Romans 8:8-9 “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”
A devotional reading on this Bible Verse points out that the Holy Spirit indwells everyone who is a true believer, a child of God. Each believer is “born again” through the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls, for faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Jesus said in John 14:15-17, 25-26“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
But the role of the Spirit of God and the Word of God in our salvation only begins the Christian’s relationship to them, for we are enjoined to be filled with the Spirit in the same sense that a drunkard is filled with and controlled by wine, and to let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. These two entities equip us to be effective representatives of Him here on Earth.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, and teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. A Spirit-filled Christian, knowledgeable in the Word, just can’t quit singing! Nor can they stop giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
May we always manifest the work of the Spirit and the knowledge of the Word by our thankful hearts and the songs on our lips.
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