The seven Spirits are one with the seven stars, and the seven stars are one with the seven Spirits. Christ has the seven stars, and He has the seven Spirits as the supply to the stars so that the stars can shine.
#The mystery of the seven spirits of god full#
In order to shine, they must be full of the intensified Spirit, the seven Spirits. The stars are the messengers this means that the messengers should shine as the stars. The One who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars spoke to the church in Sardis (Rev.
Is He pleased with the exercise of our spirit and the praises we offer Him? Are we up to the standard where the Lord wants us to be, being intensely living and shining? We need to be checked and calibrated by the Lord’s word to see whether we are living or dead. Do you think the Lord is happy with the way we worship Him? We may be better than the Catholic church and our meetings may be more living than the meetings in the denominations, but we still have too much formality. We need to not be satisfied with where we are and with the situation in the meetings but pray for ourselves and the saints around us that we may have a genuine vitality, a genuine livingness, full of sensitivity. We need the Lord as the One with the seven stars and the seven Spirits to cause us to be intensely shining and intensely living. On the one hand we need to overcome persecution by enjoying Christ as resurrection life (as seen in Smyrna), overcome worldliness by being transformed (as seen in Pergamos), and on the other hand we need to overcome spiritual death by being living.Įverything we do in the church life should be not in a routine or outward way but in a living way we should pray livingly, sing livingly, preach the gospel livingly, and serve livingly. The church in Sardis was living in name only, but in God’s eyes she was dead and dying therefore, the Lord came to her as the One who has the seven Spirits (to make the church intensely living) and the seven stars (to make the church intensely shining).
The Seven Spirits and the Seven Stars enable us to be Intensely Living and Shining Are the saints around us enjoying the Lord’s shining as they contact us, or do we just have demands on them and have some doctrines to share with them? We need to be the living stars that shine, those who are searched and burned by the seven Spirits of God. In the church life we should not care primarily about a position but about shining: we need to be those shining and living, the living stars in the Lord’s hand. The Lord has the seven stars in His hand these are the seven messengers in the churches. I can’t go on living a routine Christian life and serving in a routine way in the church life. Come as the Spirit and search all my inward parts with my motive, desires, intentions, thoughts, decisions, and everything within. I need to be searched by the sevenfold intensified Spirit. Lord, I need to be burned by Your Spirit. It is good to open to the Lord and tell Him, The Lord needs to get through in us: He is the One with the seven stars and the seven Spirits, and He wants to search us and burn in our being until we are fully purified, made living, and intensely shining as His testimony on the earth. We need to not merely gain more knowledge about the condition and situation of the church but experience the Lord’s seven Spirits searching us and burning in us, searching and burning all our inward parts and our heart. We all need to open to the Lord and experience Him as the seven lamps of fire and the seven searching eyes so that we may be burned and searched. To the dead and dying church, Christ comes as the One with the seven Spirits as the seven lamps of fire to burn us, and the seven eyes of the Lamb to search us. 4:5, these seven Spirits are the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God they are the seven burning flames, and they are the seven piercing, searching, eyes of the Lamb. Just as a lamp can be turned up sevenfold to shine brighter because of the darkness around it, so the Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to counteract the degradation of the church.Īccording to Rev. The seven Spirits of God are not yet another Spirit but the Spirit of God, the life-giving Spirit, the consummated Spirit, who in the book of Revelation has been intensified sevenfold due to the degradation of the church. To the dead and dying church in Sardis the Lord introduces Himself as He who has the seven Spirits of God (to make the church intensely living) and the seven stars (to make the church intensely shining), as per Rev.
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