The Holy Spirit · CLF Church

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The Holy Spirit

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“To walk in the Spirit - not to walk in the flesh - is the whole secret of the believer’s life of power, privilege, and peace. But for the believer to walk in the Spirit, the first essential is his absolute yielding to God of all control and direction of his life.”
Discipleship 101 :)
The Pleasure of His Company: How to Be a Friend of God
Roger Palms

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Jesus’ Dependence on the Holy Spirit John 5:19 “The Son can do nothing of his own accord” Philippians 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
something to be grasped*
7 but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross.
*Grasped = something to be exploited

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Conception and birth (Luke 1:35)
Inside Mary’s womb (Luke 1:41)
Baptism (Luke 3:21,22)
Temptation (Luke 4:1)
Ministry (Luke 4:18)
Casting out demons (Matt. 12:28)
Blood offered for atonement (Heb. 9:14)
Resurrection (Rom. 8:11)
Importance of Holy Spirit in Jesus’ Life

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Jesus = “exact representation of His [God’s] nature” (Heb. 1:3)
Jesus’ willingness to obey Holy Spirit
“Followers of Jesus do not practice obedience to become someone, but they practice obedience because they are someone - God’s person. And they intend to leave behind anything and everything that keeps them from being fit representatives of all that is holy.”
(The Pleasure of His Company)

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Symbols of the Holy Spirit
Fire - Acts 2:3
Wind - Acts 2:2, John 3:8
Dove - Matthew 3:16
Ways We Receive the Holy Spirit
Receive through Repentance and Belief - Acts 2:38
“You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit”
Receive directly from God - Acts 2:1-4; Acts 10:44,45
Holy Spirit falls
Receive through laying on of hands - Acts 8:12-17; 19:1-7
Sometimes Holy Spirit comes through impartation

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Importance of Holy Spirit in OUR Lives
Parakletos
Para = close-beside
Kaleo = makes right judgement call because close enough to situation
Teaches - 1 Cor. 2:12-14; John 14:25; 1 Jn. 2:27
Flesh cannot understand things of the Spirit
Convicts - John 16:8-11
Guides - John 16:3
“Spirit of truth…will guide you into all truth”
Need for truth today
Empowers - Acts 1:8; John 14:12-14; John 15:16,17
“GREATER WORKS”
“You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you”

Speaker notes:

Parakletos: to lead them to a deeper knowledge of gospel truth, and to give them the divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine kingdom (John 15:26) - Thayer’s Greek Lexicon

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“I do not follow Him [Jesus] because it feels good. I do not follow him because he provides bread or water or escape, but because He asks me to follow him. It must be that way. We sign the bottom of the contract. He fills the top.”
(The Pleasure of His Company) Heb. 12:2 - “for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” Holy Spirit helps us focus on the Eternal

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Romans 8:9-11 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is LIFE because of righteousness. 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.
Allow the Holy Spirit to release the Kingdom of God through your life