POWER OF GOD

POWER OF GOD                  “WORTH CONSIDERING”                            6/5/2026

God’s Power all starts with the Holy Spirit.  A good start would be to listen to Kathryn Kuhlman,      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ-5sGldBYs   I met her in 1968, sang in the choir and was an usher.  She was a lot like Lonnie Friesbee in walking in John 3:8 with the Holy Spirit.

First off lets consider the powerlessness that Jesus warned us about as did Paul in prophesy told us about:   Mark 7:7,  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.  Mark 7:13, “Making the word of God of none effect through your vain traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”  Matthew 13:58, “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”  2 Timothy 3:5: “For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].”  This is a prophesy of Paul concerning the “Latter Days” of which is also covered by Jesus in Rev. 3:16, “So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!  For you say, “I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing;”  and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.  Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, (works out of a pure love for Jesus, 1 Cor.3:11-15.) that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, (righteousness of Jesus, Rev.19:8.) and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.” (being filled with the Holy Spirit, Luke 11: 9-13,  Psalm 23:5 & 133.)

Let’s start of with Apostle Paul in his letters to Corinth, 1 Cor. 2 and difficult to know where to stop through 1 Cor.4 on the above subject.   “As for myself, brethren, when I (Paul) came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or [a] mystery and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom;  For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified.  And I was in a state of weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling after I had come] among you.  And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power,   a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],  So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.”

And so after the resurrection of Jesus becoming God made Flesh, Totally the son of man and son of God, Jesus was the first in the image and likeness of God as per Gen.1:26.  And now we are in the process of deciding if we want to be like Jesus in humility and obedience or remain like Adam in pride and rebellion,  contaminated by lucifer who wanted to build his own kingdom in which to rule.  Rom. 8:13 tells it clearly, “For if we live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, we will surely die. (go to hell.) But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit we are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, we shall [really and genuinely] live forever. (go to heaven.)  So we find our eternal soul is in a short time capsule to decide with our free will, where we would like to spend our eternity.  The enemy tells us it can not be done to be like Jesus.  And to procrastinate and enjoy being as comfortable as possible, Matt.25.   But Apostle Paul tells us to kill our flesh sin nature, with God’s help, to make room to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  I was saved in 1955 in Long Beach California but the church I went to knew nothing about being filled with the Holy Spirit.  In 1968, I finally gave the keys to my house to the Holy Spirit and HE has been cleaning out my rooms and filling them with His presence, I am at 93 now and still finding rooms to clean out and to be filled with His presence.  I originally thought I was a one room log cabin but I am finding that there are a lot of rooms that I did not even know existed that were filled with the junk of this world.  And the Holy Spirit is lovingly, without condemnation, gradually making me ready for the Kingdom of God as I submit and allow HIM to change me.  The process, in our Bible is called sanctification or to make holy.  John writes about it in 1 John 4:16-17.

So how do we get back to being the Church of the Holy Spirit as in Acts 5:14?  “More and more there were being added to the Lord those who believed [those who acknowledged Jesus as their Savior and devoted themselves to Him joined and gathered with them], crowds both of men and of women,  So that they [even] kept carrying out the sick into the streets and placing them on couches and sleeping pads, [in the hope] that as Peter passed by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.  And the people gathered also from the towns and hamlets around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.  But the high priest rose up and all who were his supporters, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and being filled with [a] jealousy and indignation and rage.”  And I have found that Religious Church people feel the same about it today.

There are two things to work on to get back to being a powerful healthy church 1. Are we willing to really put all of our Adamic sin nature to death, Rom.8:13.     2. We need to find and dump all of the vain traditions and divisions of man that are not Biblically supported and get back to only walking in the Word of God, 1 Cor.3:1-10.  1 John 4:16-17 give us the heart of where we need to be headed. “And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.”  Jesus gave us the power that HE had been given to do what HE did for the Glory of our Heavenly Father, We now have so-called churches where the Holy Spirit is no where to be found.  And they are nothing at all like the church that the Holy Spirit started in the Book of Acts.  And very few of the members really look like Jesus or His disciples.  There is nothing in our New Testament to support building buildings, having ministers on a payroll, tithing, church membership,  voting, denominations, theater type of services, program, worship team or order of service.  Check, 1 Cor. 14:26 for the Early Church kind of service.  Difficult to do that with the formal kind of Theater seating that is now traditional.  As for me, it seems starting a house church is the best way to gather the Pentecostal fire we really need to have restored.  Each of us is like a battery that needs filling and to be in good unity for the POWER of the Holy Spirit to win souls to Jesus.  Our Heavenly father will only empower, HIS TRUTH.

Yours, in His great love and power, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org