WHAT PLEASES THE HOLY SPIRIT? Ephesians 4:2 2.) Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other. 3.) Try your best to let God's Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace.
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WHAT PLEASES THE HOLY SPIRIT? EPHESIANS 4:32 - Be kind and merciful and forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ. EPHESIANS 5:2 - Let love be your guide. Christ loved us and offered his life as a sacrifice that pleases God. 3.) You are God's people, so don't let it be said that any of you are immoral, indecent, or greedy. 4.) Don't use dirty, or foolish or filthy words. Instead say how thankful you are. 5.) Being greedy, indecent, or immoral is just another way of worshiping idols. 8.)
You used to be like people living in the dark, but now you are people
of the light, because you belong to the Lord. So act like people of the
Light, 9.) and make your light shine. Be good and honest and truthful,
10.) as you try to please the Lord.
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HOW A PERSON CAN GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT! 1.) When you are bitter and angry towards one another, this grieves the Holy Spirit. 2.) Yelling at one another, grieves the Holy Spirit. 3.) Cursing each other, grieves the Holy Spirit. 4.) Being rude to one another, grieves the Holy Spirit. 5.) Turning against the Lord, grieves the Holy Spirit. 6.) Stealing grieves the Holy Spirit. 7.) Cheating grieves the Holy Spirit. 8.) Drunkenness grieves the Holy Spirit. 9.) Sexual misconduct grieves the Holy Spirit. 10.) Lying grieves the Holy Spirit. 11.) Sin grieves the Holy Spirit.
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Hi everyone! I
am so happy that all of you have joined this family. Lately some
disturbing things have been happening in the Christian world. Well,
maybe this is a long standing situation and not recent, but some
Christians have taken to attacking the integrity of Christians who are
Baptized in the Holy Spirit. In the bible there are many places, many
verses and chapters which tell us not to Quench the Holy Spirit, not to
grieve the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit is sent to us by
Christ, and that the Holy Spirit will Baptize us and give us gifts. It
is truly dangerous for Christians to leave whole chunks of the New
Testaments out of our understanding. We must understand that the Holy
Spirit is vital and necessary to our growth and to our lives as a
Christian. Your sister in Christ, Donna
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WHO CAN BE A SPIRIT FILLED CHRISTIAN! ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TURN THEIR LIFE OVER TO JESUS AND ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO FILL THEM AND BAPTIZE THEM! 1.] People who call themselves Pentecostal are Spirit Filled. 2.] People who call themselves Independent can call themselves Spirit Filled. 3.] People who call themselves non-denominational can call themselves Spirit Filled. 4.] There are many other churches whose members believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit! 5.]
Spirit Filled believers are now showing up in the traditional churches
that before have never believed in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Even
whole churches are springing up in the traditional non-Spirit Filled
churches, which now embrace the baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit. such as, 6.] Spirit Filled Lutheran Churches~ 7.] Spirit Filled Catholic Churches~ 8.] Spirit Filled Methodist Churches~ 9.] and many other churches!
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WHAT IS A SPIRIT FILLED CHRISTIAN? A Spirit filled Christian is a person who has taken these steps. 1.] They know that they are sinners, everyone has sinned, no one is perfect like God. 2.] They acknowledge and believe that Jesus is the Son of God. 3.] They ask Jesus to forgive them for their sins. 4.] They ask Jesus to come into their lives and hearts, and to wash them clean. 5.] They decide to follow Jesus and turn their lives completely over to Jesus. The final step is that they ask the Holy Spirit to enter into their lives and ask that they be baptized by the Holy Spirit.
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1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 LOVE FROM THE GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN BIBLE TRANSLATION
LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 1.) I
may be able to speak the languages of men, and even of angels, but if
I have not love, my speech is not more than a noisy gong, or a
clanging bell. 2.) I am have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have
all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith
needed to move mountains-but if I have not love I am nothing. 3.) I may
give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but
if I have not love, it does me no good. 4.) Love is patient and
kind; love is not jealous, or conceited or proud; 5.) love is not ill
mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love does not keep a record of
wrongs. 6.) love is not happy with evil, but happy with the truth. 7.)
love never gives up: it's faith, hope and patience never fail. 8.)
Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary;
there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease;
there is knowledge, but it will pass. 9.) for our gifts of knowledge
and of inspired messages are only partial; 10.) but when what is
perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear. 11.) When I was
a child, my speech, feelings and thinking were all those of a child;
now that I am a man I have no more use for childish ways. 12.) What
we see now is like the dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face to
face. what I know now is only partial; than it shall be complete, as
complete as God's knowledge of me. 13.) Meanwhile these remain: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit!GALATIONS 5:22 & 23 22.] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23.] meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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THE BODY OF CHRIST! 1 Corinthians 12:14-24 14.) OUR
bodies just don't just have one part. They have many parts. 15.)
Suppose a foot says, "I'm not a hand so I'm not a part of the body."
Wouldn't the foot still belong to the body? 16.) Or suppose an ear
says, "I'm not an eye, so I'm not a part of the body." Wouldn't that
ear still be a part of the body? 17.) If our bodies were only an eye,
we couldn't hear a thing. And if they were only an ear we couldn't
smell a thing. 18.) But God has put all parts of our body together in
the way that he has decided is best. 19.) A body really isn't a
body, unless there is more than one part. 20.) It takes many parts to
make a single body. 21.) That's why the eyes cannot say they don't need
the hands. That's also why the head cannot say it doesn't need the
feet. 22.) In fact we cannot get along without the parts of the body
that seem to be the weakest. 23.) We take special care to dress some
parts of our bodies. We are modest about our personal parts, 24.) but
we don't have to be modest about other parts. God put our bodies together in such a way, that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 8.] To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9.] to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10.] to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between Spirits, to another the ability to speak in different kind of tongues, and to still another the interpretations of tongues. 11.] All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one just as he detemines.
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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gifts! ACTS 2:17 17.] 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. your sons and daughter will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams, 18.] Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
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BEYOND MORTAL EXPERIENCE! 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9-10 9.) But it is just as the sciptures say, "What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds." 10.)
God's Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything,
even what is deep in the mind of God.
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ACTS 2:1-4 1.]
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2.] Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from
heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3.] They saw
what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on
each of them. 4.] All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
1 CORINTHIANS 2: 6-16 6.)
We do use wisdom when speaking to those who are mature in their faith,
but it isn't the wisdom of this world, or of it's rulers who will soon
disappear. 7.) We speak of God's hidden and mysterious wisdom that God
decided to use for our glory long before the world began. 8.) The
rulers of this world didn't know anything about this wisdom. If they
had known about it they would not have nailed the glorious Lord to the
cross. 9.) But it is just as the scriptures say, "What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds." 10.)
God's Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything,
even what is deep in the mind of God. 11.) You are the only one who
knows what is in your own mind, and God's Spirit is the only one who
knows what in the mind of God. 12.) But God has given us his Spirit.
That's why we don't think the same way that the people of this world
think. That's why we can recognize the blessings that God has given us. 13.)
Every word we speak, was taught to us by God's Spirit, not by human
wisdom. And this same Spirit helps us to teach Spiritual things to
Spiritual people. 14.) That's why only someone who understands Gods
Spirit can understand Spiritual Blessings. Anyone who doesn't have
God's Spirit, thinks these blessings are foolish. 15.) People who are
guided by the Spirit, can make all kinds of judgments, but they can
not be judged by others. 16.) The scriptures ask, "Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?" But we understand what Christ is thinking.
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PRAYER GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT! ROMANS 8:26-27 26:
In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is there to help us. For
example, when we don't know what to pray, the Spirit prays for us in
ways that can not be put into words. 27.) All of our thoughts are known
to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as he
prays for God's people.
2 CORINTHIANS 3: 7-9 7.)
The Law of Moses brought only the promise of death, even though it was
carved on stones, and given in a wonderful way. Still the Law of Moses
made Mose's face shine so brightly that the people of Israel could not
even look at it, even though it was a fading glory. 8.) So won't the agreement, which is given by the Spirit brings to us be even more wonderful? 9.)
If something that brings the death sentence is glorious, won't
something that makes us acceptable to God be even more glorious?
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2 CORINTHIANS 1:21 & 22 21.)
And so God makes it possible for us to stand firmly together with
Christ. God is the one who chose us. 22.) and put his Spirit in our
hearts to show that we belong only to him
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EPHESIANS 1:17 & 18 17.)
I ask the Glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you
his Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what
it means to know God. 18.) My prayer is that light will flood your
hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when
God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will
be yours together with all of God's people.
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JOHN 14:16 & 17 16.)
Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit, who will help
you and always be with you! 17.) The Spirit will show what is true.
The people of this world can not accept the Spirit, because they don't
see or know him, but you know the Spirit, who is with you, and will
keep on living in you! The Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version,
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The Holy Spirit as Helper! John 14:26 But
the Holy Spirit will come and help you, because the Father will send
the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and
will remind you of what I said while I was with you.
