The Holy Spirit part 2

Acts of the Holy Spirit. That's interesting. What else did you catch in there? You know the song, right? And Kim, you know it? I'm asking you. What stood out to you?

I mean, even right in the beginning of the song, they ask the Holy Spirit for the power to write the song. And then it demonstrates that it's the Holy Spirit that is the power that's working.

Wow, that's good. Did you catch that they're saying, Holy Spirit, we worship you. What do y 'all think about that? You ever think of that? Is it appropriate to worship the Holy Spirit? He's God. He's God.

Absolutely. We don't think to do that as often as worshiping the Father or worshiping the Son. But the Spirit is God and worthy of worship. Good. Anything else jump out?

I think sometimes I attribute the work of the Holy Spirit in me to want to be up, you know. I mean, it's okay, but it really truly is the Holy Spirit who's working. And so, as Francis Chan said, he's the forgotten God.

The forgotten God.

Yeah, absolutely. It gives us eyes to see Christ. Yeah. Regeneration. Sanctification.

And with that, turn to page two of your notes. Anybody not have your notes? I got it.

Yeah, my wife doesn't. I do. She'll be here.

Thank you. You can share one. There's a few versions here.

A few copies. Anybody else? I think they need one. Thank you. I'll just put those out in the middle for whoever shows up. All right. So, the first week we studied the person of the Holy Spirit, meaning who he is ontologically.

Who he is as a deity, as Spirit, as holiness. And this week we move into the work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, last week we began to talk about the first ministry of the Holy Spirit listed in 2 Thessalonians 2, 6 and 7.

That the Holy Spirit restrains evil. He's a restrainer of the evil of the hearts of men. We know the doctrine of total depravity, right? If left to our devices, what would the world be like without the restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit?

It would be like before the flood, as it was in the days of Noah.

It would be just utter chaos all the time. Evil thoughts all the time, evil actions. And the world would spin out of control. Right. The Holy Spirit restrains evil. We're going to move into the second ministry now, the Holy Spirit convicts.

And if you guys are ready, we're going to go around the room and go through these different ministries of the Holy Spirit. Discussing each one briefly, so we can move through all of them today. So Greg, you're up first.

It's John 16, 7 to 11. So we've said the Holy Spirit restrains evil. That's part of his common grace. God's common grace on earth is that he's doing that not only for Christians, but for humankind in general.

Even as it's God's common grace to give reign to the just and the unjust alike. In the same way, his common grace, he restrains evil on earth. And convicting of sin, John 16, 7 to 11. So the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit, who receives that ministry on earth?

Is it believers only or believers and unbelievers?

Both, says Rich. And why? Well, because, well, of course he works in us, so he convicts us when we do wrong. But he also convicts the world. They know because they have a conscience when they are doing wrong.

That's the Holy Spirit, you know, working in their conscience.

The Holy Spirit can use their conscience? Good. Okay. Specifically though, I think you're right in the sense that there is a convicting ministry that's broad. Let me put the question this way. Is the conviction of the Holy Spirit the same in all people?

No. Right?

The conviction of the Holy Spirit leads to repentance.

Hmm. Interesting. Okay. So in the text here we see he convicts the world, right? Do you see the world there? Do you think that is speaking only to believers in terms of the elect world? Or is that a general conviction here?

A general. I think in this context it is a general conviction that he has a ministry of convicting. But there's nothing that says that he's convicting all people the same. Have you ever felt a stronger or a weaker sense of conviction over your sin?

Have you ever felt a difference in that? Surely we have, right? So in different times he convicts us more heavily. Sometimes the conviction of the Holy Spirit can be so strong that, what? We repent. In fact, the only way to come to repentance and faith is if the Holy Spirit brings that conviction.

We depend on his conviction to come to faith. Does that make sense? In and of ourselves, our depraved minds would justify our own behavior. We would be happy with what we're doing. And we would go on in sin.

