We speak a great word of welcome, Trevor, one this
evening and we're thankful that you are here.
As we announced last evening, and even nine or two before
that, we would spend one night studying with you on the Holy
Spirit. Now, I have several sermons that
I preach on the Holy Spirit. This one is one that I've
preached off and on in the last probably five years, three to
five years. And I encourage you to write
down or take a picture of the board work if you would like to
do that. And if you have any question
about the lesson, about any of these verses or the application
that we give, we welcome that. We're not here to to be a know
it all. We're just simply here to show
you what the Bible teaches about the Holy Spirit in the New
Testament. That is the thrust of today's
lesson. Many years ago I did a four part
series on the Holy Spirit and then I passed it around to a
number of my preaching brethren, some that were older, some that
were younger, something about my age, and and we conferred back
and forth along the way. Of course, everybody didn't
agree with everything. I didn't expect that, but I was
definitely open minded to what people concluded as far as being
right and wrong and accurate and not accurate.
And I want to hear it because I want to preach the truth of the
Holy Spirit. And what I don't want is people
to misrepresent God's Holy Spirit.
So therefore, as with all the other lessons that we've heard
throughout this week, you know, we can give you book, chapter,
verse. It's going to be there.
And I want you to take special note and special interest.
There's a number of verses that we will not be going to tonight
that are very valuable. However, I've chosen this
afternoon, late last night, these verses to cover for today
and primarily because I want to cover an additional category or
two that I haven't covered perhaps on an earlier lesson.
So let's get underway. And again, if you have any
questions, please make a note of it.
I'll be more than happy to study with you, visit with you, even
here or later. You can call me, you can text
me, you can e-mail me, communicate with me, however you
want to do it, and we can go with it further as we study.
Therefore, as you sit on the board, the Holy Spirit and the
New Testament. Now this is very, very important
because this is what we want to know and you don't have any
guess for it. There's no infants or buts about
it. The Holy Spirit is alive and
well and active in the New Testament.
No doubts about it. It is Now here's the point that
I want to make it In my earlier years of preaching this, I made
this point, my last point, but it didn't take me too terribly
long to realize I need to make my last point my first point.
Therefore, I've started that and I've done that in the last two
to three years. Point #1 The Word of God, the
Bible is inspired of the Holy Spirit.
This is very important. And again, that used to be my
last point and I'll just hit it and run with it, but this is
very important. I want you to understand this.
Please everybody understand this important point.
Nobody knows anything about the Holy Spirit unless they can read
about it in the Bible. It's the Word of God, book,
chapter, verse. You want to read about it in the
Bible. Now people come up with things
far out about the Holy Spirit and they imagine this and
imagine that. Listen, I could care less what
people imagine. I want to know book, chapter,
verse in the Bible. I want to know some Matthew,
Martin, Luke all the way through Revelation.
That's what I want to know. So therefore, please understand
the only thing you know or I know about the Holy Spirit is
what I can read about in the the Bible.
And that's huge because we don't want anybody to be misled in any
way in any shape or any form. Therefore, when we establish the
fact that God's word in the Bible is inspired of the Holy
Spirit, we now know one of the things the Holy Spirit does.
Listen, the Holy Spirit is very active at the Lord's word.
The Lord has designed the plan. As a matter of fact, you can
begin in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, chapter 1.
And in chapter 1 you're going to say God the Father, you're going
to say Jesus Christ the Son, and you're going to say the Holy
Spirit. And guess what?
You go all the way through 39 of the Old Testament books, all the
way 27 books of the New Testament.
You get all the way to Revelation, the very last
chapter of Revelation, chapter 22.
And you know what you find there?
God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Holy Spirit, God
the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all involved, not in
every chapter, not even on every page, but from the Old Testament
to the New Testament in the paper article, law, the Mosaic
law, the Christian law, the Holy Spirit has been part of God's
plan. Now I'll be, I'll be very frank
with you. I do not and I am not impressed
with anybody who indicates that the Holy Spirit is not active
today, not doing the thing today.
It's only God in Christ. I want you to know that is not
accurate. It's not accurate.
What is accurate is that God's Word teaches us in his in the
Bible what we know about the Holy Spirit.
And that's the point that I want you to remember as you leave
here this evening, that the only thing we know about the Holy
Spirit is book, chapter, verse that we can find in Scripture.
I'm not reading all these verses.
Some of these we've even given through the week, but for the
records sake and for those who are this is going to be a video
and your podcast and etcetera. I want to read the verses into
the record number one, Second Timothy 3, verse 16 and 17.
A couple of nights ago we referenced that where he said
all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, profitable
for doctrine or proof, correction for instruction and
righteousness, that the matter of God would be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good words.
It's very clear. All Scripture is given by the
inspiration of God, and that's what we need to pay attention to
and we make need to make absolutely sure, regardless of
who it is, if it's me, if it's you, or if it's anybody else.
If anybody tries to take away these verses as if they don't
apply, my dear friends, you don't have to walk very far to
walk away from that kind of conversation because this is
very much biblically talked. All right, a second passage,
second Peter 1 point #2 and #3 second Peter one verse 3 says
according to his divine power has given us all things we need
for life and godliness, the Holy Spirit and the word of God, we
learned that he'll give us everything we need for eternal
life. That is fabulous.
That's what we need to know, and it's.
Because that's God's plan. Also in chapter 1, the last two
verses of the chapter and verses 20 and 21, it mentions how holy
men of God moved in the past by the Holy Spirit and inspiring
God's. Word.
Dear friends today so therefore this entire lesson tonight we'll
be given book chapter verse in the Bible.
It is based on a thus sense of Lord.
It's based on what the word of God does say and we do not need
to be doing any guesswork. We do not need to be reading
between the words and the lines and the spaces.
We need to embrace it. You know, there are times today
in which we live that people they've come up with man made
ideas or descriptive terms about the Holy Spirit.
