This is a preview for tomorrow's 5PM Bible Study (Actually, I should call it a "Prayer Study" since that's how it turned out last week.):
We'll be tackling some often misunderstood concepts of spirit, soul & body, and what happens to those three "parts" of a person when he/she is saved.
We'll find answers to questions like these:
*I accepted Christ as my Savior - so why do I find myself unchanged?
*How can someone who's received the gift of the Holy Spirit (apparent by gift of tongue) turn away and not live for God?
*What's the point of praying in tongues when I don't understand it?
*What happens when we die or the Rapture takes place? What happens to our spirit, soul & body?
We will tackle these together, searching His Words for truth and understanding, and have a time of praise and prayer as we commit to real-ize the truths God teaches us.
2 comments:
ooo good! i'm excited :)
i always find myself saying, "wHY??? I don't get it/them/him/her"
"How can someone who's received the gift of the Holy Spirit turn away and not live for God?"
ahhhhh- i want to know!!! sdkfjlaskjd
He's so good... why would you leave him?! i just don't get it.
i hope i realize a little more through today's prayer-study :P
Little Jane,
I know we didn't get the chance to delve into it as much as I had wanted to, but I hope it answered some of your questions.
I have seen many people who had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and initially showed great zeal for God, but eventually fall away, denying even that they had even received the Spirit to begin with.
As we had discussed on Saturday, our spirit is renewed when we are saved, and the Holy Spirit empowers us to live a life in which our spirit, soul and body move as one, but sanctification of our soul and body is a life-long process, and sadly, most people get too discouraged the moment they realize they have not turned into a saint over night after their wondrous experience with the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Basically and tragically, it is due mostly to lack of knowledge-a clear understanding of what sanctification is all about.
Please don't hesitate to ask me any other questions you might have that wasn't addressed on Saturday.
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