September 17, 2019 THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Ephesians 1:13 “When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you have been bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
The all-powerful, creator God, has given to each believer the Holy Spirit-He lives in us! Amazing. Without the presence of the Holy Spirit, we would have no understanding of God and would have no power to overcome sin. The Holy Spirit has many functions. The Holy Spirit guides us and reveals truth to us; He declares the words of the Father to us; He comforts us; He speaks to us; He convicts us when we sin and when we are wrong; He gives us words to speak; and He helps us understand the scriptures. The Holy Spirit is not an ‘it’-He is a person. The Holy Spirit always honors the Father. If and when we sin, the Holy Spirit convicts us specifically of that sin; He never condemns us in a general, broad sense-that is what Satan does. The Holy Spirit makes the word of God the living word. As believers, we have the power of choice as to whether we walk according to the Spirit, or according to the flesh. If we are to live the victorious Christian life that God has made possible, then we must walk by the Spirit. God could have made us like robots with no power of choice, but He desires that our hearts turn to Him, that we desire Him above all else. The Holy Spirit is always drawing us to God. It is incumbent upon us to be sensitive to the drawing of the Spirit if we are to walk according to the Spirit. We are being sensitive to the Spirit when we read God’s word, when we pray, when we listen, when we meditate on the things of God, and when we obey His promptings. The danger for us is that we can become so busy about life that we crowd out the work of the Spirit-and we suffer as a consequence. Because life can become busy and demanding, and because various trials come our way, we all the more need the work of the Spirit in us. So wherever we find ourselves at the present, we desperately need the guidance and the power of the Holy Spirit. Let us turn our ears and our hearts to the work of the Spirit-He is always pointing us to the Father.
Romans 8:6 “The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.”
Romans 8:14 “For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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