DISCOVERING THE SPIRIT pt 2 // Sunday, February 11, 2024 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor

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Sunday, February 11, 2024 

Discovering the Holy Spirit

  

Acts 1: 4 & 5 (NLT)

    Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. 5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

 

Mark 1: 8 (NLT)

    I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!”

 

John 1: 33 (NLT)

     I didn’t know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’

 

Acts 11: 16 (NLT)

    Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

 

 

John’s baptism: Repentance Baptism

1.               Tabernacle

2.               Bronze Sea

3.               Mikveh

4.               Al

5.               Al Immersed

Romans 6: 1 – 7 (NLT)

    What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?  3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.  6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—  7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin…

 

Romans 6: 11 – 14 (NLT)

    11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

≠ Perfection / Performance

 

Acts 2: 1 - 4 (NASB)

    When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.  3 And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them.   4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.

 

John 1: 12 (NLT)

    … to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.