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Often In this Age of Church, people tend to think they can operate exclusively without the Holy Spirit.

Often In this Age of Church, people tend to think they can operate exclusively without the Holy Spirit.

As a matter of fact, many are operating in An imitation type spirt that wants to be the Holy Spirit.

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Matthew 7:21

From the days Of Moses there has always been imitations of Gods Glory.

So How do we weed out the imitation’s in the body of Christ…

Learning the Character Of The Holy Spirit..

the Holy Spirit can also be considered a character because the Holy Spirit is portrayed as ‘person-like’.26

For instance, the Lukan narrative tells us

the Holy Spirit reveals (Lk.

2:26), inspires (Lk.

2:27), leads (Lk.

4:1), teaches (Lk.

12:12), speaks (Acts 1:16; 4:25; 8:29; 10:19–20; 11:12; 13:2; 21:11; 28:25), gives utterance (Acts 2:4), forbids (Acts 16:6–7), testifies (Acts 20:23), oversees (Acts 20:28; cf.

15:28)

On the other hand, it is also true that the Holy Spirit, like God, possesses some traits that ordinary people cannot share, that is, ‘person-unlikeness’.

the Spirit’s external appearance: as a dove in Lk. 3:22; as fire in Acts 2:3–4; the Spirit’s environment: allusions to heaven as God’s throne in Lk. 3:22; 1:35; 4:18; 11:13; Acts 2:33).

Hence, the Holy Spirit can be seen as a character who holds two dialectic paradigms of traits, i.e. those of ‘person-likeness’ and ‘person-unlikeness’.

In a word, the Holy Spirit in Luke–Acts is to be understood as a divine character.

HOLY SPIRIT The Holy Spirit (or Spirit of God) transforms and empowers God’s people.

Introduction

God’s Spirit transforms His people to share His moral character and empowers them to fulfill His purposes.

Scripture speaks of the human spirit, demonic spirits, and the Spirit of God

God’s Spirit in the Old Testament

In the Old Testament, God’s Spirit represents an active dimension of His character.

Israel was learning to embrace monotheism over polytheism; thus, emphasizing the character and activity of the one true God was more important than distinguishing identities within God.

In depicting God’s activity, it was natural to speak in terms of “Spirit” because of the term’s various connotations.

The Hebrew term רוּחַ (ruach) can mean “wind,” and “breath”; it can also refer to the life principle of persons or animals.

Some passages play on multiple senses of the term (Isa 25:4; 32:15; Ezek 37:1–14).

The Spirit as a Person

In later biblical passages, the Spirit appears as a distinct divine person.

The Old Testament occasionally provides hints that the Spirit might be distinguished from God the Father (Isa 48:16).

The New Testament writers then link the Spirit with the Father and the Son (1 Cor 12:4–6; 2 Cor 13:14; Eph 4:4–6; Matt 28:19

The Spirit appears most clearly as a distinct person in Jesus’ farewell discourse to His disciples in John 14–16

Another Advocate: Who carries on Jesus mission after the his ascension

Jn 1

2. Convicts or Prosecutes the world concerning sin and judgement

Jn 16

Just Like Jesus

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3. Acts in Jesus place after jesus exaltation

John 16:9

Jesus uses the ‘He,’ a masculine pronoun, because he refers to the Spirit with a masculine Noun

( Parakletos, Counselor, Advocate)

(Parakletos, Counselor, Advocate)

4. Roles Of The Holy Spirit

The Spirit as Transforming Power

In Scripture, the Spirit transforms God’s people.

For example, in Ezekiel, God had exiled His people because of sin; however, He promised that He would restore them and put His Spirit in them so that they would obey Him in the future (Ezek 36:26–27).

Jews valued this hope, and some Jewish groups, such as those who composed the Dead Sea Scrolls, emphasized this future spiritual purification.

Early Christians often wrote about spiritual purification and transformation as well

Paul uses wording that links Ezekiel’s promise of the transforming Spirit to Jeremiah’s promised new covenant, in which God would write His laws in the hearts of His people

Jer 31:31

In Exodus 34:29–30, Moses’ face was transformed as he saw the Lord; Paul says that believers in Jesus are similarly transformed as they pay attention to God’s Spirit

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On the last day of the Festival of Tabernacles (see John 7:2), Jesus announces that rivers of living water will go forth from the “belly” (John 7:37–39)

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Jn 7:37-

Rivers of Living Water refers to the spirit..

The Scriptures read on the last day of that festival included Ezek 47 and Zech 14, both of which spoke of rivers of fresh water flowing from the temple or from Jerusalem.

Many Jewish people saw Jerusalem as the navel—or belly—of the earth.

Yet Jesus invites the thirsty to drink from Him (John 7:37) because He is the foundation of God’s new temple.

In John 19:34, when Jesus dies, blood and water flow out, probably implying that by His death, Jesus had made new life available by the Spirit

Paul also emphasizes that the Spirit transforms people and provides new life and a new identity.

Romans 8

dominated thoughts (Sinful or Spiritual)

letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death

letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

Sinful nature is always hostile to God.. it never did obey God’s law, and it never will..

It lacks submission, honor & respect of authority.

(You can never please God Verse 8)

Romans 8:9

So if the same spirit that raised Jesus up from the dead dwells in you, That same spirit should be able to keep you from cussing, lying, stealing, gossiping, fornicating, drinking, smoking, not able to get along with others, fighting, back- bitten, scheming, unforgiving, prideful, lasciviousness, lust, adultery, mean, arrogant, unforgiven, nasty, disrespectful.. self..

Because The Holy Ghost Can’t live anywhere..

Romans

Someone Say New Life New Identity

Gal

Early Christians regularly associated the Spirit with empowerment, which often involved speaking for God.

For example, throughout the New Testament the Spirit empowers witness for Christ

Matthew

John 16

You Can’t be filled Without Power to Speak..

There should be a boldness in you if you have the Holy Spirit, your prayer should be bold, your singing should be bold, your teaching and preaching should be bold, your soul winning, everything about you when it comes to speaking about the savior should have power behind it..

Empowerment for Witness.

The book of Acts emphasizes the Spirit’s role in the Church’s cross-cultural witness for Christ (Acts 1:8).

Although the initial witnesses are the 11 apostles (Acts 1:2), the promise of the Spirit is ultimately for all believers (Acts 2:38–39) who share in the mission of bringing the gospel to all people.

Throughout Acts, the Spirit pushes God’s people across cultural barriers (Acts 8:29; 10:19; 11:12; 15:28):

Acts 2:38

Acts

The Spirit empowers them to hear from and speak for God the way prophets did (Acts 2:17–18).

Some people in Acts prophesied more than others (Acts 11:27–28; 21:9–11), but all were called to speak God’s message.

On three occasions in Acts, believers empowered by the Spirit began praising God in tongues.

If God empowered some of His servants to worship Him in other people’s languages, He could also empower His servants to cross cultural barriers with the good news about Christ.

• The Spirit also falls on new groups of believers, showing that they, too, are empowered by God to share in the mission (Acts 8:14–17; 10:44–47; 19:6).

The Holy Spirit isn’t predudice as some of us may be..

And If you have the Holy spirit that should no longer be an issue..

Bishop CH Mason the founder of Church Of God In Christ, in the early 1906 had caucasian members.

He Ordain elders who then branched out to start the Assemblies Of God.

The Holy Spirit doesn’t have a Color he is the spirit of God…

The Holy Spirit doesn’t have a Color he is the spirit of God…

The Holy Spirit doesn’t have a Color he is the spirit of God…

Empowerment @ Conversion

Acts 9:2