The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit – Our Guide

  INTRODUCTION What is God like?  How involved is he in our lives and in this world? Does he have a “hands-off” attitude towards this world? “I made this world, but now you’re on your own unless things get really bad.” We could call this Deism. God might be interested in the happenings of this world, but he doesn’t really intervene. Deism is impossible to find in the Bible. In fact, the coming of God’s Son into the world crushes arguments of Deism. The…

Gifts of the Spirit

  Summary: God has given spiritual gifts to all believers empowering them to serve one another and build up the church. Just as the human body is made up of many different parts, yet is one body, so God has given a wide diversity of gifts, yet all united around Him to do His will. God gives gifts as He wills and Biblical history shows that the gifts of healing and miracles have not been present in the history of…

The Holy Spirit and Our Sanctification

  Introduction We Christians like to us the word, “saved.” “I’m saved.” “I have salvation.” My story of salvation began on a warm, August evening when I was a 19-year old engineering student at ISU. Salvation means to be delivered. Rescued.  What happens at “salvation?” Last week Matt clearly talked about eternal life. Salvation. Finding forgiveness and a right standing with God through Jesus Christ. And only through Jesus Christ. It means gaining entrance into life with God forever. Being…

The Holy Spirit and The New Birth

Prologue We are in week three of a series on The Holy Spirit. In the first message, Pastor Paul gave an excellent overview of who The Holy Spirit it is, and what He does.  In the second, Pastor Dave gave a very good Biblical history of the promised Holy Spirit, and the arrival of the Spirit in the church at Pentecost.   Our series is arranged roughly in the order we experience His presence and work in the church and…