It isn’t, as I’ve been saying to you, it isn’t just the fact that we have not as much a focus or concentration on the person of the Holy Spirit, though He is worthy of equal praise, it is that what is attributed to the Holy Spirit is certainly unworthy of His name. Our sermon ideas on Holy Spirit will help you preach a powerful message. The sealing or indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer is a onetime thing but the filling is something which continues to happen over and over and over again. You have supplied me with plenty. It’s clear that no one was expecting anything like this. Wow – He’s going to give us a body like His resurrection body, like His body that ascended into heaven, like His body that walked through walls. David had sinned greatly – terrifying sin. So we see that the Holy Spirit is there empowering the work of regeneration and empowering the work of sanctification. The confessional statement which we as Southern Baptist set forth as being descriptive of our doctrine is the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Now, does this mean we’re perfect? Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift. Why? Jesus said in John 16:13, "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. This is amazing power. There’s one other ministry that I want you to notice here, and we’ll kind of work our way up to it a little bit. As I’ve been thinking about the Holy Spirit – there’s a lot more to come – I’ve been looking up some hymns, trying to find old hymns on the Holy Spirit. The unsaved person is dominated by a deliberate, intentional mindset controlled by the flesh. But not only is it an awareness, it also involves being attentive to His voice. This is not a small thing. In you, in you, in you, in you, in you, in you, in you. You love His Word. Now, understanding something of the work of the Spirit of God, let's talk for a moment about our response. In fact, the Bible tells us in Romans 8:10 that the Holy Spirit brings life. That's why the Psalmist could say in Psalm 16:11, "You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.". 2. He searches the deep things that are in the Father's heart and reveals them unto us. Whenever the Spirit of God is in control, people who are under His control will be unified in love, in purpose and in the grace that gives evidence of His presence. That power, the Holy Spirit, literally came into your condition of spiritual death with a blast and brought life, and now that same power, that same overwhelming, controlling, dominating power of the Holy Spirit drives you in the direction of obedience to the law of God. ?Did you get that? The basic axiom is simple. He took her in acts of adultery and then, wanting to take her permanently, arranged for her husband who was a faithful soldier to be abandoned in the heat of the battle and therefore to die at the hands of the enemy. He regenerates the elect. To one degree or another, he will manifest that hate. Now, if every believer has a spiritual gift, the obvious question is, why aren't they using them? They are a mockery of His true work. A powerful church is much more than that. If you were to look at Christian media as sort of an ignorant bystander and try to figure out a theology of the Holy Spirit by watching Christian television, this is what you might assume:  that the Holy Spirit, whatever it is, is some kind of power. And I found an old hymn. Holy Spirit is THE Powerful Source in the Body of Christ. It’s the body of death in Romans 7 that’s attached. When was the last time you were aware of God's presence with you? Now listen. Your daily conduct is consistent with the Spirit who is the power, the energy, the violent force in you. Peter says that men were moved by the Holy Spirit to write. Look, we’re going to die. As we have noted the Holy Spirit is actively involved in inviting people to come to faith in Jesus Christ. Secondly, because of this life, He enables us to fulfill God’s law. Folks, where the Spirit of God is there is a unity which is evidenced by His peace. It meant to please God. David’s fear was that what happened to Saul would happen to him, so this personal prayer to God is that God would sustain the presence of the Spirit upon him or he wouldn’t have the power to rule the way he needed to rule. It is not the word for mind. Power for rule, power for spiritual leadership, power for spiritual wisdom. Romans says that the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. He will take of mine and will disclose it to you.”  “He,” He says again, “takes of mine and will disclose it to you.”  If you belong to Christ, the Spirit will be your teacher. The degree to which God will direct you, use you and conform you to the image of Christ, will always depend upon the degree to which you allow the Spirit of God to fill you. The writer says, “Spirit of God, descend upon my heart, wean it from earth, through all its pulses move, stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art, and make me love Thee as I ought to love.”  There’s a believer praying through that verse that the Holy Spirit would give him a greater love for the Holy Spirit Himself. 