Progress: He Makes You Holy

The Holy Spirit will glorify us when we appear with Christ in “glory” (Col 3:4), as Christ is glorified in his holy people, as all things are ushered into the glory of the sons of God (Romans 8). But what does it mean for the Spirit to be a present sign and seal of our future glory? The final installment in our series “this present strength.”

Sin is a master. It isn’t just an infection; it’s a disease. Romans 8 says whatever we yield our bodies to is our master. So don’t yield your bodies to sin. Instead, yield them to God’s Holy Spirit. Why? We know why. Because the Spirit represents abundance. Fulness. It is God’s good and best gift. And the Spirit is the overwhelming power that can change how we think, how we act, and (on the day of Jesus) how we look (1 John 3:2). We know the Spirit works in us and for us. But I wanted to highlight an important corollary: He empowers us.

The Holy Spirit not only lives in you–He is at work in you. This is the great teaching of Romans 8:1-11, that, empowered by the Spirit, the righteous requirements of the law may be fulfilled in us as we walk according to the Spirit. Part 2 in “This Present Strength” series.

The Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit means presence. The Holy Spirit means power. And the Holy Spirit is a producer. In this series, we explore what it means to have access to this present strength. In this first lesson, we see that being plunged in God’s Spirit or receiving God’s Spirit means to be in the presence of God and for God’s presence to always be with us.