The Holy Spirit operates from before baptism. The Spirit draws the elect to God through Christ (Heb. 7:25). The firstfruits of the Spirit are given to the individual at baptism from Romans 8:23, which clearly states that the adoption does not occur until the redemption of the body. Thus we are born again but continue to grow in the Spirit daily in Christ Jesus until we come into the glory of God. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth (1Jn. 4:6, 5:6) and, by speaking the Truth in all things, we grow into Christ our head in all respects (Eph. 4:15). We do not have to speak all truth in all things. Sometimes it is polite not to speak all truth in all things; e.g. if we don’t like something about someone, we don’t necessarily have to tell them. We should keep some things to ourselves. They are, nevertheless, true but perhaps kindly not said. That is not lying by omission; it is good sense. There is a difference between lying by omission and being polite. If we say nothing when in fact we should have said something then we are lying, because we omitted to bear witness. We have hence born false witness by our silence. That is important. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:14) and the Spirit of faith (2Cor. 4:13), which searches all things and knows all things (1Cor. 2:10-11; 12:3ff.).
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:26:57 +0000
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