This is one thing we all should desire as Christians because the bible says that 'as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God'. The leading of the Spirit is the guarantee of our Eternal Life.
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Chapter 10: Following the Witness
For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
—Psalm 18:28
—Psalm 18:28
We were asked by leaders of a denomination to take another church to fill in temporarily, so we did.
Later, while I would be in my study praying, I would get a burden to go back to the church I'd left as a result of the fleece. I hadn't finished what God wanted me to do there.
Later, while I would be in my study praying, I would get a burden to go back to the church I'd left as a result of the fleece. I hadn't finished what God wanted me to do there.
One morning while we washed dishes, I said to my wife, "Honey, if the Lord says anything to you, let me know." I didn't tell her anything more.
Then I waited 30 days. You don't have to get in a big hurry about some things. The Bible says, "... he that believeth shall not make haste" (Isa. 28:16). Faith doesn't get in a hurry. The devil will try to push you. He will say, "Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry, hurry, hurry." He will try to move you out of faith, move you into doubt, move you into unbelief, and get you away from the leading of God.
Thirty days later, as I washed the dishes and my wife dried them, I said, "Has the Lord been talking to you?"
"If He has, I don't know it."
I got a little more pointed in order to bring her out. I said, "Has the Lord said anything to you about going back to____?" I called the name of the city where the church was.
"Oh," she said, "I thought that was just me."
"Oh," she said, "I thought that was just me."
I saw she had the inward witness just as I did. Sometimes the inward witness is there and people don't recognize it.
Many times we ignore the inward witness. We want something out in the sense realm. We seek the sensational and miss the supernatural.
Let's learn that God leads all of His children, primarily, by the inward witness.
Chapter 11: Number Two: The Inward Voice
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.
—Romans 9:1
—Romans 9:1
The number one way the Spirit guides us is through the inward witness. Number two is by the inward voice.The inward man, who is a spirit man, has a voice—just as the outward man has a voice. We call this voice of the inward man conscience. We call this voice the still small voice.Your spirit has a voice. Your spirit will speak to you.
Now I'm not talking about the Spirit of God speaking. When the Holy Spirit speaks it is more authoritative. The still small voice is the voice of our own spirit speaking. But our own spirit picks it up from the Holy Spirit who is in us.
Chapter 12: Effects of the Spirit's Indwelling
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
—Acts 23:1
—Acts 23:1
It is interesting to go through the Epistles Paul wrote to the Church and see what he said about his conscience. You will notice that he always obeyed it.Is your conscience a safe guide? Yes, if your spirit has become a new man in Christ, it is because your conscience is the voice of your spirit.
A person who has not been born again could not follow the voice of his spirit. His spirit is unregenerate. His conscience would permit him to do anything.When you have the life and nature of God in you, your conscience will not permit you to do just anything. And if you are born again, you have the life of God.
Consider this scripture:
1 JOHN 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE....
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE....
Have is present tense. We have eternal life now. If you are a born-again Christian, you have the life of God in your spirit now. You have the nature of God in your spirit now. Oh! If people would learn to follow their spirits! If they would learn to take advantage of the life that is in them!
I am convinced we have never completely learned what we have received. Most of us have thought that the Lord just forgave us, saying that we're the same old creature we always were. We'll just try to hold out faithful till the end. If we get enough people to pray for us, maybe we can make it. No, thank God, the life of God has been imparted into our spirits! The nature of God is in our spirits. The Holy Spirit is living and abiding in our spirits.
Chapter 13: Two Experiences
Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them ... when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women... Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
—Acts 8:5,12,14-17
—Acts 8:5,12,14-17
Under the New Covenant every child of God has the Spirit of God. If you are born again, the Spirit of God is in your spirit.
We do need to differentiate between being born of the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit. The born-again Christian can be filled with the same Spirit that he already has in him. And when he is filled with that Spirit, there will be an overflowing. He will speak with other tongues as the Spirit gives him utterance (Acts 2:4).
Bible scholars know that water is a type of the Spirit of God. Jesus Himself used water as a type of the Spirit. He used it as a type of the new birth when talking to the woman at the well of Samaria (JOHN 4:10,11,13,14).
Jesus also used water as a type of the Spirit in the infilling of the Holy Spirit (JOHN 7:37-39).
These are two different experiences. The new birth is a well of water in you, springing up into everlasting life. The infilling of the Holy Spirit is rivers—not just one river. The water in the well is for one purpose. The water in the well is for your own benefit. It blesses you. The water in the rivers is for another purpose. The rivers flowing out of you bless someone else. Some people say, "If you are born of the Spirit, you have the Spirit, and that's all there is." But, no, just because you have had one drink of water is no sign you're full of water. There is the experience subsequent to the new birth of being filled with the Spirit—and as a result, out of the belly (the innermost being—the spirit) rivers of living water can flow.
Others say that people who are not filled with the Spirit speaking with other tongues do not have the Holy Spirit. That is not true. If I drink half a glass of water, I may not be full, but at least I have water in me. If one is born of the Spirit of God, he has the Spirit of God abiding in him.
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