knowing the holy spirit

Knowing The Holy Spirit

• John 14:15-17If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

Knowing The Holy spirit

• The most controversial subject

• Different individual different interpretation.• Different church different doctrine


• The most divisive subject

• Church split because of Him• Relationship sours because of Him


• The most neglected subject

• Some denominations avoid teaching about Him• Some believers ignores Him


• To the extreme charismatic, is all about the gifts n power of Holy Spirit .• To the ultra traditional, will think of

speaking in tongues only when the Holy Spirit is mentioned.


• The greatest lies and tactics of Satan• The Holy Spirit is the source of life

and power for children of God.• The confusion not just cause division

and animosity.• But robs us believers the

effectiveness and fruitfulness.


John 14:15-17If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.


• The truth is that :-

a) Holy Spirit is the promised Helperb) Holy Spirit is for every believerc) Holy Spirit is more than just His

gifts n power.


• The concept of the triune God

a) God the Fatherb) God the Sonc) God the Holy Spirit


• Three in personsMatt 28:19 ‘baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit• One in essence

Deut:6:4 ‘Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.’


a) In creation – Gen 1:26Then God said ’Let us make man in Our image……

b) At Tower of Babel – Gen 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse

c) At baptism of Jesus – Matt 3:16-17


• Both the Holy Spirit and the Son are God and existed from the beginning

a)Gen 1:1-2In the beginning…The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.


• Both the Holy Spirit and the Son are God and existed from the beginning

b) John 1:1 & 14In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God……And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us


• Not easy to explain• Like water, fire and man/woman• Beyond human understanding• Hebrew 11:6 ‘Without faith it is

impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him’.

To know the Holy Spirit is to know the Son and the Father…John 16:13-15

.. for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

God the Father, the Son and the Spirit always work together

• At creation/Tower of Babel – ‘Let us….’• John 5:17 ‘My Father has been working until

now, and I have been working.’• John 16:13 ‘He will not speak on His own

authority, but whatever He hears He will speak.’• Phil 1:6 ‘He who has begun a good work in you

will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

How the Holy Spirit helps us?

a) The Holy Spirit gives life1. At creation - Gen 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.

How the Holy Spirit helps us?

a) The Holy Spirit gives life2. At salvation – John 6:44

‘No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.’

3. Titus 3:5 - but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.


b) The Holy Spirit changes life 1. He helps/ comforts..John 14:162. He teaches…………….John 14:263. He reminds……………John 14:264. He convicts …………..John 16:85. He guides/reveals…John 16:136. He emboldens us….2 Tim 1:7


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life1. To be obedient to God

Ezekiel 36:27I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and to do them.


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life2. To accomplish impossible task

Zechariah 4:6‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, ‘ says the LORD of hosts.


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life3. To unite & satisfy us as one body

1 Corinthians 12:13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free – have all been made to drink into one Spirit.


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life4. To teach us how to pray

Romans 8:26For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered.


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life5. To build and strengthen the church

1 Corinthians 12:7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life6. To be the witness of Jesus* Acts 1:8 ‘You shall receive power when

the Holy Spirit has come upon you;..’* Galatians 5:16 & 22-23

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh…..But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace..


c) The Holy Spirit Empowers life7. To love God and others

Romans 5:5The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Knowing The Holy Spiritc) The Holy Spirit Empowers life8. To do the works of God

Luke 4:18 ‘The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.’


d) The Holy Spirit is the proof1. Seal/ guarantee of our salvation

1 Corinthian 5:5Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.


d) The Holy Spirit is the proof2. We are His children

Romans 8:9 & 16Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His…. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

Let’s Stop Living The Hard Waya) Galatians 5:25

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

b) Romans 8:13For if you live by the flesh you will die; but by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

c) Romans 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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