1 Clearly the preacher’s private time with the Lord is vital. Again, it’s the body of this death. The first thing that we looked at, and it’s right there in verses 2 and 3, He gives us life out of death. He overcomes your ignorance. So if you want to get a copy of the Charismatic Chaos, it will fill in a lot of gaps for you. Being filled with the Spirit means being emptied of self and allowing His Spirit to permeate your heart, your mind and your spirit so that He is living the life of Christ through you. None of them are able to separate us; we are in a permanent, everlasting, no-condemnation status. Why will I now, having been regenerated, fulfill the law of God? Our fellowship is around the Word of God, and we are currently in a series looking at the life of the believer as impacted by the Holy Spirit. He comes and goes as he wishes; no one can control his movements. But this is not how scripture reveals Him to us. You’re literally carried along in the direction of your life by the things of the Spirit, by the mind that is attentive to the Spirit, that is not hostile to God, is able to fulfill the law, is able to please God. Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. Only a heart touched by the Holy Spirit can maintain such an attitude in every relationship of life. What will happen when you are regenerate is you will for the first time in your life fulfill the requirements of the law of God – not perfectly, but to some degree. Would the Holy Spirit cause such things by showing up in places that dishonor Him, that misinterpret the Scripture, which He wrote? “When the Spirit is come” – John 16:13 – Jesus said, “He will guide you into all truth, He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears He will speak, He will disclose to you what is to come. Your will is changed. 5) The Holy Spirit is referred to in the New Testament with masculine gender pronouns. That is the power of the Spirit of God, ruach. The very author of the Scripture that we are to obey lives in us and not only lives in us to instruct us but lives in us to empower us to obey that instruction. And you know what? You’re going to die and you know that. 4. Let’s start in verse 1:  “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It has this to say about God the Holy Spirit. CSB Holy Land Illustrated Bible (Hardcover), Discover the Hope You're Looking for In God's Word, on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 at 7:00 AM. What is the true work of the Holy Spirit? It’s not just his physical body. Genesis 1:2 says, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. He does not limit His power to destruction, although there are evidences in Scripture of both. Dead in trespasses and sin, blind to the truth of God, and we’ll see more about that in Romans 8. Then Christ’s section comes, chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, where we come to the work of Jesus Christ on the cross which provides the salvation that we need from the wrath of God, from the judgment of God, because of our sin laid out in the opening chapters. I like what one theologian said, (James Dunn, in The Portable Seminary, pg. It does not say that sometimes we don't know how to pray. That’s what Peter said, they indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires. Prayer – the place where you meet God, encounter the Holy Spirit, are empowered, humbled, and filled with His love. In the Greek language this verb is in the imperative mode. And that’s the intention of the word “spirit”; it is motion, it is force. But the word is Spirit, and it is not an emphasis on the immateriality but on the overpowering energy. Others walk in the Spirit, that’s their behavior, they mind the things of the Spirit, that’s how they think, and they enjoy life and peace. We still struggle with the flesh because residually, it’s still there. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. So the same amazing powerful work is done in inspiration that the Spirit of God is effecting in the life of the believer in whom He dwells as this is the word of the Spirit of God in the Scripture. That’s all there are. This is the word for bent. You want to love God more. Register. Want to get in touch? One can be in fellowship with Him or one can be out of fellowship with Him. That’s why David’s final words – 2 Samuel 23:2 – are:  “The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me and His word was on my tongue.”  Every writer of Scripture is reduced to only that which the Holy Spirit desires to be said, overpowering the limits of human knowledge, human wisdom, human understanding, then settling in on exactly what the Spirit wanted said. Immediately, you’re going to see the Lord. What he says here is that these people do not walk according to the Spirit but according to the flesh. Not only does the Holy Spirit do the work of regeneration and the work of sanctification, but here we find that God, who raised Christ from the dead, we know God raised Christ because that’s what it says in Romans 1:1-4, that God the Father raised Christ from the dead to validate His ministry, to vindicate His ministry, and that’s what God’s going to do with us. We don’t mind the things of the flesh, that’s not our mindset. The Holy Spirit was doing His work then of striving with men’s hearts to produce in them repentance. All of a sudden for us there’s a new bent, there’s a new disposition, there’s a new direction, there’s a new controlling influence in our lives, and it’s the power of the Holy Spirit. Well, I welcome you this morning to our church and to the