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Why Spiritual Fullness?

Power of Spiritual Fullness

Power of Spiritual Fullness

Synopsis

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The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him—His own gloomy reflections, the consciousness that he had not acted up to the character of an Israelitish king, the loss of his throne, and the extinction of his royal house, made him jealous, irritable, vindictive, and subject to fits of morbid melancholy.

To improve ourselves, we cannot do it alone.

Especially when we become a member of God’s Kingdom.

To improve ourselves, we cannot do it alone.

Especially when we become a member of God’s Kingdom.

Life embraces more than physical existence; it includes humanity’s relationship with God.

Human beings come to life spiritually only through faith in the redeeming work of God in Jesus Christ.

This spiritual life is a foretaste of the life which believers will finally enjoy to the full in the new heaven and earth.

Life in the Spirit means keeping in step with the promptings and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and always being open to his gifts and empowerment.

In order for us to improve our lives and live a life of righteousness and fulfilling to God, we need the power of the Holy Spirit.

The nature of spiritual life

You see the devil picks up his attacks when he knows that you trying to change your life.

That’s why most people encounter challenges when they first try to change and give there lives to the Lord.

And while walking with the Lord, the devil won’t stop.

Sometimes we think we’re good, we can relax now.

NO!

That’s why being filled with the Holy Spirit and having the power of the Holy Spirit to lead us is very important

In it says “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

If we look at a car, mechanics recommend that we keep up with the maintenance because its easier and also cheaper compared to if you don’t take proper maintenance and your car breaks down, you would be spending alot more money.

How Are We Filled With The Holy Spirit?

If we look see the world today, satan is not trying to get

It is new life

Ac 5:20

Most of us will ask, but how can I be filled with the Holy Spirit?

The bible say in “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Acts 5:20 (KJV 1900) — 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

See also Ac 11:18; 2 Pe 1:3; 1 Jn 3:14

And if we go all the way down to verse 14 () it says “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

Acts 11:18 (KJV 1900) — 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

2 Peter 1:3 (KJV 1900) — 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

1 John 3:14 (KJV 1900) — 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.

He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

It is true life

1 Ti 6:19

1 Timothy 6:19 (KJV 1900) — 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

It is eternal life

Ro 5:21

Romans 5:21 (KJV 1900) — 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

See also Da 12:2; Mt 19:29; Jn 6:27; 1 Jn 5:11; 1 Jn 5:20

Daniel 12:2 (KJV 1900) — 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Matthew 19:29 (KJV 1900) — 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

John 6:27 (KJV 1900) — 27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

1 John 5:11 (KJV 1900) — 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:20 (KJV 1900) — 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.

This is the true God, and eternal life.

Nature of conversion

Synopsis

Ps 16:11; Je 17:8

Psalm 16:11 (KJV 1900) — 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

True repentance results in a turning from sin and an inner renewal which can only be brought about by God, who draws people to himself and who, through Jesus Christ, gives forgiveness and new life.

Jeremiah 17:8 (KJV 1900) — 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Conversion as turning to God

Turning back to God

See also Ps 1:3; Jn 10:10

Psalm 1:3 (KJV 1900) — 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, That bringeth forth his fruit in his season; His leaf also shall not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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(KJV 1900) — 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31 (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

John 10:10 (KJV 1900) — 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

(KJV 1900) — 16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

The origins and nature of spiritual life

Spiritual life is the work of the Holy Spirit

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(KJV 1900) — 2 And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

Jn 3:6; Jn 3:8

(KJV 1900) — 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

John 3:6 (KJV 1900) — 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

(KJV 1900) — 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

John 3:8 (KJV 1900) — 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

See also Eze 36:26; Jn 3:3; Jn 3:5–7; Ro 8:11; Tt 3:5–7

(KJV 1900) — 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Ezekiel 36:26 (KJV 1900) — 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Turning from idolatry

John 3:3 (KJV 1900) — 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

(KJV 1900) — 15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things?

We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

John 3:5–7 (KJV 1900) — 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Romans 8:11 (KJV 1900) — 11 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 dwelleth in you.

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Titus 3:5–7 (KJV 1900) — 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

(KJV 1900) — 3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

(KJV 1900) — 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

Spiritual life unites believers to Jesus Christ

Eph 2:4–5

(KJV 1900) — 1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

2 And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

Ephesians 2:4–5 (KJV 1900) — 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

(KJV 1900) — 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Turning from sinful ways

See also Ro 6:3–5; Ro 8:10; 1 Co 12:13; Col 2:13; 1 Jn 5:12

Romans 6:3–5 (KJV 1900) — 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

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Romans 8:10 (KJV 1900) — 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

(KJV 1900) — 13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.