Devotionals on The Holy Spirit

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• as one by one God exposes the truth about carnality and spirituality – as little by little the Holy Spirit unfolds the 'overcomer' and the one overcome.

• When we come to see that all the old nature was taken down into the death of the Cross, and in Christ Jesus we are completely clear of its penalty and power, it is then that we begin to welcome the work of the Cross upon all that of which the Holy Spirit convicts us.

• You can be sure that you are in the will of God when He keeps you dependent upon Himself, walking in the Holy Spirit, and abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon Him.
• I didn’t know He was the One, but when God sent me to baptise with water, He told me, ‘The One on Whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the One Who will baptise with the Holy Spirit.”John 1:32-33r
• They had been disobedient children, but now they must turn from their sin to Christ. John gave this testimony: “I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon Him.
• I didn’t know He was the One, but when God sent me to baptise with water, He told me, ‘The One on Whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the One who will baptise with the Holy Spirit” – “Behold the Lamb of God….”
• Promised Messiah The beautiful picture of the Holy Spirit descending and resting upon Christ as the Father’s audible voice proclaimed: “THIS is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased,” must have been a staggering baptism of understanding to John – that this was God’s promised Messiah.
• We will never know – but this sign unquestioningly convinced John of His office as Messiah – Who on a future day would baptise with the Holy Spirit.

• Spirit and Truth It is into the body of Christ - the Church, that God seeks to embody His noble attributes, and so into that body of believers the Holy Spirit of God took up permanent residence..

• A man who waited God’s time. We read the following in Luke 2:26 and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. It is a truly fearful thing for anyone to see death before seeing Christ Jesus.

• Faithful Stewards The Holy Spirit calls to the witness stand a multitude of mighty men and women so that the church, which is His body, may be encouraged by their example. He calls to the podium examples of good and faithful stewards, who trusted God. He calls on church-age believers to unreservedly follow this example of faith – faith in the Son of God Who loved us and gave Himself for us.

• She was told by the angel Gabriel that the Holy Spirit would come upon her, and the power of the Most High God would overshadow her; and the child Who was to be born to her, would be called—the Son of the Most High God. The angel validated His humanity – for He was the Child, Who was born of a woman. And he confirmed His deity – for He was Son of the Most High God, Who was given.

• Thus shall we truly work with the Holy Spirit, and thus shall we have more, and more abiding fruit of our labour among the people of God.”
• Don’t just admire the positional truths revealed by the Holy Spirit in His Word.

• No, though sadly some believers do worry that they are not truly born again. Get once and for all the gospel truth ever firmly fixed in your mind and heart.. believe… just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you are saved – forever. No, the majority of truths in Paul’s epistles are for the saved man or woman, so that we can live the life that is best for us, as directed by the Holy Spirit.

• Spiritual Life Man must be born of the Holy Spirit – if he is to live in the power of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual life of which Christ spoke is something entirely separate from the Law. The spiritual life is rooted in grace and truth, which comes to us from Jesus Christ.

• Times and Dates But it was not for the apostles to be told the time the kingdom of God would come.. nor are we to know the times or dates that the Father has set by His own authority. But they rejoiced to hear that they would shortly receive the Holy Spirit’s power, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth Acts 1:8

• We have the indwelling Holy Spirit and the Word of God to ensure our spiritual victory, if we will but yield to Him, walk by faith and appropriate all that God has provided, so that we can: abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

• And we also carry His light, deep within our bodies, do you not know that your body is the temple of God -the temple of the Holy Spirit? 1Cor.6:19  Israel’s earthen vessels had within them a hidden treasure – the light of triumph, and God routed the enemy through His treasured light, hid deep within.

• Nothing can carry us through but the revelation of the Lord Jesus by the Holy Spirit in our hearts; an inside knowledge of Him - not mental assent to a creed or a doctrine, but a living, vital reality in our very being.

• Inner Conflict At salvation the believer also receives the permanent presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit, causing two sets of demands to have an influence on a believer’s life.
• Submission to the Spirit From rebirth, ALL believers start to have this inner conflict with these two actively opposing forces, and so a believer must learn to walk by means of his new born again spirit, and this can only be done through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• We can lay it all out according to the New Testament and it can be dead, ineffective.... You see the difference between a traditional system, whether it be Judaism or Christianity, and a living thing coming all the time in a living way out from the Christ Himself by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit Himself doing it.

• Prayer is the fellowship of an intimate, living union; as with all of the Christian life, it must be carried on in dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

• Wise Advice One saint of God puts it this way:- When the Holy Spirit reasons with man, He does not reason from what man is for God, but from what God is to man.
• A Total Change He continues:- “The Holy Spirit always reasons down from what God is, and this produces a total change in my soul.
• The Holy Spirit takes us to the point where we eventually recognise what we are.
• God’s Abstract Goodness One salty saint of God explains it this way: he wrote:- This is how the Holy Spirit reasons: He shows us what we are – and that is one reason why He often seems to be very hard, and does not give peace to the soul, as we are not relieved until we experientially, from our hearts, acknowledge what we are.

• Darby put it this way: When the Holy Spirit reasons with man, He does not reason from what man is for God, but from what God is to man. Souls reason from what they are in themselves as to whether God can accept them. He cannot accept you thus. You are looking for righteousness in yourself as a ground of acceptance with Him. You cannot get peace whilst reasoning in that way.
• From God to Man The Holy Spirit always reasons down from what God is, and this produces a total change in my soul. It is not that I abhor my sins; indeed I may have been walking very well… but it is ‘I abhor myself. Until the soul comes to that point He does not give it peace – He cannot for it would be healing the wound slightly. The soul has to go on until it finds there is nothing to rest on – but the abstract goodness of God; and then, ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?'”

• The might, energy and urge of the Holy Spirit within produced a Way and an order, un-thought-of, unintended by them, and always to their own surprise.

• Rather, as we count upon the finished work of Calvary, the Holy Spirit will apply the Cross to the old life.
• The Holy Spirit is ready to apply that finished work of death to the depth of our self-life, until Sin loses its mastery at point after point.

• When we are in resurrection-union with Christ, the Holy Spirit brings us into oneness with Him who is in heaven for us.
• If we live in heavenly union with Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, the same resources are at our disposal.

• The present and eternal ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Son; the past, present, and future ministry of the Son is to glorify the Father.
• Our life and ministry will bring glory to our Father to the extent that we abide in the Son, and are controlled by the Holy Spirit.

• Spiritual Truth IN HIM you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; IN WHOM also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Eph.1:13 Through time and through eternity, this heavenly fact is expressed in many forms, Through the cross, this eternal reality is wrought in literal and experimental forms, but always, Always, ALWAYS the same principle emerges:- always, ALWAYS the same abiding, infinite, glorious, spiritual truth is manifested.

• The Spirit’s Guarantee In Ephesians 1 and 4 believers are sealed unto the day of redemption with the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise, Who was given by the Father and sent by the Son.
• And this is just one guarantee of many – from the Holy Spirit.
• All are sealed and indwelt by the Holy Spirit unto the day of salvation, but some are living as God desires, and sadly others are not.

• One Great Saint In the words of one great saint of God, he explains “in the spirit”  like this:- It is through God’s dealings and God’s merciful grace that He combines our chastening and our prayer with His dealings in our human spirit, which is progressively and increasingly becoming more and more in union with the Holy Spirit and which is strengthened by the Holy Spirit, as He, (ie the Holy Spirit), utters through us – that which is according to the will of God – for we know not what we should pray for as we ought… but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans.8:26
• All-prayer is taken by the Holy Spirit and translated into the purposes of God – and we are to be those willing vessels through whom All-Prayer is offered.
• Complete IN Christ May we pray in unhindered fellowship with God, May we be properly clad in the Lord Jesus Christ. May we pray aright in spirit and in truth – in the power of the Holy Spirit, that we may be effective in the intercessory battle of the ages – a battle already won that is soon to be concluded – IN Christ.

• Deposited Gift In his 'Green Letters', Miles Stanford explains “appropriating” like this: How often we simply admire and talk about the truths the Holy Spirit reveals to us in His Word, whereas His primary purpose in giving them to us is that we might stand upon them in faith, waiting confidently for Him to make them an integral part of our life.

• In dying on that cross our Lord Jesus Christ, as He had promised, reconciled us to Father God in the forgiveness of our sins and the assurance of eternal life with Him and His Father – and the promise that He was leaving His Holy Spirit with us to live in us and amongst us until we die or until He returns.

• And Christ is abiding in you when His Holy Spirit is comfortable in your presence.
• He submitted to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit in His life.
• He was submissive to the Holy Spirit and sensitive to His inner promptings, and the Holy Spirit of God dwelt in Him and was comfortable in Him – was at home in Him.
• Like Christ We are all called upon to live as Christ lived, and it is not an impossible task. We are all commanded to abide in Him and we are given the means to do so.  But we can only live as Christ lived when we abide in Him and rest in Him – and we can only abide and rest in Him as we live as Christ lived. We can only abide in Christ when His Holy Spirit is at home in our hearts.
• Sensitive Submission Let us submit to the leading and the guiding of the Holy Spirit of Christ. Let us listen to the Father’s voice – preferring the Father’s will to our own. Let us submit to the Holy Spirit and be sensitive to His inner promptings, for in so doing the Spirit of God will abide in us as we abide in Him.

• Christ Jesus our Lord was our worthy example and the perfect example of godliness.  And Christ Himself lived in unfailing dependence upon the Father in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Impossible Reality What is impossible in the minds and imaginations of man is the reality of God truth that fills every page of the Word of God, and the most amazing of all the impossible realities that flood the pages of Scripture, is the miraculous conception of the young virgin Mary, when she submitted to the work of the Holy Spirit in her life and prayed her beautiful song of praise to the Father: be it unto me according to Your Word.
• and have come to fullness of life..  for in Christ we too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—reaching full spiritual stature.
• Our Prepared Body A body was prepared for the Lord Jesus, though the overshadowing work of the Holy Spirit.
• Just as Mary willingly and trustingly submitted to the work of the Holy Spirit in her, by faith – let us follow her example and like her be prepared to say; be it unto me according to Your Word.

• They had no pre-planned programme or enterprise – no undertaking to follow..  except as they were taught but the Word of truth – the Lord Who is their head – except as they were led of the Holy Ghost..

• Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom you have received from God?
• The Holy Spirit There is a lot of misunderstanding about the beautiful person of the Holy Spirit. Many cults and false teachings consider Him to be an influence – an ‘IT’ and not a person. They talk of Him as an invisible active force – a kind of energy or a super ‘substance’. But the Holy Spirit is Deity. He is the third Person of the Trinity.
• He is fully God. And the indwelling Holy Spirit has been given to each believer as a gift from God..
• but when He ascended into heaven, to sit on the throne of the Father, He sent us the Holy Spirit to be another Comforter – to be our ever-present Help in time of trouble.
• The Holy Spirit will be a Helper akin to that which the disciples experienced during Christ’s earthly sojourn – but He’ll remain alongside us all through life and into eternity.
• The Holy Spirit is now the Paraclete / Paracletos – for believers on earth today – and Paraclete means an Advocate – i.e.
• Inner Ministry I doubt the disciples could have imagined that Christ, going away as He did, would have resulted in something even better for them– for the Lord Jesus could only walk beside His disciples – while the Holy Spirit indwells the very heart of a believer. This intimate, inner ministry of the indwelling Spirit, surpasses our wildest thoughts.
• A Divine Person The Holy Spirit is equal in power, glory, and understanding to the Father and the Son.
• Energy doesn’t have emotions, and a mere power cannot be grieved or insulted – but when we do not yield to His guiding voice, we can hurt or even quench the Holy Spirit.
• Spirit of God The Holy Spirit is an all-knowing Person, and He knows the deep things of God, for what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?

• The enemy can carry away multitudes by imitation works of the Holy Ghost in the realm of demonstrations and proofs.

• Promised Helper He comforted them with the promise of the Holy Spirit – the heavenly Comforter. He pledged to ask the Father, to give them another Helper like Him, to be with them.. the Spirit of truth, Who was already with them but would one day live in them.
• Indwelling Holy Spirit He didn’t explain that first much had to be done in the coming Church Dispensation.
• Christ did not describe church age doctrine – that was to be Paul’s responsibility, but He did comfort them with the promise of His permanently indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Different Empowerment In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit gifted a few people for their particular ministry or their specific service – or for a certain office such as prophet, priest, or king.
• In the Old Testament, we hear the Holy Spirit came upon such people rather than dwelling within them.
• It was the book of Acts when these first believers were baptised in the Holy Spirit.

• Thus shall we truly work with the Holy Spirit, and thus shall we have more, and more abiding fruit of our labours among the people of God.

• You have a feeling there something not quite clear here, not transparent here, not safe here... don feel happy about this, I can tell you why but I just don feel quite happy about this... there something in me that says: beware.I am convinced that in a day like this of deceptions and misleadings and all that, the great need is our spiritual discernment; of knowing the Holy Spirit in this way, that He able to warn you.

• It is Jesus Himself Who promised that both He and the Father would keep us safe.  And Paul tells us that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit for the day of redemption..
• When you believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.
• Three-fold Assurance Our assurance of salvation and eternal security is purchased by Christ. Our assurance of salvation and eternal security was promised by the Father. Our assurance of salvation and eternal security is sealed by the Holy Spirit.

• The day we were saved, total war was declared between sinful self and the Holy Spirit.
• Lasting peace will come when we rest in Calvary's conquest of sin and self, and allow that victory to be applied by the faithful Spirit of God.The Holy Spirit does not reason from what man is for God, but from what God is to man.
• The Holy Spirit always reasons down from what God is, and this produces a total change in my soul.
• It is not that I abhor my sins; indeed I may have been walking very well; but it is I abhor myself.' The Holy Spirit shows us what we are, and that is one reason why He often seems to be very hard and does not give peace to the soul, as we are not relieved until we frankly, from our hearts, acknowledge what we are.

• The Holy Spirit baptizes us into the Lord Jesus, and fills us with Him.
• Christian experience is affected by the filling with the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit gives a living knowledge; His light is the light of life; He is the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.' We see the Father and the Son as seeing us.
• The communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all (2 Cor. 13:14).

• Christ – the Power We should examine ourselves daily through the lens of His Holy Spirit..
• We should examine ourselves daily through the lens of His Holy Spirit, for if self does not give way in one small area, Christ will not work through any area.
• Oneness with Christ T.Austin Sparks puts it this way: “Our life and prayers must be that of the Lord, prayed in us and through us, by the Holy Spirit.
• We should examine ourselves daily through the lens of His Holy Spirit, for if self does not give way in one small area - Christ will not work in any area.

• It is only by means of the Holy Spirit at work in my submitted soul that counts.

• The Holy Spirit came to reproduce the Lord Jesus in the lives of men and women.

• Masses crowded this alluring man who ate locusts and wild honey and cried ”Repent!” But this man who was filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb..

• Work of Christ If we don’t repent or change our mind – we remain dead in our trespasses and sins. When we do repent or change our mind about God’s free gift of grace, that is offered to all sinners who are dead in trespasses and sins we are born again.. and the Holy Spirit places us in Christ as part of God’s family – FOREVER. Let us never add to the amazing work of Christ on the cross when by His blood alone He paid the price for your sins and mine. But rather let us simply accept God’s free gift of grace – by faith alone.

• But in reality the law, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, is his beloved enemy.

• The Holy Spirit creates within us a hatred for the old nature, and a hunger for the new nature.

• But that is the error of holiness by faith.' The objective (position) is that we are clear before the Father; the subjective (condition) is that we are cleared from ourselves by the growth ministry of the Holy Spirit.

• That which we most dread weakness and failure-are the very means by which our Father turns us from self-reliance to full dependence 200 upon the Holy Spirit.
• “Walking in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, He leads up our hearts to where we are in the Lord Jesus.
• “As the believer grows, and his path becomes more involved, he is taught more about the Holy Spirit’s ministry, for he needs this doctrine increasingly for his comfort and rest in trial.

• Large numbers of seekers are brought to the altar by human soul-power rather than by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• faith as an accomplished fact – faith wrought in the soul of a sinner by the work and power of the Holy Spirit.

• Heirs of God Like Israel, we have a holy calling to be the little flock of our heavenly bridegroom. We have become the temple of the Holy Spirit, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. We were bought with the precious blood of Christ, Who became our Passover Lamb. We are to be holy, for God is Holy and we are to be separated to our holy cause – for it is written, be ye holy; for I am holy 1 Peter 1:16.

• When the believer truly sees Pentecost he says, There, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, I was baptized into the risen Lord Jesus.

• The fruit of a life that looks to Christ in all things is one that walks as He walked.  And Christ walked in spirit and truth by obediently listening to the Father’s voice.  Christ lived a life in submission to the Holy Spirit – He lived a spiritual life.

• Spirit of Comfort Truly Jesus is a great Comforter - our wonderful 'Paraclete'. Wikipedia tell us it mean 'Advocate' or 'Helper' and it generally refers to the Holy Spirit.

• The entire present system of Christianity as generally accepted would be impossible if the meaning of this letter were received as a heavenly revelation in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• He (the Holy Spirit) shall glorify Me (the Lord Jesus) (John 16:14).
• The power to carry out this will is not a permanent gift, but must be each moment received from the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit's filling is intended to be a filling of all things with the Lord Jesus Christ. -T.
• How we have degraded the Holy Spirit into a mere power by which we have to do our work!

• A searching of the heart, guided by His Holy Spirit; a testing of the mind and the soul; a proving of our attitudes and motives; an examination of our ways and our walk in case we stray from His chosen path.

• for hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.

• As the finished work of the Cross is applied to the life by the Holy Spirit, thereby progressively holding the old man in the position of death, the believer is conditioned for the Spirit's fulness.

• It is just here that the place, meaning, and sovereignty of the Holy Spirit in the life of the child of God has its meaning and importance.

• The Holy Spirit has to work into us the death of the Lord Jesus Christ in all its wonderful power and purpose. -G.W.

