Sentences with phrase «indwelling holy spirit»

However, Christian marriage counseling acknowledges that it is the wisdom and power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, along with our cooperation, that gives us the supernatural strength to change and to triumph over marital difficulties.

When you read the bible without the indwelling Holy Spirit to guide you, or at least a truthful search to know God you, can not understand it.

Confessing sins to God, not doing certain things while making an effort to do other things, making a verbal confession of faith... None of these lead to salvation, but are rather a result of salvation and come forth from the indwelling Holy Spirit as fruit.

...» Aphesis is release from sin» I think there is a tranformational quality to regeneration where a sinner is transformed into a saint — the greatest of all Jesus miracles because there is no force or power in the universe capable of changing our nature other than the indwelling Holy Spirit — but the struggle with sin is an on going one.

As a result of Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit, our mind can now serve the law of God, even though the flesh still serves the law of sin (Romans 7:25).

Due to the fact of the indwelling Holy Spirit and that God is everywhere all the time, God is able to treat each of us as if we were the only person in the world, the only one He needs to listen to, the only one He needs to care for.

By the time of the writing of John's Gospel toward the end of the century, the dominant note had become the promise of the indwelling Holy Spirit that would succeed him to guide his followers in ways of truth and service.

Humility is the strongest weapon we have as it motivates us to prayer and allows us to be directed by the greatest power we have available - the indwelling Holy Spirit.

I have always viewed the saved person as having an inherent - free - will, a good nature, an evil / sin nature and the indwelling Holy Spirit; and his inherent - free - will is constantly deciding whether to follow the good nature or the evil / sin nature or the indwelling Holy Spirit.

He never constantly follows the good nature, the evil / sin nature or the indwelling Holy Spirit.

And I realize that it is only through the indwelling Holy Spirit that I am able to achieve that position of victory.

Look to yourself first by following Jesus through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

All have, in some sense, been corrupted by the fall, and all are, in some way, redeemed and remade though Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

But when we, with the indwelling Holy Spirit as our guide, chase after the person God created us to be, it is then that we become more human.

The new man is a Christian born again -LCB- indwelt by the Holy Spirit (after believing in Christ as his savior) and should be walking in / after the Spirit -RCB-; that is, the new man has a good nature, evil / sin nature and the indwelling Holy Spirit and should be willingly walking in / after the Spirit (Eph.

Sanctification occurs as we follow Jesus in discipleship and learn to love others like Jesus through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The believer is united with Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

If a person goes to church, reads their Bible, and calls themselves a Christian, but has never believed in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47), then they have not received the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The indwelling Holy Spirit transforms Christians, which results in «better» behavior when you average the entire population.

It is by faith that we receive eternal life and the indwelling Holy Spirit, who guarantees by His presence that a Christian will not be demon - possessed.

I firmly believe that when people feel that Jesus is calling them to leave the church they are in, they are rightly discerning what Jesus is saying through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

For a Christian, many of those rules were made obsolete by the completion of them by Jesus and the replacement of them by the new principle of grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who directs and empowers believers.

This is main thrust where we are all to be born again and it is that spiritual rebirth that indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord Jesus Christ works in us and gives us that validation through the Holy Spirit that indwells us.

but the Holy Spirit only came to men at pentecost when he came to indwell believers.

All three thousand received the indwelling gift of the Holy Spirit after they believed, repented, and were baptized in water.

I believed through Christ and in Christ and am indwelt with the Holy Spirit.

When a person believes in Jesus for eternal life, they are immediately regenerated, indwelt, baptized, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

Paul taught salvation was a gift of God: Ephesians 2:8, Romans 5:15,16, and 18, 6:23 Paul taught salvation occurred when you believe the word of truth: Ephesians 1:13 Paul taught salvation was apart from works: Ephesians 2:9, Romans 11:6 Paul taught the believer is indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption: Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4:30 Paul taught repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ: Acts 20:21 Paul never taught baptism for salvation 1 Corinthians 1:14 - 17 Paul received his knowledge of the gospel from Jesus Christ: Galatians 1:11 - 12

The Christian, who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, need not fear demon possession.

Scripture certainly witnesses to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

It has nothing to do with a person being saved, baptized into the body of Christ, indwelt and sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

At its fullest measure, through the Gifts of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion, it is simply the Holy Spirit Himself salvifically «indwelling» in our soul.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, moving, whispering, indwelling our very being.

The effect of the Holy Spirit's indwelling is to make us a child of God, in the image of Jesus Christ, able to cry out from the bottom of our minds and hearts «Abba Father».

They weren't born again, baptized into the body of Christ and indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

If you're saved, then you are indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

Yet, John was beheaded before The Cross (atonement for sin) and Pentecost (indwelling of the Holy Spirit).

I guess that C.S. Lewis — here at least — spoke of pleasure rather than of Christian happiness which, of course, can not be found in any outwardly oriented religion if we are not indwelt by the Holy Spirit who gives us love, joy, peace, and much more (Gal 5:22 - 23).

One example was the Charismatic Renewal which emphasised the vital importance of having a personal relationship with God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

You have been regenerated, indwelled, baptized, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

If Christians could come to see that we can not understand the saving work of God within us, the incarnation of God in the world, the presence of the Holy Spirit, or the character of the Christian life apart from a doctrine of mutual indwelling that is irreconcilable with atomistic individualism and all its works, we could have powerful leverage to liberate us from oppressive canalizations of thought and practice.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

And once we have truly placed our faith in Him (accepted His gracious gift of salvation through the sacrifice of Christ) the Holy Spirit indwells our hearts and holds us fast.

I have no way to judge who the Holy Spirit indwells, i am sure there are millions of saved Catholics.

At the moment a person is saved many things happen to them including their sins are forgiven, they receive the righteousness of Christ, they are spiritually baptized into the body of Christ and are indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

They were not born again, baptized into the body of Christ, and permanently indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are children of God — Galatians 3:26 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

but Christ indwells us by the Holy Spirit who descends from heaven which is far above the sky..

Once you believe the gospel you are indwelt by God the Holy Spirit.