![]() ![]() ![]() … are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” Paul says, “not that we are competent in ourselves…but our competence comes from God. We don’t have to experience any entropy in our spiritual walk. Every day can be more glorious than the day before. He contrasts the ministry of the Old Testament with its fading glory, and the ministry of the New Testament with terms like more glorious, surpassing glory, and e ver-increasing glory.ĭo you realize that Spirit-filled Christians never have to long for “the good ol’ days”? Being baptized in the Holy Spirit means, as Paul reminds us, that we are perpetually being transformed into the image of Jesus and we are therefore reflecting more and more of His glory. Paul talked about this same idea in 2 Corinthians 3. Jesus also told us that there’s no way we can maintain this entropy-reversing energy on our own-we need the Holy Spirit’s empowerment (Luke 24:49 Acts 1:8). Jesus told us that we are salt that reverses entropy’s decay and we are light that reverses entropy’s darkness (Matthew 5:13-14). Jesus not only came to reverse the entropy of sin (see Isaiah 9:2, 49:9 John 1:5, 8:12), but He sent us out into a sinful world to do the same thing. Sadly, unless the Holy Spirit’s energy is continually applied, entropy will again begin to run its downward course. The pain of entropy causes people to repent, and the Spirit of God moves in with sufficient energy to restore. Throughout history, there have been revivals, reformations, and awakenings where people see the disorder and decay that sin has brought to their lives and they want to return to God. It gets so bad that just three chapters after man’s first sin we read, “The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time” (Genesis 6:5). ![]() God created a perfectly ordered system both physically and spiritually, but man’s sin brought in disorder, disease, and decay. This is as true spiritually as it is in physics. Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system, and the Law of Entropy says that unless sufficient energy is applied, an ordered system will always move toward disorder. ĭon’t you wish that you could clean things up and they would stay clean? After you get everything set the way you like it, why can’t it just stay that way? Quite simply, things can’t stay clean and pristine because of the Law of Entropy. Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple or Spotify. ![]()
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