You know one example is some say with Holy Spirit works through
the word only. Who said that God's Word did not
say that? I can even show you in Scripture
where the Bible says people were working in a capacity of
spiritual gifts at one time, and it was not by word only in the
Thessalonian letter. Then again, another very popular
phrase, and that is personally indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Now I've been raised to hear that phrase quite a bit and
here's my situation. That phrase is not in the Bible
literally. I want to be honest with you,
that phrase is not in the Bible. Now I believe in the dweller of
the Holy Spirit. I definitely believe in, I'm
going to show you today in the Bible, no uncertain terms, it's
in there. But here's what we don't need to
do. We do not need to come up with
some man made phraseology as if that was taught in the Bible.
What I want us to do is go to the Scripture and speak where
the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent.
Here's what I'm going to show you later on in the lesson, and
we're going to spend quite a bit of time over here once we get
there, but we're going to more hurriedly cover the first two
parts here. But what we wanted to show you
tonight, according to the Bible, we believe in the non miraculous
and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. That's Bible.
Here's a number of verses and we can nearly fill the board up.
With. From passages that would support
that. Now I will make some of my good
buddies upset at me who agree with me in principle on the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit. However, they like the phrase
the person who dwelling in the Holy Spirit, and I just choose
not to use that phrase because I can't read it in the Bible.
Is that too much to ask? If you can't read something in
the Bible, it's not too much and people will ask you all kind of
questions. Say all I want to know what's in
the Bible. Therefore, what I can tell you
is in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit dwells in all.
New Testament Christians, I can show you that.
Therefore I'm not shy, I'm not timid, I'm not in any way taking
a step back. It's fine for me to say we today
believe the Bible teaches in the New Testament of non miraculous
and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. When I get over here, we'll talk
a lot more about that. Momentarily.
But what have we learned already?
We've learned that every conclusion we draw about the
Holy Spirit of the New Testament needs to be biblically based.
That's what we've got to do. We do not go beyond it.
We don't fall short. We don't cut it short.
We simply go by the Bible. I don't care what your
translation of preference is. This is very important, very
important. OK, let's look at #2 I want to
show you all three of the Godhead.
Now, I've used these type of passages and there's a lot more
of them, but then I'm not necessarily going to notice
every one of these, but I'm going to read them into the
record. For those of you that are
listening via your podcast, there are 6 verses we're going
to reference briefly. Matthew 3, verse 16 and 17 #2
Matthew 28, verse 19 #3 John 14 and 26.
Also John 15 and 26 #4 Ephesians 2 and 18 #5 Ephesians 4, four
number six, first, first John six and five.
Many years ago, when I was 18 years old, I had my very first
public debate, and it was a debate on the Godhead, and it
was a United Pentecostal Church. And to preach on that particular
time, he took the position that the United Pentecostal Church
takes, and that is there's only one person in the Godhead,
namely Jesus, and that is God the Father, Jesus Christ the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. All the same guy.
They're all the same person. Of course, I didn't believe
that. I took the position that God the
Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit of three
separate and distinct individuals.
There's one God head comprised of three separate and distinct
individuals. And it's really easy to prove
that. But this lesson is not where I'm
going to do all of that, but I am going to show you this.
I'm going to show you that God's plan in that one Godhead is
showing you verse of the Scripture for all three God,
Christ and the Holy Spirit used in the same passage.
This is very important because see this is the way God designed
it to be. Now Matthew the 3rd chapter,
verse 16 and 17 is the baptism of Jesus.
And when Jesus has been baptized, all of a sudden the
Bible said, Behold the Holy Spirit and send it like a dove
and lighted upon him. And a voice out of the cloud
said, This is my beloved Son, and whom I am well pleased, God
the Father Speaking of Jesus. So here we find 3 different
people in three different places doing 3 different things at the
same identical time. You've got Jesus coming up out
of the water. You got the Holy Spirit
descending from heaven as a dove.
You've got God the Father speaking from heaven.
That's the way it works according to God's plan, and we
should be very happy to know that God has a plan that invites
and welcomes the working of His Son and that of the Holy Spirit
that He is designed. All right #2 Matthew 2819.
We mentioned that the other night about a scriptural baptism
requires a baptism of the Great Commission that is in the name
of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Now you see these the Bible passages that illustrate for all
three are busy at work and the one godhead, just as the Bible
teaches because it's the word of God and as long as I can get you
focused in stand with what the Bible says the rest of us a
piece of cake. It is so beautiful.
All right, look at the third verse John 1426 also John 15 and
26. This is where Jesus had just
told his disciples or his apostles, I'm going to have to
leave you. They were old, they're beside
themselves. They don't want him to go
anywhere. They like Jesus being around.
And he said, no, no, here's the way it works.
I, Jesus, I'm going to go to the father #2 and I will send the
Holy Spirit to you from the Father.
John 1426 and John 1526. What does this tell me?
What does it show you? It shows you.
You got three different beings again doing 3 different things.
Jesus on earth. Going to the Father in heaven,
sending the Holy Spirit from heaven, you have all three of
these divine beings busy about the Lord's work.
That's important and we need to take hold of that and really
appreciate the fact that we have biblical evidence based on the
Word of God, the inspired Word of God.
It's what's teaching us this in Ephesians 2 and verse 18.
I remember the very night that this verse some way somehow sunk
in my thick skull. We were doing our nightly Bible
reading. Let's turn it over with you.
I just want to show it to you. In Ephesians 2 verse 18 it has
again. All three people in the Godhead.
This is very important. I love this verse.
It reassured me. It reconfirmed some things that
I believe from other passages, but this one here sealed the
deal and Ephesians the second chapter verse 18.
Look here. It says for through him this
hymn of Jesus. When you look in the contest for
through Jesus, we both have access by 1 Spirit.
That's Holy Spirit unto the Father.
When you pray, and I'm not going to mention this again in passing
later on in the lesson, but when you pray, you pray like Jesus
said, our Father, which art in heaven you're, you pray in the
name of them by the authority of Jesus Christ and the Holy
Spirit. The Bible said in Ephesians 2
and 18 that he would take our prayers to the Father.
