The Holy Spirit, My Best Friend, and Yours!

By Ralph Holt and Scott Tighe

For Christians only? The truth about God may surprise you. It is likely that your church and pastors are not teaching you the fundamentals of Gods Word that mandates you to be in fellowship for acts of worship. God mandates you to be filled with the Holy Spirit and this is to be repeated. 1 John 1:9 gives you the opportunity to be in fellowship, but it is your choice as instructed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781512705409

Ralph Holt

A simple Christian who knows the truth about Holy Spirit.

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THE HOLY SPIRIT, MY BEST FRIEND, AND YOURS!

The Cross (The Prince of Redemption) It is the will of God that every member of the human race be born again. As 2 Peter 3:9 states, The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but He is patient toward you-not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. To believers, Peter now says that the seeming delay of Christ’s return is 1) because God does not view time as we do, and 2) because He wants more people to repent. One thousand years to Christians is like one day to God.

It is important to understand the work of Jesus on the cross. Many people are confused about this. In Isaiah 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, and each of us has turned to his own way, but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. This is the passion of the Servant. Though men would think that God was causing the Servant to suffer for His own sins, the truth was that He suffered vicariously for theirs. His punishment obtained peace or well-being for us. Deuteronomy 13:5, says that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you. (Note, the determination of whether he was a true or false prophet was not made on this basis but on whether or not he led the people away from God. The success of false prophets was permitted in order to test God’s people even by capital punishment). In Isaiah, 44:22, He redeemed us. The word redeem means to buy or purchase. 44:22… I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. Isaiah 43:25 explains, I, even I, am the One who wipes out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins! (Note, though God would forgive Israel, still He had to discipline her by means of the Babylonian captivity). God purchased Israel from slavery both physically and spiritually. He ransomed the Jews from slavery in Egypt in Deuteronomy 13:5. The physical freedom God procured for His (chosen people) in Egypt illustrates the spiritual freedom He would buy through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus. At the cross God wiped out your transgressions. He provided spiritual redemption not only for Israel but for all of us. In I Timothy 2:6, He gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. (Note, RANSOM, a substitute payment). Christ’s death in our place, (a propositional prefix on this word means substitution also the same for Matt. 20:28) paid the ransom for all, the entire human race. Sins are no longer a barrier to our salvation. Now, anyone can receive the benefit of redemption, the forgiveness of all sins, through faith in Christ alone. Ephesians 1:7 states, In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace". Three ideas are involved in the doctrine of redemption. 1) Paying the ransom with the blood of Christ, 2) removal from the curse of the law, and 3) release from the bondage of sin into the freedom of grace. And in 1 Peter 1:18,19 redemption is always through His blood, also in Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, from His death.

1 Peter 1:18-19 mandates that the believer knows the doctrine of redemption. Verse 18 says, "Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things, like silver or gold, from your