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ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT! EPHESIANS 2:18-22 18.) AND because of Christ, all of us can come to the Father by the same Spirit. 19.)
You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens
with everyone who belongs to the family of God. 20.) You are a building
with the Apostles and Prophets as the foundation and with Christ as the
most important stone. 21.) Christ is the one who holds the building
together, and makes it grow into a Holy Temple for the Lord. 22.) And
you are a part of that building Christ has built as a place for God's
own Spirit to live.
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1.] ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT! 2.] The Holy Spirit as Helper! John 14:26 3,] PRAYER GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT! ROMANS 8:26-27 4.] GUIDANCE IN BIBLE STUDY! 1 CORINTHIANS 2: 6-16 5.] The Baptism of the Holy Spirit! 6.] The Gifts of the Holy Spirit! 7.] The Fruits of the Holy Spirit! 8.] The Holy Spirit as advocate.
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ROMANS 15:13 13.)
MAY God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means
of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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JUDE 1:20 20.) DEAR friends, keep building on the foundation of your most holy faith, as the Holy Spirit helps you to pray.
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EPHESIANS 1:17 & 18 17.)
I ask the Glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you
his Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what
it means to know God. 18.) My prayer is that light will flood your
hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when
God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will
be yours together with all of God's people.
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GALATIONS 4:6 6.)
Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son, into
our hearts, and his Spirit tells us that God is our Father.
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2 CORINTHIANS 3: 7-9 7.)
The Law of Moses brought only the promise of death, even though it was
carved on stones, and given in a wonderful way. Still the Law of Moses
made Mose's face shine so brightly that the people of Israel could not
even look at it, even though it was a fading glory. 8.) So won't the agreement, which is given by the Spirit brings to us be even more wonderful? 9.)
If something that brings the death sentence is glorious, won't
something that makes us acceptable to God be even more glorious?
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2 Corinthians 3:6 6.)
He makes us worthy to be the servants of the new agreement that comes
from the Holy Spirit and not from a written Law. After all the Law
brings death, but the Spirit brings life.
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2 CORINTHIANS 1:21 & 22 21.)
And so God makes it possible for us to stand firmly together with
Christ. God is the one who chose us. 22.) and put his Spirit in our
hearts to show that we belong only to him
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BEYOND MORTAL EXPERIENCE! 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9-10 9.) But it is just as the sciptures say, "What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds." 10.)
God's Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything,
even what is deep in the mind of God.
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GUIDANCE IN BIBLE STUDY! 1 CORINTHIANS 2: 6-16 6.)
We do use wisdom when speaking to those who are mature in their faith,
but it isn't the wisdom of this world, or of it's rulers who will soon
disappear. 7.) We speak of God's hidden and mysterious wisdom that God
decided to use for our glory long before the world began. 8.) The
rulers of this world didn't know anything about this wisdom. If they
had known about it they would not have nailed the glorious Lord to the
cross. 9.) But it is just as the sciptures say, "What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds." 10.)
God's Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything,
even what is deep in the mind of God. 11.) You are the only one who
knows what is in your own mind, and God's Spirit is the only one who
knows what in the mind of God. 12.) But God has given us his Spirit.
That's why we don't think the same way that the people of this world
think. That's why we can recognize the blessings that God has given us. 13.)
Every word we speak, was taught to us by God's Spirit, not by human
wisdom. And this same Spirit helps us to teach Spiritual things to
Spiritual people. 14.) That's why only someone who understands Gods
Spirit can understand Spiritual Blessings. Anyone who doesn't have
God's Spirit, thinks these blessings are foolish. 15.) People who are
guided by the Spirit, can make all kinds of judgements, but they can
not be judged by others. 16.) The scriptures ask, "Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?" But we understand what Christ is thinking.
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PRAYER GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT! ROMANS 8:26-27 26:
In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is there to help us. For
example, when we don't know what to pray, the Spirit prays for us in
ways that can not be put into words. 27.) All of our thoughts are known
to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as he
prays for God's people.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT'S MINISTRY! JOHN 16:5-14 5.) But now I am going back to the Father who sent me. And none of you ask me where I am going. 6.)
You are very sad from hearing all of this. 7.) But I tell you that I am
going to do what is best for you. That is why I am going away. The Holy
Spirit can not come to help you until I leave. But after I am gone I
will send the Spirit to you. 8.) The Spirit will come and show the
people of this world the truth about sin and God's justice and the
judgement. 9.) The Spirit will show them that they are wrong about sin,
because they didn't have faith in me. 10.) They are wrong about God's
justice because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me again.
