August 30, 2021
What is your identifying feature? Your heritage? Your career? Your talent? If, by God’s grace, Christ is in you, your body has become the temple of the Holy Spirit, and He dwells in you. The presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of a child of God brings about our most distinguishing attributes. Alistair Begg describes the reality, the results, the responsibility, and the relationship brought about by the Spirit dwelling in a believer.
9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact xthe Spirit of God dwells in you. yAnyone who does not have zthe Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of ahim who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus4 from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies bthrough his Spirit who dwells in you.
12So then, brothers,5 we are debtors, cnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you dput to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are eled by the Spirit of God are fsons6 of God. 15For gyou did not receive hthe spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of iadoption as sons, by whom we cry, j“Abba! Father!” 16kThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then lheirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, mprovided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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