The Work Of The Holy Spirit

[Walter and Deborah]

Tuesday 4-25-23 3rd. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Iyar 4 5783, 37th. Spring Day

Of all the gifts given to mankind by God, there is none greater than the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit has many functions, roles, and activities. First, He does a work in the hearts of all people everywhere. Jesus told the disciples that He would send the Spirit into the world to “will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment” (John 16:8, NASB). Everyone has a “God consciousness,” whether or not they admit it. The Spirit applies God’s truths to people's minds to convince them by fair and sufficient arguments that they are sinners. Responding to that conviction brings us to salvation.
 

Once we are saved and belong to God, the Spirit takes up residence in our hearts forever, sealing us with the confirming, certifying, and assuring pledge of our eternal state as His children. Jesus said He would send the Spirit to us to be our Helper, Comforter, and Guide. “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever” (John 14:16). The Greek word translated here “Counselor” means “one who is called alongside” and has the idea of someone who encourages and exhorts. The Holy Spirit takes up permanent residence in the hearts of believers (Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 12:13). Jesus gave the Spirit as a “compensation” for His absence, to perform the functions toward us that He would have done if He had remained personally with us.

Among those functions is that of revealer of truth. The Spirit’s presence within us enables us to understand and interpret God’s Word. Jesus told His disciples that “when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). He reveals to our minds the whole counsel of God as it relates to worship, doctrine, and Christian living. He is the ultimate guide, going before, leading the way, removing obstructions, opening the understanding, and making all things plain and clear. He leads in the way we should go in all spiritual things. Without such a guide, we would be apt to fall into error. A crucial part of the truth He reveals is that Jesus is who He said He is (John 15:26; 1 Corinthians 12:3). The Spirit convinces us of Christ’s deity and incarnation, His being the Messiah, His suffering and death, His resurrection and ascension, His exaltation at the right hand of God, and His role as the judge of all. He gives glory to Christ in all things (John 16:14).

Another one of the Holy Spirit’s roles is that of gift-giver. First Corinthians 12 describes the spiritual gifts given to believers in order that we may function as the body of Christ on earth. All these gifts, both great and small, are given by the Spirit so that we may be His ambassadors to the world, showing forth His grace and glorifying Him.

The Spirit also functions as fruit-producer in our lives. When He indwells us, He begins the work of harvesting His fruit in our lives—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). These are not works of our flesh, which is incapable of producing such fruit, but they are products of the Spirit’s presence in our lives.

The knowledge that the Holy Spirit of God has taken up residence in our lives, that He performs all these miraculous functions, that He dwells with us forever, and that He will never leave or forsake us is cause for great joy and comfort. Thank God for this precious gift—the Holy Spirit and His work in our lives!

Love, Walter and Debbie

[farouk]

It's wonderful to read in John's Gospel indeed how the Holy Spirit works together with the Father and the Son in Divine, redemptive purposes.

[steve morrow]

THE  SPIRIT  OF  CHRIST  

 

1 CORINTHIANS 12:3  wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by  --THE  SPIRIT  OF  GOD-- calleth  JESUS  accursed and that no man can say that  --JESUS  IS  THE  LORD--  but by the holy spirit

 

1 CORINTHIANS 1:9  GOD  is faithful by whom you were called unto the fellowship of  --HIS  SON--   JESUS  CHRIST  OUR  LORD   --

 

ROMANS 6:23   for the wages of sin is death but the gift of  ---GOD---  is eternal life through--   JESUS  CHRIST  OUR  LORD  --

 

ROMANS 8:39  nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of  GOD  which--  is in   ---  CHRIST  JESUS  OUR  LORD  --

 

1 CORINTHIANS  8:6   but to us there is but one  GOD   THE  FATHER  of whom are all things and we in  HIM   -- and  ONE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST -- by whom are all things   --  AND  WE  BY  HIM  --

 

JOHN 6:63  it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing  --the words that I speak unto you they  --   are  SPIRIT  and they are  LIFE  --

 

ACTS 1:1  the former treatise have I made o theophilus  -- OF  ALL  THAT  JESUS  BEGAN  BOTH  TO  DO  AND  TEACH --

--1:2-- until the day in which  HE  was taken up after that  HE  through the holy spirit had given  --commandments unto the apostles whom  HE  had chosen--

 

JOHN 12:49  for I have not spoken of myself but  --THE  FATHER  WHICH  SENT  ME  HE  GAVE  ME  A  COMMANDMENT   ---  WHAT  I  SHOULD  SAY  AND  WHAT  I  SHOULD  SPEAK  ---

 

JOHN 12:50  and I know that  HIS  commandment is life everlasting  ---whatsoever I speak therefore even as  THE  FATHER  SAID  UNTO  ME  --  SO  I  SPEAK---

 

1 JOHN 5:11  and this is the record that  GOD  hath given to us eternal life   -- AND  THIS  LIFE  IS  IN  HIS  SON --

 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

 

[TheBlade]

Amen amen to the sweet holy Spirit.. thanks for sharing this.. praise GOD glory to Jesus! 

