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1 | Scriptural Support Requested! | Rom 8:14 | John Reformed | 50162 | ||
Dear Mommaps, 1. CAN we know if one is controlled by the Holy Spirit? Rom 8:14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. I do not believe that the Holy Spirit violates our wills. I do think that there is a kind of synergism between the Soverignty of God and the free will of the christian. Please don't ask me to explain how this works! I only know that the bible indicates such a relationship. For instance. It is God's will that I pray for my enemies. This command goes against the desire of my flesh. Nevertheless I must obey God. How can I pray for those I hate and still offer a prayer that is more than lip service? Only the Spirit Himself, dwelling within me, can make such a prayer pleasing to God. Perhaps as I bend my knee before Him I will be reminded of the man I once was. This painfull reminder may serve to humble me and cause thanksgiving to well up in my breast. Now I am ready to pray from the heart for my enemy. This is where it really gets tricky. I have just performed a good work by praying for my enemy. I realize it was the grace of God that enabled me to be obedient and that it was the work of the Spirit in my heart that caused me to offer a spiritual prayer...but the bible also says: Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. So it was part of His eternal purpose that I would offer this prayer. He had pre-ordained it before the foundation of the world. Yet I did it freely! Your 2nd Q is a pieceof cake (I hope) compared to the first. 2. Does God's Word help mold and shape us into a form that is acceptable to God? Once we have been justified by the blood of Christ we are adopted into His family and are accepted as His own. No works can add to the work done on the cross by our blessed Lord. God Bless John |
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2 | Scriptural Support Requested! | Rom 8:14 | Mommapbs | 50228 | ||
FYI - My response to: "But we have the written word to help mold us an shape us into a form which God will accept us." This post does not reflect the clear teaching of Scripture. Since there are many on this Forum with little or no knowledge of the Bible , I believe it behooves us to use God's Word to support what we post. "Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you." 2Tim 1:13-14. God's Word teaches us what is "acceptable to God;" God's Word does not make US acceptable to Him! What you presented indicated that the Bible makes us ACCEPTABLE to God. It does not - only Christ was acceptable to God and only through Him can we be also! "Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith." Gal 3:24 "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." Gal 2:16 Here, Paul issues a stern wasrning against trying to be justified (acceptable to God) by following the Law (His Word) apart from faith: "You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace." Gal 5:4 See also Hebrews 10 We are only acceptable to God through the finished work of Jesus Christ. No amount of Bible study or Christian service will make us more acceptable to God than we were at the moment of conversion because of Christ's righteousness alone. God's Word tells us that it is God's will that we be conformed to the image of His Son - (Romans 8:29) the molding and shaping of our will and character to reflect Christ to others is accomplished through the working of the indwelling Spirit as it stirs the Word of God in our hearts. "But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior," Titus 3:4-6 (See also:1 Peter 2; Eph 1:4-6, Phil 3:8-10) I hope these passages will be of an encouragement to you in your walk with the Lord. Mommapbs |
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