The Holy Spirit - A Guiding Presence Part 2
The Holy Spirit - A Guiding Presence • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 35:26
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· 84 viewsWhat does love have to do with the Holy Spirit? Find out in this message.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.
To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge.
The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing.
He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said.
It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Cor 13:
Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. And nothing will be impossible for you.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.
I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready,
for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?
When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?
After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.
I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.
Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.
Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw.
But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value.
If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward.
But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.
Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”
And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.”
So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—
whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you,
and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
A certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.
You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.”
He said, “All these I have kept since my youth.”
When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.”
When he heard this he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.
If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up,
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does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Cor 1
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up,
does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known.
So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.
But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away.
1 Cor 13:
1 Cor. 13
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known.
1 Cor 13:13
So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.