Relation of the Holy Spirit to the Believer E-Book

Elizabeth V. Baker

• Herausgeber: Full Well Ventures
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

This article, "Relation of the Holy Spirit to the Believer," originally appeared in the March 1911 issue of Trust, a magazine produced by Elim Publishing House in Rochester, New York, founded by Mrs. Elizabeth V. Baker (1849-1915) and her three sisters. This article by Mrs. Baker, published posthumously, talks about the spiritual growth, the life of faith that follows after salvation: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

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Relation of the Holy Spirit To the Believer

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Originally published in the March 1911 issue of “Trust” magazine

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Relation of the Holy spirit to the Believer

IN THE BOOK of Romans the Holy Spirit is mentioned but once in the first seven chapters. These chapters deal with the failure of man; but in the eighth chapter, which is the triumphant note of the overcoming life, the Holy Spirit is mentioned nineteen times. I am sure this is significant, and not until you come through the blood of the third chapter, into the Holy Spirit of the eighth chapter do you get the power of the Spirit. The blood delivers from the guilt and penalty of sin, and the Holy Spirit delivers from the power and dominion of sin, one is just as much needed as the other, and the one does not take the place of the other.

In the eighth chapter the Lord makes a distinction between children and sons. We know that a little babe is a son even while it is a babe, but it is not a grown-up son, the Word of God makes this distinction in the Greek. “Sons” and “children” do not come from the same Greek word. You will find the babe in the sixteenth and seventeenth verses of the eighth chapter.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.