• When the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, it is to remove self from the throne of our hearts.
• When the Holy Spirit fills us, it is to place the Lord Jesus on the throne of our hearts.
• We all know how our Lord Jesus, ere He could receive the new life from the Father in glory, and the gift of the Holy Spirit through whom He could impart His life to His people, had first to give up the life He lived upon earth.
• To know what the Holy Spirit means, implies the knowing of what death means.
• The soul that understands that the death to self is in Christ the gate to true life, is in the right way to learn what and who the Holy Spirit is. -A.M.

• Experientially, day by day, our part is to choose against the old (put off) in favor of the new (put on), thus allowing the Holy Spirit freedom to apply the finished work of the Cross (Rom. 6:11).
• So we are told that the Holy Spirit is in open conflict against the self-life (Gal. 5:17).

• after the wonderful experience of the Holy Spirit descending on the ‘Beloved Son’.

• in you... for My indwelling Holy Spirit is in you, forever.

• This is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it cannot be measured by statistics. -R.W.

• The great object of the Holy Spirit in His opposing of Satan is to bring Christ into view and to occupy us with Him to the obscuring of ourselves.
• His activities with us are all in relation to the Christ who is now by the Holy Spirit in us, and in Whom we are.

• The answer comes through the Holy Spirit’s experiential revelation: except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and, die it abides alone, but if it die, it brings forth much fruit – and therein is the Father glorified.

• So that the Holy Spirit's way with us is to bring us into living, actual conditions and situations, and needs, in which only some fresh knowledge of the Lord Jesus can be our deliverance, our salvation, our life, and then to give us, not a revelation of truth, but a revelation of the Person, new knowledge of the Person, that we come to see Christ in some way that just meets our need.

• It may take a day or a month, I do not know how long, but I do know that when any child of God will believe and begin to express that faith in thanksgiving, day by day thanking Him for the fact which one may not yet have experienced, the Holy Spirit will lead that one into a glorious personal realization of his identification with the Lord Jesus in His death, burial, resurrection and ascension. -L.L.L.

• But being in Christ, and knowing it by the Holy Spirit, and what it involves now has dropped out of their creed altogether.

• I find it well to preface prayer not only by meditation but by the definite request that I may be directed into the channels of prayer to which the Holy Spirit is beckoning me (Rom. 8:26, 27). -J.O.F.

• Soteriology – the Holy Spirit’s work in different groups of people is distorted.

• That has ever been the effect of a work of the Holy Spirit; to put us into the place to which we belong.
• The Holy Spirit is pursuing that course all the time to find us out and to just classify us like this, so that when the Holy Spirit has worked we are in definite categories.

• They mistakenly think that they must have some part in overcoming the power of their sin; that their efforts, their will, their determination, strengthened and helped by the Holy Spirit, is the way of victory. -C.T.

• God has given unto us His human-divine nature, and put within us His Holy Spirit.

• Our Father has placed us in eternal and living union with His Son, that He, not we, may be.  Moreover, He has placed His Holy Spirit eternally within us that He, not we, may “do.” Further, He has given us the necessary faith and Scripture that we may rest in this wonderful reality, trusting Him “to will and to do of His good pleasure.” This is a far cry from futile struggle and frustrating self-effort!

• Reflection We need to clothe ourselves with humility. We need to submit to the workings of the Holy Spirit deep within our beings.
• Abandon yourselves to His will cheerfully and completely, and allow the wonder-working power of the Holy Spirit to keep you broken before Him.

• Promises of Christ The Lord Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to indwell those that believe in Him. He promised that the Holy Spirit would show us all things. He promised that His Spirit would guide us into all truth. He promised that His Spirit would open the Scriptures to us… as we live and move and pray and in the Spirit – as we allow the Spirit to instruct and to correct – as we offer ourselves a living sacrifice to Him – as we abide in Him and He in us.

• For strength to overcome and press on, only a revelation by the Holy Spirit in us can suffice but it can!
• It is absolutely essential to have this revelation by the Holy Spirit because we have to meet forces of evil against which nothing can stand save that which is of God.

• The sinfulness is discovered and felt as the power of the Holy Spirit increases; for many a thought and act passes without pain to the conscience where the Lord Jesus is less before the soul, which will be refused and condemned as the knowledge of the Lord increases in spiritual power within. -J.B.S.

• Exhort is the root word of the Holy Spirit as the great Comforter of our souls. This is a beautiful picture of a friend who gently comes alongside, to encourage. We are shown that we should function in the Spirit of exhortation and comfort.
• Faithful Servant A faithful servant will act to exhort and edify his fellow believers in love. A careless steward will act to correct or criticise and smite his fellow-servants, but gracious exhortation can only be done in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Testimony of Christ Both Father and Holy Ghost in Word and Spirit direct attention to Jesus.

• The Holy Spirit, with all that the gift of the Spirit means of enduement and endowment and instruction and strengthening, is not a substitute for experience.
• We are very often found asking that certain things shall be done for us by the Holy Spirit which the Holy Spirit will never do.

• Make a positive response to the inner voice of the Holy Spirit, and make a negative response to the inner voice of the fleshly sin nature.

• He ascended after He had given instructions, through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen, and they were to carry the good news to those in Jerusalem – in Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost ends of the earth.

• Faith is needed for a life that is being conformed into the image of Jesus, for though it is by the power of the Holy Spirit – it is accessed through faith.

• Intercession is ineffective – without the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit.

• Neither the Lord Jesus nor the Holy Spirit ever thought of willing or praying outside the will of God the Father.

• There must of necessity be the Holy Spirit giving revelation concerning Christ.
• And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice....The inner meaning of that is not something apart from the Word, but something that comes by the Holy Ghost through the Word.

• Is Christ in all here, so far as it is within my power, in the energy of the Holy Spirit, for it to be so?
• But for the moment it can be put quite simply and quite safely and soundly in this way, that a spiritual people is a people who are governed by the Word and the Holy Spirit to this end: that in everything within and without, Christ is All and in all.

• Following the crisis, whatever phase or landmark in the life that may represent, there must be the daily reckoning, the moment-by-moment abiding and the control of the Holy Spirit.

• The love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5).

• We must accept as fact what has already been made ours through faith in Christ, but we must be aware of our need of these truths in our daily walk – and only the Holy Spirit can reveal these truths to the seeking believer: for the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, they are foolishness to him: neither can they be known to them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Corinthians.2:1 There are many ways to live that fail to deal with ‘self’ and the ‘self-life’. We have to recognise that God’s way, to self-denial, is at the cross.

• But again, if only we can bring Christ... with all His divine significance and meaning and comprehensiveness to them and the Holy Spirit can reveal Him in their hearts... oh, that will do it!
• It is a work of the Holy Spirit.

• The new creation has another object before it, and another power that acts upon it, in order to produce what is lovely and acceptable to God - Christ the object, realized by the power of the Holy Spirit. -W.K.

• Just as the Lord Jesus came into this world where this old humanity was and came into it not to ally Himself with it but to take it into death by the Cross, even so He now by the Holy Spirit, in regeneration, comes into us where there is this old fallen life and not to ally Himself with it, but to hold it in the place of death by the same means - His Cross. -N.D.

• The Holy Spirit points out that the way into the true Holy of Holies is not yet thrown open as long as the former tabernacle remains a recognized institution and is still standing... For Christ (the Messiah) has not entered into a sanctuary made with human hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true one, but He has entered into heaven itself. (Hebrews 9:8,24 AMP)

• The Holy Spirit ministers the truth of the Word via the mind, that we may share the One who is Truth via the heart.

• God be praised that the Holy Spirit ever dwells in us to keep the old man in the place of crucifixion and condemnation, and to give us progressive liberty from all the old. -A.M.

• The Lord Jesus before our souls in the power of the Holy Spirit - the glorified Lord - is our Father's means for bringing us into conformity with His beloved Son.

• People may receive blessings' and temporary deliverances' in answer to prayer, for God is merciful to His children and His Holy Spirit refreshes and blesses us even apart from the real walk of faith.

• There is nothing in self worth holding on to; it ought to be handed to the Cross; we have submitted ourselves to such a life as that, and our Father is going to give us every opportunity to allow the Holy Spirit to hold the old nature in the place of death, with the glorious end in view that our Lord Jesus will have the preeminence. -F.M.

• Such rationale grieves the Holy Spirit and quenches His work in your life.

• Begotten of God But He was begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, or man – but of God. The Holy Spirit was to come upon her, and the power of the Most High overshadowed her, so that the baby to be born to her was holy, and He was called the Son of God.

• one so besotted with sin.. one floundering in the polluted sea of humanity. Yet Mary recognised this astonishing fact, and the Holy Spirit made sure it was recorded in the Word of God. And this truth is as true for you and for me..
• Truthful God May the Holy Spirit of TRUTH unfold these things more fully and more powerfully to ALL of our hearts, so that we may have a deeper sense of the conduct and character which are worthy of the high vocation to which we are called – and that includes YOU!

• While the direction is toward ourselves redemption, sanctification, glorification, and so on or toward anything less than the Son Himself, we have not got God dynamic for accomplishing His work, and therefore it becomes necessary, as the sufficient, the adequate basis of the Holy Spirit operation, that there should be a revelation of Jesus Christ in the heart, for it is in relation to Him and what God has purposed concerning Him that all the energies of God are released and made active.

• This work of the Holy Spirit is drastic, exacting, and very trying to the flesh.
• Make no mistake about it; it will take all the energy that the Holy Spirit Himself has to accomplish this work.

• As you lay hold of the Holy Spirit, it is done that is, if you do not sink down into yourself and give up and draw out because of what you are but you lay hold of the Holy Spirit and you get through and marvel that you have got through, that the Lord has done this thing through you, through me.
• It is all inside of Christ by the Holy Spirit.

• For our gospel came not unto you by word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance.1Thessalonians 1:5

• It is by the power of the Holy Spirit – that we are conformed to the image of his Son.

• Unchangeable God The Holy Spirit has always much to do with acceptable prayer – and His work in prayer is too much neglected.

• Oh, that the God of hope may so supply us with the brimming fullness of Himself – that we will be complete in Him – with all joy and peace in believing – and that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Let us recognise that the Holy Spirit alone can gift us with sweet tranquillity. Let there truly be a lengthening of Thy tranquillity within me.

• Miraculous Birth The two men as youngsters had no doubt heard of the miraculous birth of the other and whether or not they had become intimate in those intervening years, John was to be stunned by the revelation he had from Almighty God – when the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descended on Jesus – and rested upon Him, and “This is My Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased, rang in his ear.

• Paul the apostle, to whom was given the mystery of the Church – the bride of Christ. Paul the prophet who wrote so much of Holy Scripture – inspired by the Holy Spirit. Paul whose instructions to the Body were on how to live a life pleasing to the Lord.

• Factual Faith But we live by factual faith in God’s Word and not by sensual sight. We live by factual faith in God’s Word and not by fluffy feelings. Oh yes, Adam hid from the Lord, and Cain went out from the presence of His God... and we too can grieve the Holy Spirit in the way we live our Christian life.

• The permanent, indwelling Holy Spirit was not a gift to the prophets of old.
• David, a man after God’s own heart pleaded to the Lord: take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.
• The Church Age But two thousand years ago the permanent, indwelling Holy Spirit was given.
• He was sent by Christ in Acts chapter 2, where we read: they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
• The permanent, indwelling Holy Spirit became the gift to the church – an irreversible gift to you: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
• Indwelling Holy Spirit The permanent, indwelling Holy Spirit is the most precious gift of faith imaginable, and at Pentecost His permanent indwelling became unique to the church.

• Love of God The love of God in us must be Him living in us - His love shining through us: for God’s love is shed abroad in our hearts by His Holy Spirit, Who is given to us all, as we read in Romans chapter 5.

• Signed and Sealed This and more is guaranteed, authenticated, signed, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

• May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.Romans 15:13

• The life of Christ was governed by the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit, so that the Father might be glorified in and through the life of the Son.
• Christian maturity is to live our life as God intended – to live as Christ lived; to pray Thy will be done; to be guided by the Holy Spirit; to live and move and have our being in spirit and truth.

• Peter had to have a wake-up call from the Holy Spirit and was sent to Cornelius.

• Divine Purpose God knows the end from the beginning and He knows all who will trust in Christ. God predestined all who would believe in Jesus to be conformed into His image. God was well-pleased with the Lord Jesus, Who is His only begotten and beloved Son, and it's God’s divine purpose is that His children are made in the likeness of Jesus Christ. We are to all to be conformed into the image and likeness of God’s dearly beloved Son, and it is the Holy Spirit Himself that is to do this amazing work in the life of a believer.
• See and Learn The first work of the Holy Spirit in the life of all believers is to reveal Christ Jesus in us.
• Vast Fullness It was Austin Sparks that once penned these words: The effect of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is to bring us to the shore of a mighty ocean which reaches far, far beyond our range — Oh, the depths, the fullness, of Christ!
• Let us willingly and joyfully set our hearts to be governed by the Holy Spirit of Christ.

• As the Holy Spirit reveals the old man (Col. 3:9), we count upon death; as He reveals the new man (Col. 3:10), we count upon life (Rom. 6:11).

• Grace alone now reigns through Christ to the glory of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• It is only natural to feel that our need requires immediate victory, but the truth is that we cannot come to maturity apart from the Holy Spirit's processing and development of our life, day by day.

• That life must be developed in and shared through the growing believer, by the Holy Spirit.

• Such a one prevents or quenches the work of the Holy Spirit in their life.

• To be guided by the Holy Spirit is to be moved through the most delicate relationships the heart can know.
• The leading of the Holy Spirit is sweet and satisfying to the heart of the one who is yielded to God.
• The believer has an all-engaging responsibility of continuing in an attitude of reliance by means of the Spirit be walking') upon the Holy Spirit.
• Thus, and only thus, can the Holy Spirit possess and vitalize every human faculty, emotion, and choice. -L.S.C.

• and the Holy Spirit is He Who dwells in the heart of each believer.
• in fastings.  By purity; by knowledge; by long-suffering; by kindness – by the Holy Ghost; by sincere, genuine, agape love; by the word of truth; by the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left;  by honour and dishonour; by evil report and good report.

• As the Holy Spirit dealt with the innermost being of Job – through his arduous trials, you too may discover the chastening benefits, deep within your inner being – if you are truly willing to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. 1 Peter 5:6

• That is why the Holy Spirit has come.

• Acceptable Words Of the lovely Lord Jesus, we heard:- Never a man spake like this man, and they wondered.. at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. John 7:46. Let us abound in purity of thought and graciousness of speech – by the power of the Holy Spirit in all we say and think and are.

• It is one thing to include belief in the Holy Spirit as a tenet of Christian doctrine, and it may be quite another thing to know when the Spirit of truth witnesses within the heart to the truth or the falsehood.

• When we thereby come to Romans Eight, we know at last that the Holy Spirit will produce in our experience what God completed for us on the Cross and in Christ our life.
• Romans Eight tells us the means and the method of our deliverance - that it is through the blessed Holy Spirit alone that we are actually delivered in everyday life, from sin's reign; the moment we cease from all our own efforts and let Him do all the work, He will begin delivering us from the power of sin.

• Many seek to be heavenly by prayer, reading the Word, devotedness, but the only pathway to it is to be brought by the Holy Spirit to realize union with our risen Lord.

• Very little abiding growth and fruit can be known by the believer until he accepts the fact of identification (Rom. 6:6), and to it responds by an attitude of faith (Rom. 6:11), thus yielding himself to the Holy Spirit for the life of the Lord Jesus to be manifested in and through him (Rom. 6:13). -G.W.

• Get a revelation of that to your heart by the Holy Spirit, and see its emancipating power and its sustaining power.
• When the Lord's people get a new spiritual Holy Ghost revelation of the Sovereign Headship of Christ, and begin to hold fast the Head, they let go of everything that is local, and personal, and different, and scattered on the earth.

• Their spiritual resources of life, power, wisdom, knowledge, and purpose must be heavenly and by mediation of the Holy Spirit alone.
• We can never arrange this, or decide to do this heavenly business to any consequence (except failure) unless each one concerned is in it by revelation of the Holy Spirit, and is born into it through spiritual travail.
• Will you go to the Lord and ask Him to do that deep work by His Cross in the hands of the Holy Spirit which will result in your being brought into the place where His authority is exercised through you, and His rule is registered in the realm where things matter most, through your heavenly union with Him?

• What held the attention of Stephen, full of faith and of the Holy Spirit' (Acts 6:5)?

• Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?
• From the very start, all Jesus did was in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• When the believer has a real understanding that he belongs to that new place in glory, the Holy Spirit delights his heart with the things of that place.

• And Calvary comes all the way to us in experience as the Holy Spirit applies that finished work to our lives.

• A ministry and work that is linked with the very Spirit of God, for He shall baptise with the Holy Spirit, and with the fires of judgement, for He was made a quickening, life-giving spirit. 1Cor.15:45

• Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you?
• Do you not know the Holy Spirit within you is from God?

• Body of Christ He opens our awareness that our body has become the residence of His Holy Spirit.
• We became the habitation of His Holy Spirit.

• It is the work of the Holy Spirit, Who takes a new-born believer from babyhood to maturity.
• Only believers are being conformed into the image of the Christ and only they can grieve or quench the Holy Spirit.

• It was His delight to obey His Father, and it was His joy to do His Father’s will... for He listened to His Father’s voice and He was guided by His Holy Spirit.

• Once we learn the truth of our union with the Lord Jesus, and of the Holy Spirit's indwelling, any attempt to imitate Christ will be seen for what it is: unscriptural, and futile.
• The Church's real ministry is not multitudinous public services, so-called, but the forming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the lives of His people; the reproduction of Christ; epistles made alive by the Holy Spirit, to be seen and read of all men. -C.A.F.

• God looks on the heart and He knows!!  He became our life by means of the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit.
• Body of Christ The Holy Spirit baptises us into the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• The Holy Spirit baptises us into the Body of Christ – i.e.
• Sanctuary of God The Holy Spirit also immediately and permanently indwells us – filling us with Himself.  Whether we feel something or not, the Spirit immediately takes up residence within.

• Old Testament Empowerment The disciples knew of the Holy Spirit of God, Who empowered prophets and kings.
• Do not cast me from your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
• Psalm 51:11 Yet the Holy Spirit is given to us as an indwelling reality – ye in Me, and I in you.
• Our body is the residence of the permanently, indwelling Holy Spirit of God.

