The Holy Spirit is often
misunderstood, but He should be the One you’re most familiar with.
September’s
Awakening, Day 7
There is no worse screen to block out
the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
—John Calvin
The Spirit of God is given to the true
saints to dwell in them, as his proper lasting abode; and to influence their
hearts, as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life
and action.
—Jonathan
Edwards
these
are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all
things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except
their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God
except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world,
but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely
given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in
words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught
words.
1 Corinthians 2:10–13 NIV
Don’t
you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in
your midst? 1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV
After Jesus ascended into heaven, He
sent the Holy Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, the Counselor, to all believers to
indwell them as a seal of salvation and a deposit of what is guaranteed to come
as to our eternal life with Christ in heaven. The Holy Spirit is ever within
you to bring about your transformation and new creation in Christ and to guide
you into holiness and righteous living. The primary work of the Holy Spirit
within you is to bring about this sanctifying salvation to mold and shape you
into the image of Christ.
We call the Holy Spirit a perfect
gentleman, because He will never force Himself upon you, nor coerce, or manipulate
you in any way. The regeneration of sanctification salvation is a completely
cooperative effort and the Holy Spirit can easily be resisted and He will let
you flounder in your sin. In fact, the most prominent works of the Holy Spirit
are to indwell you, seal and assure you of your salvation, regenerating you to
become like Christ, and convicting you of your sin to bring about repentance
and change. In short, He is there to help you in every way to become the person
that God designed you to be and knows you can be. Embrace Him within you and
let the transformation begin.
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