Good morning. Paul talks about: not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as  coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. Whatever we do that is good, it is God in us that does it – we can claim no glory from it. Who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Sadly too many Christians turn to a legalistic life after they've been set free by the Holy Spirit. You cannot be saved by legalistically following the law; and neither can you live the Christian life in a legalistic way. If someone does not agree with you, they are automatically wrong! The letter looks for what is wrong in a person; the Spirit looks for what's right in a person. Paul then talks about the ministry of the Spirit being with even more glory than that of the letter. The letter brought condemnation just like people who are legalistic today. That glory of the law faded away; but the glory of the Holy Spirit shines forever. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. We are supposed to be walking in liberty. However the liberty of the Holy Spirit only comes about when we obey Him and do all that He asks us to do. But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just is from the Lord, the Spirit. When you look into a mirror, you see your reflection. And so this reflection which you see which is the glory of the Lord comes from you! We are being transformed into that image which you see in the mirror! That image is also what the enemy sees. When he sees you, he sees Jesus. Father thank you that the reader is walking in the liberty of the Holy Spirit. When people see him/her, they see Jesus!

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