The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit

• Lesson 1
• He Is God

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The Holy Spirit

• He Is God
• Inspiration, Revelation and Confirmation
• Convicting and Converting Sinners
• Miracles Have Ceased
• Tongues and Miracle Workers Today
• He Dwells In Christians Today

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Introduction

• Much confusion about the Holy Spirit
• Does he still perform miracles today?
• Does He speak to us directly today?
• Should we expect to speak with tongues?
• Does He dwell in the Christian today?
• If He does dwell in us, then what does He do for
  us?

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Introduction

• Whatever we believe about the Holy Spirit, it
  should be based only on Gods Word that the
  Spirit has provided to us all
• Anything that contradicts that Word should be
  rejected and stood against by those who love Truth

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The Holy Spirit Is God

• Is it reasonable to believe in God?
• Words describing God
• Three persons who are one God
• What the Holy Spirit is not
• Some attributes of the Holy Spirit

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Unreasonable To Not Believe In God

• Psa 141 For the choir director. A Psalm of
  David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is
  no God." They are corrupt, they have committed
  abominable deeds There is no one who does good.

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Is It Reasonable To Believe In God?

• Creation leads us to reasonably believe in the
  Creator, God
• Revelation also provides reasonable evidence for
  existence of God

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Evidence of God From Creation

• Rom 118 For the wrath of God is revealed from
  heaven against all ungodliness and
  unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in
  unrighteousness,
• Rom 119 because that which is known about God
  is evident within them for God made it evident
  to them.

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Evidence of God From Creation

• Rom 120 For since the creation of the world His
  invisible attributes, His eternal power and
  divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
  understood through what has been made, so that
  they are without excuse.

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Evidence of God From Creation

• Psa 191 For the choir director. A Psalm of
  David. The heavens are telling of the glory of
  God And their expanse is declaring the work of
  His hands.
• Psa 192 Day to day pours forth speech, And
  night to night reveals knowledge.
• Psa 193 There is no speech, nor are there
  words Their voice is not heard.

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Evidence of God From Creation

• Psa 194 Their line has gone out through all the
  earth, And their utterances to the end of the
  world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,
• Psa 195 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of
  his chamber It rejoices as a strong man to run
  his course.

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Evidence of God From Creation

• Psa 196 Its rising is from one end of the
  heavens, And its circuit to the other end of
  them And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

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Evidence of God From Revelation

• Isa 4428 "It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My
  shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And
  he declares of Jerusalem, 'She will be built,'
  And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be
  laid.'"
• Isa 451 Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His
  anointed, Whom I have taken by the right hand, To
  subdue nations before him And to loose the loins
  of kings To open doors before him so that gates
  will not be shut

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Evidence of God From Revelation

• Isa 454 "For the sake of Jacob My servant, And
  Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by
  your name I have given you a title of honor
  Though you have not known Me.
• Isa 455 "I am the LORD, and there is no other
  Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you,
  though you have not known Me

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Evidence of God From Revelation

• Isa 469 "Remember the former things long past,
  For I am God, and there is no other I am God,
  and there is no one like Me,
• Isa 4610 Declaring the end from the beginning,
  And from ancient times things which have not been
  done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established,
  And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'

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Evidence of God From Revelation

• Isa 4611 Calling a bird of prey from the east,
  The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I
  have spoken truly I will bring it to pass. I
  have planned it, surely I will do it.

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Evidence of God From Revelation

• Luk 2444 Now He said to them, "These are My
  words which I spoke to you while I was still with
  you, that all things which are written about Me
  in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the
  Psalms must be fulfilled."
• Luk 2445 Then He opened their minds to
  understand the Scriptures,
• Luk 2446 and He said to them, "Thus it is
  written, that the Christ would suffer and rise
  again from the dead the third day,

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Words Describing God

• Elohim power and preeminence
• Jehovah unoriginated, eternal, immutable,
  self-sustained existence
• Godhead Godhood, state of being God, essence of
  Divine nature, Deity
• New Testament clearly reveals 3 persons who are
  Divine, equally God but performing different roles

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Elohim (Plural) Power and Preeminence

• Gen 11 In the beginning God created the heavens
  and the earth.
• Gen 126 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our
  image, according to Our likeness and let them
  rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds
  of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
  earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
  on the earth."

