Joel's remarkable prophecy of the Holy Spirit

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Joel's remarkable prophecy of the Holy Spirit
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And 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, our young men will see visions. And
even on the male and female servants I will pour
out My Spirit in those days. (Joel 228-30)
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Purpose of the outpouring upon the apostles
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The Spirit would be their helper

• Teach them all things and remind them of what
  Jesus had taught
• Bear witness of Jesus
• Convince the world
• Guide them into all truth, revealing Jesus word
  and convincing the unbelieving that Jesus was the
  Christ

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Purpose of the outpouring upon the disciples the
apostles made
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The purpose of the outpouring in disciples

• Some gifts were revelationary (assisting the
  knowledge of truth)
• Some gifts were confirmatory (assisting the
  belief of truth)

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What blessings were the result of the Spirits
outpouring?
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The Spirit bore witness to Jesus as the
resurrected Lord leading sinners to believe in
Him.

• When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you
  from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who
  proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of
  Me, and you will bear witness also, because you
  have been with Me from the beginning. (John
  1526-27)

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• Therefore having been exalted to the right hand
  of God, and having received from the Father the
  promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth
  this which you both see and hear. (Acts 233)

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• And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in
  much trembling. And my message and my preaching
  were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
  demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that
  your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men,
  but on the power of God. (1 Corinthians 23-5)

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• For I will not presume to speak of anything
  except what Christ has accomplished through me,
  resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by
  word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders,
  in the power of the Spirit so that from
  Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I
  have fully preached the gospel of Christ. (Romans
  1518-19)

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The Spirit convicted sinners of sin leading them
to repent and be baptized for the remission of
sins.

• And He, when He comes, will convict the world
  concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment
  concerning sin, because they do not believe in
  Me. (John 168-11)

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• Now when they heard this, they were pierced to
  the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
  apostles, Brethren, what shall we do? (Acts
  237)
• 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, (Titus 35)

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The Spirit brought about a new birth in sinners
resulting in entrance into Gods family.

• Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you,
  unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he
  cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 35)

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• For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one
  body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or
  free, and we were all made to drink of one
  Spirit. (1 Corinthians 1213)

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• For you are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized
  into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  (Galatians 326-27)

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The Spirit wrote the law of God into the hearts
of new covenant members leading them to serve Him
in a new way.

• For this is the covenant that I will make with
  the house of Israel after those days, says the
  Lord I will put My laws into their minds, and I
  will write them upon their hearts. And I will be
  their God, and they shall be My people. (Hebrews
  810)

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• But he is a Jew who is one inwardly and
  circumcision is that which is of the heart, by
  the Spirit, not by the letter and his praise is
  not from men, but from God. (Romans 229)
• But now we have been released from the Law,
  having died to that by which we were bound, so
  that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in
  oldness of the letter. (Romans 76)

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• You are our letter, written in our hearts, known
  and read by all men being manifested that you
  are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written
  not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living
  God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of
  human hearts. (2 Corinthians 32-3)

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The Spirit liberated the sinner from the bondage
of Law and brought Him into the freedom of grace!

• Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit
  of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2 Corinthians
  317)

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• There is therefore now no condemnation for those
  who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the
  Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free
  from the law of sin and of death. (Romans 81-2)

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The Holy Spirit was the effective cause of
conversion in the alien sinner. Yet, none of this
depended upon a second channel of work for the
Spirit or a direct operation of the Spirit in
addition to the work the Spirit was doing through
the apostles in teaching and performing miracles.