In the Spirit

Ephesians 2:18“ For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” 

My wife asked the other day: “With the pre-occupation of day-to-day life, how much do people today really think about life after death or eternity? Great question, which I'll address on another post. Another is: “How much do people really think about the Holy Spirit?” I came across an enlightening article on the Holy Ghost that pointed out how we cannot see or hear the Holy Spirit, but He is very real and is, in fact, the very life of each true Christian. It is only through Him that we have access in prayer to the Father, as the about Bible verse points out. Christ, in His resurrection body, is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven, but the Holy Spirit has His temple in our very bodies. 

Jesus said in John 15:26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.”

He not only hears each spoken prayer, but also each thought of our hearts. From the moment we receive Christ, we live in the Spirit; He is always with us, to guide our steps, to bear witness with our spirits that we belong to God, to illumine our understanding, and, when needed, to convict and chasten when we get out of His will.

John 14:15-17 “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.”

Therefore, “if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit”. When we yield to some worldly temptation, it is because we have ignored this admonition, for the promise is “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” – Galatians 5:16.The very presence of the Holy Spirit assures our eternal salvation, so how can we ignore His holy constraints on our behavior? 

 

Ephesians 4:30“Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption”.

The article concluded that we speak of worshiping God in church, or home, or elsewhere, but if we really worship Him, we must “worship God in the spirit”, for we have access to the Father, and the Son, only in the Spirit. When we pray, we must be “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit”. 

Romans 8:9,14 “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. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons (and daughters) of God”. 

Blessings in the Holy Spirit