The Holy Spirit I

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The Holy Spirit (I)

• Power and Presence for the New life

Jn 38 The wind blows where it wishes and you
hear the sound of it, but do not know where it
comes from and where it is going so is everyone
who is born of the Spirit.
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The Giver of life

• Spirit Heb. ruach (OT) Gk. pneuma (NT).
• Lit. Breath or wind
• E.g., pneumatic (air-wrenches, air-drills,
  air-nailers)
• E.g., Pneumonia (disease of the lungs breathing)

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The Giver of life

• Breath of life

Gen 27 Then the LORD God formed man of dust
from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life and man became a living
being.
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The Giver of life

• Breath of life
• Body without breath/spirit is dead

Psalms 10429 You hide Your face, they are
dismayed You take away their spirit, they
expire And return to their dust.
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The Giver of life

• Breath of life
• Body without breath/spirit is dead

Eccl 127 then the dust will return to the earth
as it was, and the spirit will return to God who
gave it.
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The Giver of life

• Breath of life
• Body without breath/spirit is dead

Jas 226 For just as the body without the spirit
is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
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The Giver of life

• The power for life comes from Gods Spirit
• It is Gods Spirit that gives us life

Job 334 The Spirit of God has made me, And the
breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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The Giver of life

• The power for life comes from Gods Spirit
• When God removes his Spirit, we die

Job 3414-15 If He should determine to do so, If
He should gather to Himself His spirit and His
breath, All flesh would perish together, And man
would return to dust.
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The Giver of life

• The power for life comes from Gods Spirit
• When God sends his Spirit, life is renewed

Psa 10429-30 You hide Your face, they are
dismayed You take away their spirit, they
expire And return to their dust. You send forth
Your Spirit, they are created And You renew the
face of the ground.
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The Giver of life

• The power for life comes from Gods Spirit
• When God sends his Spirit, life is renewed

Ezek 3714 I will put My Spirit within you and
you will come to life, and I will place you on
your own land. Then you will know that I, the
LORD, have spoken and done it," declares the
LORD.
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The Giver of life

• The Spirit renews spiritual and physical life

Jn 663 It is the Spirit who gives life the
flesh profits nothing the words that I have
spoken to you are spirit and are life.
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The Giver of life

• The Spirit renews spiritual and physical life
• Physical life restored

Rom 811 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.
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The Giver of life

• The Spirit renews spiritual and physical life
• Spiritual life renewed

Titus 35 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds
which we have done in righteousness, but
according to His mercy, by the washing of
regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowerment to perform a divinely-ordained task

Ex 311-6 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I
have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom,
in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds
of craftsmanship, to make artistic designs for
work in gold, in silver, and in bronze, and in
the cutting of stones for settings, and in the
carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of
craftsmanship. And behold, I Myself have
appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach,
of the tribe of Dan and in the hearts of all who
are skillful I have put skill, that they may make
all that I have commanded you
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowerment to perform a divinely-ordained task

Zech 46 Then he said to me, "This is the word
of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ' Not by might
nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of
hosts.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered the Judges/Deliverers such as Othniel
  (Jud 310), Gideon (634), Jephthah (1129), and
  Sampson (Jud 146)

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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered the prophets

1 Pet 110-12 As to this salvation, the prophets
who prophesied of the grace that would come to
you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking
to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ
within them was indicating as He predicted the
sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
It was revealed to them that they were not
serving themselves, but you, in these things
which now have been announced to you through
those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy
Spirit sent from heaven things into which
angels long to look.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered the prophets

2 Pet 120-21 But know this first of all, that
no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own
interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered Jesus and the apostles to do miracles
  cf Mt 1228 Acts 18

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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered Gods people to preach with boldness

Acts 48 Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Spirit, said to them, Rulers and elders of the
people
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• Empowered Gods people to preach with boldness

Acts 431 And when they had prayed, the place
where they had gathered together was shaken, and
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak the word of God with boldness.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• The Holy Spirit and power

Micah 38 On the other hand I am filled with
power With the Spirit of the LORD And with
justice and courage To make known to Jacob his
rebellious act, Even to Israel his sin.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• The Holy Spirit and power

1 Cor 24 and my message and my preaching were
not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• The Holy Spirit and power

