Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Ch.2. (cont) The Role of the Spirit in the New Covenant

2. The Indwelling Holy Spirit.

The Spirit is located in every true believer in Jesus Christ.  He is in you/us.
1Th 4:8  Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts. WNT.
This refers to sexual Immorality and sanctification by the Holy Spirit.
1Co 6:19  Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?
1Co 14:24  But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.
1Co 14:25  And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. 

Eph 5:18  And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
Eph 5:19  speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 
But be filled with the Spirit (alla plērousthe en pneumati). In contrast to a state of intoxication with wine.RWP.
The effect in inspiration was that the person was “filled” with an ecstatic exhilaration, like that caused by wine; hence the two are here connected (compare Act_2:13-18). Hence arose the abstinence from wine of many of the prophets, for example, John the Baptist, namely, in order to keep distinct before the world the ecstasy caused by the Spirit, from that caused by wine. So also in ordinary Christians the Spirit dwells not in the mind that seeks the disturbing influences of excitement, but in the well-balanced prayerful mind. Such a one expresses his joy, not in drunken or worldly songs, but in Christian hymns of thankfulness. Jameison, Fausset and Brown Commentary.

This Infilling is in the HEART. 
2Co 1:22  And He has sealed us and having given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
 2Co 3:3  For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets. 
Gal 4:6  And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!"
He DWELLS in us. 
1Co 3:16  Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?
1Co 3:17  If any one is marring the Sanctuary of God, him will God mar; for the Sanctuary of God is holy, which you all are.



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