Growing in Grace 5 - The Holy Spirit's Role, part 1

Growing in Grace: The Holy Spirit - The Holy Spirit and the New Covenant - Starting and continuing with God - Jesus and the Holy Spirit - Fullness of the Holy Spirit - Conclusion The Holy Spirit and the New Covenant The Covenant of the Holy Spirit----- - Ezekiel 36:27 - John 6:53, 63 - Romans 7:6 - 2 Corinthians 3:6 Ezekiel 36:26-27 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 26 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 27 John 6:53, 63 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 53 Then “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 63 Romans 7:6 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 2 Corinthians 3:6 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Starting & Continuing with God - John 3:5,6 with John 1:11-13 - 1 Corinthians 6:11 - Galatians 3:2 - Galatians 3:3 - Galatians 5:16, 18, 22, 25 - 2 Thessalonians 2:13 -Romans 8:4 Starting With God John 3:5-6 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 5 John 1:11-13 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1 Corinthians 6:11 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Galatians 3:2 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Continuing With God Continuing With God • Galatians 3:3 • Galatians 5:16,18,22,23,25 • 2 Thessalonians 2:13 • Romans 8:4