Date: 30-Dec-2024
Name: Josh Aleri
Topic: EMBRACE AND KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT
Content:
Embrace and know the holy spirit
1. Pre-sermon declarations
• Greetings
• Psalms 118:24 : This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
2. Do you know the holy spirit?
- When our Lord Jesus Christ returned to the father, he said he wouldn’t leave us as orphans but rather send us a helper – the Holy Spirit.
- The holy spirit was sent. Once you became a believer he dwells in you, and your body is the temple of the Lord.
- My encouragement this morning is:
- Do you know the holy spirit?
- Who is he to you?
- How are you experiencing him?
- Are you increasing in his filling and experience?
- Are you fanning out in / his flames?
- Are you embracing the holy spirit
3. Fire scriptures
John 16: 7
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:13
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
4. Who is the Holy Spirit?
- Although his expressed as a dove, tongues of fire, mighty rushing wind his not these things.
- The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity.
- This means the holy spirit is God, co-equal with God the Father and God the Son and is of the same essence. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct from one another in terms of their personal relationship. But they are co-equally God, meaning they are all the being of God. In other words, they do not exist independently one from the other. So, you cannot remove one of the three persons of God and still have God as revealed in the Bible.
5. Divine characteristics of the Holy spirit:
- He’s called God (Acts 5:3-4).
- He’s called the Spirit of God (Gen. 1:2; Judg. 3:10).
- He’s considered God (Acts 28:25–27; 2 Cor. 6:16; Heb. 3:7–9).
- He’s treated as equal to God the Father and Son (Matt. 3:16; 28:19; 1 Cor. 12:4–6; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 2:18; 4:4–6; 1 Pet. 1:2).
- He’s eternal (Heb. 9:14).
- He’s self-existent (Rom. 8:2).
- He’s omnipresent (Psa. 139:7–8).
- He’s omniscient (1 Cor. 2:10–11; John 14:26; 16:13).
- He’s sovereign (Zech. 12:10).
- He was involved with creation (Gen. 1:1–2).
- He enabled the writing of the Bible (2 Pet. 1:21).
- He helps us to recognize the glory of God (2 Cor. 4:4).
- He enables us to call upon Jesus as Lord (1 Cor. 12:13).
6. Personal attributes of the holy spirit
- As the third member of the Trinity, the holy spirit is a person and is also personal.
- First, in the Old and New Testament books the Holy Spirit is referred to as “he,” and throughout the New Testament, he’s referred to as a person (John 6:63; 14:26; Rom. 8:11, 16, 26; 1 John 5:6). What we’ll see in the references below, the Holy Spirit can be grieved, resisted, and even insulted. An impersonal force cannot do these things. Only a person can.
- Second, before ascending to heaven, Jesus said he was going to send the Holy Spirit to be a counselor like him (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit is also capable of teaching (Luke 12:12). Unlike gravity—an impersonal force—that can neither counsel nor teach people, the Holy Spirit can do both.
- In summary as a person the holy spirit
- He’s referred to as a Person (John 6:63; 14:26; Rom. 8:11, 16, 26; 1 John 5:6).
- He speaks in different ways (2 Sam. 23:2; Acts 1:16; 8:29; 10:19; 11:12; 13:2; 21:11; 28:25–26; 1 Tim. 4:1; Heb. 3:7–8; Rev. 2:7; 14:13; 22:17).
- He witnesses (John 15:26).
- He searches (1 Cor. 2:11).
- He can be grieved (Isa. 63:10; Eph. 4:30).
- He loves (Rom. 15:30).
- He has a mind (Rom. 8:27).
- He has intelligence (1 Cor. 2:10–11).
- He can be tested (Acts 5:9).
- He can be resisted (Acts 7:5).
- He has a will (1 Cor. 2:11; 12:7–11).
7. How the holy spirit works in our lives
a) He makes known the presence of Jesus
- The Holy Spirit redirects our pursuits from aiming on ourselves to glorifying Jesus. He will lead us away from loving ourselves to loving God and others. He gives us a new purpose to love God and enjoy him forever.
b) He makes us more like Jesus
- The Holy Spirit produces holiness within us.
He will convict us of sin (John 15:8–11) and lead us to become more like Jesus.
As we walk with the Spirit (Gal. 5:16) and stay in step with the Spirit (Gal. 5:25), he will strip away our love for sin and make us more like Jesus (Gal. 5:16, 18).
c) He helps us understand the Bible
The relationship of the Holy Spirit with the Bible is twofold.
- The Holy Spirit will help you to understand what it means and how it changes your
d) He calls you to work
- The Holy Spirit not only calls people to faith in Jesus Christ, but he calls us to a specific vocation or task.
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Prayer Points:
Prayer points to be aware and embrace the Holy spirit
1. Thankful for the gift of the holy spirit
2. Forgiveness in any areas we might have grieved the holy spirit
3. Teach me your word / Gods word. Psalms 1:3 Meditate on the word, Joshua 1:8
4. Let’s ask for the things that matter - Intelligence of the holy spirit
- Wisdom7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Solom asked for the right things and all other things were given to him.
- 4. Ask the holy spirit to speak to you at all times. Job 33:15, John 16:13
- 5. Spirit of self-control
Grow in increasing dimension in the fruits of the holy spirit
Galatians 5:22-23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law"
1. Conclusions
- Thank you
- Continue embracing the holy spirit as you step out of 2024 and step-in 2025.
- To you Pastor Lakers
- Thank you
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