Opening Video

RECAP LAST 2 weeks:

Conviction comes from Encounter & Experience

REMEMBER THIS:

• God is always at work around you

• God pursues a loving relationship with you

• God invites you to join Him in His work

Encounter & Experience God

• BELIEVE WITH AN OPEN HEART• ACCEPT WITH FAITH• RESPOND IN ACTION

Don’t Ignore!

Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron Video

What’s Missing?

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to

the ends of the earth.” Acts 1: 8

Holy Spirit - pneuma (pnyoo'-mah); the breath of God, or the spirit of God.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever- 17 the Spirit of

truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17

Counselor: parakletos (par-ak'-lay-tos); an intercessor, consoler, advocate, comforter, helper.

But it is actually best for you that I go away, because if I don't, the Counselor won't come. If I do

go away, he will come because I will send him to you. John 16:7

WHY THEN ARE MANY LIVING A SPIRIT-LESS LIFE?

• THEY IGNORE THE HOLY SPIRIT.5 Those who let their sinful old selves tell them what to do live under that power of their sinful old selves. But those who let the Holy Spirit tell them what to do are under His power. 6 If your sinful old self is the boss over your mind, it leads to death. But if the Holy Spirit is the boss over your mind, it leads to life and peace. Rom 8:5-6

WHY THEN ARE MANY LIVING A SPIRIT-LESS LIFE?

• THEY FIGHT/RESIST THE HOLY SPIRIT."You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Acts 7:51

7 The mind that thinks only of ways to please the sinful old self is fighting against God. It is not able

to obey God’s Laws. It never can….9 But you are not doing what your sinful old selves want you to do.

You are doing what the Holy Spirit tells you to do, if you have God’s Spirit living in you. Rom 8:5-9

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL

COMFORT YOU.16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever… John 14:16 KJV

COUNSEL YOU. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. John 16:13

“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” Isaiah 30:21

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONVICT YOU.8 When (the Spirit) comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: John 16:8

EMPOWER YOU. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you Rom 1:8

• Imagine if you Acknowledge Him instead of Ignore Him!

• Imagine if you are letting Him to comfort, counsel, convict and empower you instead of resist/fight Him!

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