WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

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HOLY SPIRIT LIVING!

The Spirit in Everyday Living.

Foundations:

1. Filled & Filling

a. The Book of Acts shows that Paul and his fellow evangelists were filled (kept on being filled) with joy and the Holy Spirit ().

Acts 13:52 NIV84
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

b. Persecution and trouble only made them press on with even more joy. Paul’s converts also were filled with the same joy (16:34). It was joy that came as the Holy Spirit gave honor and glory to Jesus.

Acts
Acts 16:34 NIV84
The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.

c. How were they continually being filled?

Seeking! (New Topical Textbook)

Seeking God

1. Commanded. Isa 55:6; Mt 7:7.

2. Includes seeking

3. By prayer. Job 8:5; Da 9:3.

4. In his house. De 12:5; Ps 27:4.

5. Should be

6. Ensures

7. Imperative upon all. Isa 8:19.

8. Afflictions designed to lead to. Ps 78:33, 34; Ho 5:15.

9. None, by nature, are found to be engaged in. Ps 14:2; Ro 3:11; Lu 12:23, 30.

10. Saints

11. Is never in vain. Isa 45:19.

12. Blessedness of. Ps 119:2.

13. Leads to joy. Ps 70:4; 105:3.

14. Ends in praise. Ps 22:26.

15. Promise connected with. Ps 69:32.

16. Shall be rewarded. Heb 11:6.

17. The wicked

18. They who neglect denounced. Isa 31:1.

19. Punishment of those who neglect. Zep 1:4–6.

20. Exemplified

(Asking, Seeking, Knocking)

Matthew 7:7 NIV84
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

(Continual, Full Devotion - to the word, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, to prayer)

Acts 2:42–47 NIV84
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

2. Centered on Jesus in Everything!

a. Paul’s message, ministry, and personal life centered in Jesus.

1. He never forgot that heavenly vision ().

Acts 26:19 NIV84
“So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.

2. Paul constantly spoke of being in Christ. He refused to try to satisfy the Jews with signs or the Greeks with (philosophic) wisdom. He simply preached Christ crucified (,;)

1 Corinthians 1:22–23 NIV84
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
1 Corinthians 2:2 NIV84
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
a) Then the signs followed in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power (v. 4).
1 Corinthians 2:4 NIV84
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
1) That is signs followed, not to convince skeptics, but in response to the faith of those who believed. ()
Acts 14:7–10 NIV84
where they continued to preach the good news. In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.
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