House Rules - Holy Spirit
Dave Riddle - 10/16/2022
Key Passage: John 14:16-17
Life in the Spirit
walking in the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit, while bearing spiritual fruit and utilizing spiritual gifts.
A Promise Fulfilled
John 14:16-17
We need help!
John 16:7
Jesus was leaving, but He didn’t leave us without help!
Helper = paraklētos - summoned, called to one's side, esp. called to one's aid. One who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate. One who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor. In the widest sense, a helper, aider, assistant
Friendship
Holy Spirit “…is the loving, self-communicating, out-fanning and out-pouring presence of the eternal divine life of the triune God. By the Spirit, God draws near to the creature and mediates a knowledge of divinity in a hundred thousand ways.” - Jürgen Moltmann
Conviction
John 16:8-9
We are completely dependent on the Holy Spirit bearing fruit in our gospel work and in our lives.
New Life
Acts 2:37-38
John 3:5-6
John 6:63a
Empowered Life
Acts 1:8
2 Timothy 1:7
Power = dynamis (Greek: δύναμις) strength, ability of power, especially inherent power, residing in something (or someone) by virtue of its (or their) nature.
Galatians 5:16
Changed (Fruitful) Life
Galatians 5:22-23
Galatians 5:25 - If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit
Keep in step = stoicheo (Greek: στοιχέω) -literally, to march in military rank; to proceed in a row as the march of a soldier. Figuratively, to conform (in virtue, piety)
Gifted Life
1 Corinthians 12:4-7
We are strengthened by each other’s gifts.
1 Corinthians 12:12
Directed Life
John 16:3
1 Corinthians 2:14
Eternal Life
Ephesians 1:13-14
Ephesians 4:30
United Life
1 Corinthians 12:13
koinōnia (Greek: κοινωνία) - fellowship, association, community, intimacy, joint participation (the share which one has in anything), communion.