Holy Spirit
Bible – various areas
The Greatest Words Ever Spoken – Steven K. Scott
The Bible teaches that when the first man and woman sinned, the spirit they had been endowed with from God died. From this point on, all humanity – though born with a heart, mind, body and soul – was born spiritually dead.
Although we can live what the world would consider a perfectly normal (although self-centered) life without the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, we can NOT produce any eternal or truly spiritual fruit unless He dwells within us. Equally important we cannot be the person God desires us to be.
The gift of salvation requires that we be born a second time – a birth that Jesus described as a spiritual birth.
John 14 v 15-17 “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 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.”
John 14 v 25 “But the Couselor, 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”.
After Jesus’s resurrection – John 20 v 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven”.
The spiritual birth is just the beginning of our new relationship with God. After being born again, we need to grow spiritually.
During His ministry on earth, Jesus could be in only one place at one time. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, can be in all places at the same time.
Jesus identified 10 roles the Holy Spirit would perform in his ministry to believers.
teach us all things and guide us into all truth,
cause us to remember everything Christ said to us,
be a testifying witness of Christ (to us and through us),
be our Helper and Comforter,
convict unbelievers of their sin,
reveal the righteousness of Christ
reveal the condemning judgment of God
reveal future events to believers
empower believers with spiritual power
enable believers to be powerful witnesses for Christ.