So we thank God that he, in a sense, convicts us and pushes us over the tipping point to the point of repenting and trusting in Christ. Isn't that an interesting thought? So the Holy Spirit, though, is absolutely crucial in this area of conviction of sin.

Without him, in our pride, in the fallenness of our heart, we would always justify ourselves. Moving on to the next one, which kind of dovetails with this. The Holy Spirit regenerates. 1 John 5, verse 1.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

Okay. This is 1 John 5, verse 1. Okay, sorry, I have to get there. The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. What does it mean? Give me a definition of regeneration. What is it to be regenerate or to be regenerated?

To remain new. To remain new. That's a good definition. Okay.

That's the first step in salvation. Okay. Very good.

Now, what you just said is what I also will teach here. It's a controversial point. This is what's called the Ordo Salutis, the order of salvation. Does regeneration precede faith or does faith precede regeneration?

The majority view in America today is that faith precedes regeneration. You believe and responsibly the Holy Spirit then gives you the gift of a new heart, a new life. Being made new, being born again.

Okay. Now, the scripture speaks of being born again. And where you hear the term being born again or born from above, this is the work of the Holy Spirit. It's called regeneration. So, we know the text in John 3.

You must be born again. Born of spirit and born of water, right? There's some different interpretations of what that water is there, whether it's amniotic fluid or it's the washing of Ezekiel 36, or is it the physical water of baptism, which is something we'll look at today in the sermon.

But the point is you must be born again. Now, the question is, do you believe and then God makes you born again or are you born again and so you believe? Now, I'll start this by saying there doesn't have to be a temporal difference.

Follow me. The time doesn't have to be different. So, it's not that the Holy Spirit can zap somebody and make them regenerate and then six months later along comes the gospel and so they believe it when they hear it because God has made them born again.

That's not the teaching. It's an order of priority in terms of a logical priority of which would come first in the order of salvation. Now, the reformers clearly taught regeneration before faith, okay?

Now, later on when after the remonstrance and the Arminian tradition came about, there was the view that faith precedes regeneration. Which is it? I'm just going to give you this one text. We're in 1 John 5 .1.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Which comes first in 1 John 5 .1? Why? Has been. Has been. What does that has been indicate? Past tense. Past tense. So, which thing comes first logically there?

It is being born again. And then logically from that flows belief, okay? Now...

I just have to ask a question. If you go back to the Greek because the King James doesn't provide that sequential emphasis. It is more like causative as opposed to... It says everyone who is born is and the implication it will be.

So, if you go back to the Greek, is that the tensual application?

Yes. This exact wording in the Greek appears two other times in 1 John. Once in the second chapter and once in the fourth chapter. Thank you for bringing that up. It's once with regard to works and once with regard to love.

So, follow me. Which comes first in the Christian life? That we are born again and then as a result we have the fruit of the spirit which is Christian love. Or does the love come before the fruit? Yeah, I have to find the actual text.

But I wanted to make the larger point first. That when John speaks about regeneration, he uses that same Greek tense. Born from above that you see in 5 .1. In fact, the exact same wording, born of God, appears not only in 5 .1 but two other places earlier.

I have to find them. It might be two. Look for the same expressions. Born of God.

In 3 .9 it says no one who is born of God will continue to sin. Because God's seed, born of God is there. But I don't think it's what you're looking for.

It could be. But is born of God is the translation I have in NIV for 5 .1. And then that's the same translation in 3 .9.

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning. For God's seed abides in him.

The last verse in chapter 2. Everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. Very good, there it is. Thank you, that's the first one. Read the whole verse first. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Okay, so you have the same Greek tense there. You have the same Greek expression. And which comes first? The practicing of righteousness or the new birth? The new birth. The new birth. So you have an order.

And in 1 John it's actually very important because the purpose of the book, if you look at 5 .13, I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

So the purpose is for the assuring of the believer that you have eternal life. And so it's almost testing yourself to see if you're in the faith. So what kind of tests almost cycle through again and again in that?

