Journey to The Day of Pentecost
Who is the Holy Spirit?
John 14:15-26
1. The Challenge
If you love me, obey my commandments. John 14:15
a. Our love for Jesus is demonstrated by our actions
For the sake of Christ I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. Philippians 3:8-10
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Romans 7:24
2. The EXPERIENCE
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. John 14:16-17
a. We won’t be abandoned like orphans.
b. Ask the Father to send another of the same kind.
c. The Holy Spirit is in us!
It is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you. John 16:7
3. Holy Spirit through word pictures in the Bible
a. Wind
The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.” John 3:8
b. Fire
Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:3-4
c. Oil
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, Luke 4:18
After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him. Matthew 3:16