You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
5 For [gar] we [hemeis] through the Spirit [pneuma]
wait for [apekdechomai] the hope [elpis] of righteousness [dikaiosune] by [ek] faith [pistis]. KJV-Interlinear
5 For we
through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. NASB
The word for we, identifies a specific group or category of people.
The phrase, through the spirit, identifies that category of people as believers in Christ. This excludes all unbelievers, until such time any given unbeliever finally believes in Christ. Then, of course that person would be included with all believers in Christ.
Wait, means patience and with confidence and assurance.
And we wait for the hope, which is the confident expectation.
The hope of righteousness, refers to the final and ultimate act of salvation, when we are actually in heaven with God.
And all true and legitimate believers in Christ, demonstrate this patience and confidence by means of faith, never by any form of works.
Salvation is a gift. No person can earn or even deserve salvation or even a spiritual life. These things are the gift of God.
We merely have to demonstrate a genuine desire of wanting to know God and to have a relationship with Him, and then follow up on that desire with a real and active pursuit of that knowledge by means of His defined learning and growth process.
All pretenses are out. All of our personal efforts that are outside of Gods authorized design for learning and growth, are out. Rejecting Gods mandated daily study of the scriptures, becomes your failure in life.
But for those who are obedient to Gods mandates and methods, then faith is the key to how God operates, for faith relies totally on God and on Gods promises, someone whom we have never seen, and things we have only read about. And yet, they are more real than anything and everything that exists in this tangible world.
