The True Holy Spirit
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The False Holy Spirit
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| The true
Holy Spirit is a comforter in that He convicts us of sin and directs us to
Jesus, the one who saves us from sin. |
In contrast, the
false holy spirit comforts us by saying that we are OK, we can and
will be saved in sin. It brings us to the place where we boast that we are
saved. |
| The true
Holy Spirit makes every spot of defilement painfully distinct. He lays
bare our deformity and defects of character. |
The false
holy spirit anesthetizes, blurs, and evades our sense of guilt for our
unchristlike selfishness. He excuses our character deformity as universal:
nobody is perfect, deformity is normalcy. |
| The true
Holy Spirit opens our eyes so that we may see our own heart infidelity and
unhallowed desires. |
The false
holy spirit excuses our adulterous fantasies as uncontrollable,
inevitable, harmless, and a normal way of life. |
| The true
Holy Spirit exposes our disloyalty in making void the law of God. |
The false
holy spirit represents the law of God as virtually impossible to truly
obey. |
| The true
Holy Spirit teaches us to abhor the principle of self-love. |
The false
holy spirit teaches us that self-love is desirable and in fact is a
requirement for proper self-esteem. |
| The true
Holy Spirit teaches us to hate our selfishness and our human pride. |
While the false
holy spirit encourages flattery and to affirm ourselves. |
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The true Holy Spirit:
- Teaches lowliness of mind and to
esteem others better than ourselves.
- It imparts to us true self-respect in
Christ as we glory in the cross.
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In contrast, the false holy
spirit:
- Discounts Paul's counsel.
- It teaches us to glory in
self-assertion and encourages self-centered self esteem.
- He creates a religious arrogance
among the body of Christ; thus Christ's condescension is virtually
ignored.
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| The true
Holy Spirit brings to our understanding how enmity against God has defiled
every act of our lives. |
While the false
holy spirit assures us that self-denial is the root of all our problems. |
| The true
Holy Spirit reveals to us the pure spotless character of Christ as our
true ideal which is attainable by faith. |
The false
holy spirit teaches us that Christ's character is unattainable; that he
is our Substitute only, and that righteousness is only imputed. |
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The true Holy Spirit convicts us
of righteousness and presents Christ as our example as well as our
substitute. His righteousness is imparted as well as imputed to us.
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The false
holy spirit specializes in beclouding the incarnation of Christ so that He
appears as only naturally holy, His righteousness is not truly by faith,
and thus the nature of Christ is seen to be irrelevant to us. |
| The true
Holy Spirit reveals to us that Christ came in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and condemned sin in the flesh. |
While the false holy spirit
presents Christ as coming in holy flesh, thus not truly condemning sin in
our flesh.
This being the case, the false holy
spirit encourages us to continue in sin until glorification.
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The true Holy Spirit:
- Convicts of judgment.
- It condemns the principle of
self-love and vanquishes it from our lives.
- It replaces our self-centered
motivation with a Christ centered motivation.
- It brings to our understanding the
principle of the cross and a concern for Christ's honor and glory.
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The false holy spirit justifies
the sin in our lives which is never truly vanquished or condemned.
He perpetuates a self-centered
motivation in our thinking which focuses on a fear of punishment or the
hope of an eternal reward as the only effective motivations for living a
Christian life.
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The true Holy Spirit gives us a
deep hunger for righteousness and guides us into all truth.
He builds in us a strong desire and love
for truth that no man can dislodge by seeking unity under the guise of
consensus.
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The false holy spirit:
- Encourages self-satisfaction and
makes us believe that we are in need of nothing.
- It perpetuates our lukewarmness by
destroying our hunger for truth.
- Thus our Christianity is driven by
concern for unity based on consensus.
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