THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD Part XI THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT ...

Christ. That's all they know. Start to talk about perfection, sonship,
immortality, the Melchizedek Order, the army of God, bringing in the
Kingdom and other things related to God's great Kingdom purposes and
you are as a Barbarian to them – they have not the foggiest notion what
in the world you are talking about !
Oh! that once and for all we might clearly see that for us too,
NEARLY EVERYTHING WE HAVE EXPERIENCED UP TO NOW
has its existence in that realm of elementaries! And it is from HERE that
we are exhorted to GO ON TO PERFECTION. You don't go into the
first principles in order to go on to perfection. You leave them! The
fullness of God in Christ lies beyond all these. If you choose to remain
there you simply will never arrive at spiritual maturity in God. The
elementary principles are just GRAMMAR SCHOOL for those who
would be sons indeed. They constitute the "in part" realm in which we
move before that which is PERFECT is come. LET US GO ON TO
PERFECTION is the present call of the Spirit.
And lest there be some fearful saints, who still think the measure
of our heritage must be confined within certain limits, then God tells us
exactly what those limitations are: “…And what is the EXCEEDING
GREATNESS OF HIS POWER to usward who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when he
raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the
heavenly places, FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY AND POWER,
and MIGHT, and DOMINION, and every name that is named…” (Eph.
2:19-21). There is the measure of the power that is available to the
saints! Not merely the power that Moses exercised in Egypt, or at the
Red Sea; not the power that Joshua had when he commanded the sun
and the moon to stand still; not the power that Elijah had when he locked
the heavens for three and a half years, and then opened them again; not
the power that Elisha exercised when he caused the iron to swim, the
waters to be healed, the hungry to be fed, the dead to be raised; not the
power that Daniel had in the lion’s den, or Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego had in the fiery furnace; and not even the power that Jesus
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