Keeping in Step with the Spirit to Live the Kind of Life Jesus Died to Give Us

~ Actor Humphrey Bogart

“I should have never switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

~ Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

“Pardon me, Sir, I did not do it on purpose.”

~ Actress Joan Crawford

“Don’t you dare ask God to help me.”

~ Scientist Michael Faraday

“I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.”

The Holy Who? The Holy Spirit & the Christian Life

!~ Selected Scriptures from the Gospel of John ~

“Let not your hearts be troubled.

John 14:1

Believe in God; believe also in me…”

“In my Father’s house are many rooms.

John 14:2-3

If it were not so, would I have told youthat I go to prepare a place for you?And if I go and prepare a place for you,I will come again and will take you tomyself, that where I am you may be also….

“And you know the way to where I

John 14:4-6

going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going.How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth,and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me….”

“And I will ask the Father, and he will

John 14:16-17

give you another Helper to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth,whom the world cannot receive, be-cause it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

“These things I have spoken to you

John 14:25-26

while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said….”

The Holy Spirit is a

Needed Being

HelperComforter

Counselor / Advocate

“Another Helper”

The Holy Spirit is a

Personal Being

• an intellect (1 Corinthians 2:10-11) • emotions (Romans 15:13) • a will (1 Corinthians 12:11) • desires (Galatians 5:17)

• he can be known (John 14:17)

The Spirit’s is a Person

• speaks (Acts 13:12) • teaches (John 14:26)

• guides (Acts 8:29) • searches (1 Cor 2:10)

The Spirit Acts as a Person

• convicts (John 16:7-8) • intercedes (Romans 8:26) • dwells (John 14:17) • accomplishes (1 Cor 12:11)

• He can be obeyed (Acts 10:19-21) • He can be lied to (Acts 5:3) • He can be resisted (Acts 7:51)

• He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30) • He can be insulted (Hebrews 10:29) • He can be blasphemed (Matthew 12:31-32)

The Spirit Can Be Related To

The Holy Spirit is a

Divine Being

Father

Son Holy Spirit

Christian

“But when the Helper comes, whom I

John 15:26-27

will send to you from the Father, theSpirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witnessabout me….”

“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is

John 16:7 & 14

to your advantage that I go away, forif I do not go away, the Helper willnot come to you. But if I go, I will sendhim to you…. He will glorify me, forhe will take what is mine and declareit to you….”

The Holy Spirit is (one of)

the Gift (s)!

that Jesus died to give you.

Main Idea

The Holy Spirit is not !an impersonal force, but!the personal presence !

of God in our lives.

Implication #1

Do you want the Gift

Jesus died to give you ?

The Holy Spirit is meant !to be the experienced,!empowering reality of !

God in our lives.

Implication #2

Tune in to what Jesus !through His Holy Spirit !wants to do in your life!

& through your life.

“The secret to the success of the early believers in their culture lay first with

their ‘good news’ centered in the life, death, and

resurrection of Jesus….

“But their success also lay with their experienced life of the Spirit who made the work of Christ an effective reality in their lives, thus making them a radical alternative

within their culture.”

Keeping in Step with the Spirit to Live the Kind of Life Jesus Died to Give Us

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