Effects of the Spirit's Indwelling

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Acts 23:1: And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethern, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

It is interesting to go through the Epistles Paul wrote to the Churchand see what he said about his conscience. You will notice that he always obeyed it. Is your conscience a safe guide? Yes, if your spirit has become a new man in Christ, it is because your conscience is the voice of your spirit.

2 Cor. 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

These things take place in man's spirit, in the inward man.He is first a new creature, a brand new man in Christ. Second, old things have passed asway, the nature of the devil in his spirit is gone. Third, all things have become new in his spirit, not in his body or in his mind, now he has the nature of God in his spirit.

Therefore, if your spirit is a new man with the life and nature of God in it, it is a safe guide.

A person who has not been born again could not follow the voice of his spirit. His spirit is ungenerate. His conscience would permit him to do anything.

When you have the life and nature of God in you, your conscience will not permit you to do just anything. And if you are born again, you have the life of God.

Peace, Golfjack