Sermon Tone Analysis

So what is the impact of Holy Spirit on the church?

Let’s start with just the first four verses of and we’ll continue to look at , the entirety of the chapter.

As we have gone through this study, The Spirit Led Life, I have told you the first thing we need to know is that the Holy Spirit is a person.

Not an object, not a thing.

This keeps us from perceiving the Spirit as something we get a hold of to get more energy or power and keeps us on the right perspective that the Spirit gets a hold of us to use us for his honor and his glory.

We also talked about why we should follow that Spirit.

Because of Who He is, What he does, The things he brings, and He knows where we goes.

I have also said that the spirit comes upon you at Salvation.

He is there because you cannot claim that the Christ is Lord except by His spirit and you cannot be saved unless the Spirit quicken you to do so.

So we need to talk about the impact of the spirit led life for the church.

There are four main situations that we see in scripture in which a spirit led life was necessary and implemented.

Salvation

Baptism

Stress

Gladness

The first one is Salvation

In we see Jesus breathed upon the disciples and they recieved the Holy Spirit.

This is before so that means both of those events are separate things.

The first one in John is salvation.

That is to say when people are saved they receive the Holy Spirit.

The moment of salvation, the receiving of the Spirit, is first.

Therefore when we say all Christians have received the Spirit of God, that’s the truth.

Pentecostals if they truly understand their theology and truly understand what the Bible teaches they will all agree upon this that every born again believer has the Spirit of God.

No born again believer can be absent of the Spirit.

That’s just the law of scripture.

So you will find no argument from me when people say all of us have the Holy Spirit.

I am in full agreement and will back that statement and even find the references to support it.

It is impossible to declare christ and not have the spirit.

The spirit acts on you first enabling you to make that declaration.

This is not where we go astray from our non-Pentecostal brothers.

It is in this second part.

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

The second thing though that we go on to say is that there is an experience modeled for us in scripture in , , , , as well as 9. Which speak of a subsequent experience in the Spirit where Jesus as the baptizer ushers us into a dimension of the Spirit’s life that involves for us the release of praise and the release of power and witness.

This is called the charismatic experience of the Spirit or it’s called the second blessing by some or it’s called the baptism in the Spirit or it’s called by other receiving the Spirit.

There are various terms from the scripture that have been applied to it.

But it is a distinct crisis event in our life where we feel that Jesus indeed has placed us in the life of the Spirit.

In a way we have an encounter distinct from, different in kind than our experience in the Spirit when we were regenerated.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is so contentious in the body and I believe it is for fault of our own pride as to why.

You have one extreme that is against it because they believe that was a one time event and then the other side its the pinnacle of the walk with christianity and if you don’t have it, you are less than.

None of those are true.

But we have to admit that there is an experience modeled for us in Scripture in , , , , and 19.

This shows us a subsequent experience in the Spirit where Jesus as baptizer ushers us into a dimension of the Spirit life that causes in us a release of praise and power that is a witness to who Jesus really is.

This is called the charasmatic experience, or receiving of the Holy Spirit, or baptism of the Holy Spirit or really ol’ school catching the Holy Ghost.

(That one not at all biblical because you don’t have to chase him cuz he aint running from you, but you’ll hear it.

) But this one is completely different from the experience in John so we have to talk about it.

What was significant of that day of Pentecost.

Are there things that were done that day, we are to repeat and things we aren’t.

One of things that was uique to is the sound of wind.

It is never mentioned again.

I think there is a reason for that.

I think the wind is a symbol.

You ever heard a great wind before?

I mean the kind that would use to scare you as a kid.

I mean the howling kind that you knew something was outside about to get you.

What did that usually dictate to you.

That a what was a brewing?

A storm.

I believe they heard the sound of wind because as the Holy Spirit came down that day a storm was a brewing against the enemy.

On top of that wind as far as we know is it’s own source.

Jesus in said the wind blows where it wants and no one can stop it or start it .

No one know where it goes.

So the spirit came down in a mighty wind.

No one knew how it started but they knew they went.

The next thing was the cloven tongues of fire.

I have never seen that and it has never been spoken of again in the bible.

So I wouldn’t expect either of those two to happen again.

Why don’t we put a whole lot of emphasis on that as we do speaking in tongues.

The main reason is this and there are other.

The wind and the fire happen before they are filled, the tongues happens after.

Therefore the tongues is a consequence of the filling.

Tongues is definitely mentioned also more than one time.

Another thing is where these events happened.

The wind and fire happened outside of them but the tongues happened within them.

Why is that relevant, because something that happens inside you involves youwhile something outside doesn’t necessarily.

A third way though that we may speak of being filled with the Spirit and it occurs a number of times in Acts in moments when the disciples are under some stress.

Like for example Stephen is facing the Sanhedrin.

They are going after him.

Or when the early Christians are being faced with persecution.

Or when some untoward situation is happening that requires more of the grace of God that has been evident before in a person’s life.

Frequently you’ll find in the book of Acts, so and so filled with the Spirit.

And this is subsequent to the experience.

Like many times it is noted in the book of Acts, Peter filled with the Spirit said or did something.

This appears to me to be a unique manifestation of the Spirit’s presence on our lives in those moments when we are being stretched to a new level and a new capacity.

Someone has said that in it is said, the disciples are filled with the Spirit that they were expansible, they were stretchable and the Spirit’s gift was infinite.

They were capable of receiving more and the Spirit was capable of giving more of himself.

There are moments I believe when we will find ourselves in situations stressful moments like Stephen, for example, an extreme case, facing anger and facing death.

He’d never faced danger like that before and there was more fear in him, more vacancy in him if you will for the Spirit to fill than had ever been the case before.

That is a way I think “filled with the Spirit” is used in the scriptures as well.

Fourth way the scriptures teach of being filled with the Spirit is in .

We’re told “Be not drunk with new wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit.”

How then are we filled with the Spirit?

We’re making melody in our hearts, we’re addressing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.

We’re always for everything giving thanks to the Lord.

This is a continuing filling of the Spirit.

The filling of the Spirit in daily life which ushers in both praise toward God and also out flows in terms of dynamic relationships with other believers in prayer and in worship, speaking to one another in hymns, psalms and spiritual songs.

What do we mean by this?

I think it’s Christians feeling relaxed enough in one’s presence to look each other in the eye and just sing because of the joy of the Lord.

Not feeling out of place.

Our pew-centered approach I think we loose the dynamic of what the Spirit intended in the seating arrangement in the body.

We’re all spilling out over coaches and chairs and sitting on the floor and the like.