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Elohim (Plural) Power and Preeminence

• Gen 127 God created man in His own image, in
  the image of God He created him male and female
  He created them.

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Elohim (Plural) Power and Preeminence

• Gen 322 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the
  man has become like one of Us, knowing good and
  evil and now, he might stretch out his hand, and
  take also from the tree of life, and eat, and
  live forever"
• Gen 323 therefore the LORD God sent him out
  from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground
  from which he was taken.

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Elohim (Plural) Power and Preeminence

• Gen 324 So He drove the man out and at the
  east of the garden of Eden He stationed the
  cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every
  direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Elohim and Jehovah Used Together

• Deu 64 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God,
  the LORD is one!
• Deu 65 "You shall love the LORD your God with
  all your heart and with all your soul and with
  all your might.

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Godhead Godhood Divine Nature

• Act 1729 "Being then the children of God, we
  ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like
  gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the
  art and thought of man.

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Godhead Godhood Divine Nature

• Rom 120 For since the creation of the world His
  invisible attributes, His eternal power and
  divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
  understood through what has been made, so that
  they are without excuse.

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Godhead Godhood Divine Nature

• Col 29 For in Him all the fullness of Deity
  dwells in bodily form,

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The Holy Spirit Is God

• Is it reasonable to believe in God?
• Words describing God
• Three persons who are one God
• What the Holy Spirit is not
• Some attributes of the Holy Spirit

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Three Persons Who Are One God

• Along with the Father and the Son, the Holy
  Spirit is God, has same Divine nature
• Much confusion because of misunderstanding of
  what it means when the Scriptures teach there is
  only one God
• How can there be one God and three different
  persons who possess the Divine nature, are God?

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Three Persons Who Are One God

• Great error when people think of one God, they
  think of absolute one rather than unified one
• Clear that when speaking of God, Father, Son and
  Holy Spirit, Scriptures speak of a unified one,
  one in nature, purpose and action

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Examples of Unified One In Scriptures

• Gen 116 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one
  people, and they all have the same language. And
  this is what they began to do, and now nothing
  which they purpose to do will be impossible for
  them.
• Gen 3416 then we will give our daughters to
  you, and we will take your daughters for
  ourselves, and we will live with you and become
  one people.

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Examples of Unified One In Scriptures

• Mat 195 and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL
  LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS
  WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?

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Examples of Unified One In Scriptures

• 1Co 36 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was
  causing the growth.
• 1Co 37 So then neither the one who plants nor
  the one who waters is anything, but God who
  causes the growth.
• 1Co 38 Now he who plants and he who waters are
  one but each will receive his own reward
  according to his own labor.
• 1Co 39 For we are God's fellow workers you are
  God's field, God's building.

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Three Persons Who Are God

• Mat 316 After being baptized, Jesus came up
  immediately from the water and behold, the
  heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God
  descending as a dove and lighting on Him,
• Mat 317 and behold, a voice out of the heavens
  said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am
  well-pleased."

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Three Persons Who Are God

• Mat 2818 And Jesus came up and spoke to them,
  saying, "All authority has been given to Me in
  heaven and on earth.
• Mat 2819 "Go therefore and make disciples of
  all the nations, baptizing them in the name of
  the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
• Mat 2820 teaching them to observe all that I
  commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even
  to the end of the age."

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Three Persons Who Are God

• Rom 1530 Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord
  Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to
  strive together with me in your prayers to God
  for me,
• 2Co 1314 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
  and the love of God, and the fellowship of the
  Holy Spirit, be with you all.

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Three Persons Who Are God

• Eph 44 There is one body and one Spirit, just
  as also you were called in one hope of your
  calling
• Eph 45 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
• Eph 46 one God and Father of all who is over
  all and through all and in all.

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Three Persons Who Are God

• 1Pe 11 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To
  those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout
  Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
  who are chosen
• 1Pe 12 according to the foreknowledge of God
  the Father, by the sanctifying work of the
  Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled
  with His blood May grace and peace be yours in
  the fullest measure.

