Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“THE HOLY SPIRIT PRODUCES NEW LIFE”
We could never know what true righteousness looks like within our own carnal flesh. Why? We are not righteous! We can however see what righteousness looks like for a human; There is only one man by which we can see righteousness in the flesh, and His name is Jesus.
Jesus is what righteousness looks like in the flesh. He was conceived in sinlessness, lived 33 years as a man on this earth and He did so in total perfection! Nothing about His life was condemned by sin. God came to us in the flesh in the person of the Lord Jesus and He lived His earthly life out in total perfection. He met God’s standard totally! His life is the perfect picture of a life that lives out the law of God perfectly.
The Spirit of Christ, who exemplified God’s requirements flawlessly, resides within us as believers. The Holy Spirit enables us to choose correctly and empowers us to live in victory over sin. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit does a marvelous work within us!
God births a new nature within us. We are not made perfect when we are saved, but He who lives within us is perfect. Sin is not eradicated from our life, but the indwelling Holy Spirit within us grants us victory over sin. 2 Corinthians 5:17—”17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Romans 8:4—”4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
