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Holy Spirit Wednesday Oct 25

Covered Last week

God is a community

The greatest need of our life is to join in on the eternal dance or relationship that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit have been doing for eternity

God did not create us because He needed praise, He created us to give us the love/joy/peace etc that He experiences eternally in relationship with the 3 persons of the Godhead

The Holy Spirit is God but I’ve got 2 questions I want to cover today

What does the HS do?

What does the indwelling of the HS and believing in the triune God mean for our day to day lives

1.What does the Holy Spirit do?

He is a Helper John 14:26 “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 have said to you.”

He is a TeacherLuke 12:12 “for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.””

He makes us bold(about Gods word)Acts 4:31 “And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.”

He is a vessel of Gods love Romans 5:5 “and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

He brings Joy 1 Thessalonians 1:6 “And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,”

He speaks through man - peter 1:21 “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

He intercedes for us - Romans 8:26–27 “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

2.What should our lives look like?

God is a community

We are created in Gods image

The most important thing we can do on earth is be in relationships with those around us

Culture says the most important thing is to work, community is nice but I need to work more

Culture says the world revolves around you

Gods very nature says that true joy and purpose can only come from sacrificial love for others and that joy and purpose are found in service just as the father serves the son/hs, the son serves the father/hs, and the hs serves the father/son