no one can say Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Spirit
so does this mean that it is imposible for someone to have faith or believe Jesus without the Holy Spirit?
2007-10-16 18:43:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you have faith and believe in Jesus, then the Holy Spirit resides within you.
2007-10-16 18:47:04 · answer #1 · answered by Sam 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of the many roles of the Holy Spirit is to confirm truth. What greater truth can the spirit bring you than that of Jesus being the Son of God, redeemer of the world? Faith in Jesus comes through the spirit. He is that witness that tells you truth.
2007-10-17 03:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by kcyesye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people believe that Jesus is Lord yet deny Him. people have to admit that Jesus is Lord before they can have the Holy Spirit
2007-10-17 01:49:54 · answer #3 · answered by aly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think its like this. None of us actually want to be with Christ untill we are convicted by the Holy Spirit..Because none of us know that we need Him untill the Holy Spirit "sends us a signal" in a way, and opens our minds.
2007-10-17 01:59:39 · answer #4 · answered by Yana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!
Jesus said this:
44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
(John 6)
Without God, none of us would come to Him.
The Holy Spirit had been working on me for many years, and finally I responded.
God draws us even when we might not really be able to put our finger on it. But His Spirit draws us to Jesus by the will of the Father.
That's what the verses from John 6 mean.
2007-10-17 02:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so, where did you find that by the way but i think it was more like if you have faith in Jesus Christ then you will recieve the Holy Spirit like the apostles did in Acts(?) but it might not be in tongues of fire like they recieved.
2007-10-17 01:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Koala ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it means that it is by the Holy Spirit that we "acknowledge" the Lordship of Jesus. As the prior verses "set up," (1 Corinth 12)
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:
... that is, if someone calls Jesus "accursed" .. or cursed... or evil... that person is not "of the Holy Spirit"... they are not to be trusted as speaking with authority from God.
For the SPECIFICS, I have pulled out from the article cited below, this paragraph:
Now the apostle tells them none could act under the influence, nor by the power, of the Spirit of God, who disowned and blasphemed Christ: for the Spirit of God bore uncontrollable witness to Christ by prophecy, miracles, his resurrection from the dead, the success of his doctrine among men, and its effect upon them; and could never so far contradict itself as to declare him accursed. And on the other hand no man could say Jesus was the Lord (that is, live by this faith, and work miracles to prove it), but it must be by the Holy Ghost. To own this truth before men, and maintain it to the death, and live under the influence of it, could not be done without the sanctification of the Holy Ghost. No man can call Christ Lord, with a believing subjection to him and dependence upon him, unless that faith be wrought by the Holy Ghost. No man can confess this truth in the day of trial but by the Holy Ghost animating and encouraging him. Note, We have as necessary a dependence on the Spirit's operation and influence for our sanctification and perseverance as on the mediation of Christ for our reconciliation and acceptance with God: and no man could confirm this truth with a miracle but by the Holy Ghost. No evil spirit would lend assistance, if it were in his power, to spread a doctrine and religion so ruinous to the devil's kingdom. The substance of what the apostle asserts and argues here is that whatever pretences there were to inspiration or miracles, among those who were enemies to Christianity, they could not be from the Spirit of God; but no man could believe this with his heart, nor prove with a miracle that Jesus was Christ, but by the Holy Ghost: so that the extraordinary operations and powers among them did all proceed from the Spirit of God.
=== So as to your "question"... the answer is that this was not what Paul was writing about. He was writing about the disernment of spirits and what is "of God" and what is "of the devil."
Have a blessed day.
2007-10-17 02:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is absolutely correct!
2007-10-17 02:52:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
does god just say stuff for fun?
2007-10-17 01:47:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