Do you know that when you get saved.....
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Well you know something Stephen... ? I hear crickets tonight when it comes to posting to you. You have already shared your very low opinion of me as a Christian woman. You have already made it clear you do not count me as a sister in Christ. Why would I desire to engage in a conversation with you in light of that? You certainly don't care to know what I think you already know what I believe. You simply want to argue. And because I know you love to argue I'm not going to engage you.
Hi jjdog ., I don't know about Saul. Back in the OT times the Holy Spirit came and went on people. It was a different dispensation. Today if you read John 7:38-39 Jesus said;
[SUP]38 [/SUP]He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From [SUP][a][/SUP]his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
[SUP]39 [/SUP]But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
The people in the OT times did not have the Holy Spirit stay with them like we do under the new covenant of grace today. He came upon many but His personal relationship with men in the OT was limited and not permanent in a lot of cases. New covenant believers have the Holy Spirit and He will not leave us. John 14:16
[SUP]16 [/SUP]I will ask the Father, and He will give you another [SUP][a][/SUP]Helper, that He may be with you forever; [SUP]17 [/SUP]that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
The only way I've been able know these truths enough to not be moved away from them is to keep reading them and hearing them over and over throughout the years without fail. I believe it will be that way for for the rest of our lives while we are here on earth. Because while we have these flesh bodies it will always be an active choice we have to make.
Thankfully it becomes an acquired taste developed into a habit. There have been so many long held beliefs that drifted away slowly but steadily because of the reading and hearing the truth from the Bible and asking the Holy Spirit to teach me how to think right.
Did anyone else here ever come to find out that the way you were taught to think for most of your life was wrong? And that the way you processed thoughts was totally wrong? This "renewing of the mind" is really a ministry of the Holy Spirit and not something we can do ourselves.
Ps.119:105 Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It's a promise that anyone who has the Holy Spirit can apply these truths and have confidence in the love of God in Christ. And have the witness of the Holy Spirit that we will not come into condemnation but we have passed from death to life. The Holy Spirit keeps filling. And the Bible even says for us to "be ye being filled by the Holy Spirit."
Thankfully it becomes an acquired taste developed into a habit. There have been so many long held beliefs that drifted away slowly but steadily because of the reading and hearing the truth from the Bible and asking the Holy Spirit to teach me how to think right.
Did anyone else here ever come to find out that the way you were taught to think for most of your life was wrong? And that the way you processed thoughts was totally wrong? This "renewing of the mind" is really a ministry of the Holy Spirit and not something we can do ourselves.
Ps.119:105 Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It's a promise that anyone who has the Holy Spirit can apply these truths and have confidence in the love of God in Christ. And have the witness of the Holy Spirit that we will not come into condemnation but we have passed from death to life. The Holy Spirit keeps filling. And the Bible even says for us to "be ye being filled by the Holy Spirit."