wonderful fellowship of the people of God here. Wages of sin – death. “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit …” Ephesians 4:30. And, as the third person of the Holy Trinity, He is a person. I Corinthians 6:19 tells us that our bodies are the temple, or the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit of God. As I was saying, in the New Testament everything becomes clear, that salvation is something the Father initiated, the Son validated, and the Holy Spirit activated. The only person who perfectly lived a God-pleasing life was Jesus; and I’m not Him and neither are you! We don’t have the full picture in the Old Testament; we do have the full picture in the New Testament. In John 3:5-6 Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born again. I’ll tell you something about Enoch. He is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and holy. Both pneuma and ruach are words that have in the very pronunciation air in motion. It is important that Christians have and continue to grow in their relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That’s what it means to be regenerated, born again, given life from the dead. He gives life, regeneration. On the other hand, there’s another pathology here. He’s pleading for God to take away the pain of his guilt and his fear. Fourth, the baptism of the Holy Spirit was absolutely necessary for effective Christian witness. We understand that. You’ve been created unto good works which God before ordained that you would walk in them. 1. We have a mind set on the spirit, that’s our mindset, and that is because we live in a world of life and peace – a world of life and peace. Let’s go to verses 9 and 10 and maybe 11. The Holy Spirit … They are both onomatopoetic words. There is a fullness of the Spirit now on all believers. Why is this so? of the Holy Spirit from the perspective of how he was introduced to us; and how that introduction can become a hinderance to our spiritual growth. In the original language, this word reprove, means to convict or to prove. They walk in the flesh because they mind the things of the flesh. How much did Enoch please God? You must be born of the Spirit, Jesus said in John 3 to Nicodemus. Okay, that’s the first thing we see about the work of the Spirit. He’s not talking about losing his salvation because in the next line he says, “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation.”  He hadn’t lost his salvation but he’d lost his joy. Cancer ate away his head. We are to enjoy His presence. He alone can give life to the spiritually dead. It is about surrendering your agenda, your will, your desires and the totality of your life to Him so that He can live through you. They can’t please God. It is certain that human reason or our own nature will not do it. Does it bring you delight to be with them? He teaches truth to God's people as they seek to study and apply God's word to their lives. Everywhere you turn someone or something is trying to get our attention. Again, it does not refer to immateriality. Now we get into the work of the Holy Spirit in putting us into this saved condition, this no-condemnation status. THE HOLY SPIRIT ALONE CAN CONVINCE MEN OF THIS SIN. He will re-create you. One of my dear friends just died. An anointed vessel to bring the Word. When was the last time His presence was so real, so powerful, and so vivid that you were cognizant of His presence, that you could feel or sense His presence? Those people who are confronted and endued by the acts of the Spirit of God experience supernatural power. The Holy Spirit was moving on the writers of Scripture to write the Holy Scripture. The Holy Spirit empowers. Absent from the body, present with the Lord, leave here, there you are. One moment there is nothing, not even a universe, let alone a universe filled with moving bodies in orbit, and in a split second they all exist. Registered User That means that in every way He is equal with God the Father and God the Son. 4. But someday, when – when you die, your spirit goes to heaven, absent from the body, present with the Lord, far better to depart and be with Christ. We’re not saying that. SERIES 1 OF 14 Let me tell you what that was. Joseph assumes the worst until the angel intervenes. He is the Originator of our salvation and our future. It speaks to a repetitive process. He raises us to immortality:  glorification. And so we read in verse 11:  “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”. 156). He possesses their attributes and character. This is not a question of absence and presence, but a question of degree. But your spirit is alive because of righteousness. It’s the kind of power that knocks people down, knocks them down to the floor and leaves them lying there, stunned. These are sequential. sermon info The first in a series of messages on the Holy Spirit, explaining the essential importance for the growing Christian and church to know about and live in the power of the Holy Spirit. We sent you an email. Who’s that power? Even though the body dies, the Spirit lives forever. Prepare your messages about Holy Spirit with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series. But you’re going to be a spirit without a body until the final resurrection. The Holy Spirit inspired the scripture; one of His primary roles is in the area of revelation. I would think