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1 | Evidences that Give Assurance | Gal 4:7 | DocTrinsograce | 243507 | ||
"For Paul, the ability to cry 'Father!' was the work and therefore the evidence of the Spirit of the Son [Galatians 4]. The evidence of the Spirit is first of all Christian faith in God the Father or -- Christian prayer. The Spirit in these parallel texts is deliberately called 'the Spirit of (the) Son(ship),' not only because the Spirit belongs to the Son and is given in him, but because it is the Spirit's work to assure believers that they are, through the Son, truly sons of God. The gift of the Spirit is first of all the subjective assurance of the gift of adoption or justification. The 'objective' justification and the 'subjective' gift of the Spirit cannot be separated for one is acceptance with God and the other is knowledge of this acceptance. And what God has joined together no man should put asunder. The 'objective' justification never remains merely objective but is always accompanied mediately in the Word by its 'subjective' revelation, and this is the first work of the Spirit—this is the Spirit. His evidence is Christian assurance." --Frederick Dale Bruner (1970) |
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2 | Evidences that Give Assurance | Gal 4:7 | EdB | 243518 | ||
Yes the Holy Spirit is the assurance of acceptance of God but it isn’t until we fully yield to the Holy Spirit that we become empowered to the service we are called. Acts 1:7-8 (NASB) 7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; 8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Many proclaim great things with elegant speech but few actually move in the Holy Sprit. Man has learned to piece together great flowing messages that touch the very emotional core of man but few have learned to yield to the Holy Spirit as to touch the soul of man. It is only under the unction of the Holy Spirit that preaching becomes life changing. Many sermons give us food for thought and growth but few transform us into the New Creations that walk holy before the Lord. |
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