Page 104 - Laying Down the Law

This is how we receive the Spirit. We ask for it, believing our Father will give us
His Spirit. Our Father knows we cannot live one day pleasing to Him apart from being
born spiritually. If natural men will give their sons what they need for life, how much
more will our heavenly Father do so?
Paul then asks, “Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now
being made perfect by the flesh?” Becoming perfect men, spiritual men, is the Father’s
desire for us. This process toward spiritual perfection is begun when we receive that
incorruptible seed of the Father. We cannot work for it. We cannot produce
incorruptible seed on our own. We must simply believe that the Father desires to
impart this seed to us, ask Him for it, and receive it.
Having done so, what folly it is to think that our progress toward spiritual
maturity will be accomplished by any other method than the one by which we began.
Even as we believed that God would give us His Spirit, we must now believe that He
will daily give us all things we need to walk in godliness.

II Peter 1:3
His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness...

We must see ourselves as partakers of the divine nature, and believe that we can
live a victorious life as a spiritual creation in the midst of a dark and sinful world. This
overcoming life is lived out in the Spirit. We have our communion daily with the
Father by the Spirit. We hear His voice, and believe that He has given us the power
to obey all He asks of us.
To turn back to the Law as our instructor and guide is to turn away from the
Spirit. The Law was the instructor of men who were spiritually dead. The Law too was
dead. It was written on stone, not flesh. It had no ability to impart life. The Spirit is
life.

II Corinthians 3:6
[It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient]
as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ],
not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the
code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.
[Amplified Bible]

If we will set our focus upon the Spirit, listening to His voice, we will find
ourselves led into the perfect will of God. Satan knows this to be true, and has waged
unceasing warfare upon the saints. He has convinced multitudes that God no longer
speaks to man. Such a conclusion is inconceivable to those who know the Father.
What Father would cease speaking to His sons the moment they receive His Spirit?
If Yahweh spoke to natural men in abundance in the days prior to the Spirit being
given, it is unthinkable to believe that He will not speak to those who have received
His Spirit.