[Church_of_Christ] Re: Holy Spirit 3
Dear Ray, ED replying
Ray: The grand poobah of red herrings here. You don't believe in any manifestation of the HS by anyone. Did you forget this simple fact?
ED: What a declaration! Every day I live I try to live to the glory of God. I lift up His name as my Lord. I mind the things of His Spirit, to walk by the Spirit, to live by the Spirit, to bear the fruit of the Spirit. I fail and I admit I am a miserable sinner. Yet my righteousness does not stand in myself, the Lord has given me His righteousness thru the HS and I walk in forgiveness. Hallelujah. I sing the song of the Lamb and the Spirit prompts me to shout, Abba, Father! Because the Spirit bears witness with me spirit, I am His. His stamp, his seal, I wear as a guarantee of redemption awaiting the coming day when the redeemed shall inherit all that the children of God receive. So don't talk to me about not believing in any manifestation of the HS. He manifests his blessings every day and brings forth fruit even in this sin-worn heap of clay clad in kakee and shod with Rockports.
What I don't evidence is a "word of wisdom", or "word of knowledge", or gift of healings", or . . . that came thru the laying on of an apostle's hands. No apostle has ever laid hands on me. But they have laid their words on me, HS words! And the Spirit has continued to work in my life, working all things together for my good, taking my poor efforts at prayer and reforming them into that which is pleasing to God and if some evil spirit tries to lay claim to me, the HS is there to point out he live in me, seals me, and I am His. For by one Spirit I was baptized into one body and did and do drink deeply of the one Spirit.
And now faith , hope and love abide. The gifts? They have ceased but faith and hope abide. Faith and hope continue after the gifts cease. But faith and hope too will cease when Christ comes and faith is seen and hope realized. Only love abides never failing.
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