Y Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. PDF FLESH vs. SPIRIT - Nash Publications But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. When properly paired with the Spirit, the soul, or mind, of a person can grasp and understand spiritual truth. This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. But the person who is not a Christian does not understand these words from the Holy Spirit. Interpreters of Scripture have not all agreed on the identity of the one restraining lawlessness. Third, the unsaved must face the fact of judgment and find in Christ One who was judged and executed as their substitute. This took discernment. Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Christ addressed this issue in John 16:8-11, during His Upper Room Discourse . The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. This is what in theology is called common grace.3 The work of the Holy Spirit revealing the Gospel to the unsaved is, therefore, an important aspect of a larger program of God in dealing with the need of a lost world. He cannot understand them because he does not have the Holy Spirit to help him understand. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. The work of the Holy Spirit in revealing the Gospel to the lost is essential to the whole program of completing the purpose of God to call out the Church in this age. Nor can he perceive them, because they are spiritually examined. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. Many an unsaved judge has told many a young drug addict standing in his courtroom, "You must change your ways or you will . Mary & Martha: We Need Both.
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