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Good morning and welcome to CCC.
It is wonderful to see each of you here with us this morning and a warm welcome to those watching on our website via our live stream.
Let’s Pray
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This morning we continue on with our We Believe sermon series with The Holy Spirit.
I pray you have either learned and are beginning to lay a solid foundation on God’s Word through this series or God has strengthened or sured up your foundation based upon His Word through this series.
As always I pray those who do not know God, who have yet to accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior are lead to that decision through God’s Word.
The Holy Spirit.
Francis Chan wrote a wonderful book on the Holy Spirit called The Forgotten God and that is true.
So many times, especially among those who have and are growing up in the church the Holy Spirit gets forgotten.
Some religions and churches don’t forget the Holy Spirit they misunderstand Him and misapply Him.
Others are afraid to misunderstand or misapply the Holy Spirit so they shy away from Him.
The Holy Spirit is God.
He is a gift from God to us, His children.
He is the Comforter, the Counselor.
He is our guide.
He is the one who reveals God to us.
He is our teacher as He teaches us scripture.
The Holy Spirit should be everything to a Christian, yet many can’t give you any scripture about the Holy Spirit let alone adequately define who He is and what He does.
I pray by the end of our time together this morning that you are not one of those Christians as I pray the scripture given to you today and the word God will speak through me touches your soul.
I. Who Is He?
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The Holy Spirit is a Person
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As I said in the introduction to this message the Holy Spirit is a person.
We know that because scripture paints a very clear picture of who He is.
He has characteristics and actions that point to Him as a person
He Speaks
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Acts 13:2
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“As 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.”
Very clearly here in this scripture God wants us to know that the Holy Spirit speaks to His people.
Many people confuse the Holy Spirit and His speaking with your conscience.
If you are saved you don’t have a conscience you have the Holy Spirit speaking to you about right and wrong about which direction to turn.
John 16:13
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“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears.
He will also declare to you what is to come.”
Here is the awesome thing about the Holy Spirit speaking to you as a Christian.
He doesn’t speak of his own but he speaks what He hears.
What does He hear.....better question is who does He hear.....God.
He speaks what He hears when God speaks.
Pretty cool to think that God is speaking to the Holy Spirit about YOU!
He Testifies
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John 15:26
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“When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.”
The Holy Spirit testifies about Jesus.
In fact without the Holy Spirit opening your eyes you would never have been able to know about or accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
How many times have you been reading scripture or listening to someone preach God’s Word or teach God’s Word and you just feel in your soul, your Spirit that it is good.
What is being said is true and you have an overwhelming urge to apply it?
That is the Holy Spirit testifying to you that what you are hearing is God’s Word and He is leading you to believe and apply it.
I John 5:6-8
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“Jesus Christ—he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood.
And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.”
This is a wonderful section of scripture that we could spend quite a bit of time on in and of itself but that is for another time but here in these 3 verses we see the water the blood and the Spirit all testifying to Jesus
The water represents Jesus’ baptism where God was pleased and the Holy Spirit landed on Jesus as a dove.
The blood represents Jesus blood shed on the cross.
His death once for all mankind
The Spirit testifies to you on the inside about what God is doing on the outside.
All three working together to testify about Jesus!
He grieves
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Ephesians 4:30
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“And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit.
You were sealed by him for the day of redemption.”
The Holy Spirit grieves.
What makes Him grieve.
Sin.
Rejection.
Denying Christ.
Following your flesh instead of following Him.
How you live matters.
We see this again in
I Thessalonians 5:19
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“Don’t stifle the Spirit.”
Again how we live our lives can stifle the Holy Spirit.
This is the Christian maturation process.
Sanctification.
The process of growing from an infant in Christ, salvation to being perfect, fully mature in Christ.
Moving from milk to meat.
The Holy Spirit is the one who drives you along in that process but you can stifle that by choosing to live a life of sin, or following your fleshly desires and wants and lusts.
The Spirit can be stifled in your life if you come to church on Sunday but live for you and the world Monday through Saturday.
The Spirit is stifled in your life when the secret place is not a priority.
When you refuse to spend time in God’s Word and prayer.
Notice I said refuse because you always have a choice.
The Spirit is stifled in your life when you refuse to fellowship and gather with the saints.
Again a choice.
Melody, God made this very clear to me after you and I talked last night.
For the rest of you let me give you some backstory
I just thought I was busy before school started.
Wow.
My schedule is insane.
I have been trying to transition into this new season of my life and the problem is I have been trying to do it and I have been failing miserably.
I have been easily irritated, frustrated, angered, my emotions have been all over the place and even last night I blamed it on being tired.
As I was typing this message this morning and focusing on these scriptures God spoke through the Holy Spirit and said you have forgotten me.
I have been so busy I have not been in the secret place to seek God and develop my relationship with God for about 2 or 3 weeks.
I spend time with Him searching for a message each and every week but not searching for Him.
As a result I was falling apart because the only good in me is Jesus
Mark 10:18
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““Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him.
“No one is good except God alone.”
This is one of the scriptures that tell me the only thing good in me is God.
If jesus says Why do you call me good....Jesus the Son of God I for sure have no good in me except Jesus, God with Us
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