“Humanity faces two great spiritual dilemmas. The first is what to do about our past sins and transgressions, which separate us from God and produce a guilty conscience. This sense of condemnation makes us shrink from any communion with God - the very thing for which we were created. But Jesus came and gave his life so we could be freed from all that. The ugly record can be erased and our names written in the Book of Life through the blood that Jesus shed on the cross of Calvary.

“But then comes the second problem we all face: How can we be changed [sanctified] so that we don’t go on repeating the same old sins in the future? How will we rise above the moral pollution of compulsive sin that caused us to need Jesus in the first place? Unless Someone can get inside [Italics added] us and overhaul the very fabric of our being, we will continue to live sinful lives that grieve God.

“God provided a salvation that does more than just forgive our record of past wrongs. He provided victory over inward desires [dying to self] through the person of the [indwelling] Holy Spirit.”

(Cymbala)

Cymbala writes, “If we have been born again by the Spirit, the only way to grow to be more like Jesus is by the power of the same Spirit. As we ‘keep in step with the Spirit,’ following his motions along the daily road, he will gradually conform us into the image of God’s Son.”

The Holy Spirit interacts with people through linguistic codes within spike trains of action potentials transmitted through neural synaptic networks with meaning and purpose. I have discussed this process extensively in my books and blogs to show concordance between Scripture and neuroscience. God created Man to have an intimate and personal communion with him. Lost at the Fall, it has been restored to repentant believers by the sin sacrifice of the living Jesus Christ who sent the Holy Spirit as promised upon his resurrection to give us everlasting Life.

I cite Cymbala who explained the New Covenant:

“To fully understand the New Covenant, we must understand the Holy Spirit and what he does. The Old Covenant, which was characterized by the Law given to Moses, was a set of external commands. The New Covenant is about Christ’s atoning death and resurrection from the grave, followed by the sending of the Holy Spirit to work inside us in grace and power.”

It has been my focus to give reasons to believe in the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit in repentant believers in our time.

Cymbala states in his book, “I am not interested in debating how the Holy Spirit speaks [the focus of my apologetics research and writing]. He certainly uses more than one way. I want to stay focused on the fact that the Spirit is alive, not dead, and that he does speak.”

Cymbala shares a powerful testimony in his book concerning our relationship with the Holy Spirit:

“In the Old Testament we often read that ‘God said such-and-such.’ Likewise, in the gospels there are dozens of places where ‘Jesus said . . . .’ Now the same pattern appears in the book of Acts, only in this case, ‘the Holy Spirit said . . . .’ This, too, is a living, speaking, divine person, the third member of the Trinity. He gives divine leading on what to do in order to advance the church. All of us who say we want to build the Kingdom of God must stop and admit our need of divine leading. There must be a living interaction [Italics added] between us and the Holy Spirit . . . . “

The interaction is between the immaterial Mind of God/his Holy Spirit and the immaterial mind of repentant Man, accomplished through encoded interaction with the neural synaptic networks of the human brain. In my writings I have endeavored to provide a degree of explanation of this created process, a reality in our time.

“The Bible says that ‘with God all things are possible’ (Matthew 19:26), including supernatural things as we recover faith in the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Cymbala)

“A lot of us today would do well to hear again what the aged Paul, sitting on death row in a Roman dungeon, wrote to the young Timothy: ‘God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline’ (2 Tim 1:7). We must never be intimidated by what the devil tries to do, whether by striking out at us as individuals, or at the local church, or at the Body of Christ as a whole. We must instead trust the Holy Spirit to give us the words to speak, and to do so with boldness.” (Cymbala)

“We can rest assured today that whatever God calls us to do, he will also be faithful to equip us to do. Remember that ‘God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful’ (1 Cor 1:9). We are co-laborers with Christ through the Holy Spirit’s work in and through us.” (Cymbala)

It is my hope and prayer that the information I have shared in my books and blogs gives substance to these quotes I am posting from Cymbala’s book.

Cymbala shared that “Jesus once said, ‘Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.’ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive (John 7: 38-39). This overflow is what brings blessing to other people and, indeed, the whole world. And no case is too hard for God. The gospel of Christ with the power of the Spirit can transform the hardest cases imaginable.”

Cymbala refers to the sermon given by the Apostle Peter at Pentecost, “the first ever preached in church history under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. This is obviously a new Peter - no longer a flop or failure. He boldly awaited the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy. Here are men and women, he explains, who have become the human temples of God’s very presence. They have been filled up with the Holy Spirit the way Solomon’s temple was once filled up with smoke. . . . This is the unique note of Christianity.”

And, it is true in our time. The Mind of God and the mind of Man are in intimate, personal communion by the grace of God through the living Jesus Christ who sent the Holy Spirit to repentant mankind as He promised.