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What are they doing? Most of them don’t realize it, but they’re laughing in the face of God. They’re saying, “God, we don’t care what You say. You’re out of touch with the times. We like immorality. We want to play around with it. So that’s what we’re going to do.” Certainly, that’s no way for us, as believers, to live. We don’t want to entertain ourselves with, much less partake of, the sins of the world. But that’s not the end of the story. As God’s treasured people, our aim isn’t just to live a little better than the world does. Our aim is to be like our heavenly Father. We want to be holy as He is holy. We want to say yes to everything that pleases Him and no to anything we can’t do “to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). How are we supposed to do that? With the help of the Holy Spirit. He’s there on the inside of us every moment to direct us and tell us what to do. He’s there to remind us of what God’s Word says and empower us to obey it. Following the Holy Spirit is holy living! As Hebrews 8 says, living according to His leading in our hearts is the New Covenant way. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest” (verses 10-11). The Guide Inside Unlike God’s people under the old covenant, who were dependent on Levitical priests and prophets to tell them what to do, everyone of us, as Holy Spirit-filled believers, know on the inside of us what God is saying to us about our individual lives. We know when we’re giving Him the place of honor He deserves, and when we’re giving other things too much of our affection. We know that Voice that speaks to our heart and says things like, 'You need to spend more time in the Word and less time watching television. You need to fast a little and get your flesh in line. You’re eating too much junk food.' “Whoa!” someone might say. “You mean the Holy Spirit will even talk to me about food?” Sure, He will. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. It’s been bought with the price of Jesus’ blood. First Corinthians 6:20 says you’re to “glorify God in your body.” So obviously, you can expect the Holy Spirit to have a lot to say about it. You can expect Him to remind you of what the Word says about controlling your bodily appetites. You can expect Him to speak to you about how to eat to keep your body healthy. You can even expect Him to talk about things you can do physically that will help you walk more closely with the Lord. BVOV : 29