HOLY SPIRIT 3: WORK IN THE CHURCH (2)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Holy Spirit

a) Who is the Holy Spirit or what is the Holy Spirit?  Is it a force, an energy, a power, or is He a person?  We can find out by reading the Bible.

2. Work in the Church

a) The Holy Spirit not only empowers the believer with gifts but works actively in the church and even appoints church leadership (Acts 20:28).  

b) Here are a few examples: 

1 Corinthians 2:9-12 
“However, as it is written: What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,

and what no human mind has conceived” the things God has prepared for those who love him— these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.  For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

1 Peter 1:12  
“It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.”

Romans 8:26 
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”

John 15:26 
“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.” 

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