“And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:18).
God’s sons and daughters are those who have been born again through the Word: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Peter 1:23).
The Word of God wants to reproduce himself in us through the Spirit of the Bible. God wants to enter our heart by the Scriptures, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God (see 2 Corinthians 3:1-3).
The Spirit of God is in the Bible, for the Word of God is Spirit, and they are living (see John 6:63). And we are the house of the Spirit, as it is written: “In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:22).
Now the Spirit of the Bible cannot dwell in our natural mind, but rather in a new spiritual mind (the mind that has repented and turned to the Scriptures). That is why God said He will take away the natural heart, and gives us the spiritual heart that is alive to the Word (see Ezekiel 36:25-27).
Once the Spirit of the Scriptures enters our hearts we become heirs of God, and then have an inheritance among all who are sanctified by the Word of His grace. The only way to have an inheritance in God is to receive His Spirit, the Spirit of the Bible.
It is by the Spirit of the Bible we become joint-heirs with Christ. Who is Christ? The Word of God, and once we jointly own the truth by receiving the Spirit of the Word of God; we become children of God forever.
The Spirit of the Bible anyone has received shall not be taken away; the Spirit of the Word of truth which now lives in that person’s heart is the Son of God, and He lives forever.
And so it is written: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the Son and Word of God lives forever (see Matthew 24:35).
PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for giving us the Bible, so that through the Spirit of the Word of God we can be born again unto the living God, in Jesus name. Amen.
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