"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."
Here we have the hallmark of an apostle, who is sent out. The disciples raw as they come were sent out to preach the gospel. It was delivered from heaven and the Son in making it as doable established the standard of anyone who was thus designated. St Paul does not come under the 12 disciples here sent out to the lost sheep of Israel. But the Spirit set him apart nevertheless and we need understand that it occurred after the nation of Israel repudiated the Prince of Life. What began here is now widening the ripple beyond the reach of Israel, and includes the pagan world The number 12 designates the Gospel of God and in the key verse Jesus refers it as the Spirit of your Father. This power is specific. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."(2 Co.10:4-5). St Paul was equipped with the same power of the Gospel to demolish the strongholds of Satan.
This is what we have in.v.1 "He (Jesus) gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. Later we find that the disciples admitting failure and asked Jesus where did they go wrong."Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?/And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief."(17:19-20) An apostle is an associate with Jesus Christ working with the same power of God the Father. The disciples had nothing special separating them from their generation.("O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? -17:17). Jesus Christ did not err in selecting 12 disciples including "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him." He was the Word made flesh setting them an example working with the same Power and it would raise him from the dead as well as dwell in every believer after his resurrection.(Ro.8:11)
"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."
Here we have the hallmark of an apostle, who is sent out. The disciples raw as they come were sent out to preach the gospel. It was delivered from heaven and the Son in making it as doable established the standard of anyone who was thus designated. St Paul does not come under the 12 disciples here sent out to the lost sheep of Israel. But the Spirit set him apart nevertheless and we need understand that it occurred after the nation of Israel repudiated the Prince of Life. What began here is now widening the ripple beyond the reach of Israel, and includes the pagan world The number 12 designates the Gospel of God and in the key verse Jesus refers it as the Spirit of your Father. This power is specific. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."(2 Co.10:4-5). St Paul was equipped with the same power of the Gospel to demolish the strongholds of Satan.
This is what we have in.v.1 "He (Jesus) gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. Later we find that the disciples admitting failure and asked Jesus where did they go wrong."Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?/And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief."(17:19-20) An apostle is an associate with Jesus Christ working with the same power of God the Father. The disciples had nothing special separating them from their generation.("O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? -17:17). Jesus Christ did not err in selecting 12 disciples including "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him." He was the Word made flesh setting them an example working with the same Power and it would raise him from the dead as well as dwell in every believer after his resurrection.(Ro.8:11)
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