Wow, that makes me feel really good about them.
Praying, praying and being thankful.
What the Holy Spirit would do. The Bible teaches they all work
together. My dear friend, please don't
ever let anybody take that away from you because praying is
wonderful. We've heard some beautiful
prayers here throughout this week.
You're opening prayer, the prayer, that's your general
prayer, your main prayer, the dismissal prayer, the prayer for
the food. A lot of prayers throughout this
week. And it's been wonderful.
And these prayers are fabulous. And what we find here in
Ephesians 2 and 18 that the Holy Spirit's involved in your prayer
just like God the Father. Is in Jesus Christ.
I write in Ephesians 4 four. You find 7 ones and concluding
of those 7 ones it's one. God, it's one Father, one God, 1
Lord, Lord Jesus Christ and one Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4 Four through 6 you. See, all of this is God's plan.
And the reason I emphasize this is because there are people who
act like the Holy Spirit is doing nothing today.
I don't get that. God is not through working and
utilizing the Holy Spirit. And I do not like to hear people
say, well, he does not do anything today.
I'm going to ask preachers that what's the Holy Spirit doing
today? And they had a hard time
answering it. Listen, there's something wrong
if you think 1/3 of the Godhead is lying dormant not doing
anything. There's something wrong with
that picture and with that conclusion.
What is important is that things are done according to God's will
and God's way. What is important is what is
recorded in Scripture that we got book shops reversed for.
That's what's important. Now when people give you some
man made idea and think those are not important at all.
No, if they're not giving you book, chapter, verse, you can
simply just say no, I'm not interested in that.
I want to hear it from the Bible.
All right, let's look at another passage first John 5 verse 7.
This is another really good verse.
And now when you have a public debate on the Godhead defending
3 John first John five and seven said there are three.
They're buried record in heaven, the Father, the word and the
spirit. And these three are one.
They're one in unity, one in faith, one in words.
No, not one person, No more than.
You and your spouse or one person?
Whether the Bible says husband or wife or what, but not one
person. No, they work together in God's
plan. Did you know when Jesus prayed
to John 17, he began the prayer about praying for himself and
then the second part of the prayer he prayed for his current
apostles and the third part of the prayer he prayed for all.
Future Christian, that's you and that's me.
And my dear friends, what is so beautiful about Jesus praying
for us in these ways is that He's identifying the need for us
to have prayer. And he prayed to God Almighty
that we would be 1 even as He and the Father are one.
That's not clear. See, God and the Father are one.
Husband and wife are one. All of us disciples are one.
No, not one person. But we're one in unity and faith
and work and wisdom and dedication and following the
Lord Jesus. We're highly committed to making
sure we do things according to the Bible and let nothing get in
our way. Well, see, now we find we've got
the Word of God that's inspired, that's telling us exactly what
it is that's right and wrong, and what we can know bound in
the Bible is wonderful. And down here, we've already
been taught in the New Testament how.
The three are working together in a variety of ways.
Baptism of Jesus, baptism of the Great Commission, when Jesus go
back to heaven and said the Holy Spirit back here showing us how
it works in our prayer, showing us here how it's part of the
seven ones, which is very, very important, and also showing that
these three are one that's all Bible.
I didn't make up any of that. It's all right there for you to
look at, for you to read, for you to study, for you to give
yourself holy unto them. Meditate upon these things that
that's the right way to do it. All right #3 now, this is very
important. And with this row right here,
listen quick because we're going to go through it quickly.
This is very. Very important, though.
It's very important that we grasp this point.
All right #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit.
A chance is what I abbreviated for brevity's sake on the board.
Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure.
John 3 and verse 34. I'll give you a moment to turn.
This is a very important message, and it's the only time
is mentioned in Scripture. John 3 and verse 34 and the
reason I want to go here because this is very important, but it
shows a distinct difference. Get hold of this now how the
Holy Spirit works in the life of Jesus on earth, different than
he worked with the apostles and the difference in the way He
works for you or me today. John 334 the word of God says
the following. Please pay very very close
attention because this is a very important principle.
John 3 verse 34 For he whom God has sent speaketh the words of
God. For God giveth not the Spirit by
measure unto him. God did not give the Holy Spirit
with measure, that is without any limitations.
God gave the Holy Spirit to Jesus without measure.
The King James rendering, that is without any limitation.
Jesus had the Holy Spirit in a way that anything the Holy
Spirit could do, he could do through Jesus.
You would never have that, and neither will I.
The apostles never had that, never have, never will.
Jesus had it. God made sure.
These are ways we learn to get hold of this.
I do not mean to be repetitious. I want to reinforce what's true
in the New Testament. We learned Jesus was given the
Holy Spirit without any limitation or measure, without
any limitation at all. According to John 334.
We learned about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament based on
that verse right there. I love to learn about the Bible
from the Bible and I love. For you too too.
So therefore. I want you to understand this is
so very important. We learn the Holy Spirit in the
New Testament, that Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure
and God is one who gave it to him, the lot he did.
Now when you want to read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John, it's amazing. Did you know this?
Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as synoptic gospels.
They cover essentially the same thing, but one may cover
something another one may leave off.
But Matthew, Mark and Luke are very very similar.
But John. John has 92% of information that
Matthew, Mark and Luke did not even include.
Wow, that's a lot 92%. That just shows there's a lot
more than what Matthew, Mark and Luke gave us.
God gave us the Gospel of John too, and the Holy Spirit is far
that book. Dear friends, listen, there's so
much to learn. I just want I mentioned this in
passing the other day, but I want the Bible to be the number
one book you read. You open that up and you read
it. You concentrate on it.
You pray to God. He'll help you understand this
and I've appreciated different. Ones throughout the week who
pray that that we would understand the scriptures and we
would apply to our lives. That's what's important.
So now remember from this point forward, because these each of
these points are not for you to just hear one time and forget.
These are very important principles taught and that is
here #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure.
And that's exactly what we need to understand.
He's the only person ever have the holy.
Spirit without measure, it is Jesus your Lord and our Savior,
the Son of God. OK #4 the.
