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The Most Basic of the Basics
Laying a Solid Foundation for Living a Full Life.
One question I love to ask people is, "What do you think the Lord is saying to you these days?"
They respond with some pretty exciting things.
They hear the Lord encouraging, reproving, loving, and correcting his people
with words which are filled with promise, hope, and challenge.
One word which is consistently repeated is this: "Get back to the basics."
Of all the profound things being given,
this rather humble message has been the most consistent
"word of the Lord" throughout the past many years.
So what does this mean?
Do the things you did at First
What do I mean by that?
We should always start any spiritual growth with this question:
What Does Jesus Want?
Here is what Jesus wanted for us:
The word abundantly in the Greek means:
4053 perissós (derived from 4012 /perí, "all-around, excess") – properly all-around, "more than"
("abundantly"); beyond what is anticipated, exceeding expectation; "more abundant," going past the expected limit ("more than enough . . .
").
They did many many things right but in the end there was something missing.
This is what I want to go after this morning.
That which is missing.
If the Lord is still saying it, we probably ought to still be doing it.
"Back to the basics" implies many things, because there are quite a few basics to living a Spirit-filled life.
At one time I would have said that the most basic of the basics are the spiritual gifts.
More on this thought later: 😊
The very name of the charismatic movement comes from charismata, the Greek word for gift or grace.
The experience of spiritual gifts in the Christian community seemed pretty normal in the early church.
Take a red pen as you read the book of Acts and put a check in the margin of your Bible every time a charismatic gift is operative.
You will be amazed how "basic" gifts were to the Christian life!
Why does God pour out charismata upon the Christian community?
Simply put, I believe charismas or gifts are given to empower the disciple to carry out the mission of Jesus.
Scripture is very clear that Jesus fully intended us to carry on the work He began.
And then John says that signs will accompany believers, it will flow out of them.
This means take the risks he took, to suffer as he suffered, to love as he loved, and to minister as he ministered.
Now, when you look at his life, that's a pretty tough act to follow.
There is only one way that we can do that is by the Holy Spirit.
After I had made a personal decision to follow Jesus.
I spent some time on a spiritual and emotional roller coaster, sometimes following the Lord, sometimes not doing so well.
I had the desire to follow Christ, but I just couldn't seem to pull it all together.
I was never told that I also needed to be in personal relationship with the Holy Spirit.
No one ever told me: "You can't follow Jesus except by the grace of Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
You need supernatural power to be a disciple.
That power comes as we yield ourselves to the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives."
I found out about the Holy Spirit when I went to RBC, and at a Mennonite meeting at Central Christian.
As I think about it, something to note:
Jesus seemed to put a lot of importance on the coming of the Holy Spirit upon his disciples.
The Lord obviously saw the Spirit as an essential part of the disciple's life.
I wonder if we share his appreciation of the Spirit.
I think the gifts of the Spirit are touchstones with the heart of the Spirit.
When we yield to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, an interaction begins between human and the divine.
The Holy Spirit begins to guide us deeply in the silence of our hearts.
We learn to listen, to trust, and to try.
We make mistakes and even abuse the gifts,
but are corrected by the Spirit of God and eventually learn how to cooperate with the graces poured out upon us.
To me, the greatest thing about the charismata isn't the power displayed but the intimacy between our hearts and the Lord's.
Above all else, gifts are relational in nature.
That being said, there is still a very practical aspect to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Simply put, they help us do the work of Jesus.
Many here have seen situations where God moved in a powerful way though the charismas that probably could not have been accomplished through ordinary means.
I've seen things happen with tongues,
inspired preaching, healing, prophecy,
word of knowledge, miracles,
and extraordinary faith that cut to the heart of the situation.
I suppose they could have built the by digging with teaspoons, but why would you if you had a steam shovel?
Jesus didn't give us the Holy Spirit to entertain us or to put a nice touch on our prayer meetings.
So I want to circle back to my statement Earlier:
"Back to the basics" implies many things, because there are quite a few basics to living a Spirit-filled life.
At one time I would have said that the most basic of the basics are the spiritual gifts.
Here is what I believe now.
Getting back to the most basic of basics is my relationship with the Trinity.
Why do I say the trinity?
According to I Thessalonians 5:23
So we are three parts, body soul and spirit.
Matthew 28:19 tells us:
We are three parts, body soul and spirit, and we are told to baptize people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
When we Lead people to Jesus we are to include the trinity in the foundation of baptism to start their lives.
It where the basics start.
Connecting with the Father Son and Spirit.
And He poured out the Holy Spirit on us that we may be transformed and equipped to do what he's called us to do.
Back to the Basics is connecting ourselves to in an intimate relationship with the Father Son and Spirit.
Loving God!
There are some promises that I want to share with you.
That helps us wrap our thoughts around how much He wants to connect with us.
I want to share them with you because they are the foundation for the Spirits work in our lives.
Promises of the Holy Spirit
Does this sound like a disinterested God?
He wants to Connect with us and empower us to connect with Him.
Joel says:
Acts confirms the Prophecy of Joel & Isaiah
Eight hundred years before Christ came to earth in mortal flesh, the prophet Joel wrote of the promise of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
His account prophesies events on the day of Pentecost and those that we have seen fulfilled within the last century.
And even further back than Joel we have Isaiah the prophet prophesying the almost the same thing.
Charismas are God's idea, not ours.
If he thinks we need them, then we need them.
We really can't improve on what God has ordained.
Let's have enough humility and faith to do it God's way.
What is God’s way?
God’s way is significantly different than our way a lot of the times.
Why do you think that is?
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