The Spirit of Christ

Acts 2:17–21 ESV

“ ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Pray for understanding of what the Spirit of Christ is, the role of the Spirit in us, and how to walk in the Spirit.

There are four Specific instances that speak of the outpouring of the Spirit of God in Scripture

Jesus Christ the same Yesterday Today and Forever

Heb 13:8 describes a Christ who is unchanging from the beginning

He shows us what would be needed from us as He walked the earth.

Luke 3 shows Jesus being God in human form;

Baptized in water (into the body)

Baptized by the Holy Spirit

Begins His ministry

Jesus God from the beginning is unchanging yet He exemplifies what each human being will go through

Until the fullness of the Spirit is received one cannot operate in the power of the age to come.

We are the people whom it was spoken of… We will carry His Spirit and We will prophecy… We will see Visions… We will dream dreams…

But in order to do this we must learn to be filled of the Spirit as we walk in every facet of the Spirit.

If we intend to operate in the things of the age to come we must learn to walk in the fullness of the Spirit of God

Until Christ…

The Spirit of God would descend on people as needed…

Remember there is a veil in temple that separated Humanity from the all Holy God.

John 7:39 ESV

Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

In John 7 Jesus is explaining to those who believe in Him His divine nature and oneness with God

I come from the very essence of God… I and the Father are one… Refutes any thought that would declare there was a time Jesus was not… or that the Spirit was not…

As we receive Jesus and drink of Him we are then porters of His Spirit and from our Hearts should flow what comes from the Son which are living waters… our hearts will become wells of living water

This could only happen if we have access to the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God.

Up until this point humanity did not have access to this Spirit it was only given as needed… notice… “As of yet the Spirit had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified…”

Jesus is the only begotten of the Father…

He was not created

Never a time when He did not exist

He is creator of all things

In Him is the Spirit of the Living God

He is the Giver of the Holy Spirit

none can come to the Father except through Him

none can receive the Holy Spirit except through Him

In the Waiting…

According to scripture we have not received a gospel just in Word and Deed… but one Full of the Power of the Holy Spirit… and the full Conviction we bear…

We must be full of the Holy Spirit to operate in this type of Power

Acts 1:8 ESV

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

The promise of Jesus Christ that we would receive power

not for ourselves

not for just our local region

to all the world until the end of this age…

The remainder of the accounts in the book of Acts tell of how a people

Believe in Jesus Christ

Baptized into the Body of Christ

Baptized by the Holy Spirit

Filled with the Spirit then function in the Fullness of what Christ has intended..

Fullness of the Spirit of Christ

Revelation 3:1 ESV

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

According to Rev 1 this Jesus holds the 7 spirits of God in Him

That is these are the 7 spirits of God which are sent to (not just one person but to all the Earth)

This is the image we see in the baptism of Jesus

the heavens open

We hear the Father Speaking

We see the Holy Spirit descending in bodily form

We Jesus the Son receiving the Holy Spirit

This is the Image we see in the Ascension

the heavens open

the Son ascending having been glorified

The Son giving the Holy Spirit

These 7 spirits are the fullness of the Spirit of Christ we must function in…

Romans 8:9–11 ESV

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

The Spirit of Christ must dwell in us