“who is the holy spirit?” john 14:16-17 holy spirit series #1 · 2018-03-12 · who is the holy...

HOLY SPIRIT SERIES #1

“Who Is The Holy Spirit?” John 14:16-17

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

John 14:16-17 New Living Translation (NLT)

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you

another Advocate, who will never leave you.

He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth.

The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t

looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But

you know him, because he lives with you now

and later will be in you.


Five Truths About Who The Holy Spirit Is

1. The Holy Spirit is the 3rd Person of the Trinity.

2. The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4).

3. The Holy Spirit is a Person, not an it or a thing (John 14:17).

4. The goal of the Holy Spirit is to Glorify Jesus (John 16:14).

5. The Spirit inside of you is better than Jesus beside you (John 16:7)


Divine Attributes of The Holy Spirit

1. The Holy Spirit is Eternal

2. The Holy Spirit is Omnipresent

3. The Holy Spirit is Omnipotent

4. The Holy Spirit is Omniscient


Symbols of The Holy Spirit.

1. Dove – be personally present

2. Wind – speak, lead, and direct

3. Oil – anoint for special purposes; oil always

represents God’s power or unction in the Bible

4. Water – refresh continually

5. Fruit – produce spiritual fruit


Symbols of The Holy Spirit

6. Gifts – give spiritual gifts

7. Fire – create holy


“Producing Fruit” Galatians 5:16-23

PRODUCING FRUIT

3 Characteristics of Fruit

1. Visible

2. Bears the character of the tree or vine it is a

part of

3. Never exists for itself

PRODUCING FRUIT

Galatians 5:16-23 (NLT)

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then

you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.

The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the

opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit

gives us desires that are the opposite of what the

sinful nature desires. These two forces are

constantly fighting each other, so you are not free

to carry out your good intentions.

PRODUCING FRUIT

But when you are directed by the Spirit, you

are not under obligation to the law of Moses.

When you follow the desires of your sinful

nature, the results are very clear: sexual

immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry,

sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts

of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division,

envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins

like these.

PRODUCING FRUIT

Let me tell you again, as I have before, that

anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the

Kingdom of God. But the Holy Spirit produces

this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, and self-control. There is no law

against these things!

PRODUCING FRUIT

What God Does to Produce Fruitfulness

1. Takes up the branch

2. Prunes the branch


“Gifts From The Spirit” 1 Corinthians 12

GIFTS FROM THE SPIRIT

1 Corinthians 12

Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your

question about the special abilities the Spirit gives

us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. You

know that when you were still pagans, you were

led astray and swept along in worshiping

speechless idols. So I want you to know that no

one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus,

and no one can say Jesus is Lord,


except by the Holy Spirit. There are different

kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the

source of them all. There are different kinds of

service, but we serve the same Lord. God

works in different ways, but it is the same God

who does the work in all of us. A spiritual gift is

given to each of us so we can help each other.

To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give

wise advice; to another the same Spirit


gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the


the ability to interpret what is being said. It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.


Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, , how would you smell anything?


But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.” In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary. And the parts we regard as less


honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect those parts that should not be seen, while the more honorable parts do not require this special care. So God has put the body together such that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other. If one part suffers, all the parts


suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the

parts are glad. All of you together are Christ’s

body, and each of you is a part of it. Here are

some of the parts God has appointed for the

church:

first are apostles, second are prophets, third are

teachers, then those who do miracles, those who

have the gift of healing, those who can help

others, those who have the gift of leadership,


those who speak in unknown languages. Are

we all apostles? Are we all prophets? Are we

all teachers? Do we all have the power to do

miracles? Do we all have the gift of healing?

Do we all have the ability to speak in unknown

languages? Do we all have the ability to

interpret unknown languages? Of course not!

So you should earnestly desire the most

helpful gifts.


