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6. The indwelling Spirit enriches the believer’s prayer life and intercedes for him in prayer (Rom. 8:26–
27).

7. The indwelling Holy Spirit empowers the yielded believer to live for Christ to do His will (Gal. 5:16).
The Spirit leads the believer in paths of righteousness (Rom. 8:14).

8. The indwelling Spirit gives evidence of new life by producing the fruit of the Spirit in the believer’s life
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(Gal. 5:22–23).

9. The indwelling Spirit is grieved when the believer sins (Eph. 4:30), and He convicts the believer to
confess his sin to the Lord so that fellowship is restored (1 John 1:9).

10. The indwelling Spirit seals the believer unto the day of redemption so that the believer’s arrival in
the Lord’s presence is guaranteed after this life (Eph. 1:13–14).

When you accept Christ as your Savior (Rom. 10:9–13), the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart,
bringing with Him an entirely new life of love, relationship, and service to the Lord.

This is in contrast to the filling of the Spirit referred to in Ephesians 5:18. We should be so completely
yielded to the Holy Spirit that He can possess us fully and, in that sense, fill us. Romans
8:9 and Ephesians 1:13-14 state that the Holy Spirit dwells within every believer, but He can be grieved
(Eph. 4:30), and His activity within us can be quenched (1 Thess. 5:19). When we allow this to happen,
we do not experience the fullness of the Spirit's working and His power in and through us. To be filled
with the Spirit implies freedom for Him to occupy every part of our lives, guiding and controlling us.
Another way of saying a person is filled with the Spirit is to say he is YIELDED to the work of the Holy
Spirit in his life. Then His power can be exerted through us so that what we do is fruitful to God. The
filling of the Spirit does not apply to outward acts alone; it also applies to the innermost thoughts and
motives of our actions (Psa. 19:14).

Sin hinders the filling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to God and yielding control of your life to Him is
how the filling of the Spirit is maintained. Paul commands that we be filled with the Spirit; however, it is
not praying for the filling of the Holy Spirit that accomplishes the filling (Eph. 5:18). Only our obedience
to God's commands allows the Spirit’s freedom to work within us. Because we are still infected with sin,
it is impossible to be filled with the Spirit all of the time. When we sin, we should immediately confess it
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to God and renew our commitment to being Spirit-filled and Spirit-led.
The Seal of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is referred to as the “deposit,” “seal,” and “earnest” in the hearts of
Christians (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30). The Holy Spirit is God’s seal on His people,
His claim on us as His very own. The Greek word translated “earnest” in these passages
is arrhabōn which means “a pledge,” that is, part of the purchase money or property
given in advance as security for the rest. The gift of the Spirit to believers is a down
payment on our heavenly inheritance, which Christ has promised us and secured for us at
the cross. It is because the Spirit has sealed us that we are assured of our salvation. No one can break
the seal of God.

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