| WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WORD DOES | ||||
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| Instructs | Nehemiah 9:30 "Yet for many years You had patience with them, And testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not listen; Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands" |
2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work" |
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| Convicts | John 16:8 “And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" |
Titus 1:9 "holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict" |
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| Begets | John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life" |
1 Corinthians 4:15 "For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel" |
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| We are Born of | John 3:5 "Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" |
1 Peter 1:23 "having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever" |
James 1:18 "Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of His creatures" |
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| Saves | Titus 3:5 "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit" |
James 1:21 "Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls" |
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| Sanctifies | 1
Corinthians 6:11 "And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God" |
John 17:17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth" |
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| Cleanses | Ephesians 5:26 "that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word" |
John 15:3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you" |
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| Leads | Romans 8:9 "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His" Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God" |
2 John 9 "Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son" |
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| Strengthens | Ephesians 3:16 "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man" |
Acts 20:32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified" |
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| Understanding | Ephesians 3:16-19 "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." |
Ephesians 3:3-5 "how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets" |
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| Witnesses | Romans 8:16 "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" |
1 John 2:5 "But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him" |
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