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What The Holy Spirit Is Not

• He is not a indescribably good feeling
• He is not a universal invisible mystical
  influence like a fog
• He is not like a laser beam that emanates as the
  mind of God

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Three Persons Who Are One God

• Great error when people think of one God, they
  think of absolute one rather than unified one
• Clear that when speaking of God, Father, Son and
  Holy Spirit, Scriptures speak of a unified one,
  one in nature, purpose and action
• Each Divine being, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
  are called God

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The Father Is God

• 1Co 86 yet for us there is but one God, the
  Father, from whom are all things and we exist for
  Him and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all
  things, and we exist through Him.

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Jesus Is God

• Tit 213 looking for the blessed hope and the
  appearing of the glory of our great God and
  Savior, Christ Jesus,

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The Holy Spirit Is God

• Act 53 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan
  filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and
  to keep back some of the price of the land?
• Act 54 "While it remained unsold, did it not
  remain your own? And after it was sold, was it
  not under your control? Why is it that you have
  conceived this deed in your heart? You have not
  lied to men but to God."

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The Holy Spirit Is God

• Mat 1228 "But if I cast out demons by the
  Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come
  upon you.
• Luk 1120 "But if I cast out demons by the
  finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come
  upon you.

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The Holy Spirit Is Not

• Mystical unexplainable foggy-like substance that
  permeates the universe
• Vague influence or power provided for our needs
• The mind of the Father or Christ
• An overwhelming indescribable feeling that is
  within us
• The written Word of God

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Who Is The Holy Spirit?

• He is one of the three Divine persons possessing
  all perfect attributes that makes one God
• All that the Father and Son are, He is as well,
  perfect in every way
• Note some attributes of God the Holy Spirit
  possesses

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Eternal

• Heb 914 how much more will the blood of Christ,
  who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
  without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience
  from dead works to serve the living God?

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Omnipresent

• Psa 1397 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or
  where can I flee from Your presence?
• Psa 13910 Even there Your hand will lead me,
  And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
• 1Co 619 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?

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Omniscient

• 1Co 210 For to us God revealed them through the
  Spirit for the Spirit searches all things, even
  the depths of God.
• 1Co 211 For who among men knows the thoughts of
  a man except the spirit of the man which is in
  him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows
  except the Spirit of God.

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Omniscient

• Joh 1613 "But when He, the Spirit of truth,
  comes, He will guide you into all the truth for
  He will not speak on His own initiative, but
  whatever He hears, He will speak and He will
  disclose to you what is to come.
• Joh 1614 "He will glorify Me, for He will take
  of Mine and will disclose it to you.

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Omnipotent

• 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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Omnipotent

• Gen 11 In the beginning God created the heavens
  and the earth.
• Gen 12 The earth was formless and void, and
  darkness was over the surface of the deep, and
  the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of
  the waters.

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Omnipotent

• Job 2613 "By His breath the heavens are
  cleared His hand has pierced the fleeing
  serpent.
• Psa 10430 You send forth Your Spirit, they are
  created And You renew the face of the ground.

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Omnipotent

• 1Pe 110 As to this salvation, the prophets who
  prophesied of the grace that would come to you
  made careful searches and inquiries,
• 1Pe 111 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.

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Omnipotent

• 1Pe 112 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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Omnipotent

• 2Pe 119 So we have the prophetic word made more
  sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to
  a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day
  dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
  
• 2Pe 120 But know this first of all, that no
  prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own
  interpretation,

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Omnipotent

• 2Pe 121 for no prophecy was ever made by an act
  of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit
  spoke from God.
• Joh 1426 "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 said to you.

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Omnipotent

• 1Co 128 For to one is given the word of wisdom
  through the Spirit, and to another the word of
  knowledge according to the same Spirit
• 1Co 129 to another faith by the same Spirit,
  and to another gifts of healing by the one
  Spirit,

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Omnipotent

• 1Co 1210 and to another the effecting of
  miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another
  the distinguishing of spirits, to another various
  kinds of tongues, and to another the
  interpretation of tongues.
• 1Co 1211 But one and the same Spirit works all
  these things, distributing to each one
  individually just as He wills.

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The Holy Spirit Is God

• Is it reasonable to believe in God?
• Words describing God
• Three persons who are one God
• What the Holy Spirit is not
• Some attributes of the Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit

• He Is God
• Inspiration, Revelation and Confirmation
• Convicting and Converting Sinners
• Miracles Have Ceased
• Tongues and Miracle Workers Today
• He Dwells In Christians Today