Thursday, September 5, 2013

DAY 474 - Live According to The Holy Spirit (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


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Today's Reading: Romans 8:1-4


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      Paul in the last passage points out that we as human beings are like those prisoners of war being captured in the prisoner-of-war camp. Only Jesus can take us out? How? Here in this passage Paul tells us how. 

Bishop N.T. Wright's says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):
     In the Old Testament, the sin-offering is the sacrifice used when someone has committed sin unwittingly (not knowing it was wrong) or unwillingly (knowing it was wrong but not intending to do it).  Paul has analyzed the plight of Israel under the law in such a way that it falls exactly into these categories. 'The good I want to do, I don't do; the evil I don't want is what I do.' The 'miserable person' of 7:24 is answered by God's provision of the sin-offering in 8:3, just as, at a more general level, the condemned sinner of 1:18-3:20 is promised that there is 'no condemnation' for those who are 'in the Messiah', because the condemnation of sin has already taken place in him. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Romans: Part 1. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.112.

     So, when Jesus died on the Cross for our sins, we have been forgiven. Jesus does not need to get a semi-automatic machine gun with a team of Navy Seal to save us and take us out of the prison-of-war camp. He died for us on that spot 2,000 years ago and it is done. For those who receive His salvation, we should be able to live according to the Holy Spirit and not according to our sinful nature. How do you live each day, according to the Holy Spirit or according to your sinful nature? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

Spiritual Journal

     What I heard from Jesus today is: Live according to the Holy Spirit

    What I got from Jesus today is a reality check whether we have received Jesus salvation in the form of a sin offering. If we have, then there should be a significance change in our lives. Do we have that kind of change? Do you live according to the Holy Spirit? Next time when you are tempted by Satan, are you going to follow the prompt of the Holy Spirit or are you going to follow your sinful nature? 
    
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be able to live according to the Holy Spirt and not to our sinful nature.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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