The Ministry of the Holy Spirit | Dr. David Jeremiah

Our Thoughts Can Limit the Holy Spirit's Activity | Dr. David Jeremiah

No Love, No Fruit, No Salvation

John 13:34-35 "…34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples if you love one another.”

When there is no love for the brethren there is no salvation.

When there is no fruit of the Spirit there is no salvation.

These are the evidence by which we determine if someone is born again. Those who are constantly saying; "we are not to judge" are those who have no idea about God's principles or His heart. In short, they do not believe God, probably because they are not reading His word, or they are twisting scripture to make it say what they want it to say if they read it at all.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

We can see whether or not someone has this fruit and this love. We have to judge this, if we do not the church will grow with unsaved people who do not understand God's ways and will bring the church down to humanistic, political, and ungodly lies that destroy spirituality.

If you have ever been in a group like this you know anyone who wants to use the Bible to prove truth will be maligned and excluded for their love of the Word of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“ For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…"

What is true Kindness!?

Kindness without honesty equals manipulation. There cannot be true kindness without honesty and integrity.

Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater......What Does that Mean?

I never know what someone means when they say: "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

I think this is often used to encourage people to ignore the bad in something and only speak of the good. The problem with this is that when clean water is tainted with dirty water it is no longer drinkable.

When the gospel has been tainted with some subtle false teaching it leads people to believe the whole message is good.

This is the reason doctrine has become so muddied and blasphemous. There is false teaching about forgiveness without confession that has been floating around since the 70's when Christians began mixing secular psychology with the Bible.

What happened was the secular view became the predominant view causing people to believe no one had to ask those they offended to forgive them anymore. Because there was the false belief that we should forgive without requiring confession of sin, those who harmed someone else felt no need to even be sorrowful over their bad behavior.

Pressure came to bear on the innocent party to forgive when there was no justice in

God said: James 5:16 "16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail."

Relationships cannot be restored and grow to a deeper level when the offender is not sorry they offended. There is trust that is lost and cannot return until the offender is sorry enough to humble themselves over the wrong they did to someone else.

We never should accept the wrong doctrine just because there is some truth in it. Satan always adds a little truth with a lie to confuse those who are undiscerning.

We desire the "PURE milk of the word" not sour milk with impurities in it.

1 Peter 2:2-3 "2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.…"

Trusting in Christ not in Ourselves

Proverbs 3:5-6
"5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight."

When we think we have it all figured out because we have trusted in our own ingenuity then we fail, left standing there wondering what went wrong.

 
God knows our future, only He can prepare us for whatever is going to happen. We do not need to know the future we need just to trust in Him.

Trusting in Ourselves is Foolishness

In our day of fear some Christians may be preaching that we should stock up for 7 years to be able to survive terrible things. This is terrible advice and based on their own fears.

God tells each one what to do and when to do it even before they know what is going to happen.

It is possible God will tell someone not to store up because they will be forced to move and cannot take it with them. Or a fire will burn it all up anyway. Trusting in ourselves to figure it out is foolish. We must learn to hear from God and just obey when we hear.

Too many Christians are panicking acting as though they have no God that guides them.

Born-again believers can count on God to tell them "what and when" if they are seeking His coucel about everything.

Isaiah 41:10

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Proverbs 3:5-6

"5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight."