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Gloria Copeland — God’s Will Is The Holy SpiritPosted on February 3rd, 2010
You have been involved with the Holy
Spirit since you first heard the good news that
Jesus took your place and bore the penalty for
your sins. It was the Holy Spirit, through the
Word, who made the truth that Jesus was
raised from the dead a reality in your heart.
Romans 10:9 says, “That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved,”
and 1 Corinthians 12:3 states that no man says
Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Ghost.
Jesus came to make it possible for man
to receive the nature of God—eternal life
( John 10:10). Jesus could not get a man
born again while He was on the earth. He
had the power to forgive sins, but there
could be no new creatures until Jesus paid
the sin price at Calvary and became the
firstborn from the dead.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is
expedient for you that I go away: for
if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come unto you; but if I depart,
I will send him unto you…. I have
yet many things to say unto you, but
ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,
he will guide you into all truth: for
he shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
he speak: and he will show you things
to come. He shall glorify me: for he
shall receive of mine, and shall show
it unto you. All things that the Father
hath are mine: therefore said I, that
he shall take of mine, and shall show
it unto you (John 16:7, 12-15).
Jesus told the men who walked by His
side for three years that it was more profitable
for them if He went away and sent them the
Holy Spirit.
It was the miraculous work of the Holy
Spirit that made you a new creature. When
you made Jesus Lord over your life, the Holy
Spirit came upon you and overshadowed you,
just as He did Mary when there was conceived
in her a “holy thing” (Luke 1:35).
Spiritual death was eradicated from
your spirit. You were born again into a new
life—a new spirit. You were literally born
of God. “Beloved, now are we the sons
of God” (1 John 3:2). First John 5:1 says,
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God.” God became your
Father by spiritual birth.
The miracle of the new birth should
never become commonplace to you. It is not a
theological idea, but an actual fact. The Holy
Spirit personally carries out this miracle when
you make Jesus Christ your Lord. He takes
a sin-ridden, selfish man and re-creates his
spirit in God’s image. This change in a man’s
nature is a great, miraculous and supernatural
event in the realm of the spirit. That is why all
of heaven rejoices (Luke 15:7, 10).
