Jesus’ Spirit
Jesus said His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, would not be sent to His disciples unless He first returned to the Father (John 16:7). He also said that when that Spirit did come, it was coming to convict the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8). The whole sixteenth chapter of John concerns itself with Jesus telling His disciples He was about to return to His Father (John 16:5, 10, 17, 28). Finally, in John 16:33, He says, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
If Jesus had not come to tell us how to repent by keeping God’s Ways daily in our lives, people would still have an excuse for their sins. But because He did come, we no longer have any excuse for our sins (John 15:22). God’s Way of overcoming evil by doing good is just too easy. It’s too rewarding to have an excuse not to do it.
If God is for us, no one can be against us. God, who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, will also give us all things through Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:31-32). Thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ (2 Cor. 2:14).
The god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of the people who refuse to believe in Jesus, who is the light of the gospel and the exact image of His Father (2 Cor. 4:4). Jesus came to the earth in the flesh to show the surpassing greatness of His power, which comes from God and not from anything we do (2 Cor. 4:7).
Jesus is standing at the door of our heart knocking. If we hear His voice, He promises to come into our heart and live His life in us and through us (Rev. 3:20; Gal. 2:20). We overcome our evil natures then, by allowing His spirit to put to death our evil deeds of the flesh. Jesus will then allow us to enter His kingdom and rule with Him when He returns shortly (Rom. 8:13; Rev. 3:21).
Jesus’ spirit is the same Spirit that created the world. God gives that same spirit to those who will obey Him by serving others daily, like Jesus our example did (Acts 5:32; Matt. 23:11; 1 Cor. 11:1).
It is with this Spirit, that we put to death the evil deeds of the flesh (Rom. 8:12-13). With that same Spirit, the blind received their sight, the lame walked, the deaf heard and the dead were raised (Luke 7:22). They also had power, with that same Spirit, over the entire kingdom of Satan (Luke 10:17, 19-20).
This is why we have no excuse for not living God’s special Way and overcoming Satan and sin in our lives. “For greater is He who is you than he who is in the world,” says 1 John 4:4. God’s Spirit is truly greater than Satan’s spirit!
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