Why Every Christian Should Receive the Holy Ghost #2

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Why Every Christian Should Receive the Holy Ghost #2 

This is a continuation of Why Every Christian Should Receive the Holy Ghost.

Third: BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES POWER TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE.

Romans 8:1-2,13 (NKJV) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 


Here we are told that the Holy Spirit frees us from the law of sin and death. Without the Spirit man’s attempts to live a holy life are futile and in vain. He cannot in his own strength live an overcoming life. He will fail again and again, as Paul describes in his autobiographical experience in Romans seven. Indeed man’s self-righteousness is as filthy rags in the sight of God. Romans 8:9 (NKJV) ...Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. But the experience as received on the Day of Pentecost, represents a fuller measure of the Spirit. He was WITH the believer, but now He is IN him.

It should be pointed out, however, that the baptism of the Holy Spirit does not automatically make a man holy nor an idea Christian. These saints in the Corinthian Church received the Spirit Spirit, and “they came behind in no gift”. Yet they were very carnal and required strict discipline and correction by the Apostle Paul. While the infilling of the Holy Spirit gives the believer power to live a holy life, nevertheless man is a free-will moral agent and therefore it cannot be guaranteed that every believer will live up to that responsibility.

FOURTH: THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A COMFORTER WHO WILL ABIDE FOREVER:

John 14:16 (KJV) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

The Holy Ghost is the Comforter who is come to abide for ever. What a thrilling thought that this glorious Holy Spirit who moved on the darkness at the dawn of creation and caused the light to shine forth, comes to abide, not for a day, a month, or a  year, but forever! A million years from now He will still be with us to guide, comfort and give us eternal fellowship with God. Here then we see the absolute need of the Holy Spirit beyond all else. He identifies Himself with us. Through His indwelling presence, we become the Temple of God.

How all material blessings pale into utter insignificance beside this great Comforter! How the abiding presence of the Spirit makes our worldly possessions as worthless trinkets in comparison! Solomon spoke the truth when he said, “All thing are full of labor, man cannot utter it; the eye is satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.” The earthly pleasures of this world can satisfy for only a little while, and in time pall the appetite. How sat to see great men as they never end, suddenly realize that all the honors of the world that they have ever gained, lose all value as they move into the land of shadow from whence none ever returns. Death rings down the curtain, and hustles them into the great unknown. No wonder Solomon came to this conclusion



The Sword of the LORD!

Ecclesiastes 12:1 (NASB) Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no delight in them"; 



Ecclesiastes 12:1 (MSG) Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young, Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes, 


The Good News is, he who has the mighty Comforter need never fear the “evil days”, for as the scripture says, “At evening time it shall be light.”  (Zech. 14:7).

The glorious Holy Spirit infilling is the only thing that can fully satisfy the human soul. Man is so made that he is not complete in himself. In his soul there is a “vacuum”. If it is not occupied with God, it will eventually be filled with that which is evil. Luke 11:24-25 (NKJV) 24 "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' 25 And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order.