Page 201 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

The use of the words ‘own company’ in Acts 4:23 refers to people sympathetic to
the Gospel, not yet saved, who subsequently were saved (Acts 4:31).

The key point is that those ‘disciples’ (Acts 19:1) who ‘believed’ (Acts 19:2) did
not do so with the miraculous 100% faith of Christ i.e. with the miracle of absolute
Christian faith. Only such faith is authentic Christianity (Acts 8:37). They were
not Christians (Eph 4:4-5), until they received this absolute and supernatural faith.
It is clear that people who believe 99% in Christ will appear as ‘disciples’ who
‘believe’ (Acts 19:2), which is indeed true but partial or majority faith is not
absolute faith. Partial faith can be described in the Word as believing (Mark
9:24). Semon also ‘believed’ (Acts 8:12-13) but not so as to receive 100% faith
and be a Christian, his was partial faith (Acts 8:12-13, 21-23). As with the man in
Mark 9:24 all the instances of men believing and being disciples in the word, who
had not received the Holy Ghost, were in varying degrees of belief and unbelief
conjoined. The words ‘believed on him’ (John 8:31, 11:45, 12:42) and ‘disciple’
(John 20:4, John and Peter were not then Christians) are used by the Word in the
pre-resurrection period without signifying the subjects as Christians. Likewise the
Gentiles of Judea who ‘received’ the Word (Acts 11:1) were not Christians until
they received the miracle of 100% faith (Acts 11:15). A Christian is always
defined as having received the Holy Ghost and as being filled, constantly for the
duration of this status, by it (Col 2:9-10). In other words Christians are the ‘house
of God’ (1 Peter 4:16-17).

Sometimes the Word is referring to Christians retaining their Christian status such
as in Ephesians 3:19 when it refers to Christians being ‘filled’ - that is remaining as
Christians into the future (Col 2:9-10, 1 John 4:15) and to the overcoming of the
flesh by the spirit working through the mind of the spirit (Rom 7:19-25, 8:2). We
are already full of the Spirit (Col 2:9-10). The internal 100% filling of the basic
spirit by the Holy Ghost that exists in a Christian can not be improved upon or
diminished - it is a fixed and given state by grace (Col 2:9-10, 1 John 4:15).

God is both within and outside the believer and the manifestations reflect this (1
John 4:15). Faith being the internal factor acts as the key lock-on, enabler, agent of
appropriation or interface to the manifestations of the giving Holy Ghost that
ultimately decides what to give (Mat 9:21, John 14:13, Acts 14:9, 1 Cor 12:11).

What is externally ‘given’ is of course also something requiring the Christian to
appropriate in an interactive process subject to the prime principle (John 14:13, 1
Cor 12:7, 11).