God the Holy Spirit –Man’s Enabler and connection to God

• Hebrew “ruach” from “ruwach” meaning spirit (of Elohim):

  • Genesis 1:2 “… and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”

• For "another advocate" or "allos paraklétos":

  • in Greek “allos” meaning another of the same kind or similar type and Counselor, but not a replacement for.

  • in Greek “paraklétos” meaning advocate, helper, intercessor (as in a court of law); to come along side:

  • John 14:16-17 “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth.”

  • 1 Samuel 16:13 “So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power.”

• In the Old Testament

  • Source comes from outside, for a specific purpose (temporary)

  • Exodus 31:3 “1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills“

  • Numbers 11:16-17: “16 The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting that they may stand there with you. 17 I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone. 25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again. 29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them.”

  • Judges 3:10: “The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.”

  • Isaiah 59:21, “21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.”

  • Joel 2:28-29, “28 “And afterward, . Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.”

  • Luke 2:25 “Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.”

• In the New Testament

  • Indwelling, Source comes from inside, permanent

  • Jesus promised not to leave the disciples (nor believers) alone. It is the Holy Spirit to fills the void of Jesus' physical presence and enables believers, through counsel, knowledge and revelation by a renewed heart and mind, to live for the Lord. Enabled to mean that believers can also suppress the influence and engagement of the Holy Spirit as it works within a believer. What separates the believer from the unbeliever is the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, the believer could not love and obey God because their hearts are spiritually dead (Prophecy of the future gift of the Holy Spirit - Ezekiel 36:26-27). Without revelation from the Holy Spirit, would humanity "choose" God's way or will over their own (1 Corinthians 2:9-16)?  The Holy Spirit offers the small path (God's way) that diverges from the large road (Way of the world/flesh) found in Matthew 7:13-14 "13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

  • John 4:13-14: “13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

  • John 7:37-39 “37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified."

  • John 14:16-17 “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – 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.”

• As the Spirit of Christ

  • John 15:5 ““I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

  • 1 Peter 1:10-11 “10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.”

• The ways that the Holy Spirit work:

  • John 3:5-7, “5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

  • John 14:26, “26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”

  • John 15:26, “26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father — he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.”

  • John 16:5-15, “5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 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. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 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.”

  • Acts 2:4-12, “4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues [languages] as the Spirit enabled them. 5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

  • Ephesians 1:17, “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”

  • 1 Corinthians 2:10-15, “10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,”

  • 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, “14 But thanks be to God, who always leads [by the Spirit] us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?”

  • 2 Peter 1:21, “21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

• Salvation and sanctification

  • Ephesians 1:13-14, “13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11, “11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

• Physical Description

  • Zechariah 4:2,10, “2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps … 10 Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel?”

  • Revelation 1:4, “… Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne,”

  • Revelation 4:5, “From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

  • Revelation 5:6, “Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

• These are the seven spirits:

  • Revelation 1:4-5 "4 John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits a before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth."

  • Revelation 3:1 " “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead."

  • Revelation 4:5 "From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God."

  • Revelation 5:6 "Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth."

  • Isaiah 11:1-2, “1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the Lord [breath of life] will rest on him, the Spirit of wisdom [good judgment and application] and of understanding [comprehension of truth and order], the Spirit of counsel [prophecy and direction] and of might [power and enabling], the Spirit of the knowledge [skills and information] and fear of the Lord [humility and obedience]”

    • Spirit of the Lord – the breath of life, giver of life

      • Genesis 2:7, “7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [spirit], and the man became a living being.”

      • Job 33:4, “The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

      • Ezekiel 37:4-14, “4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

      • Matthew 1:18,”This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[d]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.”

      • Luke 1:35, “The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”

      • John 3:6, “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”

    • Spirit of Wisdom – good judgment and application, see the nature of things

      • Act 6:8-10 "8 Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called) — Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia — who began to argue with Stephen. 10 But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke."

      • 1 Corinthians 2:12-14 "12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."

      • 1 Corinthians 12:7-8 "7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, ..."

      • Ephesians 1:17 "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better."

      • Proverbs 8

    • Spirit of Understanding/Revelation – comprehension of truth and order, see the difference in things

      • Ephesians 5:15-17, “15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”

      • Job 28:12-13, 23-24, “12 But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? 13 No mortal comprehends its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living. 23 God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, … 24 for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.”

    • Spirit of Counsel – prophecy, truth and direction

      • 1 Samuel 10:9-11 "9 As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day. 10 When he and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying. 11 When all those who had formerly known him saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?” "

      • John 14:15-17, 26 "15“If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate [counselor] to help you and 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. ... 26 But the Advocate [Counselor], the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."

      • Acts 11:11-12 "11“Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house."

      • Revelation 19:9-10 "9 Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.” 10 At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”

    • Spirit of Might – power and enabling

      • Isaiah 40:10, 26, 29-31, “10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm … 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing … 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

      • Ephesians 3:16 "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,"

    • Spirit of Knowledge – application of skills, facts and information

      • Deuteronomy 29:29, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.”

