OUR DEPENDENCE ON THE HOLY SPIRIT (1)
SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER, 2018
The Spirit’s Saving Work
Texts: EPHESIANS 2:5
Introduction
To live by, to keep in step with, to walk by the Spirit is what every believer is called to. That means, as followers of Christ, we cannot do it in our power or wisdom. We need supernatural help. We need help to live our own lives of growth and maturity in Christ. And we need supernatural strength to help others follow Christ. That’s what the Holy Spirit provides – supernatural power to be and to do what Christ has called us to.
We are completely dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit to live gospel-centered lives and to do the work Christ has given us to do.
The most amazing miracle that we will ever witness in this lifetime is the Spirit’s work of regeneration.
Ephesians 2:5 – “even when we were dead in our trespasses, [He] made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—“
We know the primary purpose of the Holy Spirit is to point people to Christ. And He does this through the miracle of regeneration (which means to live again, to be given new life). Before Jesus saved us, we were dead in our sin. But in an act completely initiated and fulfilled by God, the Holy Spirit came to us, took our dead, lifeless, sinful heart, and made it alive in Christ.
If you’re saved, it’s because God saved you. When you responded to the good news of the gospel, even that response was a result of the Spirit at work in you, causing you to be able to say “yes” to Christ.
PRAYERS
- Thank you Holy Spirit for giving me a new life
- Holy Spirit, forgive me for wasting so much time and spending it in my own strength
- Holy Spirit, fill me afresh
- Holy Spirit, teach me how to live like Jesus
- From today, let me be an instrument that is always being used by Holy Spirit
- Pray in the Spirit for the next five minutes
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