Know your Holy Family: The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit
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Story of Stuart and his dad talking about the Doxology. I know who the Father is and the Son, it’s you and me, but who is this Holy Ghost they keep adding to our family?
They had a conversation explaining the reality.
John 14:16–17 (CSB)
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD. (V. 17)
NOT A FORCE.
NOT AN IT.
HIS WORK IN THE WORLD.
HE REVEALS THE NEED FOR THE SAVIOR.
8 When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: 9 About sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
HE POINTS TO CHRIST.
32 As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to myself.”
26 “When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 You also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
HIS WORK IN THE BELIEVER.
HE INDWELLS ALL BELIEVERS IN CHRIST AT THE MOMENT OF FAITH.
This is the spiritual birth, new life Being born from above being born again.
13 In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.
16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
That’s why we are to live Holy Lives, God lives in us.
HE GIVES SPIRITUAL GIFTS.
1 Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this.
HE GIFTS YOU TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH.
HE EMPOWERS YOU TO LIVE FOR CHRIST.
16 I say, then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
You can only grow by the help and work of the Holy Spirit.
You can only be born into God’s family through the Holy Spirit.
Evan Roberts attended bible college at 26 years of age. He had taught Sunday School and been a man of prayer. Three months into his study he had a vision from the Holy Spirit that God would use him to reach 100K souls for Christ.
In, “The Last Widespread Revival in America Over 100 Years Ago*
The Effects of the Revival
As revival fire spread across Wales in late 1904 and early 1905, although no official records were kept of the actual number converted, 150,000 is considered a very conservative estimate, during the first six months! People’s lives were transformed by the thousands. This was indeed, a sovereign move of God’s Holy Spirit!
Whole communities were turned upside down, and were radically changed from depravity to glorious goodness. The crime rate dropped, often to nothing. The police force reported that they had little more to do than supervise the coming and going of the people to the chapel prayer meetings, while magistrates turned up at courts to discover no cases to try. The alcohol trade was decimated, as people were caught up more by what happened in the local chapels than the local public houses [pubs] and bars. Families experienced amazing renewal, where the money earning husband and father, the bread winner, had wasted away the income and sowed discord, but now under the moving power of the Holy Spirit, following the conversion to be a follower of Jesus Christ, he not only provided correctly for family needs, but was now with the family, rather than wasting his time, and wages, in the public houses of the village or town. Souls were saved, individual lives were changed and Society itself was changed. Countless numbers were converted to Christ.
There are men and women still in churches today whose parents or grandparents’ testimonies were that they were converted in the Revival in 1904 or 1905. Not only were individual lives changed by the power of the Holy Spirit, but whole communities were changed, indeed society itself was changed. Wales again was a God-fearing nation! Public houses [pubs] were now almost empty. Men and women who used to waste their money getting drunk were saving it, giving it to help their churches, buying clothes and food for their families. And not only drunkenness, but stealing and other offences grew less and less, so that often a magistrate came to court, and found there were no cases for him.
Men whose language had been filthy before, learnt to talk purely. It is related that not only did the coal miners put in a better day’s work, but also that the pit ponies were so used to being cursed and sworn at, that they just couldn’t understand orders being given in kind, clean words! Yet, still the work output increased. The dark tunnels underground in the mines echoed with the sounds of prayer and hymns, instead of oaths and nasty jokes and gossip.
People who had been careless about paying their bills, or paying back money they had borrowed, paid up all they owed. People who had fallen out became friends again.
By Dr. Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
It started with a simple meeting.
Just over one hundred years ago, a college student in Wales named Evan Roberts, aged twenty-six, obtained permission to leave college to return to his home village of Lougher to preach his first sermon. Seventeen 📷people showed up to listen to his four points
(1) Confess any known sin to God and put away any wrong done to others;
(2) Put away any doubtful habit;
(3) Obey the Holy Spirit promptly; and
(4) Confess Christ openly.
No one could have predicted the nationwide impact that event would have. J. Edwin Orr related that “within three months a hundred thousand converts had been added to the churches of Wales. Five years later a book debunking the revival was published and the main point made by the scholarly author was that of the 100,000 added to the churches, only 80,000 remained after five years (DPC – I’ll take that kind of conversion growth any day! – see J. Edwin Orr, Campus Aflame, Glendale, Calif.: Regal, 1971, 101).
That same revival jumped the ocean and spread to America’s shores and was the last major revival we have seen since 1905.
“Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” – Psalm 85:6
*Walter C. Kaiser Jr. (PhD, Brandeis University)
The work of the Holy Spirit
The god of this world or age is Satan, (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; Eph. 2:2; 2 Tim. 2:26; 1 John 5:19), who controls the ideologies, opinions, hopes, aims, goals, and viewpoints current in the world (cf. 2 Cor. 10:35). He is behind the worlds systems of philosophy, psychology, education, sociology, ethics, and economics. But perhaps his greatest influence is in the realm of false religion. Satan, of course, is not a god but a created being. He is called a god because his deluded followers serve him as if he were one. Satan is the archetype of all the false gods in all the false religions he has spawned.
