4/27/2023 0 Comments Iam the witness![]() There are none that adequately express what the Spirit of God works in His children. I observed many years ago, “It is hard to find words in the language of men to explain the deep things of God. It is inevitably destroyed, not only by the commission of outward sin or the omission of known duty, but by willingly yielding to any inward sin to state it briefly, by whatever grieves the Holy Spirit of God. What He testifies is “that we are the children of God.” The immediate result of this testimony is “the fruit of the Spirit ” that is, “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness.” Without these, the testimony cannot continue. We could “have a form of godliness,” but neglect, if not “deny, the power of it.” On the other hand, if we accept it blindly and do not understand what we accept, we are liable to run into the wildness of fanaticism.īut what is the witness of the Spirit? It is the testimony “that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.” The testimony is given by the Spirit of God both to and with our spirit. On the one hand, if we deny this truth, there is a danger of our religion becoming mere formality. It is necessary to explain and defend this truth, because there is a danger of going to extremes. No one who believes the Scriptures to be the Word of God can doubt the importance of this truth, which is revealed there as a unique privilege of the children of God. “ The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” Romans 8:16.
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