11.) And they are wrong about the judgement, because God has already
judged the ruler of this world. 12.) I have much more to say to you,
but right now it would be more than you would understand. 13.) The
Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full
truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will tell you only what
he has heard from me, and he will let you know what is going to happen.
14.) The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling
it to you. 15.) Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I
have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.
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The Advocate: John 15:26 26.)
I will send you the Spirit who comes from the Father and will show what
is true. The Spirit will help you and will tell you about me.
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JOHN 14:16 & 17 16.)
Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit, who will help
you and always be with you! 17.) The Spirit will show what is true.
The people of this world can not accept the Spirit, because they don't
see or know him, but you know the Spirit, who is with you, and will
keep on living in you! The Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version,
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THE HOLY SPIRIT JOHN 7:37-39 37.)
On the last and most important day of the festival Jesus stood up and
shouted, "If you are thirsty, come to me and drink! 38.) Have faith in
me, and you will have life giving water flowing from deep inside you,
just as the scriptures say." 39.) Jesus was talking about the Holy
Spirit, who would be given to everone who had faith in him.
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Acts 1:8 8.)
But the Holy Spirit will come upon you and give you power. Than you
will tell everone about me in Jeruselum, in all Judea, in Samaria, and
everywhere in the world.
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The Holy Spirit as Helper! John 14:26 But
the Holy Spirit will come and help you, because the Father will send
the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everthing and
will remind you of what I said while I was with you.
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MARK 1:10 10.) As soon as Jesus came out of the water, he saw the sky open and the Holy Spirit coming down to him like a dove.
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May 12, 2008 11:40 AM
Mark 1:8 8.) I bapize you with water but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
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ROMANS 8:1-11 1.) IF
you belong to Christ Jesus, you won't be punished. 2.) The Holy Spirit
will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free
from sin and death. 3.) The Law of Moses can not do this, because our
selfish desires make the law weak. But God set you free when he sent
his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin.
4.) He did this, so that we would do what the law commands by obeying
our Spirit instead of our own desires. 5.) People who are ruled by
their own desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by
the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. 6.) If our minds are
ruled by our desires we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the
Spirit, we will have life and peace. 7.) Our desires fight against God,
because they do not and can not obey God's laws. 8.) If we follow our
desires, we can not please God. 9.) You are no longer ruled by your
desires but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have
the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him. 10.) But Christ lives
in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your
bodies must die because of your sin. 11.) Yet God raised Jesus to life!
God's Spirit now lives in you and he will raise you to life by his
Spirit.
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1 Peter 1:2 2.)
You were chosen according to the purpose of God the Father and were
made a Holy people by his Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ, and to be
purified by his blood. May grace and peace be your in full measure!
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2 PETER 1:20 & 21 20.) Above all else, however; remember that none of us can explain by ourselves a
prophecy in the scriptures. 21.) For no prophetic message ever came
just from human will, but people were under the control of the Holy
Spirit as they spoke the message that came from God.
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1 JOHN 4:2 2.) THIS
is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who
declares that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who
comes from God.
EPHESIANS 1:13-14 13.) AND
you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the GOOD
NEWS that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put
his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had
promised. 14.) The
Spirit is the guarantee that we shall receive what God has promised his
people, and this assures us that God will give complete freedom to
those who are his. Let us praise his glory.
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ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT! EPHESIANS 2:18-22 18.) AND because of Christ, all of us can come to the Father by the same Spirit. 19.)
You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens
with everyone who belongs to the family of God. 20.) You are a building
with the Apostles and Prophets as the foundation and with Christ as the
most important stone. 21.) Christ is the one who holds the building
together, and makes it grow into a Holy Temple for the Lord. 22.) And
you are a part of that building Christ has built as a place for God's
own Spirit to live.
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2 PETER 1:20&21 20.) But you need to realize that no one alone can understand the prophecies in the scriptures. 21.) The prophets did not think these things up on their own, but they were guided by the Spirit of God.
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GALATIONS 5:22-26 22.)
GOD'S SPIRIT makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good,
faithful, 23.) gentle and self-controlled. There is no law against
behaving in such a way. 24.) And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we
have killed our selfish feelings and desires. 25.) God's Spirit has
given us life and so we should follow the Spirit. 26.) But don't be
conceited and make others jealous by claiming to be better than they
are.
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