1 Thess 15 for our gospel did not come to you
in word only, but also in power and in the Holy
Spirit and with full conviction just as you know
what kind of men we proved to be among you for
your sake.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• The Holy Spirit and power

Rom 1513 Now may the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing, so that you will
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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The Provider of Power

• The Supernatural Enabler
• The Holy Spirit and power

Eph 316 that He would grant you, according to
the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with
power through His Spirit in the inner man.
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Mediates the Presence of God
Psa 5111 Do not cast me away from Your
presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from
me.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the OT, the Spirits presence was limited and
  temporary

Num 1124-29 and He took of the Spirit who was
upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders.
And when the Spirit rested upon them, they
prophesied. But they did not do it again. But two
men had remained in the camp the name of one was
Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the
Spirit rested upon them (now they were among
those who had been registered, but had not gone
out to the tent), and they prophesied in the
camp. So a young man ran and told Moses and said,
Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of
Moses from his youth, said, Moses, my lord,
restrain them. But Moses said to him, Are you
jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD'S
people were prophets, that the LORD would put His
Spirit upon them!
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the NT, would become unlimited and permanent

Joel 228-29 It will come about after this That
I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind And
your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old
men will dream dreams, Your young men will see
visions. Even on the male and female servants I
will pour out My Spirit in those days.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the NT, would become unlimited and permanent
• Jesus promised to bring this about

Jn 1416-18 I will ask the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may be with you
forever that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not see Him
or know Him, but you know Him because He abides
with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
as orphans I will come to you.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the NT, would become unlimited and permanent
• Jesus promised to bring this about

Jn 1416-18 I will ask the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may be with you
forever that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not see Him
or know Him, but you know Him because He abides
with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
as orphans I will come to you.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the NT, would become unlimited and permanent
• Jesus promised to bring this about

Jn 1416-18 I will ask the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may be with you
forever that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not see Him
or know Him, but you know Him because He abides
with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
as orphans I will come to you.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• In the NT, would become unlimited and permanent
• Jesus promised to bring this about

Jn 167-8 But I tell you the truth, it is to
your advantage that I go away for if I do not go
away, the Helper will not come to you but if I
go, I will send Him to you. And He, when He
comes, will convict the world concerning sin and
righteousness and judgment.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• Waiting for the promise -- Acts 14-8
• The promise poured out -- Acts 21-4
• Fulfillment of Joels prophecy and Jesus promise
  -- Acts 212-18,33,37-38

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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift

Acts 238 Peter said to them, Repent, and each
of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins and you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• What is the promise of Acts 238-39?

Acts 238-39 Peter said to them, Repent, and
each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you
will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the
promise is for you and your children and for all
who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will
call to Himself.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit

Rom 89 However, you are not in the flesh but in
the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, he does not belong to Him.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Will be with us and in us Jn 1416-17

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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Our body the temple of the Holy Spirit

1 Cor 619-20 Or do you not know that your body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
whom you have from God, and that you are not your
own? For you have been bought with a price
therefore glorify God in your body.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• A pledge and seal (guarantee) of our inheritance

Eph 113-14 In Him, you also, after listening to
the message of truth, the gospel of your
salvation having also believed, you were sealed
in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is
given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view
to the redemption of God's own possession, to the
praise of His glory.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Not just through the word

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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Not in the same way Christ or the Father live in
  Christians
• Jesus dwells in us through the indwelling Holy
  Spirit

Eph 316-17 that He would grant you, according
to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened
with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith and that you, being rooted and grounded in
love.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Not in the same way Christ or the Father live in
  Christians
• Jesus dwells in us through the indwelling Holy
  Spirit

1 Jn 324 The one who keeps His commandments
abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this
that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has
given us.
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Mediates the Presence of God

• The Forgotten Gift
• The Indwelling Spirit
• Not in the same way Christ or the Father live in
  Christians
• Jesus dwells in us through the indwelling Holy
  Spirit
• Cf. Jn 1417-19 I will come to you, in the
  sending of the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy SpiritPower and Presence for the New
life

• The Giver of life
• The Provider of Power
• Mediates the Presence of God

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Gal 31-3 Are we so foolish? Having begun by
the Spirit, are we now seeking to be perfected
by the flesh?