Doctrine of The Holy Spirit Pt. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Yh3lTM9YY

Lecture Notes:

 I.  Who is the Holy Spirit

A.   The Holy Spirit is a person (Third person of the Trinity)

II. Attributes of the Holy Spirit

A. Fruit of the Spirit

B. Other attributes

III. The Work of the Holy Spirit

A. Appointment

B. Empowerment

C. Special Ability

D. Regeneration

E. Sanctification

IV.  Indwelling

A. Old Testament

B. New Testament

I.  Who is The Holy Spirit

Hebrew word for breath is ruach. The Greek word is pneuma.

Why focus on the “breath” of God and not any other part of God? Personal pronouns are used when referring to the Holy Spirit. It has also been established in the Trinity lecture that the Holy Spirit is God.

A. The Holy Spirit is a person with a mind, emotion, and will:

Mind: 1 Corinthians 2:10-13 (ESV) These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Emotions: Ephesians 4:30 (ESV) And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 10:29 (NLT) Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

Will: 1 Corinthians 12:11 (ESV) All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

John 16:12-15 (ESV) I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

The Holy Spirit has a will but chooses to promote Christ. The Holy Spirit will always speak of God and Jesus. John 13-15; John 16.

You cannot isolate the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son.

II. Attributes of the Holy Spirit

A. Galatians 5:22-23

·  Love. Characterized by being caring, affectionate, and thoughtful.

·  Joy. Characterized by being happy, cheerful, and enthusiastic.

·  Peace. Characterized by being pleasant, calm, diplomatic, and agreeable.

·  Patience. Characterized by being tolerant, empathetic, flexible, and able to endure difficulties.

·  Kind. Characterized by being friendly, giving, generous, and service-oriented.

·  Goodness. Characterized by honorable, ethical, and principled.

·  Faithfulness. Characterized by loyal, dedication, and dependable.

·  Gentleness. Characterized by mild-mannered, humble, and teachable.

·  Self-Control. Characterized by disciplined, measured, and emotionally & behaviorally temperate.

B.    Other Attributes

· Convicts of Sin John 16:8 (ESV) And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.

·  Comforts John 16:7 (ESV) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

·  Teach & Helps John 14:26 (ESV) But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

·  Sanctifies (NASB) 1 Peter 1:2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

· Regenerates (ESV) Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit

III. The Work of the Holy Spirit

A. Appointment

·  Moses appointment of elders Numbers 11:24-26 (ESV) Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

·  Barnabas & Saul chosen Acts 13:2 (ESV) While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

·  Leadership (Elders) Acts 20:28 (ESV) Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

B.    Empowerment

·  Judges [Othniel – Judges 3:10; Gideon – Judges 6:34; Japhthah – Judges 11:29; Samson– Judges 14]

·  Prophets [Azariah – 2 Chronicles 15:1; Ezekiel – Ezekiel 11: 5; Micah – Micah 3:8; Zechariah 7: 12]

· Jesus Began Ministry – Luke 4:14-18

C.    Special Ability

·      Bezalel given all skills in building the Tabernacle – Exodus 31:1-11

·      Carried Phillip away – Acts 8:39

·      Incarnation of Jesus – Matthew 1:18-20; Luke 1:35

D.   Regeneration

·  Romans 8:11 (NLT) The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

·  Made alive with Christ through the Holy Spirit – Ephesians 2

· Must be born of water and Spirit – John 3:3-5

·  New birth and life through the Holy Spirit Titus 3:5

E.    Sanctification

·  1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 (ESV) For this is the will of God, your sanctification:  that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

·  John 17 – Jesus prays that believers are not taken out of the world, but sanctified while in it.

·  Hebrews 10:14 (ESV) For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

How did Jesus live a sinless life and resists temptation, as a human?

·      Not because he was God

·      God cannot be tempted – James 1:13

·      It was by the power of the Holy Spirit – Matthew 4; Luke 4; John 17

·      Follow after his example – 1 Peter 2:21-22

IV.  Indwelling

A. Old Testament. Out-dwelling and prophecy of Indwelling

·  Ezekiel 36:25-28 (ESV) I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

·  Jeremiah 31:31-34 (ESV) Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

·  Joel 2:28-2 9 (ESV) And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

B. New Testament fulfillment of Indwelling

·  Believers (includes carnal) 1 Corinthians 3:1-3; 16-17 (ESV) But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way…Do you not know that you[c] are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

·  All believers receive the Holy Spirit John 7:38-39 (ESV) He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.