October 3, 2009

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  • There are many of your posts on the Holy Spirit that I have not read.  Thank you for listing them (and other material). 

  • @quest4god@revelife - I've had this together in another link which was no longer working. Xanga zapped the links to "reviews" (where I had these things). Actually, throughout the day today (well, yesterday now), I've added a few more posts to the bottom list. (There are actually many more of my posts tagged Holy Spirit, but these more specifically deal with the Holy Spirit in a more direct manner.)

    I'd been planning to post this for a while but wasn't quite sure when I should, so when David put up his posts a couple days ago, I figured this would be a good complement to those.

    Some of the first posts are perhaps a bit shaky...read at your own risk...I can see they're not really fleshed out, plus my understanding has grown since then.

  • @quest4god@revelife - P.S.- I'm sure there are a lot of posts you've not read. You came here almost two years after I first started blogging! I've got over 900 total posts...maybe I should have a party at 1000?!

  • So what does that look like? And how do we know?

  • @fivethings@revelife - Great question...I don't know if I'm answering this quite the way you thought.

    First off, I'd say to look at I John; Romans 6-8; John 14-16, Ezek. 38 & Jer. 31 about the new heart & new spirit, among other places in Scripture. There will be changes in attitude toward God and the things of God in those who receive the Spirit of God and are filled with the Spirit. We will confess Jesus Christ is God incarnate and be more wary of error and be testing and trying all things. The Spirit has come to lead us into all truth. We will become more bold in our testimony for Him. We will love God since He first loved us. We will no longer have fear toward Him but that spirit of adoption/sonship Paul speaks of in Romans 8 and Gal. 4. As we love God, we'll have an increasing desire to be holy as He is holy, therefore we will begin to hate and be repulsed by our sin and seek to mortify sin, to put off our old self and put on the new self. We will increasingly exhibit the fruit of the Spirit though we will still battle with the lust of the flesh. (The unbeliever has no such battle. They don't see their sin. Only believers can through Spirit's work in us to bring us to conviction.) Along that line, we'll also begin to love our brothers and sisters in Christ (how cannot we love those who now share the same heavenly Father?). In general, I'd say having the Spirit means we will more and more begin to look, act and think like Christ, after all, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, given to us to birth us into God's family and then to continue to transform and conform us more and more into His image so we might bring glory to Jesus and to the Father.

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Christian hedonist in training. Pressing on to know more and more of the joy of the LORD. Pleading with God to rend the heavens and revive and refresh my own soul, as well as His Church, to His praise, honor and glory.

Thank God. He can make men and women in middle life sing again with a joy that has been chastened by a memory of their past failures. ~ Alan Redpath

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