REVIEW I – THE PREMISE: “Therefore having been justified by faith.”
II – THE RESULTS: Luther “the works of faith”
NEW e) Love: 5b) because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. I - Hope does not disappoint >It is a certain hope >God lavishly poured love in our hearts >It is given to us not earned. >YOU CANNOT LOSE IT! >“Unconditionally” to us, Christ is the condition!
II - THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN TO US. >The love of God had been lavishly poured within our hearts THROUGH the Holy Spirit who has been GIVEN to us. >The Omniscient, Omnipresent, Almighty, All Wise, All Just, All Holy, Merciful, Patient, Loving, Holy Spirit of God, was GIVEN TO US when we believed. >The Holy Spirit is with us and in us. >THERE IS NO GREATER GIFT TO THE BELIEVER, THAN THE HOLY SPIRIT
III – THERE IS NO GREATER GIFT TO THE BELIEVER. >The Spirit who adorned the heavens, spoke to the prophets, inspired the Scriptures, knows even the deepest things of God, whom Jesus was offered, is in us. >Jesus obeyed in life, what we could not, and his obedience was accounted to us. >Jesus paid in death, the debt we owed, and his payment was credited to us. >Because of Jesus, God and us are inseparable, in the Holy Spirit. “What shall separate us from the love of Christ?” |