The Holy Spirit has been given to all of us who are trusting Christ to lead, empower and fill us. The Spirit has been given to us to lead us and empower us to live in self-sacrificing love because this is who God is and what we have experienced from God Himself
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2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
The week, we want to see clearly how the Holy Spirit works within us to lead us to Jesus and glorify Jesus. The Holy Spirit is our great Advocate—our helper, our witness, our guide, our power. As we turn ourselves over to Him, He will fill us with the Life of Christ Himself, full of truth, goodness and glory. The Holy Spirit has been given to us to guide us into all truth, which is Jesus our Lord. The Spirit leads us, intercedes for us, empowers us and desires to fill us so that we can experience the reality of Jesus’ life in the here and now and not just in the hereafter.
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The Holy Spirit has been given to us so that we are empowered to produce the good, virtuous way of Jesus in our own lives. This is what we were designed to do. Even though we have been corrupted by the power of sin, the Holy Spirit enables us to produce the goodness of God as we live by and in Him.
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Jesus is working through His Holy Spirit in order to transform us completely: our thoughts, our desires, our emotions. The Spirit has been given to us to lead us and empower us in this new, transformed way of life.
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Today, we continue to discuss how the Spirit has set us free to live an entirely NEW WAY of LIFE. The Spirit has set us free, not so we can serve ourselves, but so we can serve one another.
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Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
This week we begin to deal with the question, “How do we live by the Holy Spirit?” The Holy Spirit has been given to us to enable us to do what no “external law” or commandment could never do: empower us to live out the life of Jesus, shaped by the goodness of His character.
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Ephesians 3:14–19
… that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Today, we are going to do a little review and think back to some issues that we covered very early on in our readings. It is often helpful to be able to visualize the truths we are discussing because we are talking about things that are actually taking place in us.