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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
Ohio, it is a good question. But I don't quite understand what "the Spirit speaks freshly" means. God is always the same, yesterday, and today, and tomorrow. If the Spirit speaks freshly today, does it mean that His yesterday's word is different or not fresh?
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Not to be objectionable here, but for some people to say, "
God is always the same, yesterday, and today, and tomorrow," basically means that God has become a dead idol to them, like the statue or the picture on the wall, which has not changed for centuries. That is not the relationship of a Father and a son, or a Master and a servant, that the Bible speaks of.
When I said that "
the Spirit speaks freshly" to us individually or corporately in a church setting, I was referring to a score of verses like John 14.26, "
The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, will teach you all things," John 16.13, "
When He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality, and whatever He hears from Me that He will speak to you."
We, as the children of the living God, do not live and worship according to dead letter or ancient liturgy, but we walk by the Spirit. That is our calling. This is how all the Patriarchs and the Apostles walked, not by structured formalities, regardless of how wonderful they were when originally ordered.
Does that make sense?
Sorry, I don't have time to peruse your links.