• May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.2 Corinthians 13:14

• In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.  Ephesians 1:13

• The believer knows that he is indwelt by the Holy Spirit on the testimony of the written Word; others know when the believer is filled with the Holy Spirit by the growing manifestation of the Living Word.
• There are believers who need the reminder that deeper than mind and feeling and will, deeper than the soul, where these have their seat, in the depths of the renewed spirit, there comes, at re-birth, the Holy Spirit to dwell forever.
• Here is the time for faith to hold fast the Master's promise and the Father's gift, and to trust that the Holy Spirit is within and will guide.

• At once the clash arises and it is true that the more the Holy Spirit is able to have His way in us and to lead us into all the will of God, the more we find this opposition, this antagonism.
• If everything is all just nice and quiet, no disturbance, no trouble and no antagonism and opposition, you have reason to question whether the Holy Spirit is doing much, because He does aim at such a positiveness, which is a very, very costly thing.

• Rest assured that once we are developed and trained by the Holy Spirit, the work whereunto He has called us will be ready and waiting (Acts 13:2).

• The Holy Spirit indwells us and thereby accomplishes our sanctification - an adjustment of our personal lives to His own person and character, to the dropping away of sin's power over us and the implanting of His Christ-imparting attributes in us.

• This is one of the great lessons that you and I have to learn in the School of Christ, that God begins for His glory at zero, and God will take pains through the Holy Spirit to make us to know that it is zero; that is, to bring us consciously to zero, and make us realize it is all with Him.... Have we got settled on this?

• The Holy Spirit, revealed to this young girl, that her precious babe was indeed HER Lord - HER Saviour.
• And Mary in great rejoicing of spirit, proclaimed Him, through the Holy Spirit, to be 'MY Saviour'.

• This same Holy Spirit – warns and beseeches us, through the pen of the apostle Paul.
• In everything – commending ourselves as bond-servants of God… in much endurance; in afflictions; in hardships’ in distresses; in beatings; in imprisonments; in tumults; in labours; in sleeplessness; in hunger; in purity; in knowledge; in patience; in kindness; in the Holy Spirit; in genuine love; in the word of truth – in the power of God.

• hope' and hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.

• Spirit and Truth How else could Paul strive in labour for these saints whom he has never seen or met.. except but in interceding for them – praying in spirit and in truth – interceding in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• May we never resist or quench the Holy Spirit in this vital work – in us.

• With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.Gal.4:4 Born of God The Lord Jesus came from glory and He returned to glory. He left His throne of glory to come to be with us – (to be with man). He laid aside His glory so that He would be like us – (to be like man). He was born of God, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Born of Woman Mary was told: the Holy Spirit shall come upon you and overshadow you.
• Rom.8:3. He came from His heavenly home, into complete union with man. He renounced His magnificent heritage,  to come and share our lot. His task was to redeem sinful man from their sin. And in the power of the Holy Spirit it was so..

• It is the normal course of a true, Holy Spirit-governed Christian life that, in order to get through, an increase of Christ, a growing discovery of Christ, is necessary. -T.

• “The believer who sees that self is incurably evil (‘know’), and that it has been taken into death (‘reckon’); who gives self utterly to that death as he sinks before God in dependence and surrender to His working (‘yield’); who consents to death with Christ on the Cross as his position, and in faith accepts it as his only deliverance; he alone is prepared to be led by the Holy Spirit into the full enjoyment of the Christ-life.

• We must begin back there, and all this is nothing to you unless the Holy Spirit has made it real, or does make it real, in your experience.

• School of Christ The Holy Spirit has been sent as the Spirit of truth to guide us into all truth, so that there shall be no shadow whatever between God and ourselves as to His absolute faithfulness, His truth to Himself, and to all His Word.
• The Holy Spirit has come for that.
• then the Holy Spirit will deal with all disciples in the School of Christ, to undercut everything that is not true, that is not genuine... to make every such disciple to stand upon a foundation, which can abide before God in the day of His absolute and utter vindication.”

• Identification with Christ But through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Paul challenges each of us to learn Christ… an outward, objective observance was to become an inward, subjective service.
• To learn Christ is the mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit.

• In a word, to have things fixed and boxed, so that the Holy Spirit is thwarted and frustrated in His ever-onward and ever-sovereign movement and innovation, if He so choose.

• The Holy Spirit, indwelling the believer, performs in him the will of God, whose will, at last, is a delight (Rom. 8:3, 4; 12:2).” -W.R.N.

• It becomes a system again: 'You must... you must not!', and there is no difference between that and the Old Testament 'Thou shalt... thou shalt not!' Christianity has fallen into that peril, and is continually doing it, circumscribing the great revelation, making Christ smaller than He is, crystallizing truth into something fixed and set: 'This is how...' and the meaning of that is: 'This is the ultimate.' Now you notice that when the Spirit did come, as we have the record in the Book of the Acts, the one thing that these old Jewish disciples experienced was a marvelous emancipation from that bondage of Judaism; and how the Holy Spirit was working all along against any fixed barriers!

• Only the Holy Spirit brings one into liberty - and that via the Cross.

• Regeneration is a birth: the center and root of the personality, the spirit, has been re-created and taken possession of by the Holy Spirit.

• Well then, live and everything else will follow.That is only saying, in other words: move, have your lifein the Holy Spirit, and all the plan and order of God willfollow.

• Whereas our liberty was won on the Cross, it is worked out in our daily life and experience by the Holy Spirit.
• Our longing for conformity to the image of God's Son shall be confirmed and fulfilled by the Holy Spirit who hath been given unto us.

• just as the lifeless clay body of man required the Breath of Life to light his spirit... just as the Spirit overshadowed Mary in the Incarnation of the Light of the World – so the Holy Spirit, the ‘Ruach’ of God, breathes in life and light.

• As a Christian I am now in Him before the Father, as He is in me before men; and the Holy Spirit has been given as enablement to enjoy the privileges above and to make good the responsibilities below.

• through the power of His Holy Spirit, and in preparation for the day when we meet the Lord of glory.

• We should like by purity; by knowledge; by long-suffering; by kindness; by the Holy Spirit; by sincere, genuine agape love.

• Thus He Himself has all the glory, whatever good thing there may be wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. -W.J.H.

• Metcalf writes “Many a young Christian, who has not been warned of this necessary voyage of discovery upon which the Holy Spirit will certainly embark him (i.e.
• And the Holy Spirit reveals this to the one earnestly seeking Him.

• It is essential that we grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, for three reasons: (1) that our Father may be glorified; (2) that the Lord Jesus might be manifested in us; (3) that the Holy Spirit might have a suitable instrument through which to win and establish others.

• Tug-of-War Sometimes it’s not an easy decision for a believer to submit to the Holy Spirit of Christ, for the old nature lusts against the new life in Christ.

• Such a prayer can only be prayed when being led and guided by the Holy Spirit. Herein lies the spirit of a true son – demonstrated by the spirit of the Son of God.

• It is the Holy Spirit alone who can draw us from the flesh and its earthly environment.

• There can be no true and intelligent rejection of the self-life without thorough heart preparation by the Holy Spirit.

• In the child of God, this is precious maturing fruit from the Holy Spirit of God..
• and it will be developed as we take up His yoke and walk with Him – Who Himself is meek and lowly of heart. Let us seek the Lord for the increase of the Holy Spirit in our lives..

• The Holy Spirit ministers to our mind via the Word, and He conditions our heart via our daily experiences.
• Is not the reason of all this that we want to grasp the hidden wisdom of the Father with our mind alone, forgetting that the Holy Spirit intends to work it into the heart and inner life also? -A.M.

• Wisdom in God’s Word While ever we live in this fallen world of sin and suffering we will face mounting pressures, but we have the written word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit of God to guide our path and to guard our ways and Christ has promised that His grace is sufficient.

• Spiritual Fruit This is the man that brings for the fruit of God’s Holy Spirit; Love in times of Hostility; Joy in times of Pain; Peace in times of Trouble; Long-suffering in times of Frustration; Gentleness in times of Oppression; Goodness in times of Evil; Faith in times of Testing; Meekness in times of Irritations; Temperance in times of Temptation.

• There is nothing more uplifting than to come into a personal experience of the Lord, a knowledge of the Lord, in a living way, to have Christ ministered to your heart by the Holy Spirit.

• If you have a Cross and a grave in your experience, in your history, the Holy Spirit has got what He requires, and it is blessedly possible for you to have the abiding of this risen Life in which all these values are made good, and growingly good.
• The Holy Spirit gives capacities that none of us have by nature.
• By the anointing of the Holy Spirit we may have capabilities that the best men and women of this world without the Holy Spirit have not got.
• The presence of the Holy Spirit means capability and capacity for doing things which we could never do before.

• We are to eliminate everything in our lives, and living, that grieves the Holy Spirit,  recalling the riches of God’s grace – for we are sealed until the day of redemption.
• Union with Christ We are the body of Christ – the temple of the Holy Spirit and in union with our Lord.

• The Holy Spirit Himself takes responsibility for our experience, leading us in paths where we encounter, in body, heart, or spirit, that measure of the dying of Jesus' that will mean enrichment of our ministry.

• It is the work of the Holy Spirit, not our obligation.

• But remember it is only as the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death a reality within us, that we shall know, not by force of argument or conviction, but in the reality of the power of an endless life, that we are in very deed dead to sin. -A.M.

• Once the Holy Spirit instills within our hearts the hunger for God's very best, all must and will become secondary to this supreme goal:  . . .the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:14).

• Nothing, save the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• The Lord Jesus Christ is the Christian's very life, and the Holy Spirit dwells within our spirit to manifest Him, to work out all that is in Him and to reproduce Him in us.

• Moreover, our prayers must be the prayers of the Lord Himself prayed in us and through us by the Holy Spirit.

• The Holy Spirit uses this revelation, along with what He exposes in his own heart, to teach him to abide in the Lord Jesus; safe from the sin of others, as well as his own.

• That is, what is needed above all else is men who have had a Divine revelation by the Holy Spirit in their own hearts as to God's purpose in this dispensation, and the particular Divine emphasis for the present hour.
• There is all the difference between being saved and then going into Christian service with the resultant studying of the Bible, the preparation of sermons, addresses, lessons; collecting material, mastering themes and subjects; etc., etc., and giving this out as required or as opportunity affords there is all the difference between this and an open heaven, an anointing, a revelation by the Holy Spirit.
• It is the difference between our laboring to get, in order to meet a constantly recurring demand, and the Holy Spirit continually revealing Christ in us.

• The Holy Spirit will operate upon our occupation.

• But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.John 14:26
• The Eternals When writing about the glories we have in the Holy Spirit, Warren Wiersbe wrote: 'People of the world live by sight and depend on the externals, but Christians walk by faith and depend on the eternals'.
• The Holy Spirit There is a lot of truth in this simple statement for the Holy Spirit is our Helper.
• When the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, to baptise the Church into Christ and to fill them with His fullness, He took up permanent residence in each believer’s heart – and Jesus promised He is to guide us into truth and train us in all godly living.
• Permanent Indwelling Never before had the Holy Spirit permanently in-dwelt the whole body of believers.
• The ongoing outpouring of the riches of God’s amazing grace from that uniquely special occasion, on all believers, has been through the beautiful ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• Sent From God Jesus told His disciples that: the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.
• Sometimes we do not seem to comprehend what the indwelling Holy Spirit means.
• Perfect Understanding The Holy Spirit, being Deity and a member of the Trinity, knows the things of God.
• The Holy Spirit is a real Person Who is indwelling us and is close to us at all times.
• The Holy Spirit – as our Teacher, has perfect understanding and perfect knowledge.
• Knowing Him Let us take time to get to know the Holy Spirit Who lives in each one of us.
• Let us quietly meditate on the following well-loved hymn and the role of the Holy Spirit in our life, as we submit to His leading and guiding willingly and submissively.
• Holy Spirit, Truth divine,Dawn upon this soul of mine;Word of God and inward lightWake my spirit, clear my sight.
• Holy Spirit, Love divine,Glow within this heart of mine;Kindle every high desire;Perish self in Thy pure fire.
• Holy Spirit, Power divineFill and nerve this will of mine;Grant that I may strongly live,Bravely bear, and nobly strive.
• Holy Spirit, Right divine,King within my conscience reign;Be my Lord, and I shall beFirmly bound, forever free.
• Holy Spirit, Peace divine,Still this restless heart of mine;Speak to calm this tossing sea,Stayed in Thy tranquillity.
• Holy Spirit, Joy divine,Gladden Thou this heart of mine;In the desert ways I sing,“Spring, O Well, forever spring.”

• When you have a fresh experience of the Holy Spirit, the next thing you find is that you are in a new conflict against the old flesh-life in yourself.
• It is only when you have received the Holy Spirit that you know the conflict of the flesh and what is the withstanding of the flesh.
• The Holy Spirit has come in relation to the end, and the end is the inheritance in Christ, and flesh moved by Satan rises up to frustrate that end, and to rob you of the inheritance.

• Oh, to be such a people, chastened and emptied of self, for the Holy Spirit by His energies to display the moral glories of the Lord Jesus in us and so through us.

• The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given unto us (Rom. 5:5).

• God looks on the heart and He knows!!  He became our life by means of the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit of God.
• One With Christ The Holy Spirit baptises us into the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• The Holy Spirit baptises us into the Body of Christ – ie He places us 'IN CHRIST'.  The moment we believe we are born again..
• Indwelling Spirit The Holy Spirit also immediately and permanently indwells us – filling us with Himself.  Whether we feel something or not, the Spirit immediately takes up residence within.  Whether or not we have an experience, we become the sanctuary of God.

• This same Person now lives in us by His Holy Spirit, seeking to work out that perfect will of God not on the basis of some binding instructions from without but as a living force within.

• There is a world of difference between the nagging, corroding condemnations of the devil, and the clear convictions of the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit speaks specifically, and His convicting, although rebuking us, is sweet and clean and true and acceptable.
• In sharp contrast with this, the Holy Spirit's work always makes us quiet and clear and deliberate.

• to know the surpassing power that is ours through the ministry of the Holy Spirit -  to know the matchless riches of God’s grace and glory that are ours, by believing.

• to know the surpassing power that is ours through the ministry of the Holy Spirit – to know the matchless riches of God’s grace and glory that are ours, by believing.

• And this is the same mighty power that is working in us – by means of His Holy Spirit.

• we are no longer linked with the fallen Adam, and the Holy Spirit has placed us in union with Christ risen and glorified. -C.A.C.

• Filled With The Spirit They were all baptised in the Spirit and then everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them His ability. What a day of gladness that must have been for those that were present on that day. What a time of rejoicing it is for all who are empowered by the same Holy Spirit.
• Feast of Pentecost Jesus Himself declared that He would build His church and the gates of hell would not be able to prevail against her – nothing could overpower His Church and nothing conquer it.  And from that day on the Church of Christ started to grow in the power of the Spirit. 3000 Jewish believers were put into Christ on that momentous feast of Pentecost – all were baptised into His Body and all were empowered by the Holy Spirit.
• Samaritans & Gentiles Added We read in Acts 2 of the day that Jews were placed into the body of Christ – Pentecost. We read in Acts 8 that Samaritans were added to Christ’s body – through Philip’s ministry, and in Acts 10 Gentiles were included in Christ’s body at the house of Cornelius, a centurion – when Peter was urged by the Holy Spirit to go to the house of a gentile.

• It is by occupation with, and contemplating the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are brought, by the enablement of the Holy Spirit, into fellowship with our Father; enabled to enter into His own thoughts concerning, and even to share His own affections for that blessed One who now is seated at His own right hand. -E.D.

• After years of reckoning with little or no deliverance from the dominion of sin, when you are just about to sink under the futility of it all, the Holy Spirit will turn your attention to the One who is your Deliverer.

• Rest in the fact that God has placed you in eternal union with His Son, and let the Holy Spirit take care of His work in you.

• The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit say, Be powerless - for My strength is made perfect in [your] weakness (2 Cor. 12:9)

• Praying in spirit – in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Tender Affinity How important it is to have unbroken fellowship with the Father. How precious it is to have continuous communion with Christ. How glorious it is to have gracious intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Throughout Scripture we are encouraged to develop this tender affinity with God.
• Commands to Pray Pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 1 Timothy 2:8 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer Romans 12:12 Build up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost Jude 1:20 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit Ephesians 6:18 Night and day praying exceedingly.. 1 Thessalonians 3:10 Pray in spirit, and truth, John 4:24 Pray without ceasing.. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Brothers, pray for us..2 Thessalonians 3:1
• When we pray aright we remain is gracious intimacy with His Holy Spirit.

• Intercessory Prayer How we long for loved ones to be drawn by the Holy Spirit to a saving faith in Jesus, and our intercessory prayers can often have a part to play: for no man comes to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him John 6:44.

• In the true prayer of faith' the intercessor must spend time with the Father to appropriate the promises of His Word, and must permit himself to be taught by the Holy Spirit, whether the promises can be applied to this particular case.

• Each believer can choose…whether to: 1) Resist the work of the Holy Spirit Whose indwelling job it to change us OR 2) Submit to His leading and guiding in our lives.

• Though there is no partiality in our positional status and union with Christ, we are responsible for our spiritual growth, for we can submit to, or resist the Holy Spirit’s leading, guiding, correcting and chastening work.

• Stunning Prophecy The rebellious nation had disobeyed their long-suffering God, and Israel was under the yoke of the cruel Roman Empire – but God had not forgotten His chosen people. And filled with the Holy Spirit, Zacharias started to sing praises to the God of Israel for the time had come for God Himself to visit and redeem His people.

• Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Cor. 2:13).

• Create in me a clean heart O Lord – a new creation in Christ… and renew a right spirit within me – the holy spirit of purity.
• maintaining a heart that is open and yielded to the Holy Spirit’s guidance..

• There are three vital factors that will keep us on the path, and in the power, of spiritual growth: (1) study to know that God's purpose in saving us is to conform us to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:28, 29); (2) learn to reckon upon the finished work of the Cross as His provision for that purpose (Rom. 6:11); (3) yield to the Holy Spirit as He carries out the daily process of that purpose (2 Cor. 4:11).