It's if you love the brother. If you practice righteousness. If you make a habit of sinning and go on sinning again and again without true repentance, then you can know you have not been born of God. So you find this same expression with regard to love, belief.

Well, with regard to love and works. And now in chapter five, verse one, we have it too. But do we find the one in chapter four? Find it later, but might be verse seven. Yeah, it's verse seven. So chapter four, verse seven, you have the same Greek construction about being born again that has been born of God.

And the evidence has been what comes out of the believer's life. In the first place, we saw righteousness. And in chapter four, verse seven, we see love. Whoever loves has been born of God. And now look at the parallel Greek construction in five, one.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. So when you see a similar Greek construction, first of all, throughout the Bible, but even more particularly within the same author. And then not only within the same author, but within the same book, you catch that there's something that he's developing there.

There's an idea that he's developing. So we'll move a little bit quickly through that, but this would be a subject that we could discuss at length.

I have a point. This is from John 12, 32. It doesn't discount the work of the Spirit, but Jesus says, and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. That isn't to suggest he's not doing it with the help of the Holy Spirit, but that's his job too.

Yeah, that Jesus, yeah. And in John 6, 44, it's the Father. It's the Father draws to the Son. So in a sense, you see language describing the different persons of the Trinity doing the different works of salvation.

That's like what Denise said. We attribute it to the Holy Spirit, but really it's the triune God that lives within all of us, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So sometimes we confuse the work of one for the other, but really it's the triune God.

Yeah, that's true, and certain ones are given a priority. So it's only the Son that dies as a substitutionary atonement. It's never the Father or Spirit. And particularly the work of regeneration, if you look at John 3, there's born of water, there's born of the Spirit.

You must be born of the Spirit. So the spiritual work of regeneration is key there.

And the only ones that time bothers are us. It's not God. Right. Because He's timeless. We think in terms of sequence.

Right. He doesn't. Right, right. Yeah, absolutely. Another place is in 1 Peter 1. You see the triune construction in the second verse, Father, Son, and Spirit. It's the Spirit who's doing the born-again work.

He's making born again. Anyway, so that moves on for regeneration. To Kimberly for baptizing. Again, one we could spend a lot of time on. And we will touch on this more next week.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Good. So it's the work of the Spirit to baptize in the Spirit. Right. We have Luke 3 .16. John the Baptist baptizes with water for repentance. But one is coming who will baptize in the Spirit and with fire.

Okay. So it's a greater baptism. But this is a spiritual baptism that the Holy Spirit does. Now, in the book of Acts, we have a number of experiences of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. John, Acts 1 .5 is the first that talks about how there's this coming, this greater baptism that's stronger than water baptism.

And then in 1 .8, we're told when people are baptized that way, they have what? Power to witness. Okay. Then you have these different occurrences of it. So you have Pentecost in Chapter 2. And then you have sort of the Samaritan Pentecost in Chapter 8.

Then you have the Gentile Pentecost in Chapter 10. And then you have another kind of Pentecost that happens with Paul in Chapter 19. Each one is accompanied with sign gifts of the Holy Spirit of some kind.

Now, the question is how normative are those for us today? How much do they speak to our experience? Or are they only transitional experiences? Because as the Gospel goes from Jerusalem to Samaria and Judea and to the ends of the earth, each time there's kind of a Pentecost experience that marks that.

Hmm. Now, what do we know for sure about the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Well, I would say the best place to find normative teaching on it is in the epistles, which speak to that. So this verse to me is very important, 1 Corinthians 12, 13.

It uses the same language for spirit baptism. And it talks about being given the spirit to drink. And so notice, all of us who have been baptized into Christ and have been given the one spirit to drink, I would argue from that that spiritual baptism actually happens at conversion.

