Holy Spirit - 2 Corinthians

Jonathan Ledbetter

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pneuma (408 Times in the NT)

“pneuma” = The Root and General Word for “Spirit” (Sometimes “Wind” and “Breath” - 379 Times

“pneumatikos” = “Spiritual” - 26 Times

“pneumatikōs” = “Spiritually” - 2 Times

“theopneustos” = “Inspired By God” - 1 Time

2 Corinthians 1:21–22 (NASB95)

21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

Christians are People Who Have Been Anointed By God

What Does it Mean to be Anointed By God?

Those Who Were Anointed in the OT, Were Set Apart/Chosen By God for His Special Purpose

Saul, David, and Solomon Were Anointed Kings

They Were Chosen By God

Aaron and His Descendants Were Anointed as High Priests

Prophets Were Often Anointed By God

In the NT, Anointing was Directly Connected to Receiving the Holy Spirit

Jesus Stood Up in the Synagogue of His Hometown Nazareth and Read From Isaiah

Luke 4:18 (NASB95)

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed,

Acts 10:38 (NASB95)

38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

When was Jesus Anointed with the Holy Spirit?

When He was Baptized

Since Jesus Himself, Everyone Who is Baptized Through Faith in Jesus…

Is Anointed with the Holy Spirit

Jesus was Set Apart and Chosen By God for a Very Special Purpose

And So are We When We are Anointed with the Holy Spirit at Baptism

2 Corinthians 1:21–22 (NASB95)

21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

We also See the Words “Sealed” and “Pledge” in Relation to Being Given the Holy Spirit

We See the Same Thing in Ephesians 1:13-14

Ephesians 1:13–14 (NASB95)

13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Seals in the Ancient World Represented Ownership, Authority, and Protection

When We are Sealed By God with the Holy Spirit…

God is Placing His Ownership, Authority, and Protection Over Us

The Holy Spirit Represents All of These Things

Those Who Have Been Anointed/Sealed with the Holy Spirit:

Belong to God

Are Under the Authority of God

And Have the Eternal Protection of God

Receiving the Holy Spirit Upon Our Baptism Means All of These Things

Ephesians 4:30 (NASB95)

30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Before and After this Text, Paul is Listing Off Sins Like:

Stealing

Using Rotten Language

Being Bitter

Being Wrathful and Angry

Yelling and Slandering

All Types of Evil

By Participating in Sinful Behaviors Like this…

Christians “Grieve” the Holy Spirit with Whom We are Sealed

When We Choose to Act in Defiance Against the Ways of the Spirit…

We Grieve Him

We Cause Sorrow and Distress in God’s Very Own Heart/Spirit

He Put His Seal of Ownership, Authority, and Protection on Us…

But in Turn We Have Only Grieved Him

Let’s Go Back to Ephesians 1:13-14 and Look at “Pledge”

Ephesians 1:13–14 (NASB95)

“Pledge” is a Partial Payment in Advance

We Often Refer to this Idea as a Down Payment

It’s the First Installment as a Promise of More to Come

The Holy Spirit is Given to Us as a “Pledge of Our Inheritance”

What is Our Inheritance?

Resurrected Immortal Bodies that Enable Us to Live Forever in God’s Promised Land in the Age to Come

Or as the Bible Often Describes it, “Eternal Life”

The Holy Spirit Who Lives Within Us is God’s Down Payment on Our Full Inheritance

He is the First Installment of New Creation

The Holy Spirit is God’s Very Own Heart, Mind, Will, Desire

When We Receive the Holy Spirit…

God has Given Us His Heart, Mind, Will, Desire

Ezekiel Talks About God Giving Us a New Heart that Will Enable Us to Love and Obey God’s Commands

That’s What the Holy Spirit Does

He Helps/Causes Us to Love and Obey God’s Commands

If You are a Christian and You Don’t Love and Desire to Obey God’s Commands

I’m Willing to Bet Everything I Own that You Have 1 of 2 (or Both) Things Going on in Your Life

1.) You are Either Living in Rebellious Sin, Grieving the Holy Spirit

2.) You are Living in Idolatry, Putting Other Matters of Life Ahead of God

Christians Who are Fighting Against Sin and Who Strive to Focus Their Lives on God…

Love and Desire to Do What God Wants Them to Do

That is God’s Holy Spirit Causing Me to Love and Desire What God Loves and Desires

The Holy Spirit is God’s Down Payment of New Creation

He Makes Us New Inwardly

But Inward Renewal is Only the First Installment

We Still Await the Full Payment of Our Full Inheritance

This is When the Holy Spirit, Who Lives Within Our Bodies…

Will Resurrect Our Bodies to Be Glorious, Incorruptible, Immortal Bodies

2 Corinthians 5:1–5 (NASB95)

1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

Inward Renewal From the Holy Spirit is God’s Pledge/Down Payment/First Installment

Outward Renewal Will Be the Complete/Full/Final Payment

This, in My Opinion, is the Single Most Important Thing We Need to Understand About the Holy Spirit…

And How We Works Within Us and What He Does for Us Today

There are Many Wonderful Aspects of the Holy Spirit and His Work Today

But Understanding that He Brings About Renewed Life…

First Inwardly and Later Outwardly, is His Greatest and Most Important Work

The Fact that I Have God’s Spirit Living Within Me…

And I Know I Do Because I’ve Been Baptized into Christ and I Desire to Do God’s Will…

Is Proof to Me that God is Going to Make a Final/Complete Payment When Jesus Returns

I Will Receive the Full Inheritance of Eternal Life

Can We as Christians Please Stop Acting Like the Holy Spirit is Not Important Today?

Can We Please Stop Pretending that the Holy Spirit Only Works Through the Scriptures?

Paul has Made Abundantly Clear in His Letters to the Corinthians…

That God’s Spirit Lives Within Our Bodies

He is the Seal of God’s Ownership, Authority, and Protection Over Us

He Renews Our Spirits/Hearts/Minds/Desire to Be in Line with God’s Spirit/Heart/Mind/Desire

And He is Going to Renew Our Bodies Through Resurrection When Jesus Returns

Let’s Stop Being Scared of Talking About and Praising the Holy Spirit

He is Living Within Us and, if We Allow Him to, Transforming Us From the Inside Out

2 Corinthians 3:1–9 (NASB95)

1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

6 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.

7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

8 how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

2 Corinthians 3:17–18 (NASB95)

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18 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 as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Galatians 3:1–5 (NASB95)

1 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

Galatians 3:23–4:7 (NASB95)

23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

1 Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

3 So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.

4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

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