• The Holy Spirit's leadings comes with a sense of peace and quiet, even if they point in a really difficult direction which only the grace of the Father can enable one to follow. -C.G.T.
• He cannot touch our life in its power, for the Holy Spirit is its power, and he cannot touch the Spirit.

• But, mark you, if this love, this discerning love, has really filled your heart by all the intelligence of the Holy Spirit indwelling you, you will sense it without being told; or if it should be brought to you from the Word, that within you will say, Yes, I know that is right, the Lord tells me that is right.

• The contrast is painful in the extreme between the uniform language of the New Testament about Christians as thus called to worship in liberty and joy and nearness to the Father, and that of liturgies ancient and modern; and this because the results of redemption soon became merged and hidden in Jewish forms, and the law was recalled to the place of the Holy Spirit, and man in the flesh intruded wholesale into realms which belong only to those solemnly accredited as God's Church, the Body of Christ. -W.K.

• Afflictions are in the hands of the Holy Spirit to effect the softening of the heart in order to receive heavenly impression.

• To the believer who has been taught by the Holy Spirit something of his own utter, inbred sinfulness, it comes as a message from God full of hope and encouragement.

• A superficial acquaintance with God's plan leads to the view that while justification is God's work, by faith in Christ, sanctification is our work, to be performed under the influence of the gratitude we feel for the deliverance we have experienced and by the aid of the Holy Spirit.

• The bulk of the New Testament is taken up with getting Christians to see what an immense realm it is into which they have come, and how they must go on... Christianity can only be kept living and fresh and full of impact as Christians are living in an ever-growing apprehension of Christ as the Holy Spirit reveals Him in the heart.
• There is no succession in Christianity other than that of the revelation of Christ to the heart by the Holy Spirit.
• The value of the Scriptures is that they contain depths and fullnesses which have never yet been fathomed; and when we speak of revelation we do not mean anything extra to them, but of that which is in them, but only known by the inward writing and shining of the Holy Spirit.... A thing can be in the Bible, and we can have read it a thousand times, but until the Holy Spirit makes it Life to us it will be unfruitful.

• Communication from God What is more important in life than to know and trust God… Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for He is our God and we are His beloved children?

• Temple of the Lord Our bodies become the temple of the Lord – through the indwelling Holy Spirit and we find we have a position in Christ and are now seated in heavenly places.  We discover we are to be the bride for the Son – without spot and wrinkle.

• The old corn of Canaan typifies what the risen and ascended Lord ministers directly to us now by the Holy Spirit.
• And it is always on the ground of where we already are, and what we already are, and what we already have, that the Holy Spirit shows us our blessed privileges and responsibilities of the calling wherewith we are called.' -W.R.N.

• Root and Stem Truly the humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the lineage of His famous and beloved father, King David is chronicled in many passages of Scripture and yet we know that David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: The LORD, (the God of Israel) said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. Jesus Christ was both the Son of David through His genealogy as recorded in the gospels of Matthew and Luke and David’s Lord – for He was also the only begotten Son of God.

• But God ordained a new race, a new man, a new creation, a new federal head. God planned for a second Adam; an obedient man having Holy Spirit to human spirit communion. God decided a rescue strategy – to redeem Adam’s fallen race from all condemnation – but there was no man to stand in the gap for all have sinned and all fall short,

• We may fail and grieve the Holy Spirit, but that is where we are set. -J.N.D.

• Christ’s Righteousness We have been imputed with justification and imparted with sanctification. We have been sealed by God’s Holy Spirit in promise, until the marriage of the Lamb.

• Sanctification Sanctification like justification and glorification is the gracious work of the Holy Spirit. Only believers can be sanctified, for God will never set apart the unsaved unto Himself. Oh!

• Some people add works of the flesh, works of the Law – self-imposed rules or Church regulations and a variety of ‘add-ons’ to the basic gospel of salvation by grace – through faith in Christ Jesus, while others insist on actions relating to eating or drinking – places of worship or times and seasons – spiritual fruit or gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• When you were saved, the Holy Spirit came to indwell you forever and He desires to live Christ’s life in you.

• Bold Statement The eternal Son of God became the incarnate Word and was made flesh by being conceived of the Holy Spirit in a virgin’s womb and was born into the human race in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ – the only begotten Son of the Father – so that He could claim of His renowned ancestor, before Abraham was I AM.  The religious leaders of the Jews knew without a doubt that Jesus of Nazareth was making the bold pronouncement that He was God – for He had dared to use the sacred name of God in reference to Himself, I AM – before Abraham was..
• The True Seed Scripture as always is its own interpreter – and should there be any confusion about the identity of the ‘Seed’ mentioned in the Abrahamic Covenant, the Holy Spirit moved Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, to clarify the true identity of the SEED… we read:- The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed.
• Humanity of Christ The eternal Son of God became the incarnate Word and was made flesh by being conceived of the Holy Spirit in a virgin’s womb and was born into the human race in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ – the only begotten Son of the Father.

• The Holy Spirit knows us.
• If we are taken up with ourselves, occupied with ourselves, circling round ourselves, centering in ourselves, then the Holy Spirit has not a chance.
• The Holy Spirit has not a clear way.
• The Holy Spirit cannot do much with folk who are in a position like that; and He knows.

• We must remember that the Holy Spirit can never have free course in us and through us if we harbor unloving thoughts concerning other of God's children, let alone put those thoughts into actions.
• The Holy Spirit demands that the people of God live according to a team order of things, that they should be governed by a family spirit.
• Do not always choose the back seat because you like to be left alone, but come forward in the Lord's name and give the Holy Spirit a free course in your lives.

• Free-will Choice All sanctification and spiritual growth in our lives is by God’s grace alone, and all we have to do is to submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But not all believers are being sanctified in a practical, progressive manner – for being “set apart unto God,” is a free-will choice – a decision of the will, we all have to make.

• and centuries afterwards the Holy Spirit recorded this triumph of faith in Hebrews: by faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. Hebrews 11:30

• In Christ you also, when you HEARD the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and BELIEVED in Jesus, were SEALED with the promised Holy Spirit.Ephesians 1:13
• Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom you were SEALED for the day of redemption.Ephesians 4:30
• Seal of God The seal of God whereby we were sealed of the Holy Spirit is the gracious act of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, at the point of saving grace..
• whereby God Himself marked (or sealed) every believer with the indwelling Holy Spirit, by giving every Christian the permanently, indwelling Spirit of God, as the pre-payed earnest of our inheritance in Christ – which confirms us as His own purchased possession – bought with the price of the blood of Christ.
• Three-Fold Seal God The Son promised that we would be sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise. God The Father sealed us and gave us the Holy Spirit as an assured down-payment. God, the Holy Spirit, sealed us until the glorious day of full and final redemption.
• Scripture alone provides the truth of the when, where, why, and how of our 'sealing'. 'In Christ you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Jesus, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.' Ephesians 1:13
• Because we heard and believed we were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
• The moment you believed, the Holy Spirit did a series of works in your life.
• You were regenerated by the Spirit – born from above and made a new creation in Christ. You were baptised by the Holy Spirit..
• FIRST God the Father is the warrant that seals the believer, the moment he believes, and He has placed an unbreakable seal upon our lives and given up the indwelling Holy Spirit as the promissory down-payment that His purchase possession is secure in Christ, until the Lord returns to take us to be with Himself.
• THIRD The Holy Spirit Himself is the seal for every believer, not just a few.
• Oh, we can grieve the Holy Spirit when we live a life that is not pleasing to God – and Paul calls it quenching the Spirit in our lives and he chastises the Corinthians Christians for living carnal lives which quench the work of the Spirit within us.
• The Holy Spirit is the seal.
• Blood of Christ The seal of God, whereby we were sealed of the Holy Spirit, is the gracious act of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, at the point of saving grace whereby God Himself marked or sealed every believer with the indwelling Holy Spirit, by giving every Christian the permanently, indwelling Spirit of God as the pre-payed earnest of our inheritance in Christ – and which confirms us as His own purchased possession – bought with the price of the blood of Christ.

• We are to walk in the Spirit,' and the blessed Holy Spirit will see to it that we obtain all that our Father has for us, step by step.

• The resultant failure leads him to reliance upon the work of the Cross, which is effectively applied to the root of the matter by the Holy Spirit.

• Here, it is only by revelation of the Holy Spirit.

• Concerning the Holy Spirit, hidden as He is, faith is required above all else.
• Certainly the Holy Spirit directs in the countless details of daily life.
• The principle of walking in dependence upon the Holy Spirit must never be abandoned, however we may fail to carry it out.
• Being led by the Holy Spirit is the principle by which the Father deals in grace with believers.

• The Holy Spirit cannot present to me the fruit He has produced in me, as the object of my faith.
• The Holy Spirit must always present to me the Lord Jesus Christ, that I may grow and have peace. -J.N.D.
• An understanding of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is basic to Christian growth.
• Thirdly, the Lord Jesus as the constant object of the affections of the heart, for the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart is to fill it with contemplation of and fellowship with the Lord Jesus in glory.

• If we fail to rely upon the Holy Spirit for the practical day-by-day realization of the identification truths, we will fall short of Romans 8, and find ourselves bound in the struggle of Romans 7.
• Such is the fruit of the Holy Spirit's government in our lives.
• If we will believe God's Word and begin to thank Him for the truths that He tells us, the Holy Spirit will ere long begin to make these truths living realities in our lives. -L.L.L.

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, but we can resist Him. The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth, but we can grieve Him. The Holy Spirit achieves His purpose through us, but we can quench Him. The Holy Spirit feeds us with His healing words of life, but we can neglect it – but in all our life and in all our pain, He is never far from us.
• Silent in Love The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, but we can resist Him.
• The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth, but we can grieve Him.
• The Holy Spirit achieves His purpose through us, but we can quench Him.
• The Holy Spirit feeds us with His healing word of life, but we can neglect Him.
• The Holy Spirit communes with us because He loves us – but we can miss if.
• And sometimes the Holy Spirit just remains silent – because He trusts us..
• chosen before the world was founded – and God loves you with an everlasting love – chosen before the world was founded. But as air is vital for the body, so the Holy Spirit is vital for the maturing soul

• The Holy Spirit is the custodian of the full purpose of God, and under His government the Church and the individual believer will move ever on and up.

• John 4:34, and the astonishing thing is that this God-Man only worked through the Holy Spirit..

• The Holy Spirit illumination concerning the church is a thing so difficult to explain to any who may not have experienced it.

• This is an honest look at yourself,  with the Holy Spirit as your personal Trainer.

• For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
• have become sharers of the Holy Spirit, (i.e.

• Not knowing one another after the flesh does not mean that all that realm will cease to exist for us, but it does mean that we shall look beyond that realm and we shall steadily seek grace and the help of the Holy Spirit to cultivate and develop a determination to look through what we are by nature to what there is of the Lord Jesus and of the Holy Spirit in one another, and keep our eyes upon that.

• This faithful soul had no gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit as his down-payment.

• Examine yourself to see if you are a slave to the strategies of Satan, and seek the Holy Spirit’s scrutiny of your inner being.

• We have to allow that such things were once given by God, and that they will yet again be introduced by Him; while invariably contending that they are positively opposed to His present working by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven. -J.L.H.

• It is the Holy Spirit who will make these great facts real and true in our experience as we depend upon Him; and so the plague of our hearts will be stayed, and we shall go on to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. -J.C.M.
• The Holy Spirit so unites us to Christ that Christian experience becomes a reproduction in us of the essential facts of Christ's fourfold revelation He died unto sin: with Him we died (Col. 2:20).

• However, for the Lord Jesus to be fully manifested, it is going to involve a lifetime of the Holy Spirit's deep dealing with the more subtle and deadly characteristics of the self-life always delivered unto death (2 Cor. 4:11).

• Teach me to pray into You Will -  thru the leading and guidance and interceding of Your Holy Spirit.
• Furthermore, continue to pray in the power of the Holy Spirit Jude 1:20

• But they do most clearly bring in the life and government of the Holy Spirit.
• Remember no child of God who is governed by the Holy Spirit, who is really living a life in the Spirit, will infringe any Divine principle.
• Indeed, a life governed by the Holy Spirit will be the more meticulously careful about spiritual principles.

• O Holy Ghost,Revival comes from Thee;Send a revival,Start the work in me.Thy Word declaresThou wilt supply our need;For blessings now,O Lord, I humbly plead.

• And the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in bodily form, like a dove..

• He cannot touch the POWER of life in us, for the Holy Spirit is life’s power within.

• It is the spontaneous outworking of spiritual forces released, in the acceptance by faith of tremendous facts concerning Christ; which facts are proclaimed out of experience in the power of the Holy Ghost.
• Not the theological Christ; not the doctrinal Christ; not the Christ of the letter, much less the Jesus of history; but the Christ of eternity in all the meaning of His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension into the Throne of God revealed in the heart by the Holy Spirit.

• Be filled, or go on being filled with the Holy Spirit, as we read in Ephesians 5:8.  But even this is a choice for the believer.  Paul tells the Colossians the great desire of his heart toward all the believers. Paul longs that all believers are filled to overflowing, be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.

• But remember only the Holy Spirit sees and knows how it is so; hence, as at the beginning, there has to be an utter submission to and direction by the Lordship of the Holy Spirit.
• What the nerve system is in the physical realm, the Holy Spirit is in the spiritual.
• It is a reproduction of Christ by the Holy Spirit.

• Christianity is just going to be tested as to how far it was the work of the Holy Spirit of God according to Christ.

• God never sees that bridged, but thank God He will put Christ into us by the Holy Spirit, and while the two will ever remain apart, the old creation will go one day and that which is of Christ, as wrought into us, will abide.

• It is not to be a matter of your impulses, but of His urgings and leadings by the Holy Spirit; not your sitting down to reason out what it would be good to do for the Lord, what ought to be done, what needs to be done, but what He shows you, nothing more.... You and I must not bring over our old creation and give it to God, expecting God to use it.

• Murray Explains Andrew Murray explains:- A superficial acquaintance with God’s plan leads to the view that while justification is God’s work, by faith in Christ… sanctification (growth) is our work… to be performed under the influence of the gratitude we feel for the deliverance we have experienced, and by the aid of the Holy Spirit. As a result, many sincere Christians set out on this path..

• We like the disciples can become anxious when we don’t know the whole of God’s plan – but like them, we have to wait as the holy Spirit opens our eyes – more and more,

• The Holy Spirit carries out the work of the Cross as to our present condition.
• We cannot separate the Cross from the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit, the Eternal Spirit, is unchangeable.

• Yes, prayer is a way in which Christ is ministered to us by the Holy Spirit.

• What we have got to be quite sure about is that that thing is not being carried on by the momentum of man, or the momentum of organization, the momentum of machinery, the momentum of human zeal and energy for God, nor by the momentum of a program, but that it is being energized by the Holy Ghost, that it is Christ Himself who is the Life and the power of that thing.

• The Holy Spirit takes no pains to cover up those faults and those flaws.

• Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you. (2 Timothy 1:14 NLT)

• God’s  Forgiveness Yes, we are certainly supposed to love and forgive those that sin against us, yet forgiveness does not come easily to any one of us. It is the Holy Spirit Who is the One, Who can fill our hearts with God’s love and forgiveness.

• The Holy Spirit has been sent as the Spirit of truth to guide us into all the truth, so that there shall be no shadow whatever between God and ourselves as to His absolute faithfulness, His truth to Himself, and to all His word.
• The Holy Spirit has come for that.
• If that is true, then the Holy Spirit will deal with all disciples in the School of Christ to undercut everything that is not true, that is not genuine, to make every such disciple to stand upon a foundation which can abide before God in the day of His absolute and utter vindication.
• But in order that this may be so, you and I, under the Holy Spirit's teaching, have to be dealt with very faithfully, and have to come to the place where we are perfectly adjustable before God, where there is all responsiveness to the Holy Spirit, and nothing in us that resists or refuses the Holy Spirit, but where we are perfectly open and ready for the biggest consequence of the Holy Spirit putting His finger upon anything in our lives needing to be dealt with and adjusted.
• The alternative to such a work of the Holy Spirit being allowed to be done in us is that we shall find ourselves in a false position, and it is far, far too costly to find ourselves in a false position, even though it only be on certain points.

• Let us lay hold of God thoughts; let us by faith appropriate those thoughts, let us believe in God thoughts, let us seek to get into line with those thoughts, and take the Holy Spirit and His energies to form us, and constitute us, that God thoughts may become living expressions in us.
• If this is the revelation of God from heaven in Christ through His Word and to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, then it involves us in very great responsibility.

• We are filled with the fullness of God the Father; we are filled with the fullness of God the Holy Spirit; we are filled with the fullness of God the Son, our Saviour-King.

• And to be just saved and stay there is to fail of the purpose of the Word and to fall short of the energy of the Holy Spirit.
• When we recognize that that is the aim and object of the Holy Spirit, we have life and ministry defined.
• If you are the Lord, your life should be governed by the Word of the Lord and by the Holy Spirit.

• Lonely Road Should not we, who seek to know Him more and more, follow in His path - HIS path of humility; HIS walk of suffering; HIS trail of rejections and pain?  Should we not submit to the penetrating eye of the Holy Spirit in our life - asking Him to identify pride and self-interest, that so readily tracks our earthy walk?  Should we not seek Him, where He is found – on the lonely Road of Humility?  Should not we seek to cover ourselves with humility as Jesus did – covered with the cloak of humility; clothed with the garment of grace.

• God’s Pleasure If we do not discern certain states of grace, and choose them – in Him… if we do not nourish them in our hearts in the power of His Holy Spirit, they never become fastened in our nature or behaviour.For we must choose of our own freewill to do of His good pleasure – not our own. Every advance step in grace must be preceded by first apprehending it.

• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ is becoming greater and greater as time goes on.
• The effect of the Holy Spirit's work in us is to bring us to the shore of a mighty ocean which reaches far, far beyond our range, and concerning which we feel Oh, the depths, the fullness, of Christ!
• That is the mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit.
• If ever you and I should come to a place where we think we know, we have it all, we have attained, and from that point things become static, we may take it that the Holy Spirit has ceased operations and that life has become stultified.

• If there is fellowship in the things of the Lord, let us use it, but let us be quite sure that we do not take things outside and submit them to those influences which are not in the Light, not in the Life, and not in the good of heavenly things, and take our direction from something less than that which is wholly under the government of the Holy Spirit.