that if the kind of phenomenon that you see on television or in those kind of meetings were really of the Holy Spirit, all of you would be falling down and mumbling incoherently all the time because the Holy Spirit moves in those who honor Christ and honor His Word. The Holy Spirit is alive and active today in the lives of both believers and unbelievers. The Spirit of God gives life. It is a kind of power that operates, strangely enough, at the swoop of a man’s hand or by pressing somebody on the head with one’s hand. We were under the dominating principle of sin and of death. That is a fact. And they can’t fulfill the law of God. Today, as we continue our series in the Foundations of our Faith, we come to the third message on God. Two generations after Enoch, what happened? From there we will cover some of His major activities outlined for us in Scripture, and finally we will consider how you and I are to respond to Him. It isn’t the word for mind. The television is blabbing, the radio is blaring, the cell phone is ringing, someone needs you to do this or to do that. He is God present and active in the life of every believer.". So everything the scripture tells us about the work of the Holy Spirit is self revelation. What is He really doing? The Bible assures us in Romans 3:10-111 that there is none that is righteous, not even one and tells us that no one, on their own initiative seeks after God. That’s what it says right here in verse 11:  “through His Spirit who dwells in you.”  Someday the Holy Spirit is going to re-create you. If you understand your condition before you were saved, you will understand just how violent it was. It meant to commune with God. You couldn’t be anything other than a wretched, corrupt sinner apart from the Holy Spirit’s work. God only recognizes two kinds of people:  those who walk according to the flesh and those who walk according to the Spirit. A person who is hungry for God. In ancient Israel, the old covenant day, the Holy Spirit came upon kings and priests and prophets in a unique way. They walk according to the flesh. But its power has been severely blunted by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Against such things there is no law.". And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.". And what is He doing? The fact of the matter is that many Christians know a lot about Jesus, they understand less about God the Father but God the Holy Spirit is somewhat of a mystery to them. We'd love to hear from you. Contrary to what some may teach, there is no second blessing where you have to beg and beg to get the Holy Spirit after you are saved. First John 2:20 says He is the anointing that teaches you all things, so you don’t need any men to teach you because He is your teacher. We are not to live by feelings, but we are not to act as though we don't have them either. A better question might be, how does the Bible tell us we are to respond to the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit of God? Dr. Alan Cairns Holy Spirit Series: Importance Notice Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ – same. As our confessional statement sets forth in the first sentence, "The Holy Spirit of God is the Spirit of God, fully divine." At the same time, some Greek scholars, as noted above, say that the "be filled" in Ephesians 5:18 has the continuous sense of "go on being filled" with the Holy Spirit. That is why the translation – the old translation of Holy Ghost is so inadequate. That is what it means to be a Christian. This is the heart of what Paul is going to say here, and I want you to really get a grip on this. You’re not going to limbo, you’re not going to purgatory, you’re not going to some holding place, you’re not going to get stuck waiting for the next train to heaven on some endless track. This is just a profound understanding of the mighty work of the Holy Spirit in us, sweet communion with God, God’s grace continually poured out to us, His mercy unending, His love shed abroad in our hearts, joy forever, inner assurance that all is well, a love for God, a love for the Word of God, a love for obedience, a longing to feed our souls on His truth. All those behaviors have absolutely nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. He enables us to discern truth from falsehood and teaches us the ways of God. The mark of true salvation is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Why is it that people attribute all of these terrible things to the Holy Spirit? First Corinthians 6 says the same thing. I could upgrade that book, but all I would do is change the illustrations, not the theology, okay?. People are more reluctant to blaspheme God the Father or even Christ the Son, but seems to be open season on the Holy Spirit. 