Simple Simon Says: Why God Gives Us The Holy Spirit

10 September 2011

Why God Gives Us The Holy Spirit

Ephesians 1:13-14

13 And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.
14 The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.

You might say that the Holy Spirit is our "identifying mark" as a Christian. In this text we see three specific reasons God gives us his Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a Promise. Once again, scripture reminds us that God has promised to send the Holy Spirit to all those who have heard the good news of the gospel and trusted Christ as Savior.
The Holy Spirit is a Seal. The Holy Spirit serves as a mark of ownership, showing that we belong to God.
The Holy Spirit is a Guarantee. The Holy Spirit also represents God's pledge to bring us to our final spiritual inheritance. This work could also be translated as a "first installment" or "deposit" signifying that his sealing in our lives is a foretaste of much more to come!

God gives us the Holy Spirit not only to enable us to live out the Christian life but to prove that we are precious in his sight.

New Believer's Bible
Ps Greg Laurie

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Bible Verses

1 John 4:17-18 (NLT)
¹⁷ And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.
¹⁸ Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.

Hebrews 9:12 (NLT)
¹² Once for all time he took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever.

Romans 5:17 (NLT)
¹⁷The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over us, but all who receive God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5;21 (NLT)
²¹For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Romans 5:1-2 (NLT)
¹Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. ²Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.

1 Corinthians 1:26-27 (NLT)
²⁶Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you. ²⁷Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)
⁸ "My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
⁹For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Hebrew 8:8-13 (NLT)
¹² And I will forgive their wrongdoings,
and I will never again remember their sins."

Romans 4:7-8 (NLT)
⁷"Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight.
⁸Yes, what joy for those whose sin is no longer counted against them by the Lord."

Romans 8:1 (NLT)
¹So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus

John 3:16-17 (NLT)
¹⁶"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it."

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10 September 2011

Why God Gives Us The Holy Spirit

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