Are you convinced that you are 100% FULL of Holy Spirit 24/7/365?
I sure know I’m not . . .
Semantics becomes a problem at some point . . .
***Semantics becomes a problem at some point***
True enough my FRiend.
When we speak of the Holy Spirit as the deliever of Grace, that is when we run into the problem I illustrated above. We are NEVER more saved than we were when we first put our faith in Jesus.
Do I always feel close to God? Heavens (no pun intened) no! But that is my problem, my own perception/action/feeling. We are, after all told, that we will never be foresaken.
But if the Holy Spirit indwells us, it is 24/7. And that Holy Spirit is what convicts us of our sins and brings us to repentance and makes us sorrowful for the sins we commit against our merciful Lord.
GAMECOCK: It is the difference between infusion (RCism) and imputation. That is why they go to confession, play with their prayer beads, make pilgramages to obscure artisian wells, etc. They need to top off the grace that was given to them at Baptism. The grace that leaks out with every little sin they commit.
Exactly right.
Imputed righteousness means that EVEN WHEN WE ARE SINNING, God sees the free gift of His Son in us, and forgives us our trespasses against Him.
Every single one.
And as the old man dies, day by day the new man in Christ is sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
FR friend I am ALWAYS full of the Holy Spirit that I received when I was saved.. 100% full
The issue is not His absence but our sin