Well, what did the scripture say? The Holy Spirit among other things, guides us into all truths. How do we know the truth if we do not walk in the Spirit or be guided by the Holy Spirit?
In Romans 8:11 we read, But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. We cannot achieve anything without the Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit teaches and puts us in remembrance of the works and words of our Lord Jesus Christ so that we do not perish for lack of knowledge. He reminds us of sin, righteousness and judgement so that we can walk in the light and not perish for lack of knowledge. He gives us spiritual illumination. As Paul said, if we say we are in the light, we must also walk in the light. if we say we are in the spirit, we must also walk in the spirit.
It is not enough to say we believe in him. We must also suffer with him (Philippians 1:29) and one way among many others we can suffer with him is to jettison in our heart the sins of the flesh which we enjoy and cling unto irrespective of the pain we suffer. If we are guided by the Holy Spirit and we harden our heart and are not responsive to his guide, we will be stuck in our sin.
Repentance is a process that starts from changing our mind to follow God and believing in all he tells us. Our believe or faith gives us the Holy Spirit which illuminates us and through the power of the operation of God quickens our mortal body
But we can see that we are not only baptised with the baptism of the Holy Spirit alone but also with fire (MT3:11) - the latter, to prove ourselves, humble and purify us in the process. Isaiah 48:10 says, "Behold, I have refined you but not with silver, I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction" There is a "proofing" from our own side.
amen that’s the gospel message the world needs to hear well said eventually because we begin to let his word into our minds and hearts
“For
the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but
all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
Hebrews 4:12-13 KJV
we sin because we have son in our hearts in our thoughts and intents , we can forever resist the urge and will in us to lie , but it can’t heal the thing in us that causes us to need to resist who we are to be accepted of God
our issue is this
“For
from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
All
these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
Mark 7:21-23 KJV
We sin because we have an issue in our core nature the flaw of good and evil which was not intended for mankind
“I find then
a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
Romans 7:21-23 KJV
This is why as you are saying we need a correction of that conflicted mind and heart we have ,
a new understanding to embrace in order to put the evil in us to death
“That
ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And
be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye
put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
Ephesians 4:22-
The “new man “ who believes the gospel has a renewed knowledge of Gods word
“And have put on
the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”
Colossians 3:10 KJV
(back to the image of the creator I show I read that as Man was in the beginning through knowledge of truth. Redeeming the knowledge of sin and death
this renewing of how we think and what we desire and love is required for redemption , because we’re being redeemed from transgression of this which caused death
“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
the knowledge we shall eat of and live forever is the knowledge of Christ loved !! your post