In the same time, when you put your faith and trust in Christ, the baptism of the Spirit happens. Now, can there be later experiences of the Holy Spirit? Call them fillings or call them just movements, whatever you call them.

Can there be empowering things that happen in your life? Absolutely. The Holy Spirit can work in our lives in different ways at different times. But it seems to me that the teaching of the baptizing work of the Spirit is that we all have that.

And it includes us into the body of Christ.

How would you answer the Pentecostal brother that says the evidence is the speaking in tongues?

Well, I mean, I would go to 1 Corinthians 12. Do all speak in tongues? No. No, is the implied answer from that Greek construction. So the answer is no, it's not an evidence that you've been baptized in the Spirit.

Now, could it be that people speak in tongues? That's something we're going to cover next week.

We'll get to that next week. Could they swear that if you don't speak in tongues, you haven't been baptized by the Holy Spirit? I mean, that's the position they take.

And so it's important to know 1 Corinthians 12, 13, because it makes no exceptions. It's all of us have been given that one Spirit to drink. Comments on that, and next week, I promise you, this is where we're going.

That's part three. Any other questions or comments here, though? So the big picture, I see baptism of the Spirit as being part of the work of being converted. In that time, different things happen. It's all the Holy Spirit doing it, and part of that is that you're brought into the body of Christ, baptized in the Spirit, given the one Spirit to drink.

And even if different gifts of the Spirit don't show up for years and years, you were already baptized in the Spirit when you believed. That's my view. So you're welcome to disagree. But we can talk about that.

Let's move on to the next one, and that becomes, obviously, the key, or an important part of the conversation next week. And this, as well, with empowering. Let's pick one of these. I mentioned Luke 3, 16.

John the Baptist baptizes with water for repentance. Jesus comes to baptize with the Spirit and fire. Let's do Luke 24, 48. Witnesses of these things. That's it. That's it.

Maybe 47 as well. Okay. Can we start a little bit at the beginning of the sentence? This is what is written. The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Beginning at Jerusalem, period. You are witnesses of these things. Yeah. And then 49. That's what I'm getting at. I am going to send you what my Father has promised. There you go. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.

Okay.

The empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit. Without the empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit, our ministry on earth would be null and void. It would come to nothing. Everything that we do in the flesh ultimately gets burned away as wood, hay, and stubble.

The gold, silver, precious stones that our ministries produce come from the Holy Spirit, not from us. He is the one who empowers us to minister. And notice in this verse, they weren't even allowed to go out preaching yet.

Jesus had already died. He had already been resurrected and ascended. He was about to ascend to the Father, and yet they're told, don't go out preaching yet. Wait until the gift from above. There is an empowering ministry from the Holy Spirit, so that it's him working in us, not just us working in the flesh.

It's very important. So we see that in Acts 1 -8, that kind of thesis statement of the book of Acts. We heard in the rap song from Shy Lynn, that the book of Acts is really the Acts of the Holy Spirit, empowered by the gospel, okay?

Or empowered by the Spirit, yeah. Yeah, so it's amazing that we need the Holy Spirit not to do anything in the flesh, but we need him to do the work through us. Next, the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Rick, you up? Yeah. Let's do Romans 8 -11.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

So now we're told that the Spirit of Christ can come and live inside of us, and indwell us to inhabit his people. Isn't that amazing? The temple was an image of God coming to be with men, and now we're told, 1 Corinthians 5 -6, that what?

You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

He comes in and he dwells inside of you and makes you a holy temple. Think of that. That's an awesome thought. That's what we are, the temple of the Holy Spirit. He lives inside of us. He seals us. Rich, Ephesians 1 -13. 1 -13.

Okay, I'm in Ephesians 1. I just saw it. Take your time. Oh, that's 12. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, of the gospel of your salvation, believed in him, were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit.

Sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit himself seals you, right? Think of that concept. One of our youth leaders when I was a kid said, it's like this, you have a jar, and if God takes a jar and seals it, do you think any force on earth could ever open that jar?

