22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
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God shows us our sins so we can be HIS children, born again by HIS Word.
God opens our eyes so we can see the way to go on this earth and HE gives us a new heart and a new Spirit so we can follow HIM in godliness while we live on this earth.
Ezekiel 36 (God says:)
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
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Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.
Salvation is of God.
He chooses us to be HIS children.
He gives us a new heart and new Spirit so we can follow HIM.
I Corinthians 2:14 (For) the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
We cannot follow God until we are born again, corrected by God, given HIS Holy Spirit, given HIS heart.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We are changed into the image of God daily as we read the Bible and focus on doing scripture.
God establishes us as HE teaches us by HIS Word and we conform to that Word.
We do not establish ourselves. It is God WHO causes us to understand and equips us by HIS Word.
Colossians 3
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by HIM.
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