feast of Passover was only a shadow of the internal reality in our hearts of righteousness in the Holy Spirit. Today I am addressing the testimony of internal peace in the Holy Spirit that was foreshadowed in the Old Covenant feast of Pentecost.
The Old Covenant Pentecost was given as a feast to Israel as a testimony of being empowered by God’s Word and Spirit to be the people of God. The Torah law and tabernacle systems were given to mark God’s people to be a testimony of His word and Spirit to the world. The fulfillment of this is seen in the Holy Spirit in and upon our lives. We have peace with God in the Holy Spirit that gives us a testimony in our world that reveals we are expressions of heavenly testimonies in Christ. Our connection to God’s presence in and upon our lives empowers us to move in Him. We are strong in God’s Word and strong in His Spirit. We overcome every wicked thing as sons and daughters of God. The feast of Pentecost was to be a feast in Israel that was to be kept as a mark of God in their lives.
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”
Our internal relationship with God gives us the power of His word that transforms our character, nature, and way in life. His manifest presence in our lives empowers us to be a testimony of His power and authority enabling us to be expressions of His life in and to our world. God is the word, but we are expressions of His word in human form. We live our lives to be a testimony of His eternal life because there is no separation between us and Him. We have peace with God and that peace is the fullness of His presence made known in our lives.
The Hebrew word for peace is the HSRN 7965. שָׁלוֹם šâlôm; or שָׁלֹם shalom; from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace. The Greek word for peace is the GSRN 1515. εἰρήνη eirēnē; probably from a primary verb εἴρω eirō (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity. Peace is not merely an emotional feeling or a confirmation of God’s forgiveness in our lives. I believe that God’s peace is the substance of the life of God that exists in His house. When our house becomes His house, His house becomes the available substance of life to our house. It includes the safety, wellness, happiness, friendship, welfare, health, and all manner of prosperity that exists in His house in heaven.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God. He is the source of our testimony in life. He is the giver, but we are each an expression of all that He gives. He delights in loving us and we delight in loving Him. There is no gap between our world and His and His world and ours. All that He is and all that He has is changing the expression of who we are in life. Being joined to Him fills us up to overflowing and what He is doing on the inside of us becomes an expression that others can see. This is the testimony of our peace with God. It is in our thinking and in our way of doing things. It is a mark on or foreheads and a mark on the back of our hands.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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