You know, like a pickle jar that's hard to open or something? If God were the one to seal, could anybody break that seal? And the answer, of course, is no. Now, in that particular context, it was kind of missing the analogy because it's not talking about the sealing of a jar, it's talking about God stamping his signet ring and putting his seal, kind of like more of a king of old would make a decree and roll up the scroll and take his wax ring and seal it, mark it as his and have it come from him.

So it carries the authority of the king. But the point remains, though, what God has done, what God has sealed, no force on earth can break. No devil, no spirit, in fact, not even we ourselves can break that seal.

How could that be? How could that be? Because when he regenerates us, he gives us new life, he is the one who keeps us. Look at the end of the book of Jude, that great doxology, in fact, let's do that real quick, I love it, about the keeping, sealing work of the Holy Spirit.

So Jude, of course, is right at the very end before Revelation. Here's the point, it's him that is able to keep us. I'll just read this one, Jude 24. You don't have to say one, by the way, if there's only one chapter, you can just say Jude 24.

But some people say Jude 1, 24, or Philemon 1, whatever. Verse 24, now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy. To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever.

Amen. It's a beautiful picture of the ministry of the Holy Spirit there. He seals us, meaning that he is able to keep us. He is the one who is able to sustain our faith and to keep us until that day. Next, the sanctifying work.

Jayner, you got this? 829. Romans 829.

It says, for whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Could you also read 1516? You kind of see the work of, that's the golden chain of redemption there. You see the sanctifying work. Look at 1516, Romans 1516.

It says that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Okay, so it's the work that Paul does is set apart by the Holy Spirit. It's sanctified by the Holy Spirit there. And finally, my notes are a mess there, I apologize. Galatians 5, 19 -24. You guys will be familiar with this, of course.

You want to do it? Yeah, if you don't mind. Oh, you want to move on? Yeah, that's fine. Start with 19. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious, sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissension, faction, every envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

So, the sanctifying work. Of course, the word sanctification means what? Set apart. We are set apart from the works of the flesh, who we were in the flesh, unto Christ to be made holy. Now, that happens in a moment.

We are sanctified in a second, but there's also a process of sanctification. So, when we believe, we're regarded as being set apart from sin, and we're counted as belonging to Christ, and no longer. So, we should count ourselves that way.

Romans 6 talks about that. We should consider ourselves as dead to sin, alive in Christ Jesus. But then there's also the process of sanctification. What's that? Second Corinthians, being conformed into the image of Christ, increasingly, day by day, from glory to glory.

There's a process whereby the Holy Spirit is in our actual lives, in our actual practice, changing us to be more like Christ. So that the works of the flesh are done away with, and the new things of the Spirit, we exhibit more love, day by day.

More joy. More peace. The work of the Spirit in our lives is to set us apart from the things of the earth, and unto Christ, being made holy, being made like Christ. So, that is the work of the Spirit.

Aren't you thankful for the Holy Spirit doing that in you? Aren't you glad that's a promise in the Bible, that He does this? That He will keep renewing you? Especially on discouraging days when you don't see it yourself.

And you say, well I can't see the evidence today in my life, because I'm not feeling peace. I'm not filled with love and joy. I'm feeling selfish. But to know that you can rest in the promise, it's the Holy Spirit who's going to do this.

And He is doing it. That's what the Bible teaches us. Okay? He also fills believers. Would you like to read, Mary? Sure. The filling ministry of the Spirit. Let's read Ephesians 5 .18 and 4 .30. Read both of those.

You can start at 4 .30, because together you can kind of see a picture there. 4 .30? Mm-hmm.

And do not, excuse me, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, but whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Okay. And 5 .18?

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit. Okay. When we were talking about 1 John, we said, you look within the same book, same author, to see how an author uses a term.

Here again, you see how Paul in Ephesians had already said in 1 .13, having believed, you were marked in Him, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit. Right? So he's already used this language of sealing until the day of redemption.

