Ephesians 5:15-21 – 15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (New Living Translation)

What Is the Nature of the Holy Spirit?

▸ The Holy Spirit is fully _______________ and _______________ to God the Father and God the Son for He is God the Holy Spirit

John 14:26 – [Jesus said,] “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.” (New King James Version)

What Is the Work of the Holy Spirit?

▸ The Holy Spirit is a Sprit of _________________________

2 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. (English Standard Version)

▸ The Holy Spirit brings _________________________

John 16:8 – When the Helper comes, he will prove to the people of the world the truth about sin, about being right with God, and about judgment. (New Century Version)

▸ The Holy Spirit extends an _________________________

Romans 3:10-11 – 10 As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous – not even one. 11 No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. (New Living Translation)

▸ The Holy Spirit affects ______________________________

John 3:5-6 – 5 “I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus. “No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. 6 A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.” (Good News Bible)

▸ The Holy Spirit ____________________ believers

1 Corinthians 3:16 – Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (New Revised Standard Version)

▸ The Holy Spirit ____________________ believers

John 16:13 – When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. . . . (Good News Translation)

▸ The Holy Spirit makes _________________________ for believers

Romans 8:26-27 – 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27 And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (New Revised Standard Version)

▸ The Holy Spirit brings _______________ to believers

Ephesians 4:3 – Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together. (Good News Translation)

▸ The Holy Spirit ______________________ believers for service

Acts 1:8 – But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere – in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (New Living Translation)

▸ The Holy Spirit __________________ believers with spiritual gifts

1 Peter 4:10 – God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. (New Living Translation)

What Is Our Response to the Holy Spirit?

▸ We are to be in _________________________ with Him

2 Corinthians 13:14 – May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (New Living Translation)

▸ We are to be _______________ by Him

Ephesians 5:18 – Don’t drink too much wine, for many evils lie along that path; be filled instead with the Holy Spirit and controlled by him. (The Living Bible)

▸ We are to produce His ________________

Galatians 5:22-23 – 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! (New Living Translation)