12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
The Holy Spirit is constantly at work within us. He is constantly causing us to be righteous and holy. He is controlling us to always love and forgive. He gives us the strength to offer up our right cheek after our left one was hit. He empowers us to walk two miles when one was demanded of us. He is leading us to ever live to intercede for others. The Holy Spirit is teaching us all things. He is taking everything that Jesus has and He is making it active in our life’s. He is leading us, whether we know it or not, and whether we accept it or not. We do not empower the Holy Spirit to act, He empowers us to act. He causes us to do the works that Jesus did and He causes us to do even greater works. He leads us into all of the world to lay hands on the sick, so that they can recover. He prays for us with an intensity and words that cannot be uttered by man.
We have been baptized into Jesus’ death, so that we can now live as He lives. The Holy Spirit is our Lord’s power and He is our power as well. We are not limited by our flesh. Absolutely our flesh is weak and sure it will fail, but there are now no laws to convict us with. Grace allows our Father to place His Holy Spirit within us and grace allows Him to use us in the full power and demonstration of the Spirit.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
We are the sons of God right now! The Holy Spirit now controls every aspect of our life’s. He is there empowering us as we brush our teeth and as we are praying over a sick family member. He is our strength in playing a game and witnessing to a lost soul. There is nothing to small or too big for Him and we are never, and I mean never, left alone to do anything without Him. There is no part of life that we play on our own. We never take a first step that allows Him to then take two for us. The Holy Spirit never leaves us at a crossroads to decide the path that we should take. We owe our flesh nothing. It holds absolutely nothing over us. We are not ruled by it and we are not dictated by it. There is no opportunity for the Holy Spirit to fail and He insures the same victory for us.
Faith comes from hearing this Truth and this Truth sets us free to be used to serve the world.
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