Who is Holy Spirit

Knowing God (part 3)

preamble

Its great to have you with us today,

and a special welcome to those who join us online

I want to tell you as I prophesied months ago that this would be coming.

We are now in the season of fulfilled promises.

Things I have waited years to come into being are now in the process of being built.

I discovered that facebook has a limit of 1000 friend requests open at one time.

How do I know that that?

Every day since last Saturday I’ve had 1000 friend requests.

I found that if i deal with 250 in one day when i wake up theres still 1000 waiting

if I accept all 1000 in a day the next day there will be another 1000.

Now I know facebook limits you to 5000 friends and if you do the math it doesn’t take very long to fill that cap at 1000/day

So I was aksing God what He wanted me to do with this.

God reminded of a a desire He planted in me years ago to create a Kingdom Network to build up, encourage, equip and impart Kingdom mindset to leaders around the world.

At the time I had no idea how this would happen, so I just left it as a dream and pondered from time to time

So on Tuesday afternoon I put legs to that dream I created Kingdom Way Equippers Network

By Thursday morning it had 150 real authentic Pastors Teachers, Evangelsists, Bishops, Apostles and prophets who were members

This morning _______

Now some things still suprise me, I forsaw the request for speaking engagements,

but what suprised me is many of which asked to bring their ministry or church under our banner. Still working out what that means

and 3 told me thay are changing their name to Kingdom Way

Now this is what I want to to embrace for yourself.

I could have tried to start to build this on my own.

But it would have failed.

We had to wait till God put everything in place. the Epoch had to be right.

The Epoch of fulfilled promises is upon us.

So dust off those forgotten dreams

take the little steps you need to, to get the ball rolling

God says the time is now to build His Kingdom

Esther 4:14 NASB95

14 “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

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Pray

Message

Today I want to talk about the one who is going to make that dream a reality.

Intro

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit gets a bad rap.

He’s often referred to as it.

He’s mistaken for the force from Star Wars.

He’s confused with a ghost in paranormal activity.

Oftentimes, He’s just ignored or forgotten, and this makes sense.

Since He is an invisible spirit, it can be hard to relate to Him and His work in our lives.

You may know Him by name and know that He’s mentioned during a baptism but have no idea who He is, how He is at work in your life, or whether or not you should even care.

Let’s agree this isn’t a good thing.

Here, I want to help clear the air about the Holy Spirit and His work in your life.

Now Holy Spirt is the third person of the trinity.

He is fully God

He is fully a person

He goes by many names

He is the fulfiment of the Father’s promise made through Jesus’s to the Church

He was at the beginning of creation

He gave us the Bible

He birthed the church here on earth

He empowers and Equips us to carry our God’s will on the earth

He draws people to repentance

He Develops or Character

He inhabits every believer, and bringing us to life

Body

Fully God

Acts 5:3–4 NASB95

3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land? 4 “While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

He is a person

not a atribute of a supernatural phenominom

John 14:26 NASB95

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 that I said to you.

He, - in the greek is a masculine word for “that person”

same thing in

John 15:26 NASB95

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

Many Names

Most of them indicate an aspect of His function in, or ministry through, the Christian’s life.

Most common

1. “the Spirit.”

1 Thessalonians 5:19 NASB95

19 Do not quench the Spirit;

2. Holy Spirit/Ghost

Acts 7:51 NASB95

51 “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

3. Spirit of God/Breath of God

Genesis 1:2 NASB95

2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

4. Good Spirit

Nehemiah 9:20 NASB95

20 “You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.

5. Eternal Spirit

Hebrews 9:14 NASB95

14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

6. The Lord

2 Corinthians 3:17 NASB95

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

7. Greek “Paraclete” -Helper, Advocate, Comforter

John 14:16 NASB95

16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

The origianal greek meant someone who came along side of to lend assitance.

think of it like a ship coming into a habour

smaller boats come along side to steer the bigger boat away from rocks and other dangers

today you could think of a tugboat

The word in greek developed into , a paraclete was like a family attorney.

Someone who who come alongside and help guide you to where you needed to go.

God Atributes

He’s eternal

Hebrews 9:14 NASB95

14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

He’s self-existent

Romans 8:2 NASB95

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

He’s omnipresent

Psalm 139:7–8 NASB95

7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

He’s omniscient

1 Corinthians 2:10–11 NASB95

10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

John 14:26 NASB95

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 that I said to you.

John 16:13 NASB95

13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

He’s Omnipotent

Luke 1:35 NASB95

35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.

Luke 4:14 NASB95

14 And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district.

Holy Spirit in Creation

Rauch -Breath

The Spirit’s power breathed out creation

Genesis 1:1–2 NASB95

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Gave us the Bible

2 Peter 1:21 NASB95

21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

2 Timothy 3:16–17 NIV

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Inspired= God Breathed =Holy Spirit breath of God

Fulfillment of a Promise

John 14:15–17 NASB95

15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

John 14:26 NASB95

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 that I said to you.

Acts 1:4 NASB95

4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;

That promised was the birth the Church

Holy Spirit births the Church

Acts 2:1–4 NASB95

1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

4 weeks from today we celebrate Pentecost Sunday, Its going to be amazing please start preparing for it

Acts 2:41 NASB95

41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

That’s the beginning of the Church.

Holy Spirit baptized the first 120 believers with Power from on High

How many of you want to see that again?

I know I do!

Holy Spirt Empowers, Equips and Enables us to carry out the will of The Father

Makes us born again

Ephesians 2:1–5 NASB95

1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

John 3:6 NASB95

6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Body Soul and Spirit

Body is physical

Soul is your pesonality or character. Memories who you are

Spirit Is the God part of us

Jesus told nicodemus you must be born again. This is not a physical rebirth but rather a spiritual rebirth

John 3:5 NASB95

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

When each of us are born we have a Soul and and Body, but our Spirit is dead

Yes all the pre-believers are walking around with dead Spirits

The God part of us needs to be revived. or as Jesus said Born again

At the point of conversion, when someone repents of their sins the Holy Spirit enters them and rebirths their Spirit

Made the Alive in Christ

2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB95

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Thats what you feel at conversion. Your Spirit coming to Life

Baptizes us

So ever believer receives the Holy Spirit at conversion

But He work does not end there

The Bible speaks of subsequent fillings/baptism available to all believers

Ephesians 5:18 NASB95

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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He intercedes for us and guides our prayers

Romans 8:26–27 NASB95

26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Counsels us according to truth

Isaiah 11:2 NASB95

2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Comforts us

John 14:26 NASB95

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 that I said to you.

Convicts of sin

John 16:8–11 NASB95

8 “And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Makes us holy

1 Corinthians 6:11 NASB95

11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 3:18 NASB95

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Teaches and directs us

John 14:26 NASB95

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 that I said to you.

John 16:7 NASB95

7 “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

1 John 2:27 NASB95

27 As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

Equips us With Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:7–11 NASB95

7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

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Empowers us

Acts 1:8 NASB95

8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Romans 15:13 NASB95

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Develops our character

Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22–23 NASB95

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

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