      • 1 Corinthians 2:10-12, “… these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

      • Isaiah 40:13, 28, “13 Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? … 28 … The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

    • Spirit of the Fear of the Lord – responding in humility and obedience to a Holy God

      • John 8:55, “55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.”

      • Psalm 86:11, “Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”

      • Deuteronomy 6:1-2, “1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

      • 1 Samuel 15:22, “But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”

• Qualities seen in a believer whose life is directed by the Holy Spirit:

  • Galatians 5:16-25, “16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”

  • 2 Peter 1:5-7, “5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

• If Jesus did not die, the Holy Spirit would not have come:

  • John 16:7 "But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you."

    • "... if I go ..." As a human, this path was difficult for Jesus, but he was obedient unto death:

      • John 17:2 " For you granted him authority over all people [Jews and Gentiles] that he might give [his choice of action] eternal life [through obedience to God's will] to all those you have given him [believers]."

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        Luke 22:40-44 "41He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” 43An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground."

      • Philippians 2:7 "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!"

  • Conditional statement: IF - I do not go away, THEN - the Holy Spirit does not come.

    • Observations:

      • The Holy Spirit is holy. The physical body is not holy. How can the Holy Spirit dwell in a believer's unholy body?  Answer: The blood of Jesus.  Without Jesus' death to atone for sin, the Holy Spirit could not live inside of us." How do we know that God approved of Jesus' atonement? Answer: His resurrection. The power of resurrection is the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus makes us clean by the shedding of his atoning blood and the Holy Spirit marks us clean for the future promise of our resurrection with Christ.

      • Isaiah 59:1-2 "1 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
        nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God ..."

      • Isaiah 6:5-7 "5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal [type of blood of Jesus] in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

      • Hebrews 9:11-14 "11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle [real one in heaven] that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"

      • Romans 1:4 "4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord."

      • Romans 4:18-25 to 5:1 "18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,"

      • Romans 8:9-11 "9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you."

      • John 13:8-10 "Jesus answered, “8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you [atoning blood of Jesus], you have no part with me.” 9“ Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” 10 Those who have had a bath [saved by faith in Jesus] need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”

      • Believers - clean (heart response) v. Imitators / non-believers - unclean (no heart response)

        • John 15:1-6 "1 “I [Jesus] am the true vine [salvation], and my Father is the gardener [authority]. 2 He [God] cuts off every branch in me [a person that acts like a believer] that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit [a person whose heart truly believes] he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean [in Greek, also mean 'to prune' or 'clean by cutting away'] because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me [by the power of the Holy Spirit], as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me [without the Holy Spirit] you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away [by God] and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned [eternal separation from God]."

        • Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’"

        • Jeremiah 17:9-10 "9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10 “I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

• To the Jew, the Promise of God was also that all people, not just prophets and kings, would receive the Spirit.

  • Joel 28:12-13, 28-29 :“12 Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity ... 28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
    Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days."

• Study on Holy Spirit by John MacArthur

  • Doctrine of Holy Spirit

    • Hebrews 9:14 (Eternal Spirit - God)

    • Gen 1:2 (at creation)

    • Divine agent by whom scriptures were written/authored as moved by HS; the Spirit and God's word are the same.

  • Third Person of Trinity

  • Divine Ministry to accomplish God's purposes

    • makes application of redemption plan

      • gave child to Mary

      • filled Jesus with power

      • raised Jesus from dead

      • allowed for effective ministry (1 Peter 1:12 - Gospel preached by the Holy Spirit) and established the church

      • regenerates believer (John 3:5-8, Titus 3:5-6)

      • provides full remembrance and revelation of God

      • enables sanctification

    • can be quenched and grieved

  • Galatians 3:1-3: started in Spirit, but under influence of Jews under Mosaic Law (human effort, flesh-pleasing)

  • List

    • Agent of Salvation:

      • John 16:8-11: convicts the world of guilt regarding sin (awareness), righteousness (of Jesus Christ, like no other) and [eternal] judgment (sin will be judged because the ruler of this world has been judged; Gen 3:15 prophecy)

      • rejection of Jesus Christ is an unforgivable sin, unlike all others

      • 1 Thessalonians 1:5: Evidence of salvation from Gospel through the Word of God, with power (works/abilities/enabling through Holy Spirit), the Holy Spirit (testifies to us) and deep conviction (Holy Spirit working in believer).

    • Knowledge of, and Communion with God (access to fellowship)

      • Romans 8:6-17 - Father (endearment, intimacy) frees us from fear.

        • v14 - an attitude

    • Illuminates the scriptures

      • 2 Peter 20-21

      • 1 John 2:20-27: "anointing" is the source of our understanding, 27 - "anointing" abides in you (the Holy Spirit); : greek "chrisma" - "ointment, like an oil"

      • 1 Corinthians 2:9-16

        • "no eye / ear": truth not available to empirical search (external)

        • "no mind": truth not available through intuition (internal)

        • "for those who love him": believers with the Holy Spirit

        • v 10 - The Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of God

        • v12 - Believers have the Holy Spirit

        • v13 - The Holy Spirit speaks spiritual truths in spiritual words

        • v14 - Unbelievers cannot understand spiritual words

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