In Acts 7, Stephen, the first Christian martyr, recounts Israel's history of rejecting God's messengers before being stoned to death. Acts 7:51 records his rebuke, "You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did."...
So in the face of rejection, I’ve learned that it inspires better ideas and opens me to the Holy Spirit’s guidance when I need Him the most. So if a rejection comes along, take it as a way to stimulate a new and creative idea, to let the Lord be part of your work, and to ...
Israel’s Rejection of Christ - I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have
Let the Holy Spirit help you identify how or where you have been wounded by rejection. 2. Forgive the people who have harmed you. 3. Lay down the destructive fruits of rejection such as resentment, bitterness, hatred, and rebellion. 4. Accept that God has accepted you in Christ. 5. ...
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” (Matthew 28:19) Will we keep our hearts open and humble to God’s word? “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but hav...
He further explains that idolatry is incompatible with the Christian life, as believers are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).Theological Implications:Idolatry is seen as a direct affront to God's sovereignty and holiness. It represents a turning away from the Creator to the ...
Luke 11:13 sn The provision of the Holy Spirit is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. Some apply it to the general provision of the Spirit, but this would seem to look only at one request in a context that speaks of repeated asking....
As baptized Christians, we are invited into the divine life of the Trinity, and empowered by the Spirit to proclaim liberty to captives and proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. This call to become like Jesus requires perseverance and faith in the power of the Holy Spirit at work, in bo...
by M. Vassányi.) This scheme may echo Bruno’s philosophical trinitology, in which the Christ is the intelletto universale and the Holy Spirit is the anima del mondo (see Section 1 of Chapter 8). 46. Chapter VIII, point 7; ibid., p. 80....
The Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth - He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him. And on the sabbath he began