1 John 2:20, 26-27 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.... [26] I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. Guest. The work of the Holy Spirit is not supplemental; it’s primary. It was a horrible thing to see. Demonstrations of His supernatural power are not to be occasional but prolific. You’re going to die. But in addition to that normal work of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit came in a special way on kings and priests and prophets and rested on them with supernatural power. We're sorry, an error occurred. The Holy Spirit’s taken up residence in you – 1 Corinthians 3:16 – you’re the temple of God. The Holy Spirit, whatever this Spirit is, is a force that makes you lose control of your body and your mouth and your mind and you fall into some emotionally bizarre, irrational behaviors. They’re hostile toward God. To ensure you receive the best experience on LifeWay.com, we use cookies to process information about your visit. And by the way, only to those who know Christ. Amen. That’s fellowship with God, reconciliation to God, the end of alienation and all the life that comes with that. It’s been literally covered in the imputed righteousness of Christ, your inner person, the person that you are that lives in that body, you’re alive with eternal life, but your body, it’s not going to get fixed down here. 13:14 speaks of the unifying fellowship of the Holy Spirit for all believers when it mentions the "fellowship of the Spirit." He is not merely some impersonal force as the Jehovah's Witnesses would have us believe. Father, we thank You for our time this morning. Because verse 4 says, “We do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”  That is a fact, folks. I know what he means. For more information, see our Privacy Policy. When Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit, say in John 14:26 for example He uses the masculine personal pronoun when He says, "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit - the Father will send Him in My name - will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.". He overcomes your prejudices. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures use both with regard to the Holy Spirit. He is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and holy. You can’t fix it. All rights reserved. It is the Holy Spirit Who invites us to come. And, what wraps it all together is One Person, Holy Spirit. The noun form is phrn. The end of the chapter is all about that – verse 34 – who is the one who is going to condemn, and then there’s a litany of possibilities and options and theoretical possibilities. It is the Holy Spirit who affects this new birth in the life of the one who believes. So where the Holy Spirit’s power is being manifest, it will not produce foolish, mindless flops on the ground, gushing incoherent babble, ecstatic buzz, or hot flashes of emotions. But knowing something and experiencing something are two different things. The only hope for you is to get freed up from this body of death and all that comes with it in your fallen brain as well. You want to hear His Word, you want to understand His Word, you want to obey His Word. If Christ is in you though the body is dead – there’s a deadness in your body, there’s a death principle in your body because of sin. It has nothing to do with the Holy Spirit whatsoever. Because they don’t know Christ. But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.". The word means power, energy, force. There is a blasphemy of the Holy Spirit that goes on all the time. The word for mind is nous and it’s 1 Corinthians 2:16, “We have the mind of Christ.”  This isn’t the word for mind. I mean that’s so basic, isn’t it? Acts 5:3 tells us that it is possible to lie to Him and Acts 7:51 tells us it is possible to resist Him. That’s the body of this death. The unsaved person, habitually controlled by his unregenerate and depraved humanness, hates God, hates the things of God. You want to know God. We will begin by saying a word about the person and nature of the Holy Spirit. Well, let’s look at verse 10. Thank You that You’ve given us this wonderful revelation of all things that we need to know, and what we have learned we desire to put into practice and into worship as we honor and serve our triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. … 1 John 1:6-7 says, ""If we say, ‘We have fellowship with Him,' and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. Now, it needs to be clarified here that you are not getting more of God, but God is getting more of you. 1 – The Baptism with the Holy Spirit was a high priority to God the Father. But interestingly it carries with it the idea of reconciliation, that is, God the Holy Spirit, reveals our sin to us and convicts us of it, shows us how unrighteous we are and warns us of the coming judgment because He loves us and wants us to be in fellowship with the Father through Jesus the Son. Some of you sent me books. We all have the responsibility to proclaim the gospel. Is that not power? It’s not just that which you can touch and see. You have been delivered from death into life so that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us – or Ephesians 2:10. Many people make the mistake of referring to the Holy Spirit with the impersonal pronoun, "It." Now you’re seeing some power, overcoming this corruption that is so profound and deep in every human being, and the Holy Spirit has overcome it to enable us to obey the law of God, and that would start with loving God and pleasing Him as well. One can invite Him to be present or one can grieve Him and quench His presence. Discover the many ways you can count on the Holy Spirit for help. We’re given then an amazing and rich revelation of His gracious, violent, explosive power that basically re-creates us and empowers us in righteousness and ultimately empowers us for eternal glory. 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