Friday, August 31, 2018

Conversions by God's Spirit

“Can a leopard [change] its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” [1]

Humanity is hopelessly bound to living a self-centered, self-pleasing life, contrary to God and under God’s condemnation, unless humanity (a human being) believes in Christ. God has ordained His Son to be the only liberator from the sinful nature. God has ordained that His Holy Spirit is only given to those who believe in Jesus Christ His Son.

Humanism is living according to the flesh.

A prideful human is contrary to God.

The Bible says, “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” God is the only One who gives us new life, divine life, through His Spirit.

“Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;
for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
So then, 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.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” [2]

Ever since Christ resurrected from the dead and ascended on high, He pours forth His Spirit on who all ask God’s forgiveness and believe in Him. Do you believe in Christ? If not, why wait?

The Lord says, “Come now, and let us reason together, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” [3]

God’s forgiveness and Christ’s Holy Spirit yields transformation from the inside out. He removes our heart of stone and gives us a heart like His… full of love, joy, and peace.

[1] Jeremiah 13:23
[2] Romans 8:5-9, 11
[3] Isaiah 1:18

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