Holy Spirit: Promise, Power, Proof

Holy Spirit
Promise, Power, Proof

*Identity
*Symbols
*Works
Bible Reading: John 14: 15-20
• John 14:15-20 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give
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you another advocate 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[a] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I
will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see
me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my
Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Reminder
• The Holy Spirit is THE PROMISE of Jesus. One

cannot receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit
without recognizing that Jesus died and rose
again from the dead to save us from our sins. We
have to accept Him as our Lord and Savior!
Goal
• Know the Holy Spirit so we can establish a

relationship with Him and/or strengthen our bond
with Him.
• Have a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit.
• Be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Identity
(Who is the Holy Spirit?)
• Holy Spirit is God

Matthew 28:19 New International Version (NIV)
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
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of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Identity
• Holy Spirit is God

1 Peter 1:1-2 New International Version (NIV)
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be
obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Identity
• Holy Spirit is a Person.

• John 16: 13-14
Personal pronoun masculine
Not “it” ekeino but “he” ekeinos
• Ephesians 1:4
Personal pronoun hos “who” not “what”
Identity
• Personal characteristics
- Can be grieved
Ephesians 4:30-32 New International Version (NIV)
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of
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redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along
with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving
each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Identity
- Can be resisted
Acts 7:51 New International Version (NIV)
“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just
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like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

THE HOLY SPIRIT DOESN’T CONTROL US LIKE PUPPETS. WE STILL MAKE OUR OWN
CHOICES.
Identity
- Can be lied to
Acts 5:3-4 New International Version (NIV)
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Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied
to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
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Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at
your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to
human beings but to God.”
Identity
- Can be sinned against (Blasphemy: disrespect, speaking evil, railing)
And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will
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not be forgiven.
Mark 3:29 New International Version (NIV)
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal
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sin.”
Identity
• The Holy Spirit has 46 names and descriptions

in the Bible.
Symbols of the Holy Spirit
•Fire
Isaiah 4:4; Acts 2:2; Daniel 7:9-10; Exodus 13:21-22; 2 Kings 2:11; Exodus 3: 2-3; Isaiah 4:5; Ezekiel 28:14; Zechariah 2:5
•Water
Revelation 22:17; John 1:14; John 7:37-38; Jeremiah 5:24; Hosea 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zechariah 10:1; Isaiah 35:6-7; Revelation
22:1
•Wind
Acts 2:2; John 3:8
•Cloud
Exodus 13:21-22
•Smoke
Isaiah 4:5
•Oil
Joel 2: 19-28
•Wine
Ephesians 5:19
•Dove
Matthew 3:16
•Promise
Luke 24:49; Acts 2:33
•Seal
Ephesians 1:13; 4:30; 2 Timothy 2:19; Revelation7:2; 9:4
•Guarantee (pledge/security/deposit/down payment/earnest)

Ephesians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 5:5
•Power
Acts 1:8
Works of the Holy Spirit
• A. To the World (we will not talk about this, sorry )
• B. To the Church
• C. In the Believers
The Holy Spirit has 46 works in the believers! We will only discuss
some of them.
• A. To the Church
• Selects its overseers
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for
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me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you
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overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, [a] which he bought with his own blood. [b]
• Makes it one body
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Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when
you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
• Locates its mission field
Acts 16:6-10 New International Version (NIV)
Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having
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been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they
came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not
allow them to. 8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul
had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia
and help us.” 10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for
Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
• Distributes spiritual gifts
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 New International Version (NIV)
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There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.
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There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different
kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at
work.
• Distributes spiritual gifts
• A. In the Believers
• Created us
Job 33:4 New International Version (NIV)
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The Spirit of God has made me;
the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
• Helps us to believe
2 Corinthians 4:13 New International Version (NIV)
It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”[a] Since we have that
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same spirit of[b] faith, we also believe and therefore speak,

• Helps us to receive Christ
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power
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through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in
love,
•Helps us to confess Christ
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.
John 15:26-27 New International Version (NIV)
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“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.
• Comforts us
John 16:7 New International Version (NIV)
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I
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go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to
you.
• Makes us born again
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God
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unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but
the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit.
• Prays for us
Romans 8:26-27 New International Version (NIV)
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know
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what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the
mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in
accordance with the will of God.
•Indwells in us
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Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your
midst? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is
sacred, and you together are that temple.
Romans 8:11 New International Version (NIV)
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And 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[a] his Spirit who lives in you.
• Teaches us
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
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will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Luke 12:12 New International Version (NIV)
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for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”
• Teaches us
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for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Mark 13:11 New International Version (NIV)
Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about
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what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking,
but the Holy Spirit.
• Gives us life
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter
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but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken
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to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life.

•Fills us
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the
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Spirit enabled them.

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled
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with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 4:8-10; 9:17
• Baptizes us
For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body
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—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given

the one Spirit to drink.
• Guarantees us
Ephesians 1:14 New International Version (NIV)
who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the
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redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of

his glory.
• Frees us
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
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there is freedom.
• Seals us
Ephesians 1:13 New International Version (NIV)
And you also were included in Christ when you heard the
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message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed,

you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
• Shows us what the Kingdom of God is
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,
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but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

• Transforms us
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate [a] the Lord’s glory, are being
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transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord,
who is the Spirit.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—
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• Sanctifies us
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming
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the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified
by the Holy Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 New International Version (NIV)
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because
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God chose you as firstfruits[a] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and
through belief in the truth.
• Sanctifies us
3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
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For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to
sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
• Will resurrect us
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living
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in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies because of[a] his Spirit who lives in you.
• Empowers us
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my
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witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you
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may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Empowers us
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My message and my preaching were not with wise and
persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
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so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s
power.
Baptism and Demonstration of Holy Spirit’s
power
• The Holy Spirit lives with and in us forever!
2 John 2 New International Version (NIV)
because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:
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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate 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 [
a]
in you.
To God be the glory!
Amen.

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Holy Spirit

Promise, Power, Proof

• The Holy Spirit is THE PROMISE of Jesus. One

• Know the Holy Spirit so we can establish a

• Holy Spirit is God

of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

• Holy Spirit is God

• Holy Spirit is a Person.

like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

• The Holy Spirit has 46 names and descriptions

•Guarantee (pledge/security/deposit/down payment/earnest)

same spirit of[b] faith, we also believe and therefore speak,

to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life.

Spirit enabled them.

—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given

redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of

message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed,

but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:16-17 New International Version (NIV)

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