Post by foxjj on Jul 7, 2021 2:50:43 GMT
The Gift Of Grace And The Holy Spirit
Our world is in deep need of spiritual truth in these times of uncertainty and so much suffering. All over the world there are those who have no hope and fear the future. The Gospel is the Good News of hope in all circumstances, carrying our God’s message of how His Grace is offered to all who will accept and believe the message of love and Justification. Grace is defined as the gift of God shed abroad under the guidance of The Holy Spirit, who calls sinners to repentance. In calling you and I, The Spirit grants us the Grace to understand our condition as sinners in need of a Savior. In turn He then advocates on behalf of Jesus as the only way to God, and therefore humanity’s Redeemer. Without the Grace that we received, you and I would not have had a genuine experience of conversion, leading to a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior.
While speaking of The Spirit as The Advocate (which is a councilor or champion) Jesus said: “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.”(John 16:7-14)
Only God can bestow genuine Grace, bringing true and everlasting peace into a believer’s life. It is through this Grace that we understand we have been forgiven of our sins through the shedding of the blood of the Lamb of God - Jesus our Savior and Lord. This is true Grace, which is the unmerited favor of God. In their epistles, both Peter and Paul press home the importance of the Holy Spirit in the work of salvation. Peter explains that the Father accomplished his plan through the sanctifying work of the Spirit when he addressed believers as those: “who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.”(1 Peter 1:2)
In chapter one of his letter to the Ephesians Paul states: “When you believed, you were marked in him (Christ) with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.” Then In another epistle he teaches that, without the work of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life, there is no genuine experience of salvation: “You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 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. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.” (Romans 8:9-11) This is one of the great messages of hope for humanity from our loving God.
Our world is in deep need of spiritual truth in these times of uncertainty and so much suffering. All over the world there are those who have no hope and fear the future. The Gospel is the Good News of hope in all circumstances, carrying our God’s message of how His Grace is offered to all who will accept and believe the message of love and Justification. Grace is defined as the gift of God shed abroad under the guidance of The Holy Spirit, who calls sinners to repentance. In calling you and I, The Spirit grants us the Grace to understand our condition as sinners in need of a Savior. In turn He then advocates on behalf of Jesus as the only way to God, and therefore humanity’s Redeemer. Without the Grace that we received, you and I would not have had a genuine experience of conversion, leading to a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior.
While speaking of The Spirit as The Advocate (which is a councilor or champion) Jesus said: “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.”(John 16:7-14)
Only God can bestow genuine Grace, bringing true and everlasting peace into a believer’s life. It is through this Grace that we understand we have been forgiven of our sins through the shedding of the blood of the Lamb of God - Jesus our Savior and Lord. This is true Grace, which is the unmerited favor of God. In their epistles, both Peter and Paul press home the importance of the Holy Spirit in the work of salvation. Peter explains that the Father accomplished his plan through the sanctifying work of the Spirit when he addressed believers as those: “who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.”(1 Peter 1:2)
In chapter one of his letter to the Ephesians Paul states: “When you believed, you were marked in him (Christ) with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.” Then In another epistle he teaches that, without the work of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life, there is no genuine experience of salvation: “You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 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. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.” (Romans 8:9-11) This is one of the great messages of hope for humanity from our loving God.