Right? Which is a guarantee of your inheritance. Now he uses the term again in 4 .30. He says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. You are in, you belong to Him, He's sealed you, He's marked you with His seal.

So until that day when He redeems you, and He consummates all of this, don't grieve Him. Don't make Him sad. So instead, what are we to do? 5 .18 says, do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.

What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? And you can use wine as the counter example there.

I think that's precisely it.

That is exactly it. It's a matter of who's controlling you. Are you being controlled by your old fleshly old man that's dead, that's just somehow rearing its ugly head again or are you being controlled by the Holy Spirit?

And that's the other side of the coin. All vestiges of selfishness is being flushed out. Yeah.

Okay. Now we move on to the leading of the Spirit. Now this is not...

Apologize. Yeah. I think it's important to note there that either we're... I mean if you think of the word filled, you think of additional volume being added. Right. And I don't think that's what that passage is saying.

So going back to the concept of how do you deal with the Pentecostal, I don't think there's any more Holy Spirit we can get than at the point of salvation. So the word filled is a little bit awkward there.

Okay. Because filled, again, connotes additional volume.

Right. And the meaning of the text there is one of control, not about getting more of a person because of course the Holy Spirit is not an it like wine. The Holy Spirit is a person. Now can you be more or less under the control of the Holy Spirit?

That's the question. Can a believer be more or less under the control of the Holy Spirit? Absolutely. Right. And you see the difference between a believer who is being controlled by the Spirit and a believer who's still saved but they're not being controlled by the Spirit.

They're grieving the Spirit. They're walking in the flesh. I think that's the meaning there. Jayner? Well,.

There are three manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Okay. It's with, in, and upon. Okay. Okay. When you're not a believer, you get a conviction. And when you are going to be a believer, you get a conviction.

Yeah. But when you believe, the Spirit comes and lives in you. Yes. So there's two manifestations. Right. Before you believe and when you believe it's with and in. And then there is another manifestation which is upon.

Okay. When the Holy Spirit is upon you, that's when He empowers you to do certain things that are not normal. Right. Whether it is evangelism or even a miracle. You know, if you see the works of the Spirit in the apostles.

Yeah. When they were, let's say Peter, when he did a miracle or Paul. Yeah. It was because the Holy Spirit was upon them. Okay. I will agree with that,.

With the caveat that it's not that the Holy Spirit leaves you and then comes back. But as He's taking, He's controlling you to do something that you wouldn't ordinarily do. Or be able to. It's Him doing the work and not you.

Once you become a believer, the Holy Spirit is in you.

And you are sealed. Yeah. Yeah. But the works of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit is upon you, is when something out of the natural happens.

Yeah. And if you look at the record of Acts, even though there's transitional issues there, dispensational issues, you do see that there is a difference between someone who's a believer and someone who's, the Holy Spirit is coming upon.

So you do see the evidence of the Holy Spirit coming upon believers and there's some difference that He makes. So we'll talk about that next week. Let's leave that discussion for now because next week it's all about the gifts of the Spirit.

All about baptism of the Spirit and all those things. Okay, so let's move quickly through these because I want to get to the last point and we only have a few minutes. So I want to say about the leading of the Spirit that it's not the subjective, in these verses like Romans 8, 14, the leading of the Spirit here is not the subjective, I feel led to start this ministry.

It's those who are led of the Spirit in this case are those who are born again. We have to look at the verse real fast, sorry.

Romans 8, 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Right. And in that context, if you're not led of the Spirit, are you a son of God?

No. No. Here, the leading, this is not the subjective leading that this verse often is applied to. It's rather being included, being belonging to, that He is your Lord, you're submitted to Him, He leads you because you belong to Him.

You're a son. You're an adopted son. Which leads into Adoption 8, 15. John, why don't you read that as well since you're there.

I'm sorry. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage, again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.