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THE GHOST; WEEK 2
THE GHOST; WEEK 2
The power of the Holy Ghost
Today we are talking about God in Spirit form.
He’s often called the
Holy Ghost, or the Holy Spirit.
The word from the Old Testament
translated as ‘Spirit’ is the word ‘ruwach’ which means a wind, a
breath, a violent exhalation.
In the New Testament, the Greek word translated as ‘Spirit’ is the
word ‘pneuma’ which means a current of air, a blast of breathe, and a
strong breeze.
The Holy Spirit is like the wind of God.
Sometimes he comes as a
gentle breeze, other times he is a mighty, rushing wind of power.
Today, I want to talk to you about the power of the Holy Spirit.
In
the Old Testament, we see the power of the Spirit working in countless
different ways.
The Holy Spirit one time gave Joseph skill to rule
over Egypt.
The Spirit gave Joshua military power.
One time the Spirit
gave two unknown men the power to work in their crafts.
The Holy
Spirit gave words to prophets to speak prophetically over God’s
people.
One time, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and gave him
power to lead the Abiezrites into battle.
In Judges Chapter 14:6, as
hard as it is to believe, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson in
power, so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as he might
have torn a young goat.
shows the words of Samuel to
Saul; “The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power and you will
prophesy with them and you will be changed into a different person.”
The New Testament sees the power of the Holy Spirit everywhere; in
fact, Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Luke
Chapter 1, when Mary wondered how this would be, she asked a question;
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
And
the Angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power
of the most high will overshadow you.”
When Jesus gave his life for
our sins on the cross, the Bible says the Son of God was raised from
the dead, again, by the power of the Holy Spirit; he is Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Before Jesus ascended to Heaven, he promised his followers
that he would send them a gift; the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He said,
“And now, I will send the Holy Spirit just as my Father promised, but
stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with
power from Heaven.
That same powerful Spirit is available to all who
believe in Jesus today; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
If you have your Bibles with you today, let’s open them up to the Book
of Acts.
Acts, Chapter 1, we are in a series called, ‘The Ghost’; as
we are looking at the power of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit.
As
you are getting your Bibles out; all of our locations, I’m curious,
how many of you that are Christians, those of you who are Christians,
how many of you would say; “I know someone who is a Christian that
seems to have more Spiritual power than I do?”
How many of you would say, “I know someone like that?” Yeah, a lot of us do.
Sometimes you
will see other people and they seem to have just a little bit more of
something than you do spiritually.
Like when they pray, their prayers
sound so powerful, you are thinking maybe if I were God, I would
answer their prayers, they just sound powerful!
Others, you may be in
a conversation with them and they can just kind of quote Bible verses
and they seem to know a Bible verse for everything; you’re like, “How
do they do that?”
Or, when something happens and something goes wrong,
they are not shaken; they seem to have this real, deep Spiritual
assurance.
You are wondering, how is it that they seem to have more
power than I do?
The answer could be that they have more ‘power’ than
you do.
In reality, I believe there are many people who are more
surrendered to the ‘power’ that is available by God, through the Holy
Spirit than others.
I will explain it this way: When we moved into our
house several years ago, it was an older home that had tons that
needed to be remodeled and redone.
One thing they had railroad ties
all over the outside of the house, they were about 30 years old, they
were falling apart.
I decided to get rid of them, so I called my
buddy, Mark Dawson, I call him ‘Mad dog’.
He came over, we put on our
work gloves, we got our shovels and we attacked these old railroad
ties.
We did totally fine, until we got to the retaining wall made of
railroad ties, that were buried about 4 feet into the ground, with
just the top portion even visible.
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