The Complete Work of The Holy Spirit

Introduction:

We experience Gods great love for us through the work of the Holy Spirit. His love is a wholes tic type of love that covers every aspect of the life of the believer. Being pentecostal we believe in the person and work of the Holy Spirit. (He is a person, not just a force or a power, or good luck charm the Holy Spirit is God)

The holy Spirit works within your life in the three most important areas of your christian walk. I believe that by understanding these works in our lives we can come to see to that you and I have been called, and chosen. This will help us get up from the coldness of spiritual apathy and comfort and walk in Gods purposes.

In these works of the Holy Spirit you'll find Gods complete work in our lives, not one area is left without His intervention, or help. God is the great helper, you and I don’t walk alone or without power. God isn't at a distance far beyond us that he cant hear us, hold on to us, or speak to us so that we can listen.

One day a Hindu philosopher visited a women’s school of village evangelism and asked if he might lecture [the] women on Hinduism. [He was] granted permission, and returned with two others. All sat on mats round [the] floor, and [the] Hindu pundit gave [an] interesting talk on God, ending with a transcendent Being so far away and unapproachable, and man in the depths of such abysmal ignorance and degradation, that they were left gasping for breath. When he suddenly stopped, the women cried out, “But go on, go on, you can’t stop there.” “Our religion stops there,”

What were living out daily in our lives goes beyond just Religion. Because religion is man trying to reach God through earthly means, while the gospel message of Salvation is that man was lost and without hope until God came down and rescued us from sin and now can live within the heart of the believer in relationship with God!

And it is through the complete work of the Holy Spirit that we can experience Salvation, Sanctification and Service.

Body:

Salvation is for us. What does the Holy Spirit do in Salvation?

The Holy Spirit “Regenerates” we call this being born again. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

This regeneration is a key moment that you have been saved, it is something that only the Holy Spirit can do in the life that places their faith in Christ and Saving work. John 3:5–8 “Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

This means that you no longer live for the desires of the world (fleshly desires) but now are alive and live for the things of God, you walk in the Spirit. You begin to give fruit of that salvation, through the fruit of the spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the deposit, the guarantee and deposit for the coming salvation that will finally transform our fallen flesh to be completely new/pure. Romans 6:3–4 “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”

This is a living hope that exist in the life of a believer, and despite of our imperfections, His Spirit reminds us that we belong to God. Romans 8:15 “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!””

Salvation had a cost and in His love he paid the price, and in response we lay down our lives, through the Spirit are brought low in recognition of our need for Him in our lives as we surrender our evil deeds and way of life so that He can take us into the newness of life! Transformed! Psalm 51:9–12 “Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.” “Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”

Sanctification in us

Its through salvation that we are sanctified (set apart, sacred, holy) that we are separated from darkness to light. 1 Thessalonians 5:5 “For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.” And it is an ongoing process that the Holy Spirit began and continues to do to make us more Christ like. Justification is through His sacrifices given to us through our faith in Him. This removes our guilt and wrongdoings before a pure and holy God. He removes our sins, and before God we are righteous and holy.

The Holy Spirit continues to works with us patiently removing those things that don’t measure to the standard that is Jesus! Its through the Holy Spirit that God continues to mold us and shape us to be like Jesus. Through our growing relationship with His word, prayer and church we can mature and be more like Him!

If being like Jesus isn’t the most important aspects of your daily life you have stopped growing. Hebrews 6:1 “Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,”

There is no room for works of darkness in the person that says they live in the light of Life that is Jesus! The enemy no longer has the power to drag you into your old way of being, or into sin. Because you now have seen the face of Jesus through the spirit. You can recognize him, your heart knows Him! 2 Corinthians 4:6 “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

If God is going to use you He needs you to be mature, allowing God to process us through sanctification in every aspect of our lives. Romans 12:1 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”

The light is the life that comes from you heart, through the words and actions you take on a daily basis! And now the light that is within you is no longer darkness, but is the light of Life that is in Christ Jesus!

1 John 1:5 “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”

Visual Demonstration Glass with different sins written on it with dry erase marker, the glass is filled with water and dirt (murky). Light shines through but its dim, as we allow God to sanctify us (Jug of water) the old dirty water is replaced and clear water that lets His light shine through. The problem isn’t the world around us, its whats inside.

Allow him to fill you up daily!

Service (Through us)

Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

The Holy Spirit makes the ordinary things that you do and turns them into the extraordinary.

A.W. Tozer

“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart, and he can therefore do no common act.”

Every act that we do on this earth is to be as if we are doing it unto Christ! In this way we serve God with the fullness of our lives, and not just looks at Church participation as the only place of service or worship.

“These good works are born out of the fullness of God within us, and it is not a means by which we gain Gods approval. But shows that we have surrender our lives to be of service for Gods will. The bible calls for us to present our members as instruments of righteousness or tool.

In the shop of a blacksmith, there are three types of tools. There are tools on the junk pile: Outdated, broken, dull, nasty. They sit in the cobwebbed corner, useless to their master, oblivious to their calling. There are tools on the anvil: melted down, molten hot, moldable, changeable. They lie on the anvil, being shaped by their master, accepting their calling. There are tools of usefulness: sharpened, primed, defined mobile. They lie ready in the blacksmith’s tool chest, available to their master, fulfilling their calling.

Some people lie useless: lives broken, talents wasting, fires quenched dreams dashed. They are tosses in the scrap iron, in desperate need of repair, with no notion of purpose. Others lie on the anvil: hearts open, ready for change, wounds healing, visions clearing. They welcome the painful pounding of the blacksmith’s hammer, longing to be rebuilt, begging to be called.

Others lie in their masters hands: well tuned, uncompromising, polished, productive. They respond to theirs Masters forearm, demanding nothing, surrendering all.” Max Lucado “On The Anvil”

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

There is no way that you can follow Jesus, and not be able to learn from His acts of service to those around Him. Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”” He calls us to follow and to serve him John 12:26 “If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”

God cant use lazy people: Make excuses for everything. It is the fervent in Spirit that serve the Lord Romans 12:11 “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.”

The holy Spirit helps us to be (zeal) diligent and (fervent) enthusiastic.

God call us to serve one another 1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:”

Each of us has received a measure of grace that we should extend to serve others, while we are here on this earth. If God has placed you on a platform where you can be of influence to others use it to bring people to the kingdom of God through your good works. This is how the world will see that you and I are separated by God!