• The strength of the Lord's people is none other than the strength of the Holy Spirit in the inward man.
• When these cannot stand up to conditions of intense spiritual antagonism, opposition or perplexity, there is that more inward thing, right in the inward man, which is of God the Holy Spirit: i>Strengthened with might by His Spirit into the inward man./p>

• In order for Christ's righteousness to be manifested, the Holy Spirit must hold self inoperative by means of the Cross.

• We may make a lot of other manifestations of the power of God and they may all be quite wonderful we will never take anything from what is of the Holy Spirit but when we have said all, the supreme thing is the power of His resurrection.

• That is what the Holy Spirit means by such words as He speaks through Paul: ..be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus(2 Tim. 2:1).

• But the Holy Spirit has got to do it, and we have got to come to recognize the fact that what we see in organized Christianity is not it.

• How important to take heed to the scorching words of Paul. That we do not remain in or revert back to babyhood, but launch out into the deep: now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

• Gift of Love He has set aside the glory He had with the Father before the world was created and lived His entire life in humble obedience to the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Every Passover Lamb since their escape from Egypt was a death that pointed to Christ. Every sin offering prefigured Calvary’s cross and every morning and evening sacrifice pictured His entire life as a freewill gift of love – a sweet savour – offered daily to God.

• May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 NIV)
• If it is true that you and I have been anointed of the Holy Spirit, as we ought to be, our presence in this world ought to register something positive for God.
• The devil himself ought to take notice that, because we are here under the Holy Spirit, Jesus is here.
• It is impossible for Jesus to be anywhere without something happening, and now Jesus is here by the Holy Spirit in believers.
• The Holy Spirit is positive, andnot negative, and if the Holy Spirit is really Lord in our lives,our lives will count for something.
• The effect of the Holy Spirit maybe to condemn some people, and it may be to redeem others, but Hecannot be neutral, and if the anointing is upon you and upon me,the devil will take account of it.
• Well, that is how it will be if the Holy Spirit is reallyupon us, for that is how it was with the Lord Jesus.

• He lived each day of His life in submission to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit.
• Jesus Christ is the chief among ten thousand, and altogether lovely. He walked a path of righteousness – He lived the only sinless life in a world of sinners. He lived each day of His life in submission to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit. His life exemplified the only way a man can live a life that’s pleasing to God.

• The Holy Spirit has put a dynamic in us and we have seen.

• The Holy Spirit is communicating with us, but Christ is the ladder, reaching from earth to heaven.
• The Holy Spirit moves in relation to Christ to bring us into communion with Christ, just as Christ is in communion with His Father.
• There is a direct and immediate communion with God, and the Holy Spirit can reveal to us heavenly things.

• When we believe we are immediately given a new life – the perfect life of Christ, and when we yield to the Holy Spirit – HE works in and through our NEW life.

• I may be going through a very great deal of suffering without you knowing anything about it so far as the natural life is concerned, you are not affected by it, but beloved, there is a realm where if one member spiritually suffers the whole Body is involved in that suffering, which shows this Body is a heavenly thing and its relationships are not natural, they are spiritual, and that the unifying factor of the Holy Spirit operates apart from the natural consciousness.... You see what is involved, you see what a motive we have in our relationships for keeping them on a high level.
• If there comes between those in these relationships, these strains, these cross-purposes, these cross-currents, this being offended and upset, this breach of true love, our attitude must be, not just that this is a miserable unhappy thing, and the sooner we make it up the better; our attitude must be, this thing out in the realm of spiritual intelligences is working against the glory of Christ, this is working against Him as the Head because all these relationships are joined so vitally to the Head; this is working against the Holy Spirit as the unifying power of the whole Body, this is doing damage, and therefore, inasmuch as we are so minutely related to all the members by the Holy Spirit, what one does must somehow, all beyond our realization or consciousness, touch Christ, touch the Holy Spirit, and therefore, all other members.

• And so it is the Holy Spirit work, His interest, concern, energy, and activity; not only to bring people to the door and to get them inside the door, but to make them know that that door is but the opening of a Way, on the other side of the door everything lies.
• This work of the Holy Spirit is drastic, exacting, and very trying to the flesh.
• Make no mistake about it; it will take all the energy that the Holy Spirit Himself has to accomplish this work.

• Is that really what we think of, when we think of having, receiving, and being filled with the Holy Spirit?

• We put it in that way to show the difference between taking the letter and having the Holy Spirit's illumination of the letter.

• When we are really in it by the urge of the Holy Spirit, the common features found in these Old Testament instruments will be found inwrought in us; and we shall be found an abandoned people unto this ONE THING the Lord's burden and heart concern for His testimony in His people.

• I am certain of this, that nothing will ever come to you, however deep, however mighty, however tremendous, by revelation of the Holy Spirit, that will make you miserable.
• The revelation of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and there is no other revelation will never make a soul miserable.

• True revelation lies in the Holy Spirit inspired, God-breathed scriptures.
• John 17:7 God may indeed conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search it out – not through dreams, visions, and experiences of man – but via God’s Word: through searching the scriptures daily; through comparing scripture with scripture – through the illumination of the Holy Spirit - The Holy Spirit teaches: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1Corinthians 2:13
• Yet in the power of the Holy Spirit, we have the mind of Christ.

• until at last, the Holy Spirit gains our attention – until, in the end, He makes His pure diagnosis of our vain, self-efforts.

• There is only one sure safeguard against the colossal delusion by which multitudes will be carried away in the latter days, and that is a clear apprehension of the teaching of the Holy Spirit concerning soul and spirit and the continual operation of the Cross in the realm of the natural man.

• It is only the new creation in Christ who is able to apprehend spiritual things, for true wisdom is spiritually discerned, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit – given at rebirth..

• The Holy Spirit God the Spirit loves us so much that He convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment – but the Holy Spirit could not have redeemed us.
• The ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of all believers today, is to glorify Christ.

• Well, if we turn to the Lord, and are occupied with Him in the way we have indicated, the Holy Spirit sets us free.
• More than that, this beholding of Christ means that the Holy Spirit changes you into God's likeness: Beholding... we are changed.
• If Christ is the type, then the Holy Spirit will conform to His likeness.
• Then this being occupied with Christ means that the Holy Spirit makes us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant.
• Be occupied with Christ, and the Holy Spirit will show you more and more in Christ with which to be occupied, and as He makes that livingly real, you will have something to give to others.

• Efficacious prayer is to the glory of the Father (John 14:13), in the Name of the Son (John 14:14), and in the enabling power of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:26, 27).

• My aim, in cooperation with the Lord, is to make everything preeminently practical; and so we apply the challenge immediately, and I ask you, is the Holy Spirit within you presenting God's fullness in His Son in an ever-growing way?
• Hereafter, of course, was the immediate hereafter, the days of the Holy Spirit which were coming so soon.

• It is a tremendous thing to get into the hands of the Holy Spirit, until, like God, the one thing that we hate is anything that is false.
• Before God we know exactly what God thinks about us, and we know where we stand in the light.... And the nearer we come to the Lord, the more meticulous the Holy Spirit is over this matter of truth; the closer are His dealings with us.

• The order is of the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit in the power of the risen life is always leading you back to the Cross, to conformity to His death.
• The Holy Spirit is always working in relation to the Cross, in order that the power of His resurrection may be increasingly manifested in us.

• Words and Wisdom His words and wisdom authenticated His pre-existent reality for He was there before the world was created and could boldly say, I and the Father are One, for His Person and Presence was together with the Father and the Holy Spirit – very God of very God, not made – of One substance with the Father, through Whom all things were made.
• Christ’s Humanity Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit, Who overshadowed the virgin Mary, and was made perfect Man. Christ was accused of being born out of wedlock.

• The letter to the Galatians is devoted to emphasizing the place of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, for He alone can supply the necessary energy of love for us to go on running well.

• God’s Purpose In Christ There is no 12-step program that can effect this transformation – only a life of humility, submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit..

• It is not valueless; but we must recognize that there is all the difference between knowing the thoughts of God in our minds, and the Holy Spirit's using that knowledge to accomplish God's ends.
• Our attitude every time must be, Lord, do save me from ever coming to the time when what I have heard proves only to have been a thing heard; make it a basis of Holy Spirit activity to reach the Divine end.

• There is very much prayer being made, and appeal being pressed for revival.... If the Spirit of God either ignores or transcends so much that marks the Christian system, and makes it as though it counts so little, (and the Holy Spirit never compromises on what is vital and really of God), does it not mean that He calls for a reconsideration of very much that obtains?

• Our knowledge of the Lord, the very remotest bit of it and the very first ray of it, depends upon our spirit being awakened and illumined by the Holy Spirit.

• Spiritual House We are this habitation of God; this spiritual house; this temple of God, wherein His Holy Spirit dwells.

• that is the most effective tool that the Holy Spirit uses in the lives of countless saints.

• And if we knew it, a very large degree of our education, our spiritual education and our discipline in the Christian life under the hand of the HOLY Spirit, has to do with those things in us which are mixed up....

• Holy Spirit Guidance This important principle was similarly recognised by the apostle to the gentiles..
• that it is only and exclusively the indwelling Holy Spirit -that must lead and guide: “Without Me”, Jesus warns and pleads… “Without me ye can no do nothing”.

• Tri-unity of God God is a Tri-unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• It is possible to go out and work, labor, and die of the strain of trying to serve Me and yet it still remains true that you cannot, out from yourself, by any natural resources whatever, bear fruit unto Me.' The only thing that can ever get through to God's end, and that can be in Life eternal, Divine, heavenly Life is that which proceeds from the Holy Spirit.How sweeping that is!
• Of the things we say, for example, it continually presents the interrogation: 'Was that spoken in the Holy Spirit?' It is not enough to ask ourselves: 'Did I mean it well?
• Did I intend it for the Lord?' but: 'Was it said, was it done, in the Holy Spirit, or did I do it?' It is not a question of motive or of intention, but of the source from which we did it.
• We have daily to recognize that our lives must be subject to the Holy Spirit, and when we are aware that there has been something of our own will, we have to be faithful before God about it.

• If there is one thing that hell is against, it is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, the fellowship of the people of God.
• By that inflammation and ache the Holy Spirit is giving a positive witness against this thing.
• But if you go on long enough, the Holy Spirit will withdraw and leave you to it, just because He is positive.
• But it all gathers round this truth that the Holy Spirit is positive on the matter of fellowship.... We must challenge our hearts about this.
• The Holy Spirit, normally, is always positive I could almost say aggressive.

• A Holy Spirit possessed life is always marked by purpose.

• We are one spirit with the Lord Jesus by the one and only Holy Spirit.
• I can always know when the Holy Spirit is leading me, because He ever occupies me with the Lord Jesus.
• Spiritual growth is the Holy Spirit engraving the Lord Jesus on a man's heart, putting Him into his thoughts, his words, and his ways, just as the Law was engraved upon stones.
• What knowledge he has in this realm is his because the Holy Spirit has declared it to him; and for the Spirit's declaration he must wait.
• You may know and reckon on all the Bible, but there is no growth beyond the measure of the Holy Spirit's work in you. -J.B.S.
• The Holy Spirit is only truly yielded to as the Cross, with its crucifixion of the flesh and the world, has become the attitude of our heart and mind.
• He (the Holy Spirit) shall glorify Me (John 16:14).

• EITHER→ permit the Holy Spirit to work in you and train you → a spiritual saint.
• OR→ don’t permit the Holy Spirit to work in you and train you → a carnal saint.

• Evidently the risen Lord is able to carry on His own work; the Holy Ghost knows how to manage things.

• 1st : Salvation FIRST: Salvation is secured through the Spirit at the time of rebirth, but we are given a choice and warned against resisting the Holy Spirit.
• Those that rejected the Spirit at the time of Stephen’s death were rebuked: you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always RESIST the Holy Spirit – as your fathers did, so do you.
• And God desires that we are transformed into the image of the Son of His love, but we can hinder His good transforming work in our lives, and grieve His Spirit – and so we are warned not to grieve the Holy Spirit: do not GRIEVE the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption… Eph.4:30.
• The context of grieving the Holy Spirit in Ephesians 4 which tells us: do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Eph.4:30) –  let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, along with all malice (Eph.4:31) – and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Eph.4:32) – The life-long sanctifying process is carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit, but the sanctifying process cannot be accomplished by the work of the flesh.
• Harrison puts it this way: the Holy Spirit is equally intent upon securing service through us, as we are yielded to Him.
• Constant Communion As the Candlestick is kept continuously burning in the Temple of God, so too the light from the oil of the Holy Spirit must be kept alight.
• Disallowing this vital work in a believer’s life is the quenching of His Holy Spirit.
• We should day by day examine ourselves, lest we consciously or unconsciously resist the Spirit; quench the Spirit, or grieve the Holy Spirit of God.

• The new creation is a company, it is a Body indwelt by the Holy Spirit, actuated by the Holy Spirit, actually made one by the Holy Spirit.
• The oneness is the oneness of the Holy Spirit.
• Here the Holy Spirit forbids it.
• We are not allowed to act as individuals; the Holy Spirit will not allow it.
• It will come about if the Holy Spirit is really having His way in terms of Life.

• Resist or Relate Some fail to even come to Him for salvation, as they resist His Holy Spirit, Some start the process of sanctification, but carnal lusts grieve the Holy Spirit.
• Some attempt service through their own strength, but quench the Holy Spirit.

• What is the meaning of the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• It is nothing less and nothing other than the Holy Spirit taking His place as absolute Lord.
• The anointing carries with it the absolute Lordship of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit as Lord.
• The lordship of every interest and every influence is regarded as having given place to the undivided and unreserved lordship of the Holy Spirit, and the anointing can never be known or enjoyed, unless that has taken place....
• Do you ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• Why do you ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• The anointing takes complete control of everything and all is from that moment in the hands of the Holy Spirit, and we must remember that if we are going to learn Christ, that learning Christ is by the Holy Spirit's dealing with us, and that means that we have to go exactly the same way as Christ went in principle and in law... The Son can do nothing out from Himself.
• Perhaps that is a little different idea of the anointing from what we have had, Oh, to be anointed of the Holy Spirit!

• They were to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit was to given.

• Indwelling Holy Spirit To Ezekiel, was given the culmination of all revealed, descriptive names.

• The second way you get a limited and incomplete, yet perfect view of God – received through submission to the leading and correcting of the Holy Spirit.

• And Zacharias, full of the Holy Ghost, reminded us in His marvellous song of praise:- Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people.

• He has given us His light in our hearts – the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, Whom the Lord Jesus sent into the world to be WITH us and IN us – and Who, has been given the responsibility of guiding us into all truth.. as we submit to His leading – as we surrender every area of our lives to Him.

• We must allow the Holy Spirit to circumcise our hearts; our lips; our ears and our motives.
• Spirit of Healing It is only through the cleansing and healing of the Holy Spirit..

• Pentecost was the point when the promised Holy Spirit was sent to indwell believers. The spirit of Truth was sent by Christ at Pentecost – to be our ever-present Comforter. This is what happened….

• One great godly saint who understood the time-weathers principle of God wrote:- Many a young Christian, who has not been warned of this necessary voyage of discovery upon which the Holy Spirit will certainty embark him (Rom.7:1ff), has been plunged into almost incurable despair at the sight of the sinfulness which is his by nature.

• Holiness – the very essence of the nature of God. But why are we – we who are formed in His image… why are we encouraged and commanded in the written Word to be holy? And why are we instructed by the sweet and quiet yearnings of the Holy Spirit..

• That there should be a company, two or three or more, though limited physically here on this earth by time and space, yet really functioning in the Holy Spirit, so that the universal Christ all that it means that He is there at God right hand is having some expression!

• The Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are characterized by this one feature truth!

• God would have us love one another; but the Holy Spirit, by whose power we receive the divine nature, and who pours the love of God into our hearts, is the Spirit of truth, and His office is to glorify Christ.
• Therefore it is impossible that a love which can put up with a doctrine that falsified Christ, or which is indifferent to anything that concerns His glory, can be of the Holy Spirit - still less so, if such indifference be set up as a proof of that love.

• Many a young Christian, who has not been forewarned of this necessary voyage of discovery upon which the Holy Spirit will certainly embark him (Romans Seven), has been plunged into almost incurable despair at the sight of the sinfulness which is his by nature.

• The Holy Spirit's illumination concerning the church is a thing so difficult to explain to any who may not have experienced it.

• Those who believe on Jesus for salvation are saved, and brought into union with Him by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Fellowship is broken when a Christian prevents the work of the Holy Spirit in their life, for we can both grieve Him and quench His work in our lives through sin, but how few really understand what sin is.

• The result of, and reward for, dependence upon the Holy Spirit, is Romans Eight.

• Jesus the Jew Jesus was born a Jew and lived His life in full accordance with the Jewish law, for the law, promises, prophecies and salvation must all come through the Jews. And so on the eighth day, after the custom of the law, Jesus was brought to the temple, and there He was seen by Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

• There is human, soulish power and persuasion that can produce “decisions,” and “commitments”; but only the Holy Spirit has the life and power to bring a lost sinner to healthy re-birth in the Saviour.

• And it was revealed unto him [Simeon] by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.Luke 2:26

• These are the ones in Whom the Holy Spirit resides – but are not prepared. These may be deeply involved in the interests of Christ’s work and yet be unprepared.

• Holy Spirit of God But we’re not left alone in our pilgrimage or in our assignment in the field of battle.

• If we become spiritual in this sense, if the Holy Spirit is the commanding reality in our life, and we are walking by the Spirit, we are bound inevitably to come into all God's thought.
• That is only possible as they cease to be governed by some outward order of things, and learn what it is to move with God in the Holy Spirit.

