The Holy Spirit Luke 4:1-13. Outline What is the Holy Spirit? Example 1: God's Power in Creation Example 2: God's Power to Raise the Dead Example 3: Apostles.

The Holy SpiritLuke 4:1-13

Outline

• What is the Holy Spirit?• Example 1: God's Power in Creation

• Example 2: God's Power to Raise the Dead

• Example 3: Apostles Empowered by the Spirit

• The Word and the Spirit

• The Message of the Spirit

• God's Care through Angels

• The Power of Prayer

• The idea of “Guidance by the Power”

• Conclusions

Holy Ghost

Holy Spirit - The Power of God

• "The Spirit of God" (Genesis 1:2; Matthew 3:16)

• "The Spirit of the Lord" (Isaiah 11:2; Acts 8:39)

• "Thy good spirit" (Nehemiah 9:20)

• "The Spirit of the Lord God" (Isaiah 61:1)

• "His Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10-11)

• "The Spirit of your Father" (Matthew 10:20)

• "The Spirit" (John 1:32)

• "The holy Spirit of God" (Ephesians 4:30)

• "The power of the Lord" (Luke 5:17)

Holy Spirit - The Power of God

“And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)

Descriptions of Creation

• "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:1,2)

• "The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7)

• "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." (Job 33:4)

• "He hath made the earth by his power . . . established the world by his wisdom . . . stretched out the heavens by his discretion." (Jeremiah 10:12; 51:15)

God's Power in Creation

Writers Inspired by God's Spirit

Resisting the Spirit

• "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear . . ." (Nehemiah 9:30)

• "In all their affliction he (God) was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them ... he bear them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit." (Isaiah 63:9-10)

• "Ye stiffnecked . . . ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Acts 7:51)

Miracles and Wonders

Galilee

The Empty Tomb

God's Power to Raise the Dead

• "Of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen." (Acts 1:1,2)

• "This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit . . ." (Acts 2:32-33)

Apostles Empowered by the Spirit

The Word and the Spirit

• "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,' that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming. Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ." (Romans 10:8,17, N.I.V)

• "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God . . Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (John 3:3,5)

• "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever . . . And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1:23-25)

• "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I (Jesus) speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." (John 6:63)

• "Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." (James 1:18-22)

• "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh . . . God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." (Galatians 5:16-17; 6:7-8)

• "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." (Galatians 5:22)

The Message of the Spirit

Salvation

Step 1 Instructio

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Step 2 Faith

Step 3 Confessio

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Step 4 Repentanc

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God's Care through Angels

The Power of Prayer

"We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." (1 John 2:1-2, R.V.)

Response to prayer

"Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." (Hebrews 7:25)

Temptation in the Wilderness

Gethsemane

Guidance from God

A Lamp

We must choose!

Choices

• "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:19)

• "Choose you this day whom ye will serve." (Joshua 24:15)

• "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies . . . What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose." (Psalm 25:8-10,12)

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