Faith and Works Part II
Jesus never said that our earthly pilgrimage will be easy and void of challenges, but He assures us that our end will be worthwhile, because He will use the challenges as our stepping stone to greatness. Our scriptural focus for today states – Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. {Gal 3:2 NLT}
Having established that the Holy Spirit can only be received and kept functional in the life of a believer by believing the message of grace by faith and not by obeying the practices of the law. It is therefore very important to ensure that the message you’re receiving is the balanced truth about Christ, because if the message is wrong the response or believe system will be wrong, and if the message is right the response or the believe system will definitely be right.
In this era, we need to be very careful of the message we believe, because a lot of things have come up in the body of Christ that if followed will totally remove the functionality of the Holy Spirit in one’s life.
The emphasis in this scripture is also that the era when the law was the basis for spirituality was over, but that faith in Christ is the only way to true and lasting spirituality.
We will also wish to emphasize that the process of receiving the Holy Spirit into one’s life after the salvation experience with an outward evidence of praying in other tongues is simply based on believe system and not how many years you have been in the faith. In the body of Christ, some religious bottlenecks have been established in some places that deny Christians the privilege of receiving the Holy Spirit by faith. Your authority as a believer is based on the extent to which you allow the Holy Spirit to function freely in your life.
Faith the vehicle of the Holy Spirit.
Have a Grace filled day – Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: August 11, 2016