Apostles receive the Holy Spirit baptism.
You got that in your notes. Holy Spirit baptism.
Guess what? Once you're looking at.
Acts one and five. I'll turn there with you.
Melman here. The Holy Spirit baptism was
never a commandment, no. One has ever.
Been commanded to be baptized with Holy Spirit baptism.
Did the the apostle receive the Holy Spirit?
Well sure they did. They received the Holy Spirit
baptism. But look at Acts 15.
It's the Holy Spirit baptism which was a promise.
Many of you are writing notes and that's good.
Write it down. The Holy Spirit baptism was a
promise. It was never a commandment.
It's important we're learning the differences in the way God
has chosen to use the Holy Spirit.
We've learned how he did with Jesus.
Now we're learning how he did with the apostles.
See, here's something important, the Holy Spirit baptism that the
apostles received in Acts 15 and Acts 2 verse one through 8, My
dear friend, that's. Part of God's plan.
Guess what? You would never receive the Holy
Spirit baptism and never will lie.
It's not God's plan for me or you, just like it's not God's
plan for me to receive the Holy Spirit without.
Measure, it's not God's plan for you too.
Will there it was. That plan was for Jesus to get
the Holy Spirit without measure, then the apostles, they receive
the Holy Spirit baptism and you would never get it, never will
lie. All right, let's look at Acts
1:00 and 5:00. These passages are very clear
and very precise, and I just like to read the thrust passage
rather than all the context right now because we've got a
lot of material that I'm wanting to cover.
Acts one verse 5. The word of God says the
following. Actually I want to read the tale
end of verse 4. If you've got a red letter
edition Bible, you can see the latter part of verse four and
all of verse 5. Will be red letter, meaning it's
the words of Jesus. Listen to what it said Acts 1
beginning about midway verse 4 but wait for the promise of the
Father, which saith he you've heard of me.
Verse 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you should be
baptized with Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Wow. Here they're being told, the
apostle been told, listen, you're going to be baptized with
the baptism of the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
That's the reason that when you're reading the very tale
ending of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and you're reading the
beginning of Acts 1 and Acts 2, what you're finding out is that
the apostle, we're told you, you should stay right here.
You don't leave, you don't leave Jerusalem, you stay right here
because they have something big coming down the Pike, you know,
while it's coming down the pipe you find in Acts 2 verses one
through 8 is where the Holy Spirit baptism came to the.
Apostles. Oh, this is important, and now
here's what's important. What is important is for
everybody to know how the Holy Spirit works in the New
Testament. The only way we know that is by
studying the New Testament. Don't let anybody ever get get
you sidetracked, distracted. No, we learned from reading the
New Testament how Jesus received it.
We learned the New Testament how the Holy Spirit received the
Holy Spirit baptism. And my dear friends, we're off
and running. We have already learned how they
all work together according to God's plan.
We've learned everything we know about the Holy Spirit.
We've learned from. God, I'd love to see everything
fit together so well. And that's exactly what's
happening tonight. Now, when you put in these
sermons together, so all the sermons don't always go good
together. So we have to work it out to
make it where every bit of it is biblical in every way.
But this one right here, my friend, is.
Biblical in every way, and we welcome you the input that you
have pro our time. That's fine, but this is
important. You see now how Jesus received
the Holy Spirit, how the apostle received the Holy Spirit
baptism. Now what about those of the
whole the apostles talked the the next first, the next group
of people they had laid on of the apostles hands.
Now when I gave this at the New Year meeting 3-4 years ago,
somewhere in that range of the Oklahoma New Year meeting, you
only have 15 minutes to give a 45 minute sermon, hour sermon,
but it's OK. But you know, I went right down
this list and I just gave, you know, gave a verse and gave a
point, gave verse, gave a point. I wanted that nearly 1000 people
that were there, I wanted them to have a good grasp.
And understanding of the Holy Spirit of New Testament, because
listen, here it is. It's unsettling to me to hear
people just discount the Holy Spirit.
I like the Holy Spirit, not a big deal.
I want you to know right now, the Holy Spirit is a big deal.
It's a big deal. As a matter of fact.
We need to embrace what the Word of God teaches about the Holy
Spirit. Many of you have heard me preach
this Lodi or Manteca, maybe Oakdale, a number of years ago.
It's been a while since been to Oakdale, but I preach that all
around and I preach all across the country in different ways,
different approaches, but all of them because it's important for
God's children, for my brothers and my sisters to understand
this according to the Bible. Now there are people who are
just going to tell you something and they couldn't want you to
believe what they've said because they've said it.
But let me tell you what, if you don't give me some books, I
prefer to go along with it. I don't care who says it.
It's what does the word of God say?
That's what matters. I don't I'm not being unkind.
I have been respectful, but I want you to know for a fact what
I want to know and what I want you to know and that is simple.
This what does the word God say? Not only this topic, but every
topic is that important. All right, just look here.
The land on the apostles hand. Acts of 6th chapter and verse 6.
And it's the first. Time you have an occasion where
the apostle lay hands on people. Let me tell you what happened
here. And this is brief because I'm
not going to detail because this is not with the thrush of the
lesson, but it is showing you from the Bible how the Holy
Spirit works, but what the apostles could do.
See, the apostles we're going to receive and I'm going to begin
to tie in .5 and six number six spiritual gifts that is found in
Acts 8 verse 12 and 13, Acts 8 verse 7 and 18, First
Corinthians chapter 12, chapter 13 and chapter 14.
And the reason I'm tie these in because they fit together.
The apostles have the ability to lay hands on people and give
them one of the 9 spiritual gifts that were mentioned in
First Corinthians chapter 12. There's 9 gifts given possible
to give one person the gift of interpretation, that if they can
interpret a language they've never even studied before, they
can give one the spiritual knowledge they have a supreme
amount of knowledge even though they they never had gone.
And got an. Education in that area, but they
were able to receive that well, here's the view.