[steve morrow]

COMFORTED  ---  COMFORTER

 

PSALM 119:50  this is my comfort in my affliction ---for thy word hath quickened me---

PSALM 119:82   mine eyes fail for thy word saying  ---when wilt thou comfort me---

 

2 CORINTHIANS  1:3  blessed be  GOD  even  THE  FATHER  OF OUR  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST  THE  FATHER  of all mercies  --and the  GOD   OF  ALL  COMFORT --

--1:4--  WHO  COMFORTETH  US   --IN  ALL  OUR  TRIBULATION--   that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble  --BY  THE  COMFORT  WHEREWITH  WE  OURSELVES  ARE  COMFORTED  OF  GOD 

 

ROMANS  15:4  for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and --comfort of the scriptures-- might have hope

ACTS 22:14  and he said  THE  GOD  of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know  HIS  will and see that  JUST  ONE  --and shouldest hear the voice of  HIS  mouth--

--22:15-- for thou shalt be  HIS  witness unto all men --of what thou hast seen and heard--

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JOHN 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you 

--14:26--  but the comforter which is the holy spirit whom  THE  FATHER  will send in my name  HE  shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you 

 

ISAIAH 51:12   I  EVEN  I  AM  HE  THAT  COMFORTETH  YOU  WHO  ART  THOU  THAT  THOU  SHOULDEST  BE  AFRAID  OF  A  MAN  THAT  SHALL  DIE  AND  OF  THE  SON  OF  MAN  WHICH  SHALL  BE  MADE  AS  GRASS 

 

ISAIAH 43:11  I even I am  THE  LORD   --and beside  ME  there is  --NO  SAVIOUR--

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

 

 

[steve morrow]

THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

GALATIANS 3:3   are you so foolish having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh 

GALATIANS 6:8  for he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting 

 

MARK 4:14   THE  SOWER  SOWETH  THE  WORD

 

EPHESIANS 6:17  and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of  GOD 

 

REVELATION 19:13  and  HE  was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and  HIS  name is called  --THE  WORD  OF  GOD--

 

HEBREWS 1:1  GOD  who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets 

--1:2--  hath in these last days spoken unto us by  HIS  SON  whom  HE  hath appointed heir --OF  ALL  THINGS-- by whom also  HE  made the worlds 

--1:3--  who being the brightness of  HIS  glory ---AND  THE  EXPRESS  IMAGE  OF  HIS  PERSON---  and upholding all things by the word of  HIS  power ---  when  HE  HAD  --BY  HIMSELF  PURGED  OUR  SINS-- sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

[steve morrow]

THREE  THAT  BEAR  WITNESS

 

HEBREWS 12:24  and to  JESUS  the mediator of the new covenant and to the --the blood of sprinkling   ---   that speaketh better things--  than that of abel

HEBREWS 9:16  for where a testament is there must also of necessity --BE  THE  DEATH  OF  THE  TESTATOR--

--9:17-- for a testament is of force after men are dead --otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth--

--9:18--  whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood 

 

EPHESIANS 5:24  therefore as the church is subject unto  CHRIST  so let the wives be to their own husbands --in everything--

--5:25--  husbands love your wives even as  CHRIST  also loved the church and gave himself for it 

--5:26-- that  HE  might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by  --THE  WORD--

 

GENESIS 1:2  and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep -- and the spirit of  GOD  moved upon the face of the waters--

PSALM 29:3  the voice of  THE  LORD  is upon the waters the  GOD  of glory thudereth --THE  LORD  is upon many waters--

 

JOHN 6:63  it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing  --THE  WORDS--  that I speak unto you they  --ARE  SPIRIT  --  AND  THEY  ARE  LIFE--

 

EPHESIANS 5:9  the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righeousness and truth 

2 CORINTHIANS 3:8  how shall not the ---ministration--- of -- THE  SPIRIT -- be rather glorious 

--3:9-- for if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more does the ministration --of righteousness exceed in glory--

 

EPHESIANS 4:21  --if so be you have heard  HIM  and have been taught by  HIM  --AS  THE  TRUTH  IS  IN  JESUS--

 

1 JOHN 5:8  AND  THERE  ARE  THREE  THAT  BEAR  WITNESS  IN  EARTH  --THE  SPIRIT  --  AND  THE  WATER  --  AND  THE  BLOOD--  AND  THESE  THREE  AGREE  IN  ONE--

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

[steve morrow]

ONE SPIRIT 

PROVERBS 1:23  turn you at  MY  reproof behold --I will pour out  MY  spirit unto you  ---  I will make known  MY  words unto you--

EPHESIANS 4:4  there is one body  and one spirit  even as you are called in  one hope  of your calling 

 

ROMANS 8:9  but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of  GOD  dwell in you --now if any man have not the spirit of   ---  CHRIST    HE  IS  NONE  OF  HIS--

JOHN 6:63  it is the spirit that quickeneth  --the flesh profiteth nothing--  the words that   --I speak--   they are spirit and they are life 

2 CORINTHIANS 1:21  now  HE  which establisheth us in  CHRIST  is  GOD  and hath anointed us is  GOD 

--1:22--  who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts

 

1 CORINTHIANS 10:2  and were all baptized unto moses in the cloud and in the sea

--10:3-- and did all eat the same spiritual meat 

--10:4-- and did all drink the spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them  ---AND  THAT  ROCK  WAS  CHRIST---

 

1 JOHN 2:27  but the anointing which you have received of  HIM  abideth in you  and you need not that ---any man teach you--- but as the same anointing teacheth you of   ALL  THINGS  --AND  IS  TRUTH--  AND  IS  NO  LIE  --  and even as it has taught you   ---you shall abide in  HIM---

 

JOHN 14:6  JESUS  saith unto him  --I am the way  --THE  TRUTH--  and the life  ---  NO  MAN  COMETH  UNTO  THE  FATHER  BUT  BY  ME  ---

 

PROVERBS 21:30  THERE  IS  NO  WISDOM  NOR  UNDERSTANDING  NOR  COUNSEL  AGAINST  THE  LORD

 

1 CORINTHIANS 1:9  but we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not --trust in ourselves but in  GOD  which raiseth the dead

EZEKIEL 13:3  THUS  SAITH  THE  LORD  GOD  --WOE  UNTO  THE  FOOLISH  PROPHETS  THAT  FOLLOW  THEIR  OWN  SPIRIT  AND  HAVE  SEEN  NOTHING--

 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST