“God has given us the
responsibility to rule over all “the temple of the Holy Spirit,” including our
thoughts and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19). We are responsible for these, and we
must never give way to improper ones. But most of us are much more severe in
our judgment of others than we are in judging ourselves. We make excuses for
things in ourselves, while we condemn things in the lives of others simply
because we are not naturally inclined to do them. Paul said, “I beseech
you…that you present your bodies a living sacrifice…” (Romans 12:1). What I
must decide is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body
will indeed be His temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and
requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this
revealed truth-my body is “the temple of the Holy Spirit.”” CHAMBERS
If you had surgery and the
doctors has to put something in your body, you would feel it. Depending upon what “it” was, every time you
touched the area where the device was implanted, you would be reminded that
something was put in you. At the
point of conversion, God seals us with His Spirit. (Ephesians
1:13-14) When you believed, you were
marked in him 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.”
Like a pace-maker, His Spirit
enables us to live .. in the case of a pace-maker, it keeps our hearts
functioning properly. In the case of the
Spirit, He enables our spiritual lives.
We don’t actually feel the Spirit in us, but we do “feel” the result of
His presence. When we are convicted of
sin. When we have sudden insight into
the Word of God. The natural man cannot
understand spiritual things. We can … by
the presence of the Spirit. The thing
is, we should not forget that the Spirit is in us. We should always be aware of the fact that we
have a new nature, a spiritual nature.
Our spiritual nature that can be neglected … even ignored. (1
Thessalonians 5:19) “Do not quench the Spirit.”
Perhaps you know others who have drifted away
from the faith. One of the last things
they want to do is be around Christians who are walking in the Spirit, living
by faith. But that is exactly what they
need. If you are reading this, you have
an interest in Spiritual things … but there is a danger that we can be like the
man in the mirror .. seeing spiritual truth
.. knowing that it applies to us, and then turning away, immediately
forgetting what we were thinking or understanding.
(James 1:22-24) “Do not
merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone
who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks
at his face in a mirror and, after
looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.” I want to encourage you to encourage others
to keep the faith. Submitting to the Spirit
and not forgetting about the great gift that we have been given. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
Charley Elgin
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