What the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, does to the chosen ones

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  The second-person people whom the Lord refers to as you are those whom the Lord has chosen and received into Christ, and the third-person people called they are Gentiles outside of Christ.

Therefore, the apostle Paul states that those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified (Rom. 8:30).

Because the Holy Spirit works preemptively and inwardly, we seem to have heard and believed the Word ourselves, but in fact, it was done by God's providence.

What the Holy Spirit does to the chosen ones who have been called into Christ is to first lead them into the truth.

“But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth; he will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come” (John 16:13).

The purpose of standing on the Lord's side according to the grace of Christ's atonement on the cross is to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit as well as the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).

When the Holy Spirit dwells in us and works within us, we come to know the truth, become one with Christ, and move toward the throne of grace with a heart that longs and longs for the Lord.

We can do that because we have been freed from sin, the flesh, and the world.

There is no condemnation in Jesus Christ, so we overcome judgment and gain freedom.

Because the Holy Spirit is the truth (1 John 5:6), the Holy Spirit makes us know the truth.

The Holy Spirit reveals to us the glory of God in Christ.

“He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you” (John 16:14).

Glory is a value. If you are not a person of the Holy Spirit, you will not change to spiritual values.

If the values do not change, the person's treasure is always in the world.

They hope only for the earthly things and always try to interpret the spiritual things as the physical things.

Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, did not see the glory of Jesus Christ.

Even the disciples who went fishing have yet to see the glory of the only begotten Son of God, which is revealed through the Holy Spirit, the Counselor.

But after Pentecost, they honor the name of Jesus Christ more than silver or gold (Acts 3:6).

Only through the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit, the glory of God's kingdom is realized within us.

The Holy Spirit causes the spiritual children of God to appear through the labor of childbirth.

If the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, dwells in us, then we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit (Rom 8:9).

Because they are people of the spirit, they can think of the spirit and eventually see the glory of God and are willing to endure the pain of childbirth for the sake of the glory.

As a result, all of creation comes to the freedom of the glory of the Son of God, whom he longs to look forward to, yielding to the futility of institutions and organizations (Rom. 8:21).

It is not like a commodity that pretends to carry a cross, but it is like a work of art that always carries the death of Jesus, yields oneself to his death, reveals the Spirit and life of the Lord in its body and motal body, and has the power of life to lift up and carry those under death.

Through the labor of childbirth bearing the cross of Christ, one's true self is born, and the church that clothed with the sun gains a spiritual Christian through the pain of childbirth (Revelation 12:1-2).

Then the Holy Spirit makes us pray in the name of the Lord.

“In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and  your joy will be complete” (John 16:23-24).

If the Holy Spirit does not come in us, we are babbling in vain, like the Gentiles who called they.

After much chatter, we pray in the name of Jesus or even in the name of Jesus who will come again... It's a bit embarrassing to be a Christian.

When you are united with Christ in the Spirit, His name comes.

In the Holy Spirit, the Lord comes and comes to us like particles of sunlight.

Along the way, we will go to the Father calling on the name of the Lord and going again.

If you are a Christian with the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit, the Lord's prayer will come to you greatly.

When reading the Old Testament, if the veil is not removed and it is covered by the law mind, you are not a person who is united with Christ in the Holy Spirit and abides in it.

When the Holy Spirit comes in us, we know the truth, the truth makes us one with the Christ, and  makes us free.

"whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.(2 Corinthians 3:16-18)

The Lord calls us in the Holy Spirit and comes to us in His name, and as we call on the name of the Lord in Him and move closer to Him, a powerful spirital spark arises, and we taste the immeasurable riches of Christ and enjoy glorious joy.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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