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Pastor Tyler · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 84 Location: Downtown Raleigh

Why? Why do we miss the fact that the Spirit of God lives in our us? What could the church do if somehow, as Paul puts forward in I Corinthians 12:4-7, the energy of God poured into our city?

Samuel Chadwick puts the movement of the Spirit this way: Every part of my being wakened up. I did not get a new set of brains, but I got a new mentality. I did not get a new faculty of speech, but I got a new effectiveness of speech. I did not get a new dictionary, but a new Bible. Immediately I was a new creature, with the same basis of natural qualities, energized, quickened, reinforced into a bigger vitality and effectiveness that nobody would ever have dreamed possible. That is what happens to those upon whom the Spirit comes.

How can we allow the Spirit of God to move in us?
Why/how do you hinder the work of the Spirit?
Are you aware of what the Spirit has done in and for you?
How, using Samuel Chadwick as a reference, would you phrase the work of the Spirit in your life?

Our passage for the next 3 weeks is I Corinthians 12-14 and parts of Romans 12. Please begin studying Scripture! If you have not yet listened to the talk from Owner's Night in March about studying Scripture, please go online and listen.
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Pastor Tyler

Rob Davis · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Raleigh, NC

One of the most amazing things I've learned over the past several months is related to the idea of the Spirit in us. I think most of us think, "Well, Jesus was God, so He could do anything." But, in reality the gospels tell us repeatedly that what Christ did He did by the Spirit. He set aside his rights as deity in order to identify with us. As a man, he walked/lived by the Spirit, and that's the same power that we have been given. That helps me consider Christ's life as a real human - rather than Him simply using the fact that He was God to do all that He did (while Him being God is just as important).
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bredelings · Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 21 Location: Raleigh

Hey Tyler,

I really liked this sermon on the work of the Holy Spirit as a counselor, and on our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit! It isn't something I have thought much about before, but I've noticed the Spirit come up quite a lot in 1 Corinthians, and I thought you put it really well. Instead of answer these questions, I'm going to ask another one ... which I hope is related.

Does anybody have an idea what it means in 1 Cor 6:13 that
"The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."
I'm intrigued by the second part: "... and the Lord for the body." Perhaps this means the future resurrection? Or perhaps it means that the power excised in the resurrection is working in our bodies now? And perhaps this power is exercised through the indwelling of the holy spirit? Perhaps the Lord sustains our bodies in some way so that we don't need to give in to temptation?