• But while we have the choice – let us walk in spirit and truth and allow the Holy Spirit to do the good, sanctifying work of conforming us into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• But He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.Matthew 3:11
• Jesus said, Go ye therefore, and teach (make disciples of) all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.Matthew 28:19
• Defining Baptism As we read the Bible, we discover that the word “baptism” is used in different ways. John we are told baptised with water while the Israelites were baptised into Moses. Christ was to baptise with the Holy Spirit – which is a baptism for believers, – but He was also to baptise with fire – a baptism of judgement for the lost.
• Believers are immersed into Christ. Water was the agency that John used – the Holy Spirit is the agency for believers. John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance and people were placed into water. Spirit baptism occurs when we believe – we are placed into Christ by the Spirit.
• And as Christ’s forerunner, John pointed Israel to their Messiah – Jesus Christ, He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

• BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and your sins are forgiven. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are not condemned. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are given eternal life. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are put in union with the Lord Jesus. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are forever in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are no longer separated from the Father.

• It is not new revelation, but illumination of God’s final word, by His Holy Spirit.

• Faith in the threefold work of the Holy Spirit in us and through us:-1) Saving our spirits. 2) Sanctifying our souls. 3) Serving through our bodies.
• God so loves… that whosoever believes shall be saved… John 3:16, for salvation, is being born of the Holy Spirit and is accessed through faith.
• Faith is needed for a life that is being conformed into the image of Jesus, for maturing and sanctification is by the power of the Holy Spirit..

• It is just the beginning of the process, in you, and so day by day, by the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, grow in grace; grow in understanding; grow in love and grow in wisdom..

• He was presenting the embryonic gospel of grace, which was to be more fully revealed by the ministry of the apostle Paul – to include the Church as the Body of Christ in Union with Him  – a new creation and joint-heirs of God’s Son – a heavenly citizenship and the indwelling Holy Spirit as a down-payment from God the Father – our Abba.

• David, for instance, prayed that the Holy Spirit would not be taken from him.

• Be filled with the Holy Spirit Eph.5:18 And give to him that is in need.
• Oh – and grieve not the holy Spirit of God – and be ye kind one to another.
• to the Thessalonians While the Thessalonians were told: Don’t quench the Holy Spirit and don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God.

• Alive unto God It is only at the point of birth from above that our human spirit is made alive unto God. It is only believers that are capable of fellowshiping – or communing with the Lord: for God is Spirit and only the spirit of man can interact with the Holy Spirit of God, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. John 4:24
• The unbeliever remains dead in their sins and estranged from their Creator God. Only a believer has a human spirit that is alive and can commune with the Holy Spirit.
• Our new nature must be conformed to be like Christ. The old sin nature must remain crucified and our flesh must remain on the cross, for our fleshly sin nature can never fellowship with the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Our new life in Christ must develop and mature, and our new man will grow and mature as we submit to the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Spiritual Realm Only our new nature can fellowship with the Lord. Only our new nature is alive. Only the new life can function in the spiritual realm and commune with the Holy Spirit. Only our new life in Christ is spiritually alive and can worship in spirit and truth, for God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.

• We have obtained an inheritance and we have been blessed with the gift and pledge of the Holy Spirit.

• Stephen was a young man who converted to Christianity at the start of the Church age and was given a leadership role because he was filled with the Holy Ghost and imbued with godly wisdom.
• he exclaimed, you always resist the Holy Spirit; just as your fathers did before you.
• But Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

• God has given us His sufficient grace so that we may live as Christ lived - in spirit and in truth, but we are to appropriate all that is ours in Him... by abiding in Him, submitting to the Holy Spirit's guidance, and trusting in His Word.

• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire.'
• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with a baptism of Fire. He will baptise you with 1) the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (unto salvation) and 2) a baptism with Fire (unto damnation).
• While obedience would result in the baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT, disobedience would result in a baptism of FIRE.
• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit, AND He will baptise you with fire. John was stating that SOME in their midst would be baptised with the HOLY SPIRIT (i.e.
• Those who truly repented of their sins - those who participated in John's baptism of repentance and believed on the One Who was to come, would one day be baptised with the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit 'came upon' a FEW people in the pre-Cross era (i.e.
• However, EVERY post-Cross believer receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit, about which John spoke.  From the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was sent by God to indwell every member of the fledgling Church (the Body of Christ).
• From that unique day, every new believer receives the Baptism of the Holy Spirit the moment they believe on Christ, for the forgiveness of sin.
• At the moment of salvation, a person immediately undergoes a baptism - a DRY, SPIRITUAL Baptism - the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which places them into the Body of Christ. 
• Jesus taught His disciples about this same, spiritual baptism, the night He was betrayed. He told them, The Holy Spirit resides WITH you and He will be IN you.
• John baptised with water (a water baptism - of repentance) but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, (a spiritual baptism - of the heart) not many days from now. 
• All who are Baptised by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ are identified with HIM and baptised into His Body.

• He will be great in the sight of the Lord and be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother's womb.The God of miracles brought joy and gladness into Elizabeth's heart, for her son would one day turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.

• And He has also given us His indwelling Holy Spirit, to prompt us in the way that we should go and to guide us into all truth.

• The day of Pentecost was the beautiful birthday of the Church when the Holy Spirit, Whom Jesus had promised to send only a short time earlier,, was poured out on all the believers who had faithfully gathered: All-together in one place, as instructed by the Lord Jesus.
• And Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, opened up the Scriptures to the men of Israel.
• And Peter further explained that having been raised up to this exalted heavenly position by the most high God, the Lord Jesus also received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit which had just been poured out on all the believers who were: All-together in one place, as promised by the Lord Jesus, only a short time earlier.

• And it is the same Holy Spirit that gives re-birth to the one that trusts Christ as Saviour: Ye must be born again.
• We are all born dead in trespasses and sins, but when we recognise our sinfulness and our need of a Saviour, and when we trust in the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Kinsman-Redeemer, the Holy Spirit breathes into our beings the very life of our living and resurrected Saviour and we become a new creation in Christ.

• He gave them a glimpse into the future where the Holy Spirit of Christ would be with them and dwell in them and that the fruit they produced would be from HIM and glorify HIM - just as the fruit that Jesus produced was from His Father and glorified His Father in heaven.

• It is God Who works in us, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He enables us to produce good fruit to the glory of God.

• His Word is a lamp to our feet and a guiding light along our pathway, for by grace through faith we have been made His children and are called to walk in the light of His love, by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.May the light of His love so shine through each one of us, that men may see our godly deeds, hear the Word of truth, trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin, and glorify our Father Who is in heaven.

• But He was accused of carrying out His miracles by the power of Beelzebub and not the Holy Spirit of God, and He was despised and rejected by those He came to save.

• We who were dead in trespasses and sin and without God in the world, have been brought near to God because of Israel's transgressions, and by grace through faith in Him, we have been made children of God, forgiven of our sins, made part of the Body of Christ, been in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit and received eternal life as a free gift of God's grace.

• Rather, we are to rest in utter dependence on the Lord Himself as we submit to the leading and guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• God has baptised them into Christ, sealed them with His indwelling Holy Spirit, promised them eternal life, and given an assurance that ALL are accepted in the Beloved.

• In this middle section of the epistle we see Paul addressing issues ranging from the eating of meat that has been offered to idols and head-covering for women, to the Lord's supper and the appropriate use of the gifts of the Holy Spirit within the Church.

• How much more we who have an old sin nature need to keep ourselves ever covered by His protecting power and yielded to the guidance of His Holy Spirit, as we remain in Him and He in us.The little power-packed book of Jude opens by encouraging maturing Christians to contend earnestly for the sanctifying faith that works in and through the lives of born-again believers, and which will bring them to spiritual maturity.

• Jesus had just finished telling His confused disciples that He was going away to prepare a place for them in His Father's house, but that He would not leave them comfortless but send the Holy Spirit to be with them and to live inside them.
• Jesus had told them that the Holy Spirit would be sent to them from Father after His departure (and we know that He came at Pentecost).
• In that day Christ told them, when I have gone to be with my Father, you will receive the promise of the Father (the indwelling the Holy Spirit) Who is with you now but He will be IN you as a Witness that I am in My Father (in union with Him).
• In that day, when you are in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit; placed into the Body of Christ and sealed - He told them, you will also know that I am in you (My resurrected life given to you - My eternal life imparted to you - My perfect life imputed to you) so that I may influence your choices and decisions, until it is not I that lives, but Christ that lives in me..

• There is much 'religious politics' in the Church today, and although it is important that false doctrine is exposed, the attitude that Paul displayed towards these fleshly motivated preachers (whose preaching though doctrinally sound, stemmed from envy, strife and a desire to cause him pain) is a beautiful lesson in humble discipleship and godly submission to the Holy Spirit.

• Only a heart that has been made new by the Holy Spirit of God and a mind that is stayed on Christ, is able to resist the temptations of this world and stand fast through all the trials and tribulations of life.God is a consuming fire Who will one day burn away the dross, and refine that which is good.

• It was by the power of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the eternal Godhead, through Whom this mysterious conception was to be accomplished, for the Holy Ghost was to come upon her and the power of the Most High was to overshadow her so that the baby that was to be born to Mary would be holy: And they would call Him Immanuel, which means 'God with us.

• Let us look at these Scriptures with fresh eyes, and with the leading of the Holy Spirit, grasp some of the enormity of that moment, when God was made flesh, stepped out of eternity and into time, to fulfil the plans and purposes of the Father, laid before the foundation of the world.

• When we truly identify with our Saviour and trust in Christ's capacities alone for our journey through life, it is then that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness; it is then that the wind of God will lift us up on eagles' wings and carry us through life's stresses and strains, in the power of His Holy Spirit.

• At last, a day came when, prompted by the Holy Spirit of God, Jacob decided to return to his homeland and determined to make reconciliation with his estranged brother, Esau, who had vowed to kill him over 20 years earlier.

• They are the dry, lifeless bones of Ezekiel 37, which will only live again by the power of the Holy Spirit of God when they acknowledge their sin and receive Jesus as their Messiah-King.In this verse early in Exodus, we discover: All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt The twelve tribes that make up the whole nation of Israel, are all descended from those twelve sons of Jacob.Reuben and Simeon were the two eldest children who shamed their father by their ungodly actions.

• Although our position in Christ can never be lost for those that are born-again, nevertheless our communion with Christ can be interrupted, our fellowship with the Father can be broken, and our spiritual channel of communication can be choked so that His love ceases to flow out from Him, through us, to others - and we grieve the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.

• The sin nature is programmed to be conformed to the world, but the transforming work of the indwelling Holy Spirit requires the continuous and ongoing renewing of our mind, so that our thoughts are influenced by the mind of Christ, as the desire of His heart becomes our own desire and delight, and His perfect will is translated into our will.
• The Holy Spirit alone is that One that implements our inner transformation.

• This shocking accusation was identified by Christ Himself as a terrible sin against the Holy Spirit (for the Spirit is the One Who convicts men's hearts of sin, righteousness and judgement).
• It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit which guides us into all truth and teaches us all things.
• It is the Spirit of God Who witnesses to our spirit and Who teaches and trains us to do the good and eschew the evil, and it is by the work of the Holy Spirit that we are born from above into the family of God and made one with Jesus Christ; our heavenly Lord and earthly brother.
• To blaspheme the Holy Spirit in this way is to reject the one and only means of salvation, for He is the One Whose witness points to Christ Jesus as Saviour.

• When He walked by the way He was hungry and tired, and our Great High Priest was not exempt from the human emotions of hope and fear, of joy and pain, of anger and grief, nor was He free from suffering and sorrow, but lived a life of humble obedience to the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• The holy Scriptures that have been penned by the prophets and divinely inspired of the Holy Spirit for our learning, is the blade that will cut through every attack from the enemy.

• The breath of God's Holy Spirit, imputed divine light, life, power, and hope into that sacred text.
• The Holy Spirit of God, Who in times past, moved prophets of old to pen the sacred words of Scripture, is the same Breath of God, Who breathes life to the spirit of a man when he is born from above.

• He also tells of the amazing work of the indwelling Holy Spirit and the honour of being baptised by Him, into the Body of Christ.
• 'Filling' in Scripture denotes being governed by, ruled by, controlled by or under submission to, and as believers we are to be governed by the Holy Spirit, ruled by Him, controlled by Him, and living in submission to His leading and guiding in every part of our lives.
• Rather, we are to be ruled or governed by the Holy Spirit Who brings forth love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
• Let us not be drunk with wine or controlled by any other substance or emotion that discredits our Heavenly Father, but let us go on being filled, day by day, with the Holy Spirit of God so that we may manifest the grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit in our lives, today and throughout the rest of our time on earth.

• When we live our life in spirit, in truth, and in submission to the Holy Spirit, the life of Christ lives in us and the love of Christ streams from us, and God is glorified by this.
• And there is a legitimate reason that we are called upon to live godly in Christ Jesus, to walk in spirit and truth, to submit to the teaching and training of the Holy Spirit, and to learn obedience through suffering: To love one another as Christ loved us, for by this all people will know that you are my disciples.
• When, in the power of the Holy Spirit, Christians put to death the lust of the flesh, the things of the world, and the pride of life, and choose to walk in newness of life - we walk in love.

• The restraining power of the indwelling Holy Spirit will be removed... through the Rapture of the Church, when wickedness has reached its fullness.

• It was only at Pentecost, that the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit of God came to indwell His Church, and provide the sufficient strength we all need to work the work of God.
• Like Peter, we also face an increasingly uncertain future, but let us never forget that the Holy Spirit of God has been given to the Church and has taken up permanent residence within the heart of every member of Christ's Body.
• Let us remember that no matter what we may have to face in the days that lie ahead, His over-abounding grace is sufficient for us, for we have the indwelling Holy Spirit to lead and to guide for His supernatural power is perfected in our weakness.

• They did not understand that in a few short weeks they would be indwelt by the Holy Spirit so that the life that they now lived in the flesh would be the new life of Christ living in and through them; a life they would receive by the power of the Spirit, for the life of Christ and the love of Christ was to be their eternal portion, and it is our eternal portion too.
• It is only as we walk in spirit and truth, in submission to the leading of the Holy Spirit within, can we fulfil this beautiful command to: Love as I have loved you, until we can at last say with Paul: It is not I that lives but Christ that lives in me.

• There are those that deny the supreme Deity of Christ and His equality with the Father and Holy Spirit, labelling Him as a lesser and inferior god, suggesting that, like us, the Lord Jesus is a created being.
• Similarly, there are those who claim that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are three separate manifestations of God; sometimes showing Himself as Father, sometimes as Son, and sometimes as Spirit, but again this denies the truth of God's Word from beginning to end.
• The Godhead; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is seen in the Bible as being unified in nature and purpose; co-equal, co-perfect, co-eternal, and consubstantial.
• The Lord our God is ONE God in Three Persons, and Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can equally claim: I AM Alpha and Omega.

• And then followed the glorious announcement from this angelic messenger: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, she was told, and the power of the Most High God will overshadow you.

• Do not destroy with your food, him for whom Christ died, was his clear instruction, Do not let what is a good thing for you be spoken of as evil, he continued, for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  Paul did not want the liberty some Christians enjoyed to offend a weaker brother or cause them to stumble in their Christian journey.
• The kingdom of heaven is about righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  Our conscience and concern for others should dictate what we do.
• Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit comes through faith in HIM.

• He not only caused us to become new creatures, by faith in His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, but supplied us with good seed to sow into the lives of those who do not know His goodness and grace – and then to carry out His own good work in our lives, through the power of His indwelling Holy Spirit.Paul rejoices that God is able to make all grace abound to us so that always having sufficiency in everything, we have an abundance for every good deed, and he reinforces this truth by quoting from the Psalmist: He scattered abroad.

• The universal Church of believers is one Body which is in-dwelt by the same Holy Spirit of God.

• God, the eternal Son and divine Creator, did not try to keep hold of all that is His by right of His unique position and person, but humbled Himself and laid aside His glory, in order to become subject to His Father and live as man was originally created to live, only doing those things that He heard from His Father and only acting on the instructions of the Holy Spirit.
• We are challenged daily to let this mind be in us that was in Christ Jesus, and to choose to follow the path of the Cross by setting aside our own natural inclination to place self on the throne of our lives and, in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit and by means of the new life of Christ, to empty ourselves of 'Self' and become a servant of all, for His sake Who loved us so much that He died that we might live.

• All have been made a new creation in Christ, and all have been baptised by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, which is the Church of God.
• All have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit of God, and all have a been promised a priceless inheritance that is kept in heaven for us - an eternal inheritance that is pure and undefiled, that will never change and will never decay.
• We have all received the new-life of Christ which is being transformed by the Holy Spirit, day by day, into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord.

• We should treat each other with a godly affection and gentle kindness that can only be imparted to us by His Holy Spirit, as we remain in Him and He in us.

• But first, they must be spiritually enlivened when the Holy Spirit of God breathes the breath of new life into their cold, dead hearts, by their faith in Christ.
• Despite being God's chosen people, they are a nation of unbelievers, a nation of 'dead bones', and they will remain spiritually lifeless until they are quickened and spiritually enlivened by the in-breathing of the Holy Spirit.

• We are called to be holy for He is holy, but His unattainable benchmark can only be attained as we live as Christ lived, in spirit and truth, and in submission to the Holy Spirit.

• The method God chose to provide this enrichment to us in everything, was to send His Holy Spirit to indwell us.
• The Holy Spirit enriches us by guiding us into all truth relative to sound doctrine, salvation, sanctification, glorification, and all that streams from the amazing grace of God.
• And it is the same Holy Spirit that opens our understanding to the magnificent character of God that is beyond understanding and yet is being opened up to us more and more, as we seek to know Him better.
• Should not we, who have been enriched in every way in Him, in all utterance and knowledge, show forth the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit in our lives from this day forward and henceforth for every more? 

• The Restrainer is the Holy Spirit - working within the Body of Christ through the prayers of the Saints.
• Sadly however, some interpretations of 2nd Thessalonians are only based on the initial summary statement and ignore the later verses which show that the Holy Spirit is restraining evil and suppressing the rise of the man of sin... and He is doing His restraining work through the prayers of Christians who are members of Christ's Body and His earthly ambassadors and representatives.
• However, the restraining impact of the indwelling Holy Spirit through the prayers of those saints, is holding back the outpouring of God's wrath on a Christ-rejecting sinful world.

• He came to pay the price for man's sin and to be crowned as Israel's King of kings.Whoever may be the main target audience, the Sermon on the Mount is not for unbelievers, but sets out a pattern of holy living for Jew and Gentile believers alike, that can only come through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit when the inner heart of a believer has died to self, and lives for Christ alone.