3 things to know about Spiritual Gifts

1. God gives you unique Spiritual Gifts

2. God gives unequal Spiritual Gifts


3 things to know about Spiritual Gifts

1. God gives you unique Spiritual Gifts

2. God give unequal Spiritual Gifts

3. God expects use of Spiritual Gifts


3 things to remember to use our gifts

effectively

1. The Holy Spirit works through us as we use

these abilities

2. No gift is better than another

3. Be willing to serve at anytime, anywhere


Pressure Points of Spiritual Gifts

1. You can desire gifts but don’t be jealous of

others gifts

2. God multiplies the gifts we place back in His

hands

3. Giftedness is much ado about nothing

unless exercised with LOVE


“Creating Holy”

CREATING HOLY

Exodus 3:1-6 (NLT)

One day Moses was tending the flock of his

father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He

led the flock far into the wilderness and came

to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel

of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire

from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in

amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in

flames, it didn’t burn up. “This is amazing,”

Moses said to himself.

CREATING HOLY

“Why isn’t that bush burning up? ? I must go

see it.” When the Lord saw Moses coming to

take a closer look, God called to him from the

middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I

am!” Moses replied. “Do not come any closer,”

the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for

you are standing on holy ground. When Moses

heard this, he covered his face because he

was afraid to look at God.

CREATING HOLY

I am the God of your father—the God of

Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of

Jacob.”

CREATING HOLY

Exodus 4:1-5 (NLT)

But Moses protested again, “What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The Lord never appeared to you’?” Then the Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied. “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake!

CREATING HOLY

Moses jumped back. Then the Lord told him,

“Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses

reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back

into a shepherd’s staff in his hand. “Perform

this sign,” the Lord told him. “Then they will

believe that the Lord, the God of their

ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of

Isaac, and the God of Jacob—really has

appeared to you.”

CREATING HOLY

Hebrews 12:14,18-29 (NLT)

Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at

living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not

see the Lord… You have not come to a physical

mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness,

gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at

Mount Sinai. For they heard an awesome trumpet

blast and a voice so terrible that they begged God

to stop speaking.

CREATING HOLY

They staggered back under God’s command:

“If even an animal touches the mountain, it

must be stoned to death.” Moses himself was

so frightened at the sight that he said, “I am

terrified and trembling.” No, you have come to

Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the

heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless

thousands of angels in a joyful gathering.

CREATING HOLY

You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.

CREATING HOLY

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the

One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel

did not escape when they refused to listen to

Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly

not escape if we reject the One who speaks to

us from heaven! When God spoke from Mount

Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he

makes another promise: : “Once again I will

shake not only the earth but the heavens also.”

CREATING HOLY

This means that all of creation will be shaken

and removed, so that only unshakable things

will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom

that is unshakable, let us be thankful and

please God by worshiping him with holy fear

and awe. For our God is a devouring fire.

CREATING HOLY

1. Justification - what happens when our

sins are forgiven.

2. Sanctification - the process and the work

of holiness.

3. Glorification - when God makes you

perfect

CREATING HOLY


Anointed For Service

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Luke 4:14-21 (NLT)

Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the

Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread

quickly through the whole region. He taught

regularly in their synagogues and was praised

by everyone. When he came to the village of

Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual

to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood

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up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah

the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled

the scroll and found the place where this was

written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

for he has anointed me to bring Good News

to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim that captives will

be released,

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that the blind will see,

that the oppressed will be set free,

and that the time of the Lord’s favor has

come.”

He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the

attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the

synagogue looked at him intently. Then he

began to speak to them.

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“The Scripture you’ve just heard has been

fulfilled this very day!”

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2 Corinthians 1:21-22

Now it is God who makes both us and you

stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his

seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in

our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is

to come.

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Jesus is “The Anointed One” but

God can also anoint us.

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Being anointed by God means

someone is set apart for a special

area of service

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Aspects of God’s Anointing

1. We can be set apart as God’s child

2. We can be set apart on a special

assignment

3. We can be set apart for a career calling

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2 obstacles to following the leading

of the Holy Spirit

1. To Comfortable

2. To Busy

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