We need simply to ask for it, and be obedient. The Holy Spirit is that part of the Trinity that lives inside all believers. I Cor. There are times I feel that I don’t have joy, and I get on my knees and say, “Lord, where is the fruit of joy in my life?” I find that the joy is there, down deep. Many of you are spiritually dead and are completely immersed in our hedonistic culture. Our spirit within us, made in the image of God, is dead toward God. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is all-powerful. May I remind the reader that the Greek language rarely uses capital letters for proper nouns, not even for God, so the upper case letters and the lower case letters are interpretations, not translations. He calls us to the path, but we must want t… This verse can, and, in my opinion should, read “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the holy spirit ( i.e. the spirit coming from God. Here again the spirit is put in contrast with the old nature. Only then does God take up residence in our lives through His Son. And that’s what I’m not sure he understands. Once that happens, He begins to rule in our lives. New Life The moment that we receive Christ as Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to live in our hearts. That is to say, when the translators put capital H, capital S they are not translating the text, they are interpreting it. We don't have to fear sharing the good news of what Jesus has done in our lives because Holy Spirit gives us the wisdom to navigate difficult conversations and the ability to clearly communicate our faith. And in Hebrews 9:14 the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is eternal. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. And if any one does not have the Spirit (can also be spirit) of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. The inner court is like our mind, our will and our emotions. • It is the medium by which God comes to dwell in us (Ephesians 2:22 Ephesians 2:22 In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. You must be born again. The Holy Spirit gives us love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control through Him. There are three Persons in the Trinity–God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We are saved by the mercy of God, by the grace of God. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, The Holy Spirit helps us live a life that is willing to be obedient to the truth of the scriptures. I will first quote the verses that concern this gift and where needed offer a different translation and my reasons for it. God loves your body. Some choose to reject Him completely and live the Christian life as if the Holy Spirit doesn’t exist. ...you know him, for he lives with you … Be Led by the Spirit (Rom 8:14) The apostle Paul writes, “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are … the man without the new nature cannot accept the things from God. with You (God) the wicked can not dwell“. 2:14, “The man without the Spirit (can also be spirit) does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned”. It is a deep river. Note that verse 11 contrasts the spirit of man with the spirit of God. I am a communicator of God’s message. So Paul is saying that we have the firstfruits from the Spirit”. The Holy Spirit can be in both your heart and my heart, even though we may live a thousand miles apart. God's Spirit is also practical. believers in Christ, that it is through the spirit in the inner being that allows us to have Christ dwell in our hearts. We could never go to Heaven. Before Jesus died on the cross for our sins, He promised that after He had died, risen again, and ascended to heaven, He would send the Spirit to be with His people. We could never be saved. In this passage however, he tells us that he has been sent by God with the Holy Spirit to preach God’s message. 3:16-19 tells each of us, i.e. The phrase, “things that come from the Spirit of God” refers to God in His office of Holy Spirit. Love is the greatest evidence that you know Christ. Fourth, the Holy Spirit gives you power to serve Christ. In John 14:16-17, Jesus is talking to his disciples, and he says, “ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The Spirit is called holy. The Holy Spirit helps us be obedient. It is a contrast between the old nature of man and the new nature which comes from God. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts you of your need of Christ. Now we will consider four things we must do to benefit fully from holy spirit. Rom. If the Holy Spirit lived in everyone, then everyone in the world would … About Us     Contact Us     Privacy BGEA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. I am asking you to give in to the call of the Holy Spirit. Just as the Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead, the Holy Spirit will give eternal life to believers in Christ. And if the Holy Spirit dwells in us “by” the new nature, why would He Himself also abide in us? 12) Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”. We are promised forgiveness when we confess sins. I have expressed the reasons for my belief that the Holy Spirit does not dwell in each believer. “Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. If the Holy Spirit dwells in us, why would we need a new nature? The Holy Spirit was given to us to live inside those who believe in Jesus, so that we might become more like God and live righteous lives. If we fail to see the importance of “en” with the plural meaning “among” we have a glaring contradiction in the Word of God, which is not possible. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit (can also be spirit) you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit (can also be spirit) of God are sons of God”. 5:5, “….the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us” . The peace that passes understanding comes from the Holy Spirit. John said, In Him was life; and the life was the light of men (John 1:4). Whatever the circumstances, I have peace in my heart. There is not a person anywhere who can be a Christian without the Holy Spirit. Isaiah was a prophet of God, it is clear that he was anointed with power from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells inside our spirit. In other denominations and movements, the Spirit is but a footnote, an afterthought, even a stranger. ( Luke 11:9-13; Acts 5:32 .) So since the Holy Spirit is the source of life and is living in us, how does this imagery work? The Holy Spirit sees everything that goes on. I want my sins forgiven. He is God. Without that work we could never have our sins forgiven. Again, as we put all these passages together, we will, I hope, have a clearer understanding of the spirit given to the believer and therefore be better able to determine when Scripture refers to the gift and when to the Giver. the spirit to which the Spirit gives birth. I believe that he is saying that the Holy Spirit testifies with the new nature, which is given to each believer. “But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what the nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit (can also read spirit) have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. Or