Subject: Does faith require maintenance? |
Bible Note: I am sorry that I have not replied to you, all this is new to me. The Forum that is. But I would like to agree with you on the fact that He can operate in and through us as long as long as we co-operate with Him. The Holy Spirit is a gentleman and will not force Himself on anyone. The statement that he cannot be resisted is taken from Acts 6:10. Stephen was preaching and doing great signs and wonders and the people could not denie what he was saying was true and the Holy Spirit was convicting them. However, when Stephen defended himself just one chapter over in Acts 7:54 it says "When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth." No one would believe and they stoned him. But in Acts 2 Peter preached at Pentacost and it says in v37 "Now when they heard this they were pricked, (cut), in there heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles, Men and bretheren, what shall we do? They all got saved. Now, God has a perfect will and a permisive will. Psalm 106:13-15 says "They soon foregot His works; they waited not for His councel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul." The Holy Spirit will convict me of sin and give me a chance to repent but He will not make me. No one can resist His convicting power. In His service. Wigglesworth |