The Promised Holy Spirit
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1 And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples 2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”
So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”
4 Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
The forgotten God.
touchy subject.
Two extremes, camps.
1. Hyper-charismatic:
They are always talking about the gifts. To the extreme to the point of being scary.
These people assume that the Holy Spirit always coincides with preacher yelling or the crescendo of the music.
These folks know an emotionally experience, but not much doctrine about the Holy Spirit.
2. “Doctrine-only” Christians.
They believe in the HS, but He’s more of a theory than anything else.
He explains how some things happen in the Bible, but that’s about it.
They know all the doctrine, but don’t the fellowship or communion with the Spirit.
He’s just a force or theory.
We need the Holy Spirit.
We have to raise the awareness to the reality and need for the Holy Spirit.
It is not about the gifts, but rather Jesus meant the Holy Spirit to be His very presence in our lives.
The Holy Spirit was promised by the Lord:
16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
1. The Holy Spirit is in every Christian.
- There is an indwelling and sealing of the Holy Spirit.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
There is the sealing of the Holy Spirit
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
2. The Holy Spirit teaches us in all truth:
He is our greatest teacher.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
3. The Holy Spirit leads us in daily living:
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Keeps us from sin and the desires of the flesh:
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
4. The Holy Spirit empowers us to do God’s work.
It is impossible...
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
The gifts of the Spirit
For our church to go up to the next level, we must not only embrace the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, but we should welcome Him as a person.
The example of the Ephesian believers. The Holy Spirit is a Person.