• And so Paul found freedom from the power of sin, life from the icy fingers of death, deliverance from the curse of law, emancipation from the lust of the flesh, and liberty to live in newness of Christ's resurrected life as guided by the Holy Spirit.
• The believer can choose to retain control and allow the flesh to dominate OR he can submit to the leading of the indwelling Holy Spirit Who is mighty to save.
• But when as believers we submit to the Holy Spirit, we discover a higher law working within (the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus) that gives power to the new-life-of-Christ within which we received when we were born again, bringing us to certain victory.
• The Holy Spirit is the 'Spirit of Life' Who regenerates our human spirit, places us in the Body of Christ, gives us the life of Christ, and then works in the new-life within - but only when we submit to Him and walk in spirit and truth, and do not engage in fleshly carnality and ungodly practices.
• Having been made FREE we are empowered to stand in that freedom, which is done by submitting to the Holy Spirit on a day by day basis, and often minute by minute.
• Let us live our life in the power of the Holy Spirit and submit to Him in all things, knowing that there is: NO Condemnation, for those of us who are positioned in Christ: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death.

• And so when he writes, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to rejoice in suffering, and to count it all joy when you meet trials, we can be assured that he is speaking from a place of deep personal understanding.
• In this verse, after reminding the Corinthians of his and his co-workers great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonour, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; Paul is able to conclude that he and his co-workers were sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

• As he grew, the Lord blessed Samson with great strength and the Holy Spirit started to guide him.

• However, those that have already been saved and have become children of God by faith in Christ, are expected to behave in a manner that is worthy of their status as children of God, as empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The promised King of Israel had arrived in the Person of Jesus Who, in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, carried out many mighty signs and wonders in order to fulfil Scripture, and as a demonstration that He was indeed great David's greater Son.

• Let us reckon ourselves dead to sin by keeping the old sin nature nailed to the Cross by faith, and let us reckon ourselves alive to Christ as we allow His Holy Spirit to direct and govern our lives, to His praise and glory.

• It may be a simple instruction to the Church but it is one of the greatest challenges with which any of us can be presented, for it is the Holy Spirit of God Who calls us to live as Christ lived and to love as Christ loved.
• It is only as the Holy Spirit is given sway to carry out His work within, that this impossible command can be carried out.
• It is as we permit the Holy Spirit to carry out His good work in and through our lives, that we can become a channel through whom His love can flow out to others.
• Every action and every attitude, every word and every work, each thought of the heart, each decision of the mind and even the motives that influence the choices we make, need to be bathed in the purifying gaze of the Holy Spirit, washed in the fountain of God's divine love and covered with the unconditional grace of Christ, Who for love of His church went to the cross willingly - so that like Him, everything we do, may be done through HIM - in LOVE.

• God's dearly loved Son was finally born on earth by physical descent to Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit of the eternal God.

• He told them that the Holy Spirit would testify about Himself and will confirm to them all that He had taught them.
• And now they heard that the Holy Spirit was to come to be with them in place of Jesus and that He would bear witness of Jesus, the eternal Son of God and Kinsman-Redeemer of fallen mankind.
• They remembered from John the Baptist, that Christ was the one Who would baptise with the Holy Spirit and now they were being told that this time had almost come, and that He would be their Comforter.
• But before all that could happen, the disciples had to receive the indwelling Holy Spirit, the Helper Whom Christ sent from the Father on that first day of Pentecost, the Spirit of truth Who proceeds from the Father, and Whose ministry to the Body of Christ is to testify about our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

• To keep Christ's commands is to obediently submit our new-life-in-Him to the leading and guidance of God's indwelling Holy Spirit.
• As maturing believers, we can only go through God's training programme of ongoing sanctification successfully, as we learn obedience by the things that we suffer and as we willingly submit to the deep work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

• The moment we were born from above, the Holy Spirit took up residence within our mortal bodies, and we have become His holy temple.

• For Christ has promised to save us from the power of sin, the guilt of sin, the nature of sin, and the punishment of sin, but also to sanctify to the uttermost, body, soul, and spirit as day by day His Holy Spirit is conforming us into the image and likeness of Christ Jesus our Lord.His saving grace is not only for the eternal ages to come but will be carried through to its ultimate completion, for He will never abandon any that have trusted in His name as Saviour and who have come to Him for pardon and peace.

• This only happens to the one that is walking in spirit and truth and is submitted to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Who by grace is conforming us into His likeness, as we die to self and live for Christ.
• We are to develop and flourish in our dependence upon the Lord as the Holy Spirit works within, to direct, govern, lead and chasten us, and to conform us into the image and likeness of His dear Son.

• That which is born of the physical flesh is fallen and fleshly and needs to be reborn into the spiritual realm, while that which is born of the Holy Spirit is spirit.

• As God's children, we are not to mirror the world but be conformed into the likeness of Christ through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• He was working the works of God in his life through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• We can either resist the temptation in the strength of the Holy Spirit as we walk in spirit and truth, in our new life in Christ OR we can yield to the temptation and allow it to take hold in our hearts and draw us away from truth and virtue.

• He promised that the Holy Spirit, the Helper: Would be with you forever, the Spirit of truth Whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him.
• The Holy Spirit of God, Who was sent at Pentecost, was to be this other Helper.
• And for the past 2000 years, the Holy Spirit is to all who have trusted Christ as Saviour, what Christ Himself had been to His little band of faithful followers: our Helper, Advocate, Comforter, and Paraclete.

• The teachings He gave, together with many prophetic Scriptures, should have prepared them for all the events that took place during those astonishing post-resurrection days, but first, they were to be baptised into the Body of Christ, and empowered and taught by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Did You receive the Holy Spirit by works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
• But Paul had taught them that all their own acts of righteousness are filthy rags in the eyes of God, and that the only acts of righteousness that God will ever receive from His born again children are those that are carried out by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith in Christ, as He lives in us.

• But those who have trusted in the Word of God for salvation, by grace through faith in the shed blood of our Kinsman-Redeemer, have the inner witness of God's Holy Spirit within.

• Just before His Ascension, the Lord gave the Church their great commission to go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• They have also gained His approval through their faith and been imputed with righteousness and the indwelling Holy Spirit. 

• He had to remind them that their bodies were a temple of the Holy Spirit.
• They appeared to have forgotten that they, (like us) are positioned in Christ, indwelled by the Holy Spirit, clothed in Christ's righteousness, and have become part of a new and perfected creation - where Jesus is the Head and we are all members of His Body.

• Paul knew that the inevitable outcome is an increasing disassociation from the Lord, a distancing of oneself from Christian brethren, and even a quenching of the Holy Spirit in their lives; all of which inhibit spiritual development and result in a backslidden life.

• Despite the many appearances of the Angel of the Lord in Old Testament times, He never appears in the New, after the incarnation of Christ, and we who have been born-again into the family of God, have no need for a visitation from the Angel of the Lord, because He was born into the world as Jesus Christ and because we have His Holy Spirit dwelling within, as our ever-present guard and guide.

• This was the time the religious leaders committed the unforgiveable sin against the Holy Spirit by denouncing Christ's miracles as works of Beelzebub.

• The Body of believers is the Temple of God in this Dispensation of Grace - a spiritual Temple in whom dwells the Holy Spirit of the living God. 
• Our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.

• Under the authority of the indwelling Holy Spirit, we have the means to put on the protective armour of God that He Himself provides as a defence against all those that would seek to destroy us.

• The unbeliever is drawn by the Father's cords of love and convicted of their sinfulness and need of a Saviour, through the ministry of Holy Spirit.

• This is why the apostle instructs us to: Build yourselves up in our most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

• And we, who have the Holy Spirit dwelling within by faith, should ensure that, day by day, our hearts are examined for any evil intent or murderous thought... and cleanse our hearts from all ungodly thoughts which in certain cases translates into murder.

• In context, this verse give us an assurance that we will receive whatever we ask for, when we humbly request what is in full alignment with the Word of God and pray into the will of God in the power of the Holy Spirit, for the honour and glory of His name.
• Keeping His commandment to love as He love, living in humble submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit, walking in spirit and truth, and praying in alignment with the Word and Will of God, are some of the biblical prerequisites of answered prayer that John is talking about in this passage.
• Being aligned to the Word and the will of God, ensures that the believer who is walking in spirit and truth will pray as led by the Holy Spirit - and their prayer will indeed be answered.

• It is Christ Who gives me His strength by the power of the Holy Spirit within, because my sufficiency is in HIM alone.

• The kingdom of God is that heavenly sphere of life where His children are willingly governed by the Holy Spirit in which righteousness reigns - and it refers to the Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus.

• Both had conflicts with the Jewish authorities, and both were filled with the Holy Spirit from birth.

• How he praised the Lord for the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit that was carried out in their lives, and how he encouraged the saints themselves to always give thanks to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

• The beautiful fruit of the Spirit comes out from the Holy Spirit and is perfected by Him, and each facet is a jewel that beautifies the life of a believer.

• When used correctly, especially in those early, pre-canonic days, the gift of tongues, the interpretation of tongues, prophetic utterances, and teachings, was the main way that the Holy Spirit gave spiritual knowledge and guided early believers into truth.
• He also used them as a sign to Israel that the Holy Spirit of God was working in Gentile believers who started to be labelled as 'Christians' at Antioch.

• The safest way to earnestly contend for the faith is to read, mark, learn, inwardly digest, and earnestly apply the Word of God in every area of life – as led by the Holy Spirit of His dear Son.

• Christ is the eternal God Who chose to come to earth and be clothed in human flesh, living His life just like we live, and yet He was not born with a sin nature as we are, for He was conceived of the Holy Ghost and He lived a perfect life during His 33 years sojourn on earth.

• The Lord Jesus was declared to be the Son of God at His baptism, when the Holy Spirit descended on Him and a voice from heaven was heard to say, This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.

• And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

• When Christians behave like the unsaved, it mars their testimony, stunts their spiritual growth, and causes the Holy Spirit to be quenched in their lives or grieved by their conduct.

• And it is the same Holy Spirit of God, Who breathes the breath of NEW life into the lifeless spirit of a fallen man at redemption.

• An ongoing sanctification process takes place as the Holy Spirit works the work of God through our lives.

• Our body is a temple in which dwells the Holy Spirit of God, and as individual believers and as the corporate Body of Christ, we are His ambassadors; representatives of Jesus Himself.

• Unlike Israel, we all have the indwelling holy Spirit of God Who is working in us to will and to do His good purpose in our lives as through life's trials and tribulations, He is conforming us into the image and likeness of Christ.
• When we choose to turn to the world for sustenance and supply in times of difficulty or ease, it means we have turned away from Christ, and in so doing, we inhibit or quench the inner workings of the Holy Spirit.

• On one occasion we read that Paul's plans were rearranged by the Holy Spirit of God when he received a call from the Lord to forgo his own pre-developed arrangements, and go instead to Macedonia.

• And each member has been given the indwelling Holy Spirit and the privileged position of being 'in Christ'.

• It details the glorious plan of salvation and the enormous sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, whereby fallen man is not only released from slavery to sin, delivered from eternal condemnation, and reconciled back to God, but also saved by grace through faith in Him, made a new creation in Christ, made a citizen of heaven and a joint-heir with the Son of God, bestowed with the riches of God's grace, in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit, eternally secure in His gracious love, and so much more.

• How we praise and glorify our Heavenly Father for the blessed hope we have in Christ which will never disappoint us, because God's over-abounding love has been poured in our hearts through the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit Who took up residence in our heart the moment we trusted in Christ.

• However, it was during the final few weeks before His crucifixion that Jesus started preparing His disciples for His death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Day of Pentecost together with the coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell the Church during a new dispensation - the dispensation of the Grace of God.
• Although He was fully God, the Lord Jesus lived His life demonstrating to humanity how God wants every spiritual man to live - indwelt, led, and guided by the Holy Spirit of God while at the same time abiding in unbroken fellowship with our Father in heaven - every moment of the day.

• May we who are positionally sanctified in Christ, so submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives that we may also be practically sanctified as we mature in the faith, grow in grace, and come to know the Lord Jesus more and more with each passing day.

• By His redemptive work, we have been made a new creation in Christ, fully pardoned from sin, endowed with eternal salvation, permanently in-dwelt with His Holy Spirit, and forever accepted in the Beloved, by our Father in heaven.

• He has also promised to finish the good work of salvation He started in ALL His children, and has given each one the in-dwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee that He will fulfil His promise.

• Our job is to listen to what the Spirit says to us, for the one that is submissive to the promptings of the indwelling Holy Spirit is that one who will be guided into the truth of the glorious gospel of Christ and be given godly wisdom and discernment in every aspect of our lives.

• In Him we live and move and have our being, and through Him, and because of Him, we are more than conquerors because He loves us and gave Himself for us... and He has sent His Holy Spirit to take up permanent residence within our hearts, for He has promised, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

• It is only through the empowering of the Holy Spirit that we can: Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord.

• The one Creator God is manifest in three Persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

• The fruit of the Spirit is an inner grace that is produced in a believer who is submitted to the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that the life lived becomes a lovely reflection of Christ's singular nature and godly character.
• Only as we live and walk and pray in spirit and in truth, will our lives produce this singular fruit of God's Holy Spirit, and we will be equipped to say with Paul, It is not I who live - but Christ, Who lives in me.

• God gave the first witness of His Son's authenticity at His baptism when He spoke these beautiful words from heaven: This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Lord Jesus Christ and remained upon Him throughout His earthly ministry.
• We received the permanent presence of God's Holy Spirit within our hearts when we were adopted as God's own children so that we are enabled to call Him 'Abba, Father'.

• Paul explains that we are not the sort of letters that are written with ink on parchment, or a message that is chiselled into a block of stone, but living, breathing epistles, written by the Holy Spirit of God through the lives that we live.
• How incredible to know that we have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God within our heart Who enables Christ to be revealed in us.
• Paul could not label carnal Christians as heavenly epistles of Christ, written in the power of the Holy Spirit!
• His confidence was in the Lord Jesus and His life flowing in and through these men and women - who were able to be called epistles... written in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• The Lord is intimately connected with each of His own, for all who are saved by grace through faith are united with Him forever and His Holy Spirit is both with us and in us, BUT evil men are condemned.

• He was the prophet who pointed to Jesus as: The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. He was the one who witnessed the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descend, like a dove, on Christ as the Father declared, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.

• It was for this reason that Stephen, a man filled with the Holy Ghost, was arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin to testify of the truth of the gospel.

• And so, we are called upon to live as unto the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit; to be at peace among ourselves, to warn those who are being irresponsible, to comfort the discouraged, to help the weak, and to be patient with everyone.

• In this life, we are being conformed into His likeness day by day, as we submit to the leading and guiding of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are co-equal, co-eternal, and one in essence, but they are three distinct persons with three distinct roles, and yet the Lord our God is One and God alone is our Saviour.
• The Holy Spirit is our Saviour, for He convicts us of our sin, baptises the new believer into the Body of Christ, and conforms us day by day in to the image and likeness of Christ.
• God is indeed our perfect Saviour; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• For the rest of our lives, we are being progressively sanctified as we mature in the faith, grow in grace, and submit to the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit within our lives.

• Every believer is endowed with one or more spiritual gifts, graciously bestowed by the Holy Spirit according to His desire and as He wills.
• How blessed we are to know that the same Spirit Who brought all things into existence according to His mighty power, is the same Holy Spirit Who endows each of God's children with spiritual gifts - apportioning to each of us the gifts and grace of His choosing.
• There are a great variety of gifts and ministries that are conferred on believers by the Holy Spirit, which are apportioned without favour or prejudice for God's gifts, as well as His calling, is irrevocable.
• And although there is a huge diversity of spiritual gifts, there is only one Giver of spiritual gifts - the Holy Spirit of God.

• I believe!' and mingle our voices with that of the Holy Spirit in this great closing call to Christ: MARANATHA!

• The same Spirit of God Who led the people of Israel through the desert, rained down manna from heaven and opened the Jordan so they could enter the promised land, is the same Holy Spirit Who teaches and trains us in the way we should go.
• The Holy Spirit Who guided the children of Israel through the desert is the same Spirit of God Who guides us along the path that is best for each one of us - even if it is sometimes uncomfortable or difficult.
• The Spirit-inspired words of Isaiah were an encouragement to the people of Israel, who were suffering affliction during their Babylonian captivity, and it is the same Holy Spirit that speaks to us and gently leads the body of Christ through the peaks and pitfalls of this worldly system. 
• The One Who convicts of sin is the same Holy Spirit Who saves and sanctifies our souls, guiding us along the path of duty, pointing out the road of righteousness, instructing us on the highway of holiness and bearing us up on eagle's wings through times of exhaustion.

• For the life of Christ to be shown in our lives when beset by difficulties, the old sin nature must remain inoperative as we submit to the inner workings of the Holy Spirit and trust God to deal righteously in our lives, no matter who or what we are facing.

• The argument rages on whether or not certain spiritual gifts ceased in apostolic times, after the Holy Spirit of God had moved His appointed apostles and prophets to complete the God-breathed, New Testament canon of Scripture.

• Before we were born again, we had a spirit that was dead in trespasses and sins, but when we accepted Christ as our Saviour we were given a new life in Christ, a new, free, human spirit which is able to commune with His Holy Spirit.
• And the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth.
• A life that is lived in spirit and truth is a life that is led by the Holy Spirit of God Who came to indwell our hearts and guide our lives the moment we were born from above.
• The Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of our heart and the deep yearnings within our soul, and He reaches out to us through our spirit.

• Before being born from above and baptised into Christ by the Holy Spirit, we were automatically dead in their trespasses, slaves to sin, and in servitude to Satan.

• In talking to the believers of his day, Peter reminded them that although the Scriptures were written by human authors whose writings demonstrated their individual personality, their personal vocabulary, and their own indigenous style, nonetheless, the Scriptures they wrote were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit of God.

• This can only be achieved as we abide in Him and He in us, as we rest from our strivings and submit to the leading of His Holy Spirit within.

• This same God has equipped us with His indwelling Holy Spirit Who is there to lead and to guide, to support and to help.

• Just as we can never fulfil Christ's new commandment to love others as He loved us without His sufficient grace flowing through us in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, so we are incapable of walking before God in a worthy manner without the enabling of His Spirit, through His sufficient strength.

