Today I want to start by asking a question, How many here can say we know that our relationship with God is at the level that he wants this?
This is not a question for anyone to answer me, but is a question that makes us examine our relationship with God. It is a question for us to realize this level to our spiritual growth, and our walk with the Holy Spirit. One of the great tragedies among the people of God today is that many people are not examined, many people are unwilling to be honest with himself, and the result is that sooner or later end up suffering. They end up suffering because their walk with the Holy Spirit never reaches the level that God wants this. This is the question we want to see in this day and today we will learn the four levels that exist in our relationship with God and our walk with the Holy Spirit. We will examine this very important part of our Christian life to find that level we are. We now turn to the Word of God.
Ezekiel 47:1-6 - Then he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and behold, water was flowing from below the threshold of the house eastward: for the front of the house on the east, and the waters descended from below, to the right side of the house, south of the altar. 2 And I took the path of the north gate, and led me around by the road outside, out the door, the path of looking to the east, and saw that the water was coming out the right side. 3 And the man went eastward with a cord in his hand: and he measured a thousand cubits and led me through the waters to the ankles. 4 Again he measured one thousand, and brought me through the waters to the knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the water to the loins. 5 measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass, because the water had risen so that the river could not pass it by swimming. 6 And I said: Have you seen, son of man? Then he led me back along the riverbank.
A missionary tells the story of the first car that was assigned.This vehicle had the habit of pushing lit only.You could not turn using the march.The missionary soon learned to adjust their schedule and their customs to the skill of the car.
When I arrived somewhere, let the car lit, when it was time to park, always looking for ways to leave on top of a hill, to take advantage of the slope in their favor by putting the car running.
After two years, the missionary and his family were forced to leave the mission field because of health problems.A new missionary came to the mission, and the first he began to explain all that he had made arrangements to use the car.Meanwhile, the new missionary opened the hood of the car and started moving some things.
Suddenly interrupted the missionary in his explanation and said: Here's the problem!This cable was loose.No one else we turn and go!Getting into the car, turned the key and the engine caught without any effort.
The car always had enough power to boot by his own power.However, a break had impeded the flow of that power and had caused all the difficulties that had suffered the missionary.A simple off was the cause of much frustration.
The power of God is impossible to measure.It's more powerful than the pressure of water driving the huge hydroelectric plants.It is more massive than the sun's heat, which could vaporize thousands of planets like ours.
For centuries men have been searching the principle around which the history, and since the dawn of it has tried to guess what that principle, the Greek philosophers came up with that history moves in circles and today there are those who are according to this concept, Aristotle, said that first arose a tyrant who exercises control over a nation and govern until the end of the dynasty, then control is transferred to a relevant ruling family and its power deteriorates until control happens to the people and this is what is called democracy.
But a democracy also suffers an impairment that causes the collapse of power and this is in anarchy and lawlessness arises again a tyrant who seizes control and so continues the cycle of history and find that there is much truth in this theory.
Thomas Jefferson considered it politically, and when he wrote the Declaration of Independence introduced the idea that human governments recognize that men have been granted them certain inalienable rights and that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men and he felt that the forces that shape human history and form the nations of the earth are political in nature.
And these all, having obtained a good testimony through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that would not be made perfect apart from us.
In 1963, about Dr. Martin Luther King, Christian Baptist, a defender of civil rights for African Americans in the U.S., delivered a warm speech, powerful and eloquent about what he expected about the world, had this speech entitled "I have a dream "it was based on that described by the prophetAmos Chapter 5.v.24"But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream"in that speech said: "I dream of justice and change, sleep in the wake of the peaceful struggle, dream that the country envisions for their children: one in which white and black children live together without any prejudice, let justice roll dream like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. "And closed his speech by saying: "Free at last!Free at last!Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! "