450 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 38 - The Walk Of The Believer - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 38 The Walk of the Believer - Part 2 Ephesians 4:28a "Let him that stole steal no more:..." Exodus 20:15 "Thou shalt not steal." Now let’s look at another one in Romans chapter 13, and here Paul says basically the same thing. 9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shall not steal," Whether it’s stealing from their boss’s time table, or cheating on their taxes, or any other way, people are bent to stealing, it’s part of the old nature. Ephesians 4:28 Ephesians 4:29a So Paul says, "let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth." Ephesians 4:29b So we’re to minister Grace to the hearers, and now let’s move on to verse 30. Ephesians 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." Do you know that the Bible never speaks of the Holy Spirit getting angry? There is no wrath of the Holy Spirit! There is no anger referred to by the Holy Spirit! So if you take that same analogy into our Spiritual life, the Holy Spirit doesn’t want to be hurt, and we’re not to grieve Him. Now when it comes to Paul’s teaching of the Holy Spirit, there’s so many places I could take you I hardly know where to begin. Then all of a sudden from chapter 8 to the end of Romans he uses the Holy Spirit over and over. Then coming into his next letter of I Corinthians chapter 3, and verse 16 we find the following. I Corinthians 3:16 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Come on over to I Corinthians chapter 6, and we have another reference from the pen of the apostle regarding the indwelling Holy Spirit. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,..." The Holy Spirit was given the moment we believed the Gospel, and then Paul concludes that our body does not belong to us now, but rather Christ. Well Peter uses the same kind of language with regard to the blood of Christ. We start out by speaking of Christ in verse 12. Ephesians 1:13 "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom (speaking of Christ) also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise." See how the Holy Spirit functions in the life of the believer? Romans 7:5 Remember what Paul just said. "The things of the flesh, works, will bring forth their fruit unto death." Paul puts it just a little different in verse 23. Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Lost people work, and work, and work their whole life time to earn what? Eternal death! Eternal Life! Isn’t that right? Romans 3:23a You work yourself to death, eternal death. Romans 3:23b "...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Now let’s finish our thoughts in chapter 7. "So the work of sinful life brings forth fruit to death." Now for the believer look at verse 6, and it’s a whole different world. Romans 7:6 A lot of people just can’t understand when I teach, "You’re not under Law, but rather you’re under Grace!" It means we’re not under the heavy hand of the Law, but we’re still responsible to God through the working of the Holy Spirit to basically do the same thing that the Law demands. The Holy Spirit will never turn around and say, "Ok you’re a believer now, and under Grace, you can steal if you want to. Just simply guiding that young one and letting him take that next step, well that the same way the Holy Spirit works in the life of the believer. So looking at verse 6 again. Romans 7:6b "...that we should serve in newness of spirit, (through the leading and directing of the power of the Holy Spirit) and not in the oldness of the letter." (which was the Law). Now back to Ephesians but let’s stop again in chapter 1. Ephesians 1:13a I had a letter again the other day that asked, "Do I have to work and work and work, and pray and pray and pray through to receive the Holy Spirit?" You don’t do anything to receive the Holy Spirit except believe the Gospel. Ephesians 1:13b "...in whom also after that ye believed, (+ NOTHING) ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise." And what is that Holy Spirit of promise? He’s God’s down payment. Ephesians 1:14 Now remember our Soul and Spirit are already redeemed as soon as we believe. Now coming back to our text in Ephesians chapter 4, and looking at verse 30 again. Ephesians 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Who shall change our vile body, (this one we now have) that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,..." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible