Ministry of the Holy Spirit from OT

Psa 51:10-13 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. (11) Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. (12) Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. (13) Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.
• Titus 3:5, Rom 8:14
Introducing Ministry of the Holy Spirit
Joh 14:1-4 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. (2) “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. (3) “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. (4) “And you know the way where I am going.”

Holy Spirit Leads US – Born Great
• Joh 14:1-4 Saving Faith – “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. – out of trouble to trusting to Saving Faith in Jesus
• (2) Family Member – no more orphan – “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you;
• Placed in Call of God & Ministry – for I go to prepare a place for you. – Place that makes us Prosperous

Born for Greater
• (3) Heaven Our Ultimate Home – “If I go and prepare a place for you,
• Hope of His Second Coming – I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
• Continual Supernatural Guidance, Preservation (4) “And you know the way where I am going.“- follow the Good Shepherd’s footsteps for you 24/7

Holy Spirit Leads Us Into
• Born Again – Born of the word of Truth
• Feeding on, led by & leading from God’s word – Jn 14:26
• Communion of Holy Spirit & Church Family Jn 14:23 Action of the Parakletos – 1 Cor 14:3
• Yearning for Soul salvation – rescue the perishing Jn 20:21
• Spiritual Warfare – Holy Spirit engages unseen evil – Do not lead us into temptation, deliver us from evil
• Heaven is Real – Jn 6:40, Ecc 7:29

1 HS Leads – Born as Sons & Daughters – No More Orphans
• Born again – heaven’s trigger – just like for natural birth a command from heaven – Be Born, heaven says Be Born Again
• Life to life – No more orphans – became family
• Joh 14:17-18 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. (18) “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

1 Born – No More Fear of Death – We Think Life – Born to Live
• Born to life – so we are out of oppression of death Heb 2:14
• Heb 2:15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
• Rom 8:1-2 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

2 Holy Spirit Leads Us by & Thru the Word
• Holy Spirit gives the proceeding word Matt 4:4 – MAN shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds form the mouth of the Lord
• Joh 14:26 “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 said to you.
• 2 Tim 3:16
2 Word Given By the Breath of God
Spirit Leads us By Green Grass & Clear Waters
• Psa 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. – Life in the Holy Spirt away from brown & parched – never into mud or sludge – godliness with contentment. 1 Tim 6:12
• Psa 23:3 He restores my soul; – returns me, fetches me back on tract
• He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake – unerring leading – Spirit of Grace & Spirit of Truth.

2 LORD Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want.
• Psa 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. – Life in the Holy Spirt away from brown & parched – never into mud or sludge – godliness with contentment. 1 Tim 6:12
• Psa 23:3 He restores my soul; – returns me, fetches me back on tract
• He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake – unerring leading – Spirit of Grace & Spirit of Truth.

3 Born Again to Belong Again – Holy Spirit Leads us into Family Life
• Communion of Holy Spirit & Church Family Jn 14:23
• 2 Cor 13:14 – leading many together by still waters, green pastures Phil 2:1,2 Phil 1:27
• Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him – by the Holy Spirit.

3 How Holy Spirit Makes One Family – Out of Many People
• 1Co 14:3 But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.
• Edification (oikodomēn). Building up. Refurbish – break the old mould the new
• Comfort (paraklēsin). Encouragement, calling to one’s side. Walk alongside – coach
• Consolation (paramuthian) – cheer.

Holy Spirit Leads – Building You into Ecclesia Church
• Joh 16:13-15 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. (14) “He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. (15) “All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

4 Holy Spirit Leads us in Evangelism
Engage Soul Winning Rescue the Perishing
• Joh 15:26-27 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, (27) and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
• Jn 16:7 – “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

4 Leading of Holy Spirit in Evangelism
• Joh 16:7-11 (8) “And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; (9) concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; (10) and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; (11) and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

• Spiritual Warfare
• Act 10:38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him

• Heaven Is Real – Spirit & Bride Say Come
• Heb 6:4-5 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, (5) and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,