The part about it, you know, we began to see House and fold in
here. From without measure to Jesus
the Holy Spirit, Baptism will measure to the land on the hands
of the apostles to receive the spiritual gifts to those who are
not non apostles but they are new converts in that time frame
and the apostles to lay hands on them and give them one or more
of the 9 spiritual gifts. See that's how God has got the
plan working. Now, friends, listen, here's
what's important. We're seeing that from Genesis 1
to Revelation 22. The Holy Spirit's involved, just
like God and Christ are. And now in the New Testament,
we're already seeing how it's working, and it's working in
different ways, but it's working.
It's valuable, It's God's plan, it's God's will, it's God's way.
Don't ever dismiss this, not on your life.
You need to have this right here handy because your friends from
the community, they'll be more than happy to talk with you
about the Holy Spirit and many of them have different ideas
from what they have been. Taught but when you have these
type passages real handy for you, it's easy to show people
here's what the Bible says. So easy.
It is so heartwarming to me. I love preaching it and I
appreciate people who want me to preach it and those who don't
want me to preach it. I want to know if I can study
with them on it because I want every man and woman, young and
old, to fully understand the work of the Holy Spirit
according to the New Testament. OK, now you are ready to see how
it is different, but it's all dealing with the Holy Spirit .33
point 6. Now we're going to spend the
remaining part of our time right here.
Look at #7. Non miraculous things wasn't the
Holy Spirit now I've got I'm friends that nearly every.
Preacher we've got in the Brotherhood.
Maybe all of them, I don't know, but some of them maybe more than
others. But anyway, they don't like
this. They don't like my category, and
I've had to tell them, can't you come up with something a little
bit more creative? I'm going to tell you what we
do. You come up with something more
creative. As long as it describes what I
believe, I believe without any doubt according to the Bible.
I got all these verses to prove it.
It is a non miraculous. The reason I do that is because
those who believe in the word only, they're not shy at all
about saying the reason we are word only is we're afraid.
People go off into Pentecostalism and they want to
label people as if they're going to lose their grip on
spirituality. There is not any evidence of
truth to that any more than somebody who's word only who
will leave and go to Pentecostalism because they
don't have an Holy Spirit. And I can take that and run with
it other way you wanted to go. The fact of the matter is what
we're interested in is what does the Bible say?
What the Bible shows us is, and this is what I emphasize, I
emphasize non miraculous. Some of my really good friends,
you know, just come up sometime. You 2 you come up with something
else. You change that.
As long as it teaches what I believe, I'll be glad to change
it. You know, I've been preaching
this now 5 to 10 years and not one person has come up with
something different. That's OK if they do, I don't
mind. I'm not.
I don't have some big high horse on it.
I just. Wanted to be sure to say what I
mean and mean what I say. Now here's the deal.
By non miraculous, it simply means it's none of these
miracles that were in this second column here, none of
these miracles. No, no, we're not living during
the days of miracles. And I want new people in church,
new converts. I want people who are not
acquainted with first Corinthian teaching and all that.
I want everybody to understand there's not today miraculous
powers like the word of yesteryear, but the.
Apostles and all of them. It's not here today.
It's fulfilled the studies of the 1st Corinthians 1213 and 14.
Let me just give you a brief point.
Chapter 12 will list you the 9 spiritual gifts of First
Corinthians. OK, First Corinthians 12 will
give you the 9 spiritual gifts. Chapter 13 is going to tell you
how long it's. Going to last They're going to
last for a limited amount of time.
The 9 Spiritual Gifts chapter 14 tells you how to utilize them
while they're currently in practice.
So that's chapter 12/13/14. And we learned this because the
Bible teaches it to us. Well, I do today.
Today, according to these scriptures that I'm getting
ready to read into the record, we believe they're going to
teach you the non miraculous and dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, I'm not intimidated
in any way, shape or form. I don't mind telling anybody and
everybody that we believe the Bible teaches non miraculous
indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Non miraculous.
Don't worry about the preachers of the day who believe in the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit going off the deep end because
they're not going anywhere but to book chapter verse to prove
their point. That's what everybody needs to
do. You can't find what the Holy
Spirit works on through the Word period.
You can't find that I want everybody to stay with God's
word. Now I'm not going to quote all
these verse. I'm not going to read all of
them actually. But here at the.
Passage. I do want to read these into the
record now. I'm miraculously dwell in the
Holy Spirit. Romans, the 8th chapter, verse 9
through 11. I'll be back there in a moment.
Acts 2, verse 3839. Acts 5, verse 32, The 4th
passage, First Corinthian 316, The 5th passage, First
Corinthian 6th 18 through 26th passage, Galatians four and six,
7 second 10114 That's just a little bit of them.
It's a whole bunch we can give. I want you to understand this
right here. The thus saith the Lord this
right here the book chapter verse given to us by God
Almighty, inspired by the Holy Spirit and this all flows
together so beautifully it is magnificent yes today we all
need to believe in the non miraculous that is we don't
believe in the miracles today because that first one then
12/13/14 tells us what they are and how long they're going to
last and they. They have taken care of their
time. They're not hate, but we do
believe in the non miraculous. We do believe in the endweller.
Why don't we believe in the endweller?
I'm getting there. Hang tight, I'm going to.
Be there in just a moment, but we believe what the non
miraculous Now get that in your head and get to think about it
by non miraculous these non miracles and dwelling of the
Holy Spirit Romans 8 All right, let's look at it.
I'm putting a little Bible mark here because I wanted to stop
here and I wanted to look. This is real easy to find.
Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 All right, 891011 that's pretty easy
to remember. Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 is going
to teach us how the Holy Spirit indwells.
Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. The Word of God says begin verse
9, but you're not in the flesh, but you're in the Spirit.
If so, be that the Spirit of God dwell in you, You know what?
I know exactly how it does. Now He dwells in me.
Who does? The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
God not here. He dwells in us.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of
his. Now let's tell everybody, get
your homework up to anybody who does not believe in the dwelling
of the Holy Spirit. If Christ, if the Holy Spirit is
not dwelling in you, you are none of His.
