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.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
Just as the Holy Spirit displayed His presence and power in the life of Jesus, so He does in our lives today. We return to a topic we have previously covered. It is vitally important that you see how the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of our Lord Jesus is a model for His work in our lives.
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity. He has been sent to us by Father God and the Lord Jesus to lead us to live by faith in Christ and fill us with His love. Many believers have never been taught a biblical view of the Holy Spirit. Continuing on from the truths we learned in Phase 2, we will see how the Spirit empowers us and gifts us to live in a way that is pleasing to Father God and so be the Body of Christ—The Church
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