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The Need For Divine Change - Multitudes are without God, without Christ, without hope in the world. That is the way Paul speaks of them. That distinction is there throughout the Bible - not just here - but here the Holy Spirit directs the apostle to focus on this distinction. Those who are in the flesh: that is who are unregenerate, who are not born of God, who not in Christ.
Let Marriage Be Held In Honour Among All - The Bible is telling us: Let marriage always be thought of as precious. Let it be treasured like gold and silver and rare jewels. Let it be revered and respected like the noblest, most virtuous person you have ever known.
Parable of the Vine and the Branches, John 15:5 - Many are called to become leaders, assisting others in their spiritual journey. Spiritual leaders - clergy or lay, seek to meet the needs of people in their own congregations or communities of faith. But spiritual leaders have unique and often overlooked needs of their own.
Confidence In Prayer - Are you tired of praying and not getting results in your prayer life? If so, you probably need to examine your confidence level in this area. A lack of confidence in prayer simply comes from not knowing God's Word. Too many Christians pray emotional, fear-based prayers, hoping that they get through to God.
The Holy Spirit hovers and broods over the message of the cross. By the word, "cross," we mean His finished work on the cross. Jesus said in John 19:30b, "...It is finished!..." The two great truths of the cross, forgiveness and deliverance, are standing offers for all people until He comes back. Willing believers claim and experience these basic truths and all of the other truths of the cross.
When we present the Lord’s Supper with understanding, the Holy Spirit will brood over the truths of the cross being proclaimed. The Holy Spirit is convicting us of our sin. He is pointing out the truths of the cross. He is applying pressure on us to confess our sins and take them to the cross (by faith apply the truths of the cross to a particular sin or death problem).
Whatever sin we confess and take to the cross, the Holy Spirit will seek to replace it with something of Him. He is resurrection power and He will resurrect righteousness in the very area we give up at the cross. The cross empties us. The Holy Spirit fills us. The cross cancels sin’s penalty (death). The Holy Spirit ministers life.
The Holy Spirit needs the truths of the cross to do what He wants to do through us. If there is a particular truth of the cross, say, the crucified with Christ truth, which we will not understand or acknowledge or preach or endure, the Holy Spirit is severely hampered. Christianity as a whole has been severely hampered for about 2000 years because she has not known or embraced the meaning of the bread of the Lord’s Supper. Even physical healings and deliverance from demons would flow more freely if the "crucified with Christ" message was embraced by the church.
24who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24).