Presence of the Holy Spirit
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Present throughout the world, the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and brings peace and comfort to believers through his refreshing and restoring presence.
Present throughout the world, the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and brings peace and comfort to believers through his refreshing and restoring presence.
Presence of Holy Spirit
Presence of Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is present and active in creation
The Holy Spirit is present and active in creation
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
The Spirit of God has made me;
the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
The Holy Spirit is present everywhere
The Holy Spirit is present everywhere
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.
He is equated with God’s presence
He is equated with God’s presence
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
He is present with God’s people
He is present with God’s people
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.
Yet they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
So he turned and became their enemy
and he himself fought against them.
Then his people recalled the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,
with the shepherd of his flock?
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit among them,
who sent his glorious arm of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,
who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;
like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
to make for yourself a glorious name.
And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ ”
‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
He is present in Jesus Christ’s ministry
He is present in Jesus Christ’s ministry
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.
and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
He is present with Jesus Christ’s disciples
He is present with Jesus Christ’s disciples
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
The consequences of the Holy Spirit’s presence in the church
The consequences of the Holy Spirit’s presence in the church
He convicts of sin
He convicts of sin
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.
He gives direction
He gives direction
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
He transforms experience
He transforms experience
for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
He encourages
He encourages
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
He empowers Christians for witness
He empowers Christians for witness
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.
He sanctifies
He sanctifies
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
The Holy Spirit’s presence has observable effects
The Holy Spirit’s presence has observable effects
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
He brings blessing and fellowship
He brings blessing and fellowship
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
He brings freedom and peace
He brings freedom and peace
because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
He brings life
He brings life
But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.