Part 5b – Who is the Holy Spirit? The Nature of Our Spiritual Growth

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Part 5b – Who is the Holy Spirit? The Nature of Our Spiritual Growth New Covenant Presbyterian Church Inquirer’s Class

Our response to the gospel: Review: Our response to the gospel: Repentance unto life Faith – understanding, trust & obedience A miraculous, permanent change in life Salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit Who changes our heart of stone Who enlightens our minds Who renews our wills

Christian growth or “sanctification”

Christian growth or “sanctification”

Adam  to serve God to rebel life death Adam was able not to sin

The fall means Adam is now not able not to sin.  to sin die (no longer a "free will" but an expensive "won't"!) The fall means Adam is now not able not to sin.

serve God  to sin forgiveness conviction in Christ by Holy Spirit repentance But Christians renewed by the Holy Spirit and are able to sin but also able to be restored!

We are carried by the Spirit at the beginning (born “from above” or “again”) As we mature, the Spirit calls us to be more dependent on the Word. (as disciples) The challenges return

We fight the good fight of the faith with the armor of God (rf. Eph to live out the promise of Christ’s forgiveness to become overcomers (Rev. 2:7, etc.) to prove righteousness over wickedness to disciple and strengthen other believers in the church to bear witness of truth against the world to wait for the hope of glory.

But the struggle itself is a sign We are carried by the Spirit at the beginning (born “from above” or “again”) Then the Spirit calls us to be more dependent on the Word. (as disciples) And then the challenges return (we fight the good fight of the faith with the armor of God) But the struggle itself is a sign of God’s Spirit upon us and of how we are growing in the Christian life.

you begin the Christian life that counts, “It isn’t how you begin the Christian life that counts, it’s how you end it.”

Homework: Read: Westminster Confession of Faith – Chapter 19-20 Confessing Christ, ch. 4 Homework:

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