Do you understand that? That is serious business.
That's what the Bible says. If you do not have the Holy
Spirit dwelling in you, quote UN quote, He is none of his.
We are none of him. If we don't have the Holy Spirit
dwelling in us. Let me tell you one thing.
You better be thankful to your God.
You got the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.
That's Bible. Without the Holy Spirit dwelling
in us, we don't have it at all. All right, look at the nest
first. Oh, there's more from where that
came from verse 10 and if Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin, but the spirit is life because of
righteousness. But if the spirit of him the
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he's raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken, which means to be
making life quicken. You are more the body and his
spirit that dwelleth in you. No, if, no as and no buts, you
have no doubt about it the. The Holy Spirit dwells in you.
It's said it two or three times right here in three verses.
You don't let anybody take that away from you.
This is Bible talk. This is Scripture.
This is Romans 8 verse. 9 through 11.
Very very important. So what did we learn from Romans
8? We learned the Holy Spirit
dwells in it. Therefore, when I say non
miraculous and dwell with the Holy Spirit, I get that from
Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. All right #2 Acts 238.
I want you to turn your Bible here back up a book.
We're in Romans, go back up to Acts.
I want to show you something very important here and I'm I'm
not going to write. It on the board because I'm
going to run out of room and I want to leave this on the board
for those who have chosen to take notes or take pictures, but
let's look at Acts 238. This is very, very important and
very consoling. It is so exciting.
This is God's will and God's way.
Acts the 2nd chapter, the beginning verse 14.
The Bible said Peter stood up with the 11.
He lift up his voice and began to preach and he's just
preaching his heart out all the way down.
And then all of a sudden about verse 34, he was interrupted and
they would want to know, you know, what shall we do?
He went down through actually verse 36, I'll read verse 36.
He said, therefore, let all the House of edition know assuredly
that God has made that same Jesus crucified both Lord and
Christ. So his sermon began in verse 14
through verse 36 and all of a sudden the people were just
really struck with their heart. They began to realize, wow, we
killed the Son of God. It's been prophesied for all
these years and we have murdered him.
What did they do? Verse 37, the word of God said
when they that's the Jewish people of the day at the at that
particular setting. Now when the Jews there, when
they heard this, they were printing their heart and they
said it to Peter. You maybe started sermon in
verse 14. They said it to Peter and to the
rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?
They knew they're in trouble. They knew they're getting ready
to lose their eternal soul. They knew they would go to hell.
They didn't change. Now we want to.
What shall we do? My dear friend, if any of you
are lost today, you need to find out what shall we do?
Let's get rid of our sin. Let's get rid of our problem.
Peter didn't hesitate. He didn't beat around the Bush.
He didn't him haul around. He said, tell you what, here's
where it's going to work. Right here.
And Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized.
Who? Everyone of you?
That's pretty inclusive, Everyone of you.
If you repent and you be baptized, everyone of you and
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
That's all found in Acts 238. OK, now write down to I've got
several things right there. There's two major points from
this one verse, Acts 238 that I want you to write down if you
choose to do so. Number one, there are two
commandments in Acts 238. Number one is repentance.
Repent. Well, they said, what shall we
do? Peter said repent #1 #2 have
been baptized for the remission of your sins.
Those are the two commands in Acts 238.
That's what these shoes were told.
If you look down in verse 42, you can see about 3000 people
obeyed the gospel. So there are two commands #1
repent #2 be baptized. Not all of that.
There's two blessings in the same verse.
This is a lovely passage. The two blessings are and you
shall receive remission of sins. Number one, you shall receive
the gift. Of the Holy.
Spirit #2 Now Christian friends, listen very important.
When did you receive the Holy? Spirit.
You receive the Holy Spirit the same time you receive remission
of your sins, and Acts 238 the same time you're baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and the
name of the Father, said Holy Spirit, and you're laid buried
in water, grave of baptism, you receive remission of sin.
And it's at that time, according to Acts 238, you receive
remission of sins and you've received the gift of the Holy
Spirit. That what is that?
It's a non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit according to
Acts 238. Well, who does this all apply
to? I know he said everyone of you
need to repent me baptized. Oh, let's look at it.
How long does this last? Verse 39, the very next verse,
the word of God said, for the promise is under you.
That's you, the Jews. OK, that for the promise is
under you, the Jews. And to your children, that is
your generations to come, and to as many that are far off.
And that's your Gentile people. They not come.
They come in Acts 10, but they're not there yet.
OK, So it's to use the Jews to your ancestors to come and to
those who are far off. Which is the.
Gentiles and then it said to as many as the Lord our God shall
call. I love that what we learned from
Acts 2 and verse 39 is similar to this, this same teaching that
applied on the day of Pentecost and Acts 2, that they need to
repent and be baptized soon. Everyone of you in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ for their mission, sin and you shall have
sinned to give to the Holy Spirit.
That's the same thing that you need and I need when we obey the
gospel. Wow.
OK, I get that. You see, when we do things in
Bible way, it is so easy. It is so easy.
I'm not making this complicated. I'm giving you the verses.
I'm just maybe illustrating the points.
But all these verses are very amazing.
OK, now we've been in Acts 2. That's going over to Acts 5.
I love this one too. I know you say you love them
all. Yeah, I do.
Guilty Acts 532. The Bible said God.
Give the Holy Spirit to who? To them that obey Him.
Dear friends, when we obey the gospel, we become a child of
God, a son or daughter of God. Almighty God will give the Holy
Spirit to all of them that are obeyed.
Well, when is he going to do that?
Well, when you're baptized, according to Acts 238.
That's what it says. Repent, be baptized, You'll
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Level of permission of sin. Nothing hard about that.
This is all Bible here. All right, let's go to 1st
Corinthians. There's two passages, First
Corinthians 3 verse 16 and 1st Corinthians 6 verse 18 through
20. Take a good look here.
I mean, just take it for what it says and you'll be so excited to
have learned these truths. All right, so let's go together.
First Corinthians 3 and verse 16.
