Tag: holy spirit
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Love Of Christ Controls Us
(2 Corinthians 5:13-15) The concept of these couple scriptures saying that the love of Christ controls us is both fascinating and powerful. One of the basic desires people have is the desire to be in control. You hear it in everyday conversations as well as in the media. People talk about things getting out of…
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The Spirit As Guarantee
(2 Corinthians 5:1-5) In my last post I wrote about why Christians get sick. The key to understanding that is knowing that this Christian walk is not about the flesh but about the spirit. The work that is going on in us is a spiritual work. The flesh is of no avail. In this section…
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In The Holy Spirit
(1 Corinthians 12:1-3) Many years ago while my father was still alive he said to me that we need to take note of the “little” words in the Bible. It is often the small words that we can pass over at a glance that convey a depth of meaning we would miss otherwise. I have…
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Perfected In Jesus Christ
(1 Corinthians 3:16-17) The most significant change that took place after the death of Jesus was the change in the mode of worship. Prior to Jesus dying the only place a person could go and worship the one true God was in the temple at Jerusalem. This was the place where God's law was taught…
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The Mind Of Christ
(1 Corinthians 2:14-16) Who can understand the things of God? In my last post I wrote about understanding the depths of God, but for man in his natural state, the depths of God and the things of God are a mystery. No man understands the things of God because man cannot unless he is taught…
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Understanding The Depths Of God
(1 Corinthians 2:10-13) Who can understand the depths of God? Who even thinks it is possible to do so? Surely to think so would be madness and the height of foolishness! No man can possibly understand the depths of God. Even in all that has been created, man is still only scratching the surface of…
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More Than Conquerors
(Romans 8:37-39) We are more than conquerors through Chris Jesus our Lord. That is what this scripture says and is telling us. We have the victory in and through Jesus Christ and we have conquered all things in Him. So I can understand what it is to be a conqueror in Jesus Christ, but what…
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Hope And A Promise
(Romans 8:28) There are many promises in them bible, both to those who love the Lord and also to those who do not. Those who choose to reject Jesus Christ and reject God have the promise that a day of reckoning awaits when they will learn and earn the results of their folly. Judgement awaits,…
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The Holy Spirit At Work
(Romans 8:26-27) We are very fortunate that the Lord has seen fit to give us the Bible. It was never His purpose to leave us totally in the dark, and indeed He wants to show us all that we need to be able to live lives of holiness as we walk with Jesus and await…
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Spirit of Christ
(Romans 8:9-11) When it comes to your eternal life with Christ there is one thing that this section of scripture tells us is essential and that is that we must have the spirit of Christ in us. The first verse in this section says this quite clearly. You, however, are not in the flesh but…
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Hope, Love and the Holy Spirit
(Romans 5:5) Here we see a link between these three and how they interact to help us as Christians to grow. This verse reads: “…and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” In the previous couple…
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Enlightened by the Holy Spirit
(Acts 23:1-11) Here we see that the Roman authorities had been puzzled as to the negative and violent reaction of the Jews against Paul on his return to Jerusalem. They had intended to flog Paul with whips to find the truth of the matter, but stopped short on discovering he was a Roman citizen. Their…
