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God the Holy Spirit
We’re going to continue with our series “We Believe” this morning, and explore how the Holy Spirit wants to be our helper , but so much more!
What are some of the wonderful ways that the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, speaks to those who need His guidance?
This Third Person of the Godhead tells us what He has received from God the Father and God the Son.
The Spirit uses many methods to lead us.
Consider this.
An explorer was traveling in Africa.
One day some hostile people attacked the weary traveler.
They drove off his carriers and robbed him of everything.
Then they left him injured without food or equipment.
He lay helpless beside the trail, hurt, discouraged, and completely lost utterly hopeless, he waited for death to come.
Feeling uncomfortable, he turned his body.
Suddenly, he noticed a beautiful flower growing beside his head.
All his life, he'd loved nature, and the exquisite color and form fascinated him.
He studied its beauty for a long time.
Then to his mind came a message his mother taught him years ago.
Through that little flower, the Holy Spirit seemed to say, "God sees you.
He cares.
There's hope for you."
His fear left him, and he began to relax.
His mind grasped the thought, "I shall not die, but live."
The weary man sat up.
Gradually, he dragged himself to his feet, found a stick to steady himself, and slowly pushed down the trail.
A power outside of him gave strength to his wobbly legs and a determination to press on.
He knew someone else was in control.
Stopping often to rest, he remembered the words, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."
About two miles down the trail, he heard voices.
Trusting in God, he hid his fear and pressed on to little village.
These Africans were friendly.
Seeing that he was alone and injured, they guided him to a home, where he was cared for until he was well and could continue his exploration.
The Holy Spirit used a frail flower and Bible promises he had learned long before as messages of hope.
Jesus said
I don’t know about you but the older I get the harder it is for me to remember things.
Isn’t it wonderful that the Spirit can bring to our minds the things we need when we need them.
But on the flip side if we haven studied and put those things that we need in our minds in the first place, the Spirit can’t help us when we need it.
Preview
Is the Holy Spirit truly God?
The Bible makes it plain that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Godhead, coequal with the Father and the Son.
The baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19 tells us that we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Let’s look at the apostolic blessing in 2 Corinthians 13:14:
As part of the Godhead He is the life giving Spirit
Jesus called Him the Spirit of Truth
His love and holiness are expressed in Rom 15:30
and in
The Holy Spirit gives each of us spiritual gifts,
He is present everywhere (omnipresent), He will abide with us forever
He knows all things(omniscient)
Points to Ponder
Was the Holy Spirit involved in creation?
2. Will He be involved in the resurrection, too?
3. How did the Holy Spirit descend on Jesus at His baptism?
4. What is one of the most important works of the Holy Spirit?
Jesus said of the Holy Spirit, "He shall glorify me" (John 16:14).
The Spirit takes the precious gifts from the Father and Son and gives them to us.
Jesus also said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God" (John 3:5).
The Holy Spirit is the agent of new birth and sanctification
Nuts & Bolts
The Holy Spirit is not an influence, a mere power or force, or an attribute of God the Father.
He's a divine Person you can know and relate to.
He is gracious, kind, and good.
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What do we know about the Holy Spirit's personality?
The word “strive” in the Hebrew means “to rule,” and “to judge,” as corollary to ruling.
These words indicate that the Holy Spirit could continue working but a little longer, and would then be withdrawn from the unregenerate and unrepentant of the human race.
Even God’s long-suffering must end.
Peter refers to the work of the Spirit on the hearts of the antediluvians, saying that the Spirit of Christ preached to these prisoners of Satan (1 Peter 3:18–20).
The Holy Spirit thus directs the affairs Of God's church.
The Spirit was instrumental in inspiring the writings of the Bible.
The Spirit has feelings that can be hurt.
Only a divine person can possess all these attributes!
It's impossible for our human minds to understand the mystery of the Holy Spirit.
But perhaps we can get a vague idea of how He touches our lives from the tiny, glistening drops of dew that sparkle like diamonds on a sunny morning.
Formed from moist, cool air, dew forms best on dark objects or materials that radiate heat best but quickly lose it and become chilled.
That's why God wants us to be either hot or cold.
Only then can the dew of the Holy Spirit fall on us.
Dew and the Holy Spirit both refresh and revive, each in its own way.
Both promote growth and originate in the heavens.
Neither ever destroys, but both always restore and gently heal.
Dew can't form on windy nights because the moving air doesn't stay in contact with any object long enough to cool it to the dew point.
Conditions must be just right.
The dew or rain of the Holy Spirit will fall only on lives that are just right, too, in harmony with heaven.
Dew forms after the sun sets and disappears soon after sunrise.
Could the dew be revealing to us a blessed secret?
The best time to receive the blessings of the Holy Spirit is in the stillness of the evening and in the early morning hours before we're engrossed in the day's activities.
Dew penetrates and saturates all it settles upon with quiet, gentle thoroughness.
There is no limit to the heavenly dew that you may constantly receive, if you will only stop and let it fall on you.
2. Everything the Holy Spirit does centers on Christ's mission of salvation.
Because of this, before the Spirit could be poured out in His fullness, Christ had to come to this earth, carry out His great sacrifice, and be glorified.
3. What did Jesus promise would happen after His resurrection?
4. What happened in heaven that enabled Jesus to send the Holy Spirit in His fullness?
5. What happened at the same time on earth while 120 believers were gathered for prayer?
Notice from this that the mission of both Jesus and the Holy Spirit is total consistent and dependent on each other.
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Notice how Jesus needed the Holy Spirit.
All though we can’t understand it, Jesus was some how conceived by and through the Holy Spirit
If we were to look at Luke 1:41, 67; 2:25, 26: we would see that Elizabeth, Zacharias, and Simeon acted under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was proclaimed to the world by the Holy Spirit
The Spirit let Jesus into the wilderness.
Jesus being a man here on earth was helped by the Holy Spirit to work the miracles that he performed.
The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God was the one that raised Jesus from the dead.
7. Jesus has promised to give us the Holy Spirit.
8. What are some of the functions of the Holy Spirit?
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