The Work of the Holy Spirit
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INTRO:
In Pentecostal Churches we often associate the Holy Spirit with Speaking in Tongues. That is part of it but a small part.
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Today I want to look at the work of the Holy Spirit out of
TEXT: John 16:5-15
John 16:5–7 (NLT)
5 “But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.
6 Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.
7 But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you.
1. THE ADVOCATE (HOLY SPIRIT) COMES TO HELP US.
A. If Jesus hadn’t left, we would be alone.
i. “If I go away I will send Him to you.”
ii. The Holy Spirit lives in us and dwells among us.
16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
iii. Do you struggle with loneliness? Feeling of no friends, no father, no mother? Whatever it might be. God is within you as a Christian.
15 “If you love me, obey my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.
17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.
B. The Holy Spirit helps us
i. John is implying that the Holy Spirit’s ministry to the world is done through the believers.
30 In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn’t listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them.
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
8 And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.
9 The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me.
2. THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVICTS UNBELIEVERS OF SIN.
A. Convinces is really probably a better term to put in place of convict.
B. Holy Spirit hoovers over the hearts of unbelievers preparing them to accept Christ as Savior.
C. We often have a belief that the Holy Spirit’s role is to convict us of sins. But that is not His role according to this passage. His role is to lead sinners to repent.
i. Think about this. If His role was pointing out everything we did wrong we would probably go crazy.
ii. The Word of God is our guide to train us so we know right from wrong. The Holy Spirit energizes that process and gives us understanding.
iii. His role is to convince unbelievers to believe.
iv. Convict them of sin…singular. The sin that will send them to hell. The sin of unbelief.
v. One unpardonable sin…Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, Rejection of God.
a. If we are made in the Image of God there must be Feminine characteristics in the Godhead. Is it the Holy Spirit? He is grieved by sin, and unbelief.
b. ILLUSTRATION: Study of infants boy and girl, separated from mom for a day, the boy moved obstacles to get to her while smiling, the little girl lit up when she seen her and reached for her and started crying. There is a more emotional and intimated side found in feminine characteristics. Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
vi. His job is to encourage, bring light, open eyes, so unbelievers come to Jesus.
vii. Holy Spirit is at work in people before we ever say a word.
ILLUSTRATION: John in Wisconsin fixing the bike tire. Divine appt. He stated he was an atheist.
44 For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up.
10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
10 Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more.
Jesus vindicates us, stands in for us in our guilt Ps. 37:1-8
3. RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AVAILABLE BECAUSE JESUS WENT TO THE FATHER
WE MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO BE VICTOR OR VICTIM ON A DAILY BASIS.
SOME PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR JUSTIFICATION TO QUIT.
A. Again think in terms of “Convince” believers, of their right standing in Christ.
13 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.
14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.
B. You are found right in Him.
C. Many believers get…death, burial, resurrection, salvation but they miss…You are Holy in Christ.
2 Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; Save Your servant who trusts in You!
i. David was holy? Yes
D. A lot of Christians don’t rely on the cross to eradicate condemnation. They rely on their own good works to offset their guilt, and condemnation.
1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
i. The Holy Spirit’s job is convince us of our righteousness in Christ. Remind us we are forgiven of sins…PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE!
E. Redeemed believers pursue God vs abuse grace by sinning all the more.
F. Righteousness – right standing not right living, It’s not perfect living It’s was His perfect death.
G. Condemnation pushes us away from God.
H. Sin left a crimson stain, He washed it as white as snow.
11 Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.
Ruler of this world Satan 2 Cor 4:4
4. HE REMINDS US OF SATAN’S DEFEAT
A. Sometimes we can discouraged if we look around at the world we live in and think the devil is winning.
B. Even Insurance Calls Disasters an “Act of God” NOT “Act of Satan”
New Testament (Second Edition) 16:5–15: The Spirit’s Witness
16:8–11. As was common in ancient arrangement of material, 16:8 introduces three points then developed in 16:9–11. Here the believers’ Advocate may become a “prosecutor” of the world, as sometimes in the Old Testament (Jer 50:34; 51:36; Lam 3:58–66; cf. Ps 43:1; 50:8). Many Jewish people believed that God would make Israel prevail over the nations before his tribunal in the day of judgment; for John, the judgment has already begun (3:18–19). Roman courts had no public prosecutors and depended on an interested party to bring charges, although trained *rhetoricians then debated on behalf of those who could afford them. The Spirit here brings charges against the world before God’s heavenly court (see Mt 5:22), as a witness against them (see Jn 15:26).
Verses 9–11 probably mean that the world’s unbelief constituted their sin; *Christ being the heavenly Advocate (1 Jn 2:1) constituted the believers’ righteousness; and the judging of the world’s ruler (see comment on 12:31) spelled the judgment of the world. Thus for John it is not Jesus and his people (chaps. 18–19) but the world that is now on trial. One may also compare a common motif in the Old Testament prophets: the covenant lawsuit where God summons his people to account for breach of the covenant.
12 “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.
5. THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES TO GUIDE US IN ALL TRUTH
A. He is our GPS
B. Guide – He takes us to places we don’t know about that will be fruitful. EX: A hunting guide or a fishing guide.
C. This language implies a fuller revelation of Jesus’ character
D. Lord’s Prayer - “Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil.”
i. The Holy Spirit wants to show you how to get out of bad situations,
E. Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be open to you.
F. Atheist – do they seek as diligently for truth in God’s word as they do excuses for not believing?
26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.
9 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
New Testament (Second Edition) (16:5–15: The Spirit’s Witness)
16:12–13. The Psalms speak of God leading his people in truth, in his way of faithfulness (Ps 25:5; 43:3; cf. 5:8); in John, this language implies a fuller revelation of Jesus’ character (14:6). Intimate friends shared confidences (see comment on 15:15). The Spirit will thus relate to the *disciples as Jesus has (15:15), so that believers’ relationship with Jesus in John’s day (and in subsequent generations) should be no less intimate than relationships with him were before the cross.
14 He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me.
15 All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’
6. THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS TO GLORIFY CHRIST
32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
The Holy Spirit wants to lift Christ up
When Christ is seen…Lives are changed!
Isaiah 6:1–8 (NLT)
1 It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.
2 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3 They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!”
4 Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”
8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
A. Seeing the LORD CHANGE Isaiah
i. He was called to be a prophet.
B. We often look in the mirror much more than we look through glasses.
i. It is about what we see
ii. How we look
iii. What is in it for me
iv. Concerned only about what is going on in my life (like the disciples in verse 6)
vi. Glasses help us see the big picture clearly
18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
C. Christianity isn’t about what we get out of it, as much as it is about us reflecting His glory and giving Him the gift of praise He is worthy of.
CONCLUSION:
“THE DOVE”
WE MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO BE VICTOR OR VICTIM ON A DAILY BASIS.
SOME PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR JUSTIFICATION TO QUIT.