Thursday, March 22, 2012

BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT - what it means

A disciple of Jesus Christ is LED by the HOLY SPIRIT. He does not do what he wants to do. He does not follow His own flesh and His own mind but he listens to the Holy Spirit who guides him where the Spirit of God wants to use him. Jesus said to Nicodemus, I read from John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." A disciple of Jesus Christ, who is led by the Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, does not know what his next move is.  He does not have his life planned out because he is LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, he goes where the Spirit guides him, as was the case with those who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, the Apostles, they went where the Spirit guided them.  If you read the Book of Acts, you will clearly see that they were LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  They did not go where they wanted to go.
Paul also writes in Romans 8:8 “For those who are IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD.” If you are led by your flesh by your mind, you cannot please God. You need to be LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
:9 “However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.”
:14 He says ”For ALL who are BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THESE are the SONS OF GOD.”
Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to all those who BELIEVE IN HIM and who OBEY HIM, who are BAPTIZED IN WATER.  He promised them the Holy Spirit.  As Peter also said in Acts 2:39 He said, this promise is for you and for your children and for everyone whom the Lord our God will call unto Himself.” The promise is for you. If we believe in Jesus, we repent of sin and from following ourselves and we are baptized in water, He will give us the Holy Spirit but then we need to follow the Spirit, the Holy Spirit and many people DO NOT FOLLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT. Once they have received the Holy Spirit they just go on as they used to or they become religious but they DO NOT LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, they are NOT GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, they NEVER BECOME DISCIPLES. They never become as Jesus said: Like the wind, you don’t know where it comes from and where it is going because they are led by the Spirit of God.
Are you led by the Spirit? Do you receive your instructions, your guidance from the Holy Spirit and do you follow them? That is what Jesus requires of a disciple.  Those who are LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.  You need to ABANDON your own ideas, your own plans and be led by the Spirit.  The Spirit does not lead you to STOP SINNING. You need to first REPENT and become HOLY. You STOP SINNING ALTOGETHER, you STOP WATCHING THAT TELEVISION, you STOP DOING WHAT you WANT TO DO and you MAKE UP your mind to FOLLOW JESUS.  That is REPENTANCE. You are BAPTIZED IN WATER for the washing of off your sins and then you PRAY for the HOLY SPIRIT and you FOLLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT. That is what it means to be LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Are you LED BY THE SPIRIT or are you still just following yourself?, have you become religious? Are you a SON OF GOD” Are you FOLLOWING HIM? May Jesus bless you.

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