Notes of Faith September 10, 2024
Spirit Submission
Be filled with the Spirit…submitting to one another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:18, 21
Ephesians 5 is the Bible’s definitive passage about being filled with the Holy Spirit. When we’re filled with the Spirit, we find ourselves more willing to be submissive to others. Submission is not an ugly quality but a godly one. Christ submitted to His Father’s will, though both were equally divine.
Paul applied this truth to marriage in Ephesians 5. With women, submission results in respect, for every man needs someone to respect him. With men, submission results in a deep love for their wives. That’s why the last verse of Ephesians 5 says, “Let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband” (verse 33).
When submission is understood from God’s perspective, it’s embraced as evidence of strength and godliness. The truth is, we all need love and respect; that means we must love and respect one another. Ask God to fill you with His Holy Spirit and help you with His great qualities of humility and submission.
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me.
Oswald Chambers
Luke 11:9-13
9 "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 "For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 11 "Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 "Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
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John 14:16-17
16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in
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Acts 1:8
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."
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Gal 5:22-26
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. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
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Being in the Spirit, living a life submitted to the Spirit of God that lives within you, will produce fruit, Holy Spirit fruit. You will produce the love of God. The love of God is sacrificial. We must give ourselves in sacrifice for others. May we be more than willing to sacrifice our desires, our needs daily, for the eternal needs of those without the Holy Spirit, without the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, without God the Father as their all in all. Let us love everyone in our sphere of influence, praying that God would bring them to understand the truth and come to Jesus that they might be saved!
Pastor Dale