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After decades of writing commentaries on Paul’s letters, Gordon Fee began to see a disconnect between how Paul describes the local church and how the church operates today, something is skewed. His concern boiled down to how churches understood the person and role of the Holy Spirit. Fee concluded that the contemporary Western church, Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal, is missing the point of the...

2. This “new spirit” is none other than God’s Spirit, who will enable God’s people to follow his decrees (Ezek 36:27). As is evident in Romans 8:3–4 and Galatians 5:16–25,[8] the Spirit’s fulfillment of this theme is Paul’s answer to the question of what happens to righteousness if one does away with observance of the Torah (the Old Testament law). 3. God’s Spirit means the presence of God himself, in that by putting “my Spirit in you … you will live” (Ezek 37:14). Again, Paul picks up this theme
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