The word God said, no, you not, but that you are the temple of
God and that the Spirit of God, that's Holy Spirit, the Spirit
of God dwells in you. Now, is there anybody here?
Nobody raise your hand or speak up, but is there anybody here
that don't believe that? I don't believe there's a single
person. Here that don't believe that it
says right here 1st 316 don't you know or know you not that
the temple of God and that the Spirit of God, was there anybody
that does not believe that? No, I don't believe there's
anybody here that doesn't believe that.
I'll be shocked if anybody here doesn't believe that.
I'll tell you what you we do believe.
We believe not non miraculous, no miracle.
And one of the Holy Spirit first in the 316 said your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit. Oh, flip on over three chapters.
Go to chapter 6, chapter 6, First Corinthians 6 and let's
look here please, verses 18 through 20.
This is continued reinforcement. Paul is addressing it so clean,
so clear here. It is so wonderful.
First friends and sits. Please begin verse 18.
He says flee fornication. He's talking about some
individual who's been immoral. He says flee fornication, so
understand that he's talking to an individual.
And then he said every sin that a man doeth is without the body.
He that committeth fornication sentence against his own body.
Have you ever thought of that? If you commit immorality, you've
sinned against your own body. That's not even what we're
preaching over the night. But it's pretty.
Important, isn't it? Now look at verse 19.
Verse 19 says what? One word sentence?
What he said no you not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost, which is in you. I want to ask you a question
right now. Is your body a temple of the
Holy Ghost? That's what the Bible says.
That's your body, a temple of the Holy Ghost.
This verse says what No, you not.
Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which you have of God. You're not your own.
You got it from God, so why? Don't complain, don't bellyache,
don't try to figure out a way to excuse it away.
Just simply embrace it because that's put Chuck and verse from
the Bible that teaches us the holy.
Spirit, according to the New Testament, This is why this is
so very important. He said your body, your body.
You remember the previous verse 18, I said he's talking to an
individual and he says fleet fornication, fleet fornication.
You sin, you commit fornication, you sin against your own body,
he said. Why don't you know your body?
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
You know what that means? It means the Holy Spirit dwells
in you. Wow, that's.
Refreshing. Thank you Lord for these great
verses that teach us the great truth.
OK look at verse 20, the last verse of first one and six for
you. Bought with the price.
Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit.
Which are God's wow, I, I just totally love that all of this is
coming together so beautifully and so well that there's no room
to argue. There's, there's every bit of
the room to embrace it because this is God's will.
Some of you have heard sermons that I preached on YouTube.
There's two or three sermons out there on it and other places
that I've held meetings and they record and one thing after
another. Well listen, you know all the
sermons may vary a little bit because I'm emphasizing one
thing or another, but they all going to take the same thing and
that's right here. The 9 miraculous involved in the
Holy Spirit. OK, now I want you to go to
Galatians. This is really, really good.
Galatians 4 and verse 6. Now the Church of Galatians, we
talked a little bit about it last evening for this is really
promising to us and we'll find out why God gives us hell.
The Spirit. Whoa, don't we want to know
that? But here it is Galatians 4 and
verse 6. The word of God said, And
because ye are sons. God has sent forth the Spirit.
That's your Holy Spirit right there.
God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, I
have a father. Why?
It said right at the beginning, because you are sons, because
you're baptized believers, because you've obeyed the gospel
God. God has sent forth His Holy
Spirit into yours, and your of His Son into your hearts.
Crying to have a father, Wow. So when you look at these
passages and all of a sudden you began to see the power of the
passage and the power of the Word of God, it begins to be
real and it is so very real. All right.
The last verse under this category of non miraculous and
dwell in the Holy Spirit is found in the young preacher
Timothy receiving a letter. The second Timothy chapter 1.
You don't hear many people talk about this particular passage,
so I want to talk with you briefly about it this evening.
Second Peter 1, verse 14. Listen carefully, please.
That good thing which is committed unto thee, keep by.
The Holy Ghost whom dwelleth in US.
You know what? I can read you a list about
passages that I don't have on the board.
Holy Spirit dwells in you Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Holy Spirit dwells in you. Holy Spirit dwells in you.
There's no need to argue about. That just accept it because
that's God's way this verse right here said it so clear Holy
Ghost which dwelleth in US. Who's going to deny that?
Nobody who believes in the word of.
God. Well, what we're learning.
Here, even with these few verses, we're learning that God
has a plan. He started way back here, way,
way back to Genesis, but in the New Testament started right here
with Jesus, then the apostles, then those that laid hands on
here in the day, the spiritual gifts, and now for me and you,
the non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Well, the one question that was asked essentially every time
I've given this lesson, it's my final point from the night
that's right here. Why does the Holy Spirit do for
us according to the New Testament?
I'm glad we talked about that, but early on I just simply
talked the lesson and then we, I think we'll take up the next
part a little bit later. But I.
Found out. No, no, no.
People want to talk about it now.
They'll accept the fact that the Holy Spirit runs in you.
They'll accept them. They won't know what they can do
for you. OK, let's talk about that and
then we will. To begin to think about
concluding y'all have been wonderful tonight.
I told you last night I'm going to go a little longer.
So I'm doing that Madam, I worried.
OK, look at it. Romans 826 Here's what we're
going to do. And I've designed this in a way
because I knew I'd be running late on time, just self
appointed. Nobody has given me a time, but
I'm going to. Romans and Ephesians and there's
many other verses we could go to.
But this is enough for what we need tonight.
This will help us to know. What the Holy Spirit does
according to the New Testament. Let's look at Romans 826, Romans
8 and 27, and then we go to Ephesians.
All right, everybody, please turn over.
This is big. This is big news right here.
This is headline news. All right, Romans 8 and 26.
Listen carefully here. The Bible says likewise the
Spirit talk about Holy Spirit now likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities. Well #1 thank you.
The Holy Spirit helps our affirmative.
Guess what? We all have infirmities.
It is so great to know the Holy Spirit will help our
affirmative. For we know not what we should
pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself get hold of this.
The Spirit itself makes intercession for us as grown as
they cannot be uttered. Listen to that.
That is absolutely wonderful. The Holy Spirit intercedes for
your prayers when you pray our Father, which art in heaven, and
you let your requests be made known unto God, and you come
boldly under the throne of God. The Holy Spirit intercedes for
your prayers according to the will of God.
So when you pray, you understand your prayers being heard by God
in the name of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
He intercedes. You don't what the word
intercedes me. It just simply means to speak on
behalf of another. So the Holy Spirit is to speak
to God on your behalf. Wow, I love that I may butcher
up a prayer I may not even finish.
I remember times I wouldn't sleep there and praying with my
kids and they said, Dad, wake up, finish your prayer.
Yeah. Hey listen, the Holy Spirit will
let us see for your prayers. According to the will of God,
the Bible says according to the New Testament, it would do that.
So when you look at Romans 826, what we learn is Holy Spirit
will help within our affirmatives because we don't
always know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Holy
Spirit will let us see for you according to the will of God.
It just does my heart good to know that the Holy Spirit will
intercede from my prayers. Now I'm not ever going to in
depth on this. For some reason I feel like I'm
rushed from giving my lesson here.
But I know it's a little late but give me a little bit more
time here. Thank you.
The reason I feel it's so important that we understand
intercession is that when you speak on behalf of another,
you're interceding for them. For an example, if someone asks
you, please pray for me, you know you're glad to do that.
Pray for your brother, pray for your sister, whoever it is.
Did you know when you do that you're interceding for them?
You look at first Timothy 2 verses one and two, and the
Bible teaches that you intercede from one another by your
prayers. Wow, that's neat.
Not only that, if you're back at Romans and not read the verse
but take it on, just tell you what it says, but Romans 8 verse
34 it said Jesus also intercedes for us.
So when I pray for you or you pray for me, we're into seeing
for one another. According to first Timothy 2,
verse one and two, Jesus and the seas for us, the Holy Spirit and
the seas. We pray to God the Father in the
name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit goes to work.
My dear friends, big things happen when we put God first in
our. Life.
Don't you dare ever walk away from the Lord now.
You've got so many blessings to come your way because you've
obeyed the gospel and become a member of God's family.
OK, now let's look at Romans 8. We read 26.
You could look verse 27 also, but let's go ahead and go down
to Ephesians just for uniqueness sake.
Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 2 and Ephesians 3.
Matter of fact, I've got a sermon in the making right now.
The Holy Spirit in the book of Ephesians.
It's amazing what all Ephesians said about it.
But that's just a little teaser for another sermon whenever I'm
back out in California sometime. But you maybe would hear that
sermon. All right, let's.
Look at Ephesians. I'm going to look at chapter 1,
chapter 2, and chapter 3 now. This chapter one will really
blow your socks off. It's amazing.
It is so encouraging. Look at it.
Ephesians chapter 1. Here's what the Bible says,
verse 13 and verse 14, by the way.
Ephesians one verse 13 and 14, and whom you also trusted, after
you have heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your
salvation, and whom also you have believed you were sealed
with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of
our inheritance under the redemption of the purchased
possession, under the praise of this glory.
Wow. The whole lesson can be preached
on those two verses. You're sealed with the Holy
Spirit of promise. It's kind of like a down payment
to buy a house or down payment to buy a car.
You've got just a little bit of what heaven has to offer that
God has given to all of us. But we got future blessings to
come, eternal life in heaven. Listen, we're just to be.
Thankful to God Almighty for eternal life in heaven.
And it's for everybody here that's faithful until the day
they die. I'm not afraid.
Listen, the devil doesn't stand a chance.
Not when you put the Lord first. The devil is a loser.
He is a loser. OK, flip chapter 2.
I'm just going to reference this passage.
We've already read it, chapter 2, verse 18, where the Holy
Spirit takes your prayers to the Father.
That's just an Ephesian passage. OK, flip on over to chapter 3
and verse 16. This is a really encouraging
passage. Ephesians the 3rd chapter verse
16 that he would grant you according to the riches of his
glory, to be strengthened with my house by his Spirit and the
inner man. Now Christian friend, I want to
be honest with you. How many more verses do you need
to hear to believe that Holy Spirit dwelled in non righteous
way of indwelling in you the Holy Spirit, non righteous
indwelling the Holy Spirit. How many more verses here and
here do you need to believe that?
I want everybody here to believe it because this is Bible, this
is encouragement, this is helping you.
It's Holy Spirit's interceded to God for you.
You learned it from the day you were baptized, and that's 2:38.
That's when you get it. You learned it from many
generations down. The Lord has prayed for us, my
friend. This is all Bible.
It's absolutely all Bible. One of the hardest jobs I had
tonight was figure out what to include and what not to include.
If I was going to hold a whole weekend meeting on the Holy
Spirit, then it wouldn't be hard at all.
But being that I only had one night that I've designated to
speak on this topic because I really wanted to, because I want
you to understand the value of what the Holy Spirit would do
with you for you. According to Scripture, you
don't believe anything anybody says in the church or out of the
church about the Holy Spirit if they don't give you book,
chapter verse in the Bible to prove it.
People mean well, but people can be mistaken.
When you get book, chapter, verse, you can get confirmation
and that's what we need. But you've been magnificent.
I can keep on preaching. I think you'd keep on listening,
but thank you. If you're in this assembly
tonight and you've never obeyed the gospel, it's time.
It's time for you. Because when you obey the gospel
for the admission of your sins and you've received the gift of
the Holy Spirit, my dear friend, the devil just takes off.
He runs away because he knows he is a defeated foe.
If you've obeyed the gospel, but you've not been living right,
you've not been doing the right things, you're not actually
right. Repent of your sins, confess
your faults. We'll pray with him for you that
your sins be all gone. We're here to serve you, to
serve the congregation. The leadership here is
encouraged by your presence, by your membership.
We're all one spiritually happy family and we need to work
together to help each other. Go to heaven.
Allow us together to work with you.
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