Class: Helps of the Spirit

 

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Purpose: To see the many ways that the Lord blesses us with the Holy Spirit

Helps of the Spirit

Don Ruhl • Savage Street, Grants Pass, Oregon • March 27, In the year of our Lord, 2016

  1. Helps of the Holy Spirit We Have Already Studied
    1. Conversion
    2. Indwelling
    3. Leadership
    4. Testimony that we are children of God
    5. Help in prayer
    6. Providence
    7. The word
  2. Various Helps
    1. Luke 11.13 – The Holy Spirit is available to us
      1. Not a prayer for reception or indwelling of the Holy Spirit, for
      2. Christians receive Him at conversion.
      3. Compare Matt 7.11 and Phi 1.19
        1. God makes the Holy Spirit available to give us good things.
        2. The Father operates through the agency of the Holy Spirit.
    2. The teaching of the Holy Spirit
      1. He used the Bible-writers to give us the truth.
      2. John 15.26
      3. John 16.13
      4. Rom 15.18–19
      5. 1Co 2:4–5, 10
      6. 1Co 12.3
    3. He helps us to produce good character traits
      1. Rom 14.17
      2. Rom 15.13
      3. 2Co 3.18
      4. Gal 5.22–23
      5. Eph 3.16
    4. He brings us in contact with divine qualities
      1. Acts 9.31
      2. Rom 5.5
      3. Rom 15.30
      4. 1Co 12.13
      5. 2Co 3.17
      6. Gal 6.8
      7. Phi 2.1
    5. He brings us into contact with the Father
      1. Eph 2.18
      2. Eph 2.22
    6. He gives life-changing power
      1. 2Co 3.3
        1. Not the Spirit alone nor
        2. the Spirit directly nor
        3. the preaching of the word alone.
          1. The Spirit working through the preaching of the preachers.
      2. Gal 5.16-26
      3. Eph 3.16
      4. 2Co 3.18
      5. This includes the work of sanctification or making us holy:
        1. Rom 15.16
        2. 2Th 2.13
        3. 1Pe 1.2
    7. Spiritual longings
      1. Gal 5.5
      2. 1Th 1.5–6
      3. 2Ti 1.14
      4. Tts 3.5
    8. He is with us during hard times
      1. 1Pe 4.14
    9. As a seal
      1. Eph 1.13–14
      2. 2Co 1.21–22
      3. 2Co 5.5