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It should be noted to the one who would contend that Yahshua did command His
disciples to cast out demons, heal the sick, etc., that a very important matter preceded this
charge. Yahshua was not giving His disciples a general command for them to participate in
these activities as they saw fit, according to their own understanding. He desired that they
be led of the Spirit in all that they did. He commanded that they should walk even as He
walked, and He always did that which the Spirit revealed to Him to be the will of the Father.
We find in scriptures that when He commissioned His disciples to go forth and minister as
He had ministered that He very notably commanded that they were to receive the Spirit
before they began to minister.

John 20:19-22
When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the
doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Yahshua came and
stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." And when He had said
this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced
when they saw the Lord. therefore Yahshua said to them again, "Peace be with you;
as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed
on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.”

Luke 24:49
"Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of
Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."

Yahshua did not begin His ministry until after the Spirit descended upon Him and
rested on Him. In the same way, His disciples could not begin their ministry until after
Pentecost when the Spirit was given to them. Why was this so?
It is the Spirit that discloses Yahweh’s mind to us. The saint cannot know what the
Father would have them do until they receive the Spirit. Yet many do not know this is the
reason the Spirit has been given to them. They often fail to see the necessity of the Spirit
guiding them into all of their activities for it seems easy enough for them to determine what
their activity should be. The scriptures state that the saints of God are to do those things
which the Father has prepared beforehand for them.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Yahshua the Messiah to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do.

The saint of God who would turn away from the tree of strife, the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, must return to a place where they are discerning the mind of
the Father. He no longer walks with man in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the evening.
We must have another way to discern His mind. The way He has provided is the indwelling
Spirit of God who searches the mind of the Father and makes His will known to us.
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Those who would enter into the 7 day of creation since Adam must come to a place
of rest in their being. They must enter the Sabbath rest of God by ceasing from their own
activity and works. They must do only that which the Father reveals by His Spirit.