where can I flee from Your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). This in itself tells us that the Holy Spirit is a permanent resident within us until Jesus comes again. No matter where we go, He is there. Anything of eternal value in this life and in eternity comes through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And if the Spirit (can also be spirit) of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give you life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit (can also be spirit) who (KJV has “that”) lives in you. We are to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ, but we can grow only by the help of the Holy Spirit. In short, the new nature, i.e. The Holy Spirit comes to magnify, to glorify and to exalt the Son. The Bible says, “The Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10). I believe that this verse is saying that the Holy Spirit dwells among us. And so He condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. It is a dangerous thing to resist the Spirit. ©2021 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 12 So far we have discussed two ways in which holy spirit helps us. It is the Holy Spirit who draws you to Christ. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:28–29). 3:24, “He abideth in us by the spirit He hath given us”. 8:16, “The Spirit testifies with our spirit….”. What this verse says is that the Holy Spirit abides in us by the new nature. The Holy Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit, which is “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). Mankind needs life. There is only one way of salvation, and that is Christ. Is Paul saying here that the Holy Spirit Who lives in our hearts testifies with the Holy Spirit Who lives in our hearts? The Greek word translated “in” is “en” which, when used with a plural can be “among”. We ought to be more holy today than we were yesterday. And one of the Holy Spirit’s ministries is to help make us holy. I am asking you to say, “I want Christ in my life, to be my Lord and my Savior.” I know thousands of churchgoers who need to come to Christ, led by the Holy Spirit. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” The contrast here is between the “sinful nature” and the spirit. Holy spirit gives us power and helps us to stay faithful while facing trials. What is it then that man needs in order to accept the things that come from the Holy Spirit? 48:16, “And now the sovereign Lord has sent me and His Spirit”. We read in Psalm 5: 4, “……. the new nature),  and verse 14 tells us the same thing only in the negative, i.e. When he comes again to finish the work of redemption, we will no longer need this sealing. But inside of us is the Holy of holies where the Spirit of God dwells. Third, the Holy Spirit indwells us. Rom. 17 defines as, “This marks the source from which anything has its origin”. If we want to follow Jesus and see that we need help to do so, God gives us His Holy Spirit. Paul wrote to the Romans about how God’s love has been poured out to the believer by the Holy Spirit. “Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go up and join this chariot,’" Acts … 8:9-14, “You however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit (can also be spirit) of God lives in you. I must say at the outset that both the NIV and the King James translations are not very helpful in the study of this subject. That is to say, it is the spirit from God that dwelleth among us. the spirit given to believers from God, helps us to search out the deep things of God. Through the Holy Spirit, human beings can live in a more productive and fruitful way. Can God, in His office of Holy Spirit dwell in the heart of Man with a sinful nature? That is to say, the old nature is put in contrast to the new nature. When we read or hear a portion of God’s promise to us in Christ, and we believe it, that is, we trust and rest in it and are satisfied by it, then the Holy Spirit is flowing to our hearts and love is being produced. He knows what goes on in our minds. And the Holy Spirit is pleased when you glorify Christ in your life. Paul said to Titus, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). 4:24, which reads, “put on the new self created to be like God”. He only resides within those who trust Christ as Savior. The Holy Spirit leads us, convicts us, teaches us, and equips us to do God's work and spread the Gospel. Most Christians today believe that the Holy Spirit dwells in the heart of each believer. I cannot believe that it is. 8:3-6, ” …. Billy Graham: The Only Hope for the World, Billy Graham: A Cradle, a Cross and a Crown. Jesus said, “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). In the Bible, the word “spirit” is translated from the Hebrew word ruʹach and the Greek word pneuʹma.Most often, those words refer to God’s active force, or holy spirit. If the Holy Spirit dwells in the hearts of believers, why is it necessary for us to “put on the new self”? I know where I am going, I know where I have been. And note what that new nature is said to do for those who have it, “that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” Given that the context is about knowing the deep things of God, I think we may conclude that the things freely given are those deep things of God. even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. But that process is under our will and control, not His. Not so much. What counts is the message that–according to Scripture–Christ died for our sins, He rose again, He is coming back again and He is ready to come into your heart by the Holy Spirit and make you a new person. The more we use the Holy Spirit to become like Christ, the more His life will be in us and, thus, the more He lives in us. But the Holy Spirit will give you the power to love them. Further, the “of” in the phrase, “the Spirit of God dwelleth” is, in my opinion, the Genitive of Origin. We should always be conforming more to the image of Jesus Christ, and it is the Holy Spirit who helps us in this growing process. There are people whom you may not be able to love easily. Consider that as we read in I Cor. 3:16 which reads, “Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”. Then, in the following section, I will try to pull all these verses together so that we can have an idea based on Scripture of the Holy Spirit’s gift to each believer. —Psalm 104:30; 139:7. “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me” (Acts 1:8). But many are confused by I Cor. In my opinion, that concept is demeaning to God. Let us examine the scriptures that have to do with the spirit living in the believer and then see what we can learn about this wonderful and gracious gift from the Holy Spirit, i.e. Is it God Who is being contrasted with our old nature? The Holy Spirit gives us new life in Jesus Christ. Each of these passages states the Holy Spirit moved these prophets to write. One reason that I question that the Holy Spirit lives in the heart of man, is that basically, man is sinful and as such can not dwell with God. Power to Serve Christ Second, the Holy Spirit gives new life. 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