5:17, Col. 3:5). The Spirit of God then seals the person in the new identity given by salvation and creates an assuredness of their salvation, both immediately and eternally. The seal He places on them also gives them the promise of inheritance of God’s kingdom (Eph. 1: 13-14). Simultaneously the function of the Spirit is in conversion of the covenant holding the soul of the now believer. He sets man free form the law of sin and death and instead places them in new covenant with God, which brings life (Rom. 8:2, 2 Cor. 3:6). The weight of the law is removed and instead the believer is now accountable to the convictions of the Holy Spirit and obeying the word as the Spirit of Truth revels it. The old passes away and the Spirit births a new …show more content…
Both of the gifts and fruits are ways that God will outwardly use the life placed in the believer to spread that same life to others around them. As believers act out in faith they are giving of the life that the Spirit has given them and as a result God will continually fill them. God is sovereign in all ways but by is own admission He chooses to use His children to bring others into His kingdom. His will conforms believers to His imagine and places his desire into our hearts (Col. 1:29, Phil.