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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

DAYS OF PRAISE February 10, 2010

Days of Praise
In the Spirit
February 10, 2010
"Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye
now made perfect by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:3)
Paul the apostle had founded a number of churches in Galatia,
leading many Gentiles to saving faith in Christ, but soon found
that his teachings were being undermined by Judaizing
Christians with their legalistic insistence on circumcision before
these converts could really be Christians. Therefore, Paul had
to remind the Galatians rather sternly that they had received the
Holy Spirit as their in-dwelling guide and witness when they
accepted Christ and that was sufficient evidence of their salvation.
Believing Christians today also have received the Holy Spirit,
and thus have already been redeemed, "so, having begun in the
Spirit," we do not need any further "fleshly" actions to be saved.
Good works are vitally important, but they are the results of,
rather than prerequisites to, salvation;
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit," Paul
writes, for if we"walk in the Spirit, |we| shall not fulfil the
lust of the flesh" (Galatians 5:25,)
We need to realize the tremendous privilege of the Spirit's
presence within us once we have believed on Christ. In His
resurrection body He is in heaven,but the Holy Spirit has been
sent by the Lord, to be with us and in us. God,therefore, can
and does hear even our silent prayers, and we should be
"praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit"
(Ephesians 6:18), for we "have access by one Spirit unto the
Father"
(Ephesians 2:18). It is through Him that we "worship God in
the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence
in the flesh"
(Philippians 3:3). We must remember that "ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his"
 (Romans 8:9). HMM
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