These are my notes from Sunday, February 11, 2024.

Main point of today: Understand as a Christian-you have Him!

What does Jesus say about the Holy Spirit?

Watch this: His names, why He comes, what He does, that He is a He…👇🏼

◦ John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. (CSB)

◦ John 14:26 The Helper is the Holy Spirit. The Father will send Him in My place. He will teach you everything and help you remember everything I have told you.

◦ John 15:26 But when the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth Who comes (proceeds) from the Father, He [Himself] will testify regarding Me. (AMPC)

◦ John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good (advantage, benefit, expedient) 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. (NIV)

◦ John 16:8-11 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

◦ John 16:13-15 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

✓ RECAP of what Jesus tells His disciples about the Holy Spirit: He, not it. He will be with you forever. He will teach you and help you remember what I have told you. He will testify, witness, point to Me. It is to your advantage that I must GO. He will convict the world of sin, righteousness, & judgment. He will guide you into all truth, declare to you things that are to come, glorify Me.

Before you’re a Christian, the Holy Spirit SURROUNDS you:

He’s bringing you to the Lord…he’s helping you SEE & HEAR differently…He’s waking you up from the walking dead…

◦ Maybe you notice His Creation differently and you say to yourself, there’s gotta be something more.

◦ Or for many of us—-maybe it’s hitting rock bottom. I’m lost. I’m confused. I’m addicted. I’m destroyed and destroying. I’m angry. I’m jealous. I’m dissatisfied even though I have everything that I need and want. Ecclesiastes tells us that eternity is set in our heart. All is vanity. It’s a chasing after the wind and we can’t grasp it. That yearning to fill that void is the HS guiding us to the only One who can. My way ain’t working; I’m willing to try Yours. Job said I could HEAR you Lord but now I SEE you. Take everything away. Life doesn’t make sense. I’m broken. But now you’re so real; I feel your love more than ever; I’m ready to be rebuilt.

◦ There’s a Convicting of sin because if we don’t know we are sinners then we can’t begin to fathom that we need a Savior.

✓ He’s then helping you in your walk.

✓ He’s always going to point to Jesus

✓ This is the Normal Christian life.

One baptism – many fillings!

◦ Billy Graham quote: “Some Christians have used the terms like the second baptism or the second blessing or a second work of grace. None of these terms are used in the Bible, but I realize for many people they are simply semantic equivalents for the “fullness of the Spirit. The name we give the experience is less important than that we actually be filled with the Spirit.”

◦ 1 Corinthians 6:19 do you not know?! (And Paul was he talking to sinful, infant Christians)

◦ John 7:38 “He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

◦ Ephesians 1:13-14 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

◦ John 14:17 “the Spirit of truth will be in you…

◦ 1 Corinthians 3:16 “the Spirit of God dwells in you.”

◦ Romans 8:9 “You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.”

At the moment you become a Christian-the Holy Spirit is IN YOU

◦ It seems clear to me that at the moment of true regeneration, the HS is in you and we are called to yield to him continually, constantly, courageously, always.

◦ I just want to encourage and build confidence in y’all, have peace, rest, but it’s also ok to wrestle. Just know, there is no need to AGONIZOMAI or pray a formula to “get the Spirit.” We have received Him already, not as a result of our works or struggle so that none of us can boast, but as an unmerited, undeserved, gift of Grace!

◦ Also know, no one has any more of the Spirit than you. It’s not about quantity. It’s not how much of the Spirit we have, but how much the Spirit has of us.

Why a Spirit-filled life?

◦ So that Christ might be glorified.

◦ 2 Cor 5:15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

◦ We probably wouldn’t be waking around being boisterous about it. Nowhere do we see in the Bible people making the claim they are filled. What do we see? Others pointing it out!

◦ What is our motivation? What are we seeking after? Holiness.

Up next: Submitting, Yielding, and Walking in Faith to Obey the Holy Spirit.