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Herrenhuter readings for Monday, the 21st October 2013

And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. (Eze 36:27 NIV) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant– not of the letter … Continue reading

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Löhe on Ephesians 4:23

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. (Eph 4:23 KJV) The Apostle is differentiating between spirit and mind. That power, which dominates our mind and is hardly ever object of our scrutiny is called the “spirit”. This powerful … Continue reading

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Löhe on Ephesians 4:4

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called. (Eph 4:4 NIV) The one Holy Spirit rules all members of the Church and causes them to be children of the … Continue reading

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Löhe on Galatians 5:25

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (Gal 5:25 NIV) The apostle differentiates between two things: Living by the Spirit and keeping in step with the Spirit. Both aspects are off course linked … Continue reading

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Löhe on Galatians 5:18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. (Gal 5:18 NIV) Whoever recognizes his responsibility to obey the law, but also his own weakness to fulfill it; whoever therefore accepts his own liability and … Continue reading

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Löhe on Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. (Gal 5:17 NIV) Its … Continue reading

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Löhe on Galatians 5:16

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (Gal 5:16 NIV) The battle between flesh and spirit within us rages back and forth. One is tempted to ask, whether the almighty … Continue reading

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Löhe on 2.Corinthians 3:7-8

Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not … Continue reading

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Löhe on 2.Corinthians 3:6

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant– not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2Co 3:6 NIV) “Ministry of the new covenant”- what a name is … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 8:14

Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (Rom 8:14 NIV) Whoever is led and motivated by the Spirit of God will discard his own will more and more and even given up temporal desires … Continue reading

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