{"id":9712,"date":"2023-06-12T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abidingfathers.org\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2023-06-12T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:04:35","slug":"9712-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/9712-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

God is Spirit. John testifies to this in John 2.24. \u201c<\/em><\/strong>God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>(NKJV) On our own, we cannot do this. It is impossible. Only the Spirit of God can testify to our spirit with truth about Jesus, the gospel and God\u2019s plan for his creation for eternity. \u201cThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs \u2013 heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Romans 8. 16,17 ESV<\/p>\n

While Jesus was here on earth, in intimate relationship with his chosen disciples, the apostles, they were only temporarily for a few days filled with the Holy Spirit when they were sent out to do God\u2019s work. Not until Jesus ascended and Pentecost came, did they understand the truth of everything he had taught them. They weren\u2019t in the dark totally as they had intellectual knowledge, but their spirit had not been reborn, renewed. Jesus knew this well, so he told them in advance of what was to come. \u201cNevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment…\u201d <\/em><\/strong>John 16.7, 8 NKJV<\/p>\n

Jesus goes on to clarify what is the renewing work of the Holy Spirit. \u201cWhen the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. And all that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>John 16.13-15 ESV<\/p>\n

Jesus makes it profoundly clear during his encounter with Nicodemus that every person has to be born again. Because of the Fall, we as sinful beings, are separated from God until this new birth comes about. \u2018Jesus answered him, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0He went on to say\u2026 \u201cDo not marvel that I said to you, \u2018You must be born again.\u2019 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>John 3.7, 8 ESV<\/p>\n

I was convicted at 12 years of age in a Baptist church in Franklin, Tennessee. One morning, I was compelled to go forward and dedicate my life to Jesus and receive salvation. I was baptized and spent the next 20 years pretty well living with one foot in the world and one foot in God\u2019s kingdom. But as the Lord would have it, one Sunday in Dallas, Texas, a pastor delivered a sermon that convicted me once and for all. I know for certain that the Spirit of God came into my life that night when I repented, and from that day on truth literally leapt off the page. I could sense that my sins have been forgiven once and for all. I was born again. What is your Holy Spirit story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God is Spirit. John testifies to this in John 2.24. \u201cGod is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d (NKJV) On our own, we cannot do this. It is impossible. Only the Spirit of God can testify to our spirit with truth about Jesus, the gospel and God\u2019s plan for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[330,198,531],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-spirit","tag-born-again","tag-holy-spirit","tag-spirit-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}