Transformative Power of the Holy Spirit in Believers

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"Paul in the context here he is urging the believers to love one another and to walk honestly and holy before God and so he says in verse 9 or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves nor the greeting or drunkards nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." [00:28:48]

"To be sure Christ has redeemed us by his blood, but we do good because Christ by his Spirit is also renewing us to be like himself, you see who the agent is, the Spirit is renewing us to be like himself, so that in all our living we may show that we are thankful to God for all he has done for us and so that he may be praised through us." [02:14:72]

"Because Jesus died for all your sins and you will never suffer any punishment for it, you can do whatever you like, for it doesn't matter how you live after all, Jesus already paid the price of your past, your present and your future sins. Some Christians sure will live very righteously and religiously and carefully watch their lives while others walk and sin, but in the end, as long as they believe in Jesus Christ, whether they live righteously or unrighteously, God's grace covers them all and brings them in to the kingdom of heaven." [03:42:159]

"Can people be saved who do not repent from their ungrateful ways and their sins? Will people go to heaven who do not make a radical break with their sinful lives? Can you have your cake and eat it too? Can you have on the one hand heaven and on the other hand your sin on earth? Can a person believe in Jesus while walking in his sin? The biblical answer and the catechism answer to us is absolutely not that's impossible, such people are lost and without salvation." [05:56:00]

"The New Testament is very clear that people who do not turn from their sins will not enter into heaven. Following me on the screen behind me or look it up in your own bibles if you can, that's the one, first Corinthians 6 verse 9 and 10 and see if as we are going through these verses you can catch a theme, this is our text so do not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God." [07:42:08]

"True believers do not live in sin. This is what Paul wrote, first Corinthians 6:11, our very own text, it says and such were some of you. What does that imply? Such were some of you. If you tell me I used to be a football player in college what does that imply? You're not doing it today, that's something in the past, it is done, it is no longer there, there has been a definite break between what you used to do and what you do now." [18:21:02]

"When you became a Christian, something changed, because you repented, as a matter of fact the Holy Spirit repented you, he turned you around he made you a different kind of person you might be a brute a selfish man who who was rude to your wife and and beat her up if you had the chance but when you came to know Christ something changed, you changed, you can't do what you lived before, now where you hated your love and the things you used to love that were sin for you now hate." [20:17:39]

"The supernatural power of God made you a new person and separated you from your sinful self, it is no longer who you are it is no longer how you walk, it is no longer the course of your life, you are now new because you turn around, you repented of what was in the past and before God the past is gone, hey there is that person that was sexually immoral, God says that is not the person who's sexually moral that's the saint of the living God." [21:37:39]

"The Holy Spirit washes the heart of its sinner of a sinner so that its desire for sin is gone and its pleasure for sin is God. Before, if a person before he's born again he speaks something that's false he will make an excuse it's just a wide lie, once he is born again repented filled with the spirit of God he's about to say something and suddenly he's cut to the heart how can that filth come out of my mouth." [31:25:76]

"God doesn't just take away the desire for sin he places in us holy desires, the Holy Spirit does not merely empty believers of sin and unrighteousness he fills them with a love for the things of God, holy desires lead to holy thinking leads to holy walking, and through the sanctification by the spirit we're unable to enter into the presence of God and see his glory because our hearts are positively drawn to holiness we seek God's face and we're able to fall in love with the love of God." [34:47:28]

"The gospel of God is pure, you know, I'm afraid that sometimes instead of being jealous we're just pointing fingers and pointing to other churches and say well look at that, they got a pastor that is a homosexual, look at that it should break our hearts, not because of that single man, but because that whole group is misunderstanding the biblical gospel or at least accepting a destruction of the biblical gospel." [40:46:96]

"If any of you walk in secret sin and are bound to secret sin, I'm not your enemy and nor is God, he calls you to come and be saved from your sin because he send his son for people like you to wash you, to sanctify you, to justify you, to make you spotless pure and separate you forever from that vile place of sin, he can do it and he will if you believe in the biblical gospel." [42:14:64]

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