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Introduction
The Baptist Faith and Message tells us concerning the Holy Spirit...
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine.
He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures.
Through illumination He enables men to understand truth.
He exalts Christ.
He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.
He calls men to the Saviour, and effects regeneration.
At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ.
He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church.
He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption.
His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ.
He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Tonight we want to look at what Baptists believe about God the Holy Spirit.
[Illus] Sometime back the Associated Press carried this dispatch: “Glasgow, Ky.—Leslie Puckett, after struggling to start his car, lifted the hood and discovered that someone had stolen the motor.”
Without the Holy Spirit, we’ve got no motor.
Without the Holy Spirit, we’ve got no power.
Galaxie Software, 10,000 Sermon Illustrations (Biblical Studies Press, 2002).
Without the Holy Spirit, we’ve got nothing.
As we study tonight, let’s ask God the Holy Spirit to master us and fill us so that we can live the Christian life as we were meant — with Holy Spirit driven energy and power.
[TS] Let’s see four TRUTHS about the Holy Spirit that Baptists believe...
Major Ideas
The Holy Spirit is God.
[Illus] Sunday School / J. Todd asking, “Wait.
So Jesus is God?”
Many people would have the same question about the Holy Spirit, but the Bible makes it abundantly clear that the Holy Spirit is God.
As W. A. Criswell said, “The Holy Spirit is God.
He has all the attributes of God.
He is eternal, according to ; He is omnipotent, according to ; He is omniscient, according to ; He is omnipresent, according to .”
[Exp] But not only does the Holy Spirit share the attributes of God, He also bears the Name of God.
Furthermore, our bodies are called temples, dwelling places of God, if they are filled with the Holy Spirit.
And perhaps most convincingly, equates lying to the Holy Spirit with lying to God.
[App] There can be no doubt that the Holy Spirit is God.
And we should marvel that the Holy Spirit has taken up residence within us if we have come to faith in Christ.
In fact, if we’ve come to faith in Christ, it’s because of the Holy Spirit.
But before we get to that, we should talk about our second TRUTH...
[TS] {see below}
The Holy Spirit inspired God’s Word.
[Illus] Decades ago Carly Simon had a hit song called, Your’re So Vain.
For 38 years people guessed which of her ex-boyfriends inspired her to write the song.
What is Warren Beaty?
Kris Kristofferson?
Cat Stevens?
Mick Jagger?
One of the others?
But in 2010 she released a new version of the song in which she whispered the name of the person who inspired her to write it — turns out it was a former record producer, David Geffen.
No word if he was so vain to ever think the song was about him.
[Exp] But when it comes to the Bible there is no mystery to its inspiration — we know it was inspired by the Holy Spirit — but here we mean something different by inspiration than the way we normally use that word today.
When we say the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit we mean that the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible through varied personalities of the human authors of Scripture.
These are the prophecies and words we have recorded for us in the pages of the Bible.
The phrase “breathed out by God” is a combination of the Greek words for God and breath, but that word for breath is also the word for Spirit.
Thus, the idea we are to get here is the idea of God’s Word not only being God-breathed but God-Spirited, i.e., spoken by the Holy Spirit.
[App] What an amazing thing it is to have the Holy Spirit-inspired Word of God in our hands!
What an amazing thing to have it available to us so that anytime we want to hear from God all we have to do is read from His Word!
[TS] The Holy Spirit is God.
The Holy Spirit inspired God’s Word.
The Holy Spirit ministers to God’s people.
[Illus] Gordon Brownville’s Symbols of the Holy Spirit tells about the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first to discover the magnetic meridian of the North Pole and to discover the South Pole.
On one of his trips, Amundsen took a homing pigeon with him.
When he had finally reached the top of the world, he opened the bird’s cage and set it free.
Imagine the delight of Amundsen’s wife, back in Norway, when she looked up from the doorway of her home and saw the pigeon circling in the sky above.
Perhaps she thought to herself, “He’s alive!
My husband is still alive!
This is how we should feel when we see the Spirit working in us and among us in various.
Consider that...
Galaxie Software, 10,000 Sermon Illustrations (Biblical Studies Press, 2002).
The Holy Spirit convicts of sin.
Without the Holy Spirit we would not see sin as sin and, therefore, would not see ourselves as sinners.
In addition, we would not be concerned about God’s judgment that will come upon humanity because of sin.
It is because of the Holy Spirit that we are convicted of sin.
The Holy Spirit calls to salvation.
The Holy Spirit calls to salvation.
As the church (i.e., the Bride) preaches the Holy Spirit-inspired Word of God, the Spirit (i.e., the Holy Spirit) calls sinners to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit brings regeneration.
As Peter preached in , the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.
They were born again by the Holy Spirit.
As Jesus said in ...
If we have passed from spiritual death to spiritual life it is only because of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
The Holy Spirit indwells believers.
Some teach that Christians should look for a second blessing of the Holy Spirit.
This is usually described as a baptism of the Holy Spirit and is subsequent to the gift of the Holy Spirit all receive the moment they are regenerated by the Spirit.
Baptists don’t believe this.
Baptists believe that you receive the gift of the Spirit at the moment of regeneration, which is the very moment you are baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ.
As Peter said in ...
The Holy Spirit seals believers.
The Holy Spirit is the seal or guarantee of our salvation, and He is the ultimate assurance of our salvation.
The Holy Spirit teaches believers.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the truth of God’s Word so that He can teach us the truth of God’s Word.
speaks about the illuminating and teaching role of the Holy Spirit...
This illuminating and teaching is what Jesus promised the Spirit would do when He was sent...
And finally, the Spirit intercedes for believers.
From beginning to end in the walk of salvation, the Holy Spirit is with us — convicting, calling, regenerating, bringing, indwelling, sealing, teaching, interceding, and more.
What a comforting truth that the Holy Spirit is ministering to God’s people.
What a comforting truth that the Holy Spirit is ministering to us.
[TS] The Holy Spirit is God.
The Holy Spirit inspired God’s Word.
The Holy Spirit ministers to God’s people.
And finally...
The Holy Spirit builds God’s church.
[Illus] R. C. Sproul’s story about the man on the deserted island who built a house, a church, and another church when he decided he couldn’t get along with the people in the first church
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