Subject: Serious "option" for believers! |
Bible Note: Hello Michael, Grieving the Spirit and quenching the Spirit are two sides of the same coin. Ephes. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 1 Thes. 5:19 Quench not the Spirit. We, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, all have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit but that doesn’t insure us that He is always in control. Even as a new creation “in” Christ, with a new nature, we still have an old sin nature residing in our bodies. When we give in to the dictates of our old sin nature, and sin as a result, the Holy Spirit is not filling us in our new nature’s spiritual walk; thus the need to be filled with the Spirit; He resides always but He doesn’t always fill. Ephes. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; The exercise of 1 John 1:9 accomplishes this task and causes the believer to function under God’s perfect protocol. Any believer at any moment of time is either filled with the Spirit or they are out of fellowship and under the control of their old sin nature and they need to “constantly” use 1 John 1:9. God is “always faithful” and He will do the same thing every time “IF” we will name our sins to Him. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It is “possible” for one to be in and out of fellowship, or filled with the Spirit, hundreds of times a day! One is indwelt but once for always and that at the point of faith in Jesus at salvation by the grace of God. CDBJ |