HOLY SPIRIT
Spirit’s Transforming Power
Ezekiel 36:26-27
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh
. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
“Through Ezekiel, God promised to give a new heart and to put a new spirit in us and cause us to walk in His statutes. This internal transformation is vastly different from external rule-following. The Sprit changes us from the inside out, aligning our desires with God’s will and empowering us to live in ways we could not through mere willpower.”
God promises a radical inner transformation after salvation - a complete spiritual renewal. The Hebrew word for heart in this verse means ‘inner man, mind, will, understanding.’ A ‘stony heart’ represents hardness, stubbornness, rebellion. Before we were saved, we were unable to respond to God or love His ways. A ‘heart of flesh’ is soft, responsive, alive and tender toward God. It is capable of genuine repentance, faith and obedience.
God promises that once a person is saved, the Holy Spirit will dwell within them. It was not until Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to all Christians. In Old Testament times, the Spirit came upon people temporarily for specific tasks, but today we have Him permanently. The result of having a new heart and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that God’s people are enabled and motivated to obey His laws - not from fear of what might happen if they don’t, but from a transformed nature that desires to please Him.
Lets ask the Holy Spirit to keep our hearts soft and tender toward Him, that they do not turn back to a stony heart [we will not lose our salvation, but we can become rebellious toward God - we are all one bad decision away from sin]. Lets be sensitive to the moving of the Holy Spirit and lets live in obedience to Him. Salvation and godly living come from God’s gracious, transforming power - it does not come from willpower - it has nothing to do with us and everything to do with God.
Spirit’s Transforming Power
Ezekiel 36:26-27
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh
. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
“Through Ezekiel, God promised to give a new heart and to put a new spirit in us and cause us to walk in His statutes. This internal transformation is vastly different from external rule-following. The Sprit changes us from the inside out, aligning our desires with God’s will and empowering us to live in ways we could not through mere willpower.”
God promises a radical inner transformation after salvation - a complete spiritual renewal. The Hebrew word for heart in this verse means ‘inner man, mind, will, understanding.’ A ‘stony heart’ represents hardness, stubbornness, rebellion. Before we were saved, we were unable to respond to God or love His ways. A ‘heart of flesh’ is soft, responsive, alive and tender toward God. It is capable of genuine repentance, faith and obedience.
God promises that once a person is saved, the Holy Spirit will dwell within them. It was not until Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to all Christians. In Old Testament times, the Spirit came upon people temporarily for specific tasks, but today we have Him permanently. The result of having a new heart and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that God’s people are enabled and motivated to obey His laws - not from fear of what might happen if they don’t, but from a transformed nature that desires to please Him.
Lets ask the Holy Spirit to keep our hearts soft and tender toward Him, that they do not turn back to a stony heart [we will not lose our salvation, but we can become rebellious toward God - we are all one bad decision away from sin]. Lets be sensitive to the moving of the Holy Spirit and lets live in obedience to Him. Salvation and godly living come from God’s gracious, transforming power - it does not come from willpower - it has nothing to do with us and everything to do with God.
HOLY SPIRIT
Spirit’s Transforming Power
Ezekiel 36:26-27
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh
. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
“Through Ezekiel, God promised to give a new heart and to put a new spirit in us and cause us to walk in His statutes. This internal transformation is vastly different from external rule-following. The Sprit changes us from the inside out, aligning our desires with God’s will and empowering us to live in ways we could not through mere willpower.”
God promises a radical inner transformation after salvation - a complete spiritual renewal. The Hebrew word for heart in this verse means ‘inner man, mind, will, understanding.’ A ‘stony heart’ represents hardness, stubbornness, rebellion. Before we were saved, we were unable to respond to God or love His ways. A ‘heart of flesh’ is soft, responsive, alive and tender toward God. It is capable of genuine repentance, faith and obedience.
God promises that once a person is saved, the Holy Spirit will dwell within them. It was not until Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to all Christians. In Old Testament times, the Spirit came upon people temporarily for specific tasks, but today we have Him permanently. The result of having a new heart and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that God’s people are enabled and motivated to obey His laws - not from fear of what might happen if they don’t, but from a transformed nature that desires to please Him.
Lets ask the Holy Spirit to keep our hearts soft and tender toward Him, that they do not turn back to a stony heart [we will not lose our salvation, but we can become rebellious toward God - we are all one bad decision away from sin]. Lets be sensitive to the moving of the Holy Spirit and lets live in obedience to Him. Salvation and godly living come from God’s gracious, transforming power - it does not come from willpower - it has nothing to do with us and everything to do with God.
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