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Introduction:
It is good to be in the house of the Lord with you all this morning.
Today we are continuing our verse by verse study in the Book of Romans, chapter 8, if you have a Bible please turn to there.
It is my desire this morning for us to understand better the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
This chapter starts with the words there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
And those words are followed by one incredible truth after another.
Romans is written by Paul to a church he was never able to visit.
It was written to a people he never ministered to personally.
So he didn’t know what they knew.
This church was off on their own - and he would have reasonably thought they were doing whatever they wanted.
So he writes to share with them a complete description of salvation and the Christian life.
So we keep seeing these layers of truth stacked one on top of the other as his description builds.
It is a wonderful book - and I am really enjoying preaching through it.
Recap:
Last week my message was on suffering - and a reminder that we wait on Glory.
We wait, knowing Jesus is coming.
The world isn’t as bright as it used to be.
Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes.
wreck havoc on the world that we live in.
We wait, knowing Jesus is coming.
People suffer, people die.
We get cancer, we lose loved ones and little ones.
We wait, knowing Jesus is coming.
And Creation is waiting with us.
Creation waits in futility.
Waiting.
Unable to be what it was created to be.
It waits.
Jesus is coming.
We wait.
Creation will be freed.
We wait.
Hope will be fullfilled.
We wait.
We wait for glory.
Today - we will see what happens while we wait.
Message:
The title of my message today is help wanted.
In the economic place we are in right now - there are very few places in town that couldn’t benefit from two or three more good employees.
We have an arby’s in town now that has been short staffed literally the entire time they have been open.
They built that store during a time of economic chaos.
And so - every where you look there is a sign or a banner hanging in the wind that says “Help Wanted”
Those signs indicate an understanding of the situation that the company is in.
That situation might be that they need to be open for 24 hours a day - and that takes a certain number of people.
That situation might be that they are inefficient because the people that they have are filling roles within the company that they were not trained and are possibly ill suited for.
That situation might be that they are doing everything and everything is right, but there is no rest for anyone who works there currently.
Regardless of the situation, the answer is usually to add help to weakness.
Chapter 8 in the book of Romans has been dealing with, one after another, weaknesses that we have and the response of the Holy spirit in those weaknesses.
The Spirit:
1. Changes our thinking
2. Produces life & peace in us
3. Lives in us
4. Will resurrect us
5. Helps us overcome sin
6. Confirms our adoption
7. The Spirit prays for us
According to verse 2 the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus sets you free from the law of sin and death.
According to verse 4 the Spirit helps you fulfill the just requirement of the law.
According to verse 6 the Spirit give life and peace.
According to verse 11 God will raise you from the dead by the Spirit who dwells in you.
According to verse 13 the Spirit helps you put to death the deeds of the body.
According to verse 14 the sons of God are led by the Spirit.
According to verses 15-16 the Spirit bears witness in us that we are the children of God and so gives us assurance of our salvation.
According to verse 23 the Holy Spirit is the foretaste and guarantee of our final redemption.
The Holy spirit is very active in our lives, in a variety of roles.
The bible doesn’t - anywhere at all - describe the trinity in the way that we understand it.
We understand that there is only ONE.
God.
One God.
Also, we understand that God is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Three persons.
One God.
And we understand that because of passages like this, where it becomes very critical that God the Holy Spirit is separate from God the Father, because they are interacting with each other.
In the same way:
Connecting to the other ways that the Spirit is active in our lives.
Taking into account the reality of who we are.
Knowing all of that.
The Holy Spirit.
The spirit of God.
A member of the trinity.
The one that Jesus said he would send, and did.
The part of the trinity that fills us with power.
The comforter.
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Adding to what Paul has already described for us is the activity of the Holy Spirit
Helps
Provides assistance to something that is being done.
To help - together.
1This word is only used one other time in the new testament, and that time is in the book of Luke, chapter ten.
In Luke 10, Jesus is in the home of Mary and Martha…
This is one of the main reasons that I wanted to go through word for word… because this word is really important to the understanding of this passage.
This isn’t someone working on their own.
Martha is indicating that she wants Jesus to tell Mary to get in the kitchen WITH her.
She wants to work together.
For us, it plays out a lot like this meme.
The holy spirit provides help.
We are the little dog on the end.
But it isn’t that I am doing it, or the holy spirit is doing it, but that together the thing is done.
In our Weakness
Our weakness - indicates that it is personal.
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