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True salvation leads to sanctification. We cannot merely believe without a change that proceeds.
Those who truly have the Holy Spirit will not be able to sin and do wrong without being convicted.
Our flesh wants absolutely nothing to do with spiritual disciplines and convictions. It does not think about long-term consequences. Rather, it indulges in the feelings of immediate gratification and satisfaction.
If we respond to the Holy Spirit's speaking, we will receive Him as our Helper: convicting us of sin, strengthening us in our weakness, loving us in our fallen times, and encouraging us to stay the course.
Sanctification is the transformative power of the Holy Spirit that changes wretched sinners into righteous saints.
We become so satisfied that we are saved, that we forget there is a progressive road that must be seen in our life as born again believers. This road is seen through sanctification.
Sanctification seeks to kill the sinful ways and lifestyles in our life. Sanctification is the painful, yet pleasant result of God’s Sovereign work in and through us.
When people say, “How do you know Christianity is true?” We must have but one answer: “I know that Christianity is true because it changed me within!” This is all because of the Holy Spirit. Without Him, we would vainly toil in this life.
Let us open ourselves to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. For He does so only to bring us out of the darkness and into the Light. He does so to continually cut off the leech of death and sin, while shining the Light of Life within us.
We must choose to live in genuine, repentant faith, rather than in a falsified, complacent love. God has given us the choice. We must desire to be set free from that which keeps us from God & goes against Him. Only then may we shine & be set ablaze by the fire of the Holy Spirit.
May the Holy Spirit sanctify us to bring about our salvation and reveal to the world that God’s power is not merely one of saving, but of changing. May all see that true conversion leads to change in and by the power of the Holy Spirit. https://www.touroftruth.com/post/true-salvation-leads-to-sanctification
