O If We Would Only Let The Holy Spirit Do His Job! – The Saturday Morning Post

Today’s Passage – Luke 4 – 5 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)

(Second Milers also read – Psalms 126 – 130; Proverbs 27)

Read the “1027 Evening and Morning“ devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

“And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.” (Luke 5:36-38)

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2Corinthians 5:17)

Good morning. The work of the Holy Spirit is amazing. He is with us from before we get saved, and brings us all the way to our home in Heaven. O if we would only let the Holy Spirit do His job! And there are many works that the Holy Spirit does…

1) He Convicts Us Of Sin

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me…” (John 16:7-9)

2) He Leads The Way To Christ For Salvation

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me…” (John 15:26)

3) He Teaches Us

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” (John 16:13)

4) He Directs Us In The Way We Should Go

“Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.” (Acts 6-7)

5) He Gives Us The Power To Witness For The Lord

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

6) He Preserves Us And Brings Us Safely To Heaven

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30)

Not only that, but if we let Him do His job, He will bear fruit in our lives…

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)

Take a look at your life. Do you see any of the Holy Spirit’s fruit there? No? You are either not saved. In that case you need to call upon the name of the Lord and receive Jesus as your own personal Saviour. Or if you are saved, as God’s Word says in Ephesians 4:30, don’t grieve the Holy Spirit by doing the things you should not; and do not quench the Holy Spirit by not doing the things you should. Let the Holy Spirit do His job!

Peace.


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