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miércoles, 22 de noviembre de 2017

Sowing in the spirit

To understand what it means "sowing in the spirit", we have to know the meaning of the parable of the good samarithan (Luke 10:25-37), and the parable of the sower (Matthew 13). The parable of the good samarithan explain to us that we have to choose between the sin like the pharisee or we live righteously like the good samarithan. The good samarithan acts according to the golden rule, this rule is known as the spiritual gift of rectitude or imitate god. Imitate God is to live according to the spirit. Practice the sin is to live according to the flesh. We have to choose. The 10 commanments is these scheme is a form of error, an heresy.
The parable of the sower explain to us the importance of receive the wisdom of God, retain it and put it in practice with constancy. The spiritual gift of fear of the lord or serenity is define as constancy, firmness, devotion, ecuanimity. This gift is the path to ilumination.
Sowing in the spirit is the resume of this parables, is to live righteously, to search the wisdom of god with contancy and firmness. The kingdom of god as ethical concept means all this, to search the true good for men: the eternal life.

domingo, 13 de agosto de 2017

Spiritual Gift of Perseverance

The Spiritual Gift of Perseverance is the daily determination of doing good and avoiding evil and its distinctive characteristics are the loss of  fear and the resistance.
Remember that the love of charity is the love without passion, or to say the love without fear. Anger, shame and fear are passions; shame and guilt for example are typicals passions of an intermediate state between good and evil.
The Spiritual Gift of Perseverance is the spiritual gift proper of the spiritual man (pneumatic man) or the man gifted by the spirit.
The triple division of man (1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:23): body, soul and spirit gives birth to 3 types of man: the natural man (prevails the body), the rational man (prevails the soul) and the spiritual man (prevails the spirit). This diference among men is because there is an intermediate state between good and evil.
Understand the spiritual man is to understand the eternal life and the perseverance. Perseverance and eternal life allways go together, like face and mint of the same coin.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/95-the-spiritual-gift-of-perseverance.html

jueves, 3 de agosto de 2017

The Spiritual Gift of Rectitude

Living in communion: The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-35
On one occasion an expert of the Law stood up to test Jesus. Teacher he asked: "What must I do to inherit the eternal life?"
What is written in the Law? he replied. How do you read it?
He answered: "Love your Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind", and, "love your neighbor as yourself".
You have answered correctly, Jesus replied: Do this and you will live.
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus: and who is my neighbor?
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jerico, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was, and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care on him. The next day, he took out two denarios and gave them to the innkeeper. "look after him", he said: "and when I return I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have"

In this practical case of the good samaritan we have two choices: the sin or the golden rule"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" this is also known as rectitude or imitate Jesus. This rule is the definition of the ethical behavior. The goal of rectitud is the communion, the life in common with God and the neighbor. We choose between good and evil, there is no term for Justice or the commandments, the sin (living according to the flesh) and the rectitude (lifing according to the spirit) are lifestyles, that bear fruits: the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) or the works of the flesh (Galatians 5: 19-21).
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/277-ethical-behavior.html

miércoles, 2 de agosto de 2017

Fruits of the Spirit

The fruits of the spirit are perfections, spiritual gifts, blessings, but they are not beatitudes. The beatitudes are promises and perfections.
The fruits of the spirit and the works of the flesh are the ultimate results of our actions. All beings tends towards its own good or perfection. Like the tree that bear fruits when it reaches its own perfection, the man bears fruits of the spirit when he attains his integrity. When we live righteously we bear the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), when we sin we bear the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). The works of the flesh are not fruits because they are not delectable, pleasant.
Basically the fruits of the spirit as Tomas Aquinas says are: Charity, joy and peace, the first three are the fruits related directly with God. The rest of the fruits: forbearance, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control are related with the neighbor.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/81-the-character-of-god.html

viernes, 4 de mayo de 2012

Spiritual Gift of Knowledge

"He opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures" Luke 24:45. Open the mind in the Bible means to receive the 7 spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit, the integrity, and in this particular case "to understand the scriptures" this refers to the spiritual gift of knowledge. Through the spiritual gift of knowledge we can access to the knowledge of the divine things, the knowledge of the Word of God, the inspire Wisdom.
 Is the proper gift of the spiritual man. This passage of the Bible is related with: "The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man make judgements about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man´s judgment" 1 Corinthians 2:14-15
To understand the spiritual gift of knowledge we must know the triple division of man: body, soul and spirit. This triple division give raise to 3 types of man: the natural man (prevails the body), the rational man (prevails the soul) and the spiritual man (prevails the spirit).
The concept of reason explains an intermediate state between good and evil, the concept of reason is related with the natural and rational man, also the faculties of the soul: imagination and fantasy, instead the spiritual gift of knowledge is related with the intuition, the inspiration, the creativity, and the progressive thinking.
The objective of reason are the temporary things instead the objective of the knowledge are the eternal and inmutable things.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/238-mind.html