The holy Spirit (2)

John 14:16–17 ESV

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Acts 2:32–33 ESV

This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

John 4:13–14 ESV

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 7:37–39 ESV

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 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.

Lesson Two: The Promise and Its Fulfillment

John 14:16-27, “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.1* * 14:16 Or Comforter, or Encourager, or Counselor. Greek reads Paraclete; also in 14:26.”

Acts 2:32-33, “God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this. 33 Now he is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven, at God’s right hand. And the Father, as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.”

In John 14:16-17, we can see Jesus’ promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit, and then in Acts 2:32-33 we see the fulfillment of that promise

The Promised Comforter

Jesus prayed that theFather would send another comforter to abided forever-

Another meaning of the same type- or nature

Then on the Day of Pentecost He sent forth the Holy Spirit, who has been here ever since. It is now not a matter the Father’s giving of the Holy Spirit.

It is a matter of receiving the Holy Spirit.

Notice Jesus’ words, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate (Comforter), who will never leave you.”

KJV- “I will pray the Father…”

When we receive the Holy Spirit we receive “him” not “it”.

I have heard people and served with a pastor who testified, “I have received the baptism.” However, they didn’t receive the baptism; they received the Holy Spirit.

They would say, “I am filled with the baptism.” They are not filled with the bapstism.

They are not even filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

They are filled with the Holy Spirit, The Third Person of the Godhead!

Receiving the Holy Spirit is more than an experience:

a divine Personality come to live in us- to dwell in us- to make His home in us

1 Cor 6:19, “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?”

We must not be so concerned with an outward experience that we miss the reality of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.

If we have been filled with the Holy Spirit, we should be conscious of His presence every waking moment

We shouldn’t have to look back to some experience we had at an altar years ago

He should be more real and precious to us every day!

The Promise Is for Believers

WE need to notice that the infilling of the Holy Spirit is not for sinners;

it is for the believers.

Referring to the indwelling or infilling of the Holy Spirit Jesus said n John 14:17, “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.”

The can receive eternal life. John 3:16-17, “For this is how God loved the world: He gave* his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him1* * 3:16 Or For God loved the world so much that he gave.

The World can receive Christ as Savior- the World can be born again-

but we have to be born again before we can receive the Holy Spirit.

To illustrate this, Jesus said in Matthew 9:17, “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the old skins would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved.”

In Scriptures, wine is a type of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was therefore saying that the Holy Spirit could not be given in His fulness unless one had been made a new creature.

Otherwise, as Jesus pointed out, if you were to put new wine in old bottles, they would burst,

If He had put the Holy Spirit in people who had not been born again, they would burst.

2 Cor 5:17, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

When you were made a new creatio, you were made ready to be filled with the new wine!

Jesus also says of the Holy Spirit in Luke 11:13, “So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”

God is not the Father of everyone

It is the Spirit of Adoption - Romans 8:15-16, “So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children.* Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”* 16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.”

We hear alot about the Fatherhood of God, and God being the Father of everyone, and the brotherhood of man, we are all one, and God is the Father of All of Us and we are all Brothers.

This isn’t true- Jesus told the Pharisees, which was the strictest sect of the Jewish religion in John 8:44, “For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

God is only the Father of those who have been born again, the Father has the gift of the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Come and Drink

John 4:13-14, “Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

John 7:37-39, “On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! 38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’ ”* 39 (When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given,* because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.) 1* * 7:37–38 Or “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me.’ ”* * 7:39 Several early manuscripts read But as yet there was no Spirit. Still others read But as yet there was no Holy Spirit.

The water referred to in both passages is a type of the Holy Spirit. Notice that two different experiences are spoken of .

The First passage is Jesus speaking to the woman at the well- Jesus said, “(the water I give) becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”- The New Birth

Here Jesus is referring to the Holy Spirit in the act of regeneration (The holy Spirit is represented as a “Well of water or Spring of Bubbling Water, springing up to eternal life)

The Second passages reference to, “rivers of living water” speaks of the promise of the infilling of the Holy Spirit: KJV “Out of His Belly (innermost being) shall flow rivers of living water.”

Jesus beckons us to come and drink and get full- How do you know when you are full?

The answer is Acts 2:4, “And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages,* as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.1* * 2:4 Or in other tongues.

Acts 2:4 NKJV, “And d they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began e to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

The River flowing out from within them

The Spring is for the believer

The River is for other

The Holy Spirit at New Birth blesses the one who is being saved

The Baptism blesses those who you are ministering to

If you are a believer, it is as simple as Jesus said it is. Come and Drink, and keep drinking till you get full!

When you get full, you will start speaking with other tongues.- This si the initial sign or evidence that you filled- You spill over!

Memory Text: John 7:37, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.”

Lesson in Action: James 1:22 “But be doers of the Word , and not hearers only.”