Life, spiritual

The nature of spiritual life

It is new life

Acts 5:20 NCV

“Go stand in the Temple and tell the people everything about this new life.”

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It is true life

1 Timothy 6:19 NCV

By doing that, they will be saving a treasure for themselves as a strong foundation for the future. Then they will be able to have the life that is true life.

It is eternal life

Romans 5:21 NCV

Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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It is abundant life

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The origins and nature of spiritual life

Spiritual life is the work of the Holy Spirit

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Spiritual life unites believers to Jesus Christ

Ephesians 2:4–5 NCV

But God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much. Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace.

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Spiritual life makes believers the children of God

John 1:12–13 NCV

But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God. They did not become his children in any human way—by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.

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Spiritual life brings people to know God

John 17:3 NCV

And this is eternal life: that people know you, the only true God, and that they know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.

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Spiritual life brings about faith

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Keeping in step with the Spirit

A new way of life is made possible

Galatians 5:25 NCV

We get our new life from the Spirit, so we should follow the Spirit.

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Bondage to the written law is ended

Romans 2:29 NCV

A person is a Jew only if he is a Jew inside; true circumcision is done in the heart by the Spirit, not by the written law. Such a person gets praise from God rather than from people.

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Obedience to God is made possible

Romans 8:4 NCV

He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.

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Deepening unity is encouraged

Ephesians 4:3 NCV

You are joined together with peace through the Spirit, so make every effort to continue together in this way.

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Strength and encouragement are received

Acts 9:31 NCV

The church everywhere in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace and became stronger. Respecting the Lord by the way they lived, and being encouraged by the Holy Spirit, the group of believers continued to grow.

Gifts for those living in the Spirit

Gifts are given for building up the church

1 Corinthians 12:4–11 NCV

There are different kinds of gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit. There are different ways to serve but the same Lord to serve. And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom, and the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge. The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And, to another, that one Spirit gives gifts of healing. The Spirit gives to another person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy. And he gives to another the ability to know the difference between good and evil spirits. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak in different kinds of languages and to another the ability to interpret those languages. One Spirit, the same Spirit, does all these things, and the Spirit decides what to give each person.

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Visions are given

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Miracles are worked

Matthew 12:28 NCV

But if I use the power of God’s Spirit to force out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

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Ministry is enhanced

2 Corinthians 3:6 NCV

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

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Those living in the Spirit receive revelation and guidance

God is revealed as Father

Galatians 4:6 NCV

Since you are God’s children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and the Spirit cries out, “Father.”

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God’s purposes are revealed

1 Corinthians 2:9–10 NCV

But as it is written in the Scriptures: “No one has ever seen this, and no one has ever heard about it. No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” But God has shown us these things through the Spirit. The Spirit searches out all things, even the deep secrets of God.

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Guidance is given to believers

Acts 8:29 NCV

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

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Help is given to pray

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The Holy Spirit sanctifies those in whom he lives

Through the Spirit, Jesus Christ lives in believers

Ephesians 3:16–17 NCV

I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong inwardly through his Spirit. I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

The Spirit transforms believers

2 Corinthians 3:18 NCV

Our faces, then, are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to be like him. This change in us brings ever greater glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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The fruit of the Spirit is seen in believers’ lives

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Examples of life in the Holy Spirit

Jesus Christ

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Simeon

Luke 2:25–27 NCV

In Jerusalem lived a man named Simeon who was a good man and godly. He was waiting for the time when God would take away Israel’s sorrow, and the Holy Spirit was in him. Simeon had been told by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he saw the Christ promised by the Lord. The Spirit led Simeon to the Temple. When Mary and Joseph brought the baby Jesus to the Temple to do what the law said they must do,

Peter

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Stephen

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The first Christians

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