Reading: We Have the Holy Spirit (The Video Slides)
WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
I Corinthians 12:3, "3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, 'Jesus be cursed,' and no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit.
Is Jesus Christ your Lord? ___ Yes ___ No
Why are you able to say that? ________________________________
Romans 8:16, 16"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.”
Is God your Father? ___ Yes ___ No
Why are you able to say that? _________________________________
Galatians 5:22, 22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.”
Are you sometimes loving, joyful, peaceful, patient? ___ Yes ___ No
Why are you able to be that way? ______________________________
I Corinthians 6:19, 19"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.”
God lived in the O.T. Temple before it was destroyed. Where does He live
now? _____________________________________________________
We Have the Holy Spirit
But are you filled with the spirit?
Ephesians 5:18 says, "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.
Instead, be filled with the Spirit.”
Notice the contrasts:
Do not get __________ on ________
but be __________ with ______ _________
"DUI”: ______________ ____________ ______ _________________
makes us think of
LUI!: ____________ __________ ______ _________________.
(Greek scholar, J. H. Thayer, "That which wholly takes possession of the mind is said to fill it.”)
Questions:
How much of God created the world?
How much of Jesus died on the cross?
How much of the Holy Spirit do you have?
It is not how much I have ____ ________ ____________
but
how much the Spirit has ____ ____.