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Be Filled with the Holy Spirit


Eph. 5 (NLT)

18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 






19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.



20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.




Whatever we get full of overflows into our words.  It is God's will for us to be being filled with the Holy Spirit.



The Holy Spirit leads us, and if we follow Him, we will be on the right path.  




John 3  (NLT)

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”









Just as we had a physical birth. We must have a spiritual rebirth by God's Holy Spirit.

   









“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”









Nicodemus was thinking entirely in human terms when he asked this question about a physical birth. 










Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.









A spiritual rebirth by God's Holy Spirit is the requirement of entering Heaven. 













Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.  



Lord, will you teach me the difference between the Holy Spirit and my human flesh?




So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’


14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man (Jesus) must be lifted up (on the Cross), 





15 so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.





16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son (Jesus), so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 





17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.







Keith Moore, Faith Life Church

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