THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHAT HE DOES FOR US, Doing Life With the Spirit // Sunday, September 3, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor

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Sunday, September 3, 2023

 

Doing Life with The Spirit;

The Person of the Holy Spirit –

What He Does for Us

 

Ephesians 5: 18 (NLT)

     Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit.

 

1.               Helps the believe draw near to God.

 

Ephesians 2: 18 (NLT)

   Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

 

Psalm 27: 4 (KJV)

    One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

 

Psalm 16: 11 (KJV)

    …in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

 

Psalm 73: 8 (NLT)

    But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.

 

Psalm 51: 10 – 12 (KJV)

 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

 

2.               The Holy Spirit is God’s guarantee.

 

Ephesians 1: 12 - 14 (NLT)

     God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.   13 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

  

          3. (Holy Spirit) Is a seal:

 

a.               Notarized 

 

          b. Ownership

 

c.               Security   

 

d.              Authenticity  

 

e.               Authority 

 

 

Have you received God’s guarantee?

 

Are you sealed as belonging to God?

 

Romans 3: 23 (ESV)

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6: 23 (ESV)

    For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5: 8 (ESV)

    But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10: 9 & 10 (ESV)

 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 

4.               The first installment of the believer’s inheritance. 

 

Ephesians 5: 14 (NLT)

    14The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised…

 

5.               Builds the body of believers into a holy temple.  

 

Ephesians 2: 21 & 22 (NLT)

   We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.

 

6.               Strengthens the believer with power in the inner being. 

 

Ephesians 3: 16 (NLT)

    I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.