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

2. 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

3. Christian growth or “sanctification”

4. Christian growth or “sanctification”

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

6. 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.

7. 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!

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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