God still speaks to us in our current situations and circumstances. We have internal proof that comes out through the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:16). Many people equate this to a theory of consciousness or psychology of the mind. However, Christians believe God has poured his Spirit out on all humans (see Acts 1-3). Have people always wrestled with this? A longing for something better, and right. Personal purity, the absence of all defects of character. The courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference.
This morning I'm seeing a fresh perspective that Jesus is alive with the Father and has sent me His Spirit to guide me. Eternal life starts now and last forever. Receiving the gift of eternal life and mercy by faith (Romans 4, Titus 3:3-7)
“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” John 16:1-15
Growing in Holiness, The Doctrine of Sanctification
The moment you come to Christ for salvation and trust in His sacrifice for your sin, His sinless perfection is immediately attributed to you. Justification is the theological word that describes this amazing transaction. As you walk with God through the rest of your life on earth, He continues His purifying work within you. Sanctification is the process by which you grow in practical righteousness – to be more like Jesus in the way you think and live.
John 16:1,8-15;Romans 6:1-23; 8:12-13; Ephesians 4:22–5:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7
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