• He gave instruction on how we may be made perfect in Christ, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and he described the incarnate Christ as the fount of all wisdom and knowledge.
• And we have within us the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit Who will guide us into all truth.
• Let us seek to be grounded in the Word of truth by means of the Bible, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and abiding in Christ so that we will know the truth and the truth shall set us free.

• He walked in spirit and truth; He depended completely on His Heavenly Father; He was guided and instructed in all things by the Holy Spirit, and He suffered on our account leaving an example for us to follow.

• We can only fulfil His commandment of love in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit as we live our life in total dependence upon Him, trusting His Word and doing only those things that we hear from Him.

• The privilege and blessing of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God is beyond our comprehension, and yet God has given us the permanently indwelling Spirit as proof that we live in Him and He in us.
• In the Old Testament under the old covenant, the Holy Spirit would come upon certain people to empower them for a particular ministry for which they were chosen, or for a special office to which they had been called. When the job was done or if the individual grieved or displeased the Lord, the Holy Spirit could withdraw. 
• King David knew the Holy Spirit was not a permanent resident in his body, and in Psalm 51, David cries out to the Lord: Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Indeed, the Presence of God was even seen leaving God's holy Temple in Jerusalem because of the disobedience of His people, Israel.
• However, in this Church dispensation, every person who trusts in the Lord Jesus as their Saviour is given this incomparable gift of the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit in their heart, as proof from God Himself that we live in Him and He in us.
• No one has seen the invisible God at any time, and yet God the Father sent God the Holy Spirit to live in and work through all those who have chosen to trust in God the Son for salvation, by grace through faith.

• He also knew that giving them practical examples of how to live in these times, would be beneficial to them, and those around them: But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

• He was speaking of the fires of God's righteous judgement and the terrible 'lake of fire', while those who glorify His name will 'be baptised' (into Christ), by the Holy Spirit.

• And we too are exhorted to live a life that honours His holy name, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• And as we abide in Him and live godly in Christ Jesus, the indwelling Holy Spirit abides in us and produces in us an abundance of spiritual fruit.
• As we submit to the Holy Spirit in spirit and truth, He transforms us into the likeness of the Lord Jesus.

• Jude labels them as manipulative people: Who cause divisions and are worldly minded, and devoid of the Holy Spirit.
• Paul warned Timothy that the Holy Spirit expressly said that in later times: Some would depart from the faith, by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, while Peter speaks of false prophets and treacherous teachers who will: Rise up from among the people, and secretly bring in destructive heresies.

• It is whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, who has the Holy Spirit of God living in them, and they in Him.

• He had to remind them that our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit.

• Astonishing as Isaiah's magnificent vision of God's glory is, where He glimpsed the Lord seated in the wonderful splendour of His heavenly Temple, the truth for those in the Body of Christ, is far more staggering in this Church age, for we have become the chosen Temple of God's Holy Spirit.

• It must have been a sight to behold that first day of Pentecost, when the Church was born and the Holy Spirit came to take up residence within the bodies of these first Church-age believers for the very first time.
• Just before He ascended into heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ's instructed His disciples not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised: They would all be baptised with the Holy Spirit, into the Body of Christ.
• Although it was only Jewish believers who were present at this wonderful happening on that special day of Pentecost, when the small band of 120 believers became the Temple of God and were filled with the Holy Spirit; it was the point in history when the Church was born.
• Although all Christians are given one or more spiritual gifts, not all believers receive the gift of tongues, as is too often taught in certain churches today, but on that special day of Pentecost, every single one of the disciples that were present were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
• And the Holy Spirit moved these disciples to tell forth the good news of the glorious gospel of Christ that although He has been crucified, Christ is RISEN from the dead.

• He was born as Scripture foretold, and was anointed by the Holy Spirit at His baptism.

• He was to bestow legitimacy, legality and lineage upon the Son that had been conceived in the womb of Mary, by the Holy Ghost, for like his betrothed wife, Joseph also was of the house and lineage of King David.
• The Lord suddenly appeared to this man in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, as the head of his family, was instructed to call this Child JESUS, God's Salvation, the name that is above every other name, for there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.
• But our salvation means so much, for it embraces the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who sanctifies us and conforms us into the image of Jesus.

• The Bible clearly states that there is one Body of believers and one Holy Spirit of God Who indwells each one.
• There is also ONE baptism, and although many like to suggest that baptism in this verse refers to water baptism, it is the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the life of all who are born from above, about which he is speaking... for as Paul writes to the Corinthians: We were all baptised by one Spirit, so as to form one body-whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free.
• We glorify and praise the one and only God of heaven and earth - Father - Son - and Holy Spirit - Who alone is worthy of our worship, praise, and thanksgiving.

• And in God's grace, this testimony is also displayed in our own lives by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, for He gives to each one according to His own perfect will and wisdom.
• He testified to the truth of His Word both by signs and wonders and by various miracles, which He used to provoke His chosen people to jealousy, but also by the many gifts of the Holy Spirit which God in His grace bestows on all His blood-bought children, according to the purpose of His own will.

• He was called out of Egypt, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and Daniel even proclaimed the exact time of His appearance.
• He lived His life as a demonstration of how we should live our lives, in willing dependence upon the Father, in humble submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit, and walking day by day in spirit and in truth.
• In that day, true worshippers of the Father would worship Him in spirit and in truth, as guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit and in utter dependence upon Himself.
• Let us choose to imitate the Lord Jesus in how He lived so that we too may worship the Father in spirit and in truth to His praise and glory, as we submit to the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit and trust in Christ Jesus, our Strength and our Redeemer.

• Holy is the one and only Holy Father, Holy is the unique Holy Son of His love, and Holy is the singular Holy Spirit of purity and grace.

• He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

• Having been saved by grace through faith in Christ's sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, we have been fully equipped, by the Holy Spirit, to walk in newness of life - and become men and women with a heart for the Lord and a desire to obey His Word.

• The Lord Jesus had fulfilled the righteous requirements of God's perfect Law in spirit and in truth, by living a sinless, blameless, holy life, walking in submission to the Holy Spirit and living in complete dependence upon God, day by day.

• And as we live, day by day, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we mature in the love of God and edify the Body of Christ with the perfume of Christ-like love.

• We have been empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit to shine forth truth and expose the evil works of darkness.
• In the power of the Holy Spirit, we should seek to do good.

• It is the hope of God's love in our heart that is confirmed through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who was given to us.
• We will discover many disappointments which may even trigger feelings of shame or disgust if we invest in the empty hope of this deceitful world, but our hope in God cannot disappoint or deceive, for He has already stamped His seal of irrefutable proof and unquestionable certainty on His written Word, through His Holy Spirit, Who has taken up permanent residence within the heart of all believers and Who was given to us as a down-payment for the eternal hope that is living within each of His children.
• It is a love that is constantly being refilled and replenished by the Holy Spirit of love.
• None of us are lacking in the love that God has poured into our hearts, but some sadly choose to walk in the flesh or live in legalism, rather than flourishing in the fullness of God's Holy Spirit, which was poured into our hearts at salvation, and which continues to be poured into our hearts as we walk in spirit and in truth.
• And the hope that comes through faith in Christ does not disappoint, because the supernatural love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who was given to us, through time and into eternity.

• But also the Holy Spirit of God comes to indwell our body to teach and train us, to guard and guide us, and He also disciplines, chastens, and corrects our new life in Christ.
• But we have to grow and develop the way that God has determined, not by reforming, refining, or repairing the old nature through self-effort, but by yielding our new self to the Holy Spirit so that He works in us and transforms that new life into the image and likeness of Jesus.
• We are to walk in spirit and truth as guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He will teach and train our new self which is being renewed, day by day, into even greater knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Furthermore, He even sent His indwelling Holy Spirit to be our present Helper and our resident Comforter at all times and in all places: And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.

• We are to remember that we are blood bought children of God and as such have a responsibility to resist the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, lest we grieve the Holy Spirit and forfeit the heavenly rewards that God has planned for all who live godly in Christ Jesus.

• Works, whether good or bad, that are not accomplished through the strength of the indwelling, Holy Spirit can never be perfect; indeed, they are identified as filthy rags to the Lord.

• But as they continued in prayer, they confessed the rebellious-unbelief into which the nation had fallen and acknowledged their disobedience had grieved the Holy Spirit of God.

• In a confused world where love has grown cold and consideration for others has morphed into cruel aggression, there is an increasing need for us to apply 'The Golden Rule' in our own lives... but it can only be manifested in the life of a believer through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• But discipleship means carrying ones own cross and dying to self as we progress through our Christian life, in submission to the Holy Spirit.

• Christ had many things to tell His disciples at this time but they could not bear it and had to wait for the indwelling Holy Spirit to baptise them into the Body of Christ on that Day of Pentecost.

• The pagan deities that the Athenians worshipped, needed human beings to build their temples and bring them things, whereas the great God of the universe needs nothing from men – since He Himself gives life and breath to all people and all things.There is no correct way to introduce the gospel of grace to unbelievers, but there does need to be willingness to tell others about Jesus and bring God's message of salvation to the lost – and many missionaries have found that a good starting point is to give others a correct understanding of the God of creation Who made heaven and earth and everything in it, and of man whom God created in His own image, but who sinned and needs to be redeemed from sin and death and hell.May we, who have been saved by grace through faith, make ourselves available to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit so that lost sinners may be given the opportunity to hear the gospel and believe, through our ministry – for how shall they hear if no one is willing to tell them?

• He was sent to empower us with His life, for having been saved by grace through faith, Paul was teaching these Christians how to live by grace through faith so that in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, they would grow in grace.

• All believers that would grow in grace by dying to self and living to Christ and those who would imitate the conduct of Christ, would have the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit become manifest within their life. 

• He purposed to illuminate our spiritual understanding through His written Word, so it would be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, by means of His Holy Spirit Who would guide us into all truth.

• That inner power is not of ourselves but the supernatural workings of the Holy Spirit, for He is continuously working in the inner man (that new life in Christ that we received at salvation), in order to transform us from glory to glory into the person and character that befits a spiritual man, a child of God, a joint-heir with Christ, and a citizen of heaven.
• The Power that works within us is the Holy Spirit Who teaches, guides, rebukes, and correct us.

• So often as Paul draws his epistles to a close, he gives a list of wise instructions on godly living with the view to developing a Christ-like nature, where the man or woman of God may learn to grow in grace and mature in the faith, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Our choice should be to submit to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit in our life, and our prayer should be that we are willing vessels to be used by our Heavenly Father for His will and to His glory.

• And we have the seal of the Holy Spirit in our lives as a pledge and guarantee of the promised inheritance that is the right of all who fear His name.

• The angel announced that John would be filled with the Holy Spirit while he was still in the womb, and he would lead the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.
• But he testified of the coming One Who was greater than he was, Who would baptise with the Holy Spirit for salvation to all who believe, and with the fire of judgement for those who refuse His offer of salvation.

• The message that Paul delivered was a demonstration of the power of God as the Holy Spirit worked through him, causing a spiritual stirring in the hearts and minds of those that heard his healing words of truth which brought them to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
• Paul's message and preaching was delivered by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit as he submitted to God's leading and guidance in the words he said, the message he spoke, the acts he carried out, and a heart that rested in Christ.

• And Christ was full of grace and truth, for He was filled from birth with the Holy Spirit of God.

• One blessing of salvation is the immediate and permanent indwelling Holy Spirit Who develops in us the precious fruit of His righteousness through many acts of faith, as we grow in grace.

• His Word will certainly be accomplished in the lives of ALL who rebel against Him and resist the convicting work of His Holy Spirit in their lives.

• In Proverbs, we read that the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised, while in Acts we read that the Church was multiplying because they were walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost.

• We have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit as a down payment and guarantee that our inheritance in heaven is secure and sound.

• No doubt the Holy Spirit had been convicting David of his sin for many months until he finally confessed: Against You and You only have I sinned and done this great evil.

• It is through the indwelling Holy Spirit, that the life of Christ within is able to overcome our innate sin, our old, inherited, imputed sin nature, (the old-man as Paul calls it) that lurks within.
• Did no one condemn you?  She said, No one, LORD. This woman KNEW Jesus as her Saviour, for she addressed Him as LORD and no one can call Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit of God. And Jesus said, 'neither do I condemn you.

• God has revealed His wisdom to us by His Holy Spirit.
• Indeed, all who are born from above have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit of God within their heart and He is the One Who searches the deep things of God and reveals them to us - through the God-breathed Scriptures.
• Before Christ was crucified, He told his apostles that the Holy Spirit would teach them all things and guide us into all truth.

• Through His death and Resurrection, Jesus broke down the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile, uniting us together into one Body with one Lord Jesus Christ, one faith in Him for salvation, and one baptism by the Holy Spirit of God into the Body of Christ, which is the Church.

• We are the spiritual Temple of God that is being built together by His Holy Spirit.

• The impossibly high standards of the Sermon on the Mount and the call to prayer, are designed to teach us that the principles and practice in Christ's teaching can never be achieved in our own strength and power. They can only be realised supernaturally, as we allow the Holy Spirit of God to work His work in our lives. 

• But like the Philippians Christians it is also good to be prompted by the Holy Spirit to give support to our brothers and sisters in Christ who may be facing hardships or other types of difficulties - and to thank others and God if others are prompted to give aid to us.

• The major difference between the unsaved sinner and the saved saint is that the Christian has been given the indwelling Holy Spirit and a new, Christlike nature - the new, born-again life of Christ.
• Those that are saved also have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God Who is there to teach and train our new, born-again nature to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ.
• But if or when we sin, we give the old, sinful nature supremacy over our new born-again nature, which can stifle the inner workings of the Holy Spirit in our life, quenching or grieving Him and stunting our spiritual growth.

• The Holy Spirit is the divine Author of Scripture, and while godly men co-operated, it was the Holy Spirit Who led them in spirit and in truth.
• Indeed, the Bible cannot be correctly interpreted without the Holy Spirit's guidance, although unfortunately there are many that twist and distort it for their own gain, and to the detriment of many in the Body of Christ.
• God communicated His message to man through Scripture, sent His Son to fulfil Scripture, and gave us His Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth.

• As children of God, we have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit of God, and it is in Him that we have complete victory over the world, with abiding and eternal results.

• There is only ONE God and God is ONE, for we read in Exodus: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!, and Jesus Himself said, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord, yet God is presented throughout Scripture in three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• We should conduct our lives in a manner that honours the Father and glorifies the Son, as we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, Who dwells within the heart of each of His children and Who strengthens us in our inner man.
• We are instructed to be holy because our Father in heaven in holy, and we are called to excel still more and more, by the power of the Holy Spirit, through Whom we are strengthened in our inner man according to the riches of God’s glory.

• It is His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection in which we place our faith, and those who have trusted Christ as Saviour, have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit as God's guarantee that they will also receive a resurrection body.

• God is holy, and He is perfect, and as His children we are called to be both holy and perfect, not in our own strength, but by the power and wisdom of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• All Scripture has been written for our learning, but the New Testament epistles give specific guidance and instruction on living the Christian life in this Church dispensation.God has given us all we need for life and godliness, and we have been given the holy Scriptures which provide clear teaching on how to walk in spirit and truth and why we should abide in Christ and He in us.We have the indwelling Holy Spirit to lead us in the way we should go, Who has promised to lead and guide in all things... and we have Christ's assurance that His grace is sufficient for every eventuality we may face – for when we are weak in our own abilities, we have His precious promise that His strength will enable us to stand fast in the evil day.The instructions earlier in the epistle of James, cover a wide range of topics that enable the believer to live a life that is honouring to the Lord.

• The work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of a true believer, with a teachable spirit and a desire to know the will of God, is one that will be taught by Him.

• He then gives an additional detail of Christ's birth by recording that His mother, Mary, had been engaged to Joseph, but was discovered to be pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit before they came together in sexual union.
• Matthew explained that an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit.

• Pentecost was not the fulfilment of this prophecy as many teach, although there are certain similarities... for God's Spirit was indeed poured out at Pentecost on the 120 obedient followers of Christ as they waited, as instructed, for the coming of the Holy Spirit.

• He is equal in honour, glory, majesty, and power with the God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

• The unfathomable depth of God's love is beyond man's understanding, and that love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has come to permanently indwell our body at the moment of salvation.

• And because our battle is against spiritual rulers of darkness that influence the evil that is taking place in this world today, they can never be defeated in our lives through natural weapons and worldly ways. There is only one way to defeat the spiritual enemy that seeks to shipwreck our faith in Christ Jesus, and it is through the Holy Spirit of God Who works in believers.

• Nicodemus did not understand that Jesus was talking of a spiritual birth, an immediate and irreversible action that is carried out in the human heart by the Holy Spirit, on everyone who believes in Christ Jesus.
• The new birth is a supernatural, spiritual act that is performed by the Holy Spirit within the heart of a man or woman, the moment that they put their trust in Jesus Christ.

• And today, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost continue their redeeming work of saving the fallen race of man, as the perfect plan of the merciful Father is executed by the eternal Son, in the power of the omnipotent Holy Ghost.

• God is also holy and righteous and His children should display these same characteristics, which are only possible when one is abiding in Christ and being led by the Holy Spirit.

• Through Christ, we are redeemed and by His Holy Spirit, we are regenerated.

• May we make it a priority to test all things, to hold fast that which is good, and may we do so in godly love and in humble submission to the Holy Spirit.

• We have the incredible privilege of the indwelling Holy Spirit living in each one of us and Paul writes in Corinthian chapter 3: Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

• He reminds us that there is one Body of believers (the Body of Christ), one Holy Spirit Who indwells and seals each believer, one hope of our calling which is reserved for us in heaven, and one Lord, our Saviour Jesus Christ.
• There is also one faith with a settled body of doctrine that is clearly laid out in Scriptures, one baptism into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation, one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one Holy Spirit Who gives spiritual gifts to all who are positioned in Christ.
• Today, we do not receive divine revelation directly from the Holy Spirit, as did the apostles and prophets of the early Church.
• through the ministry of the indwelling Holy Spirit by means of His holy Word.

• Let us, in the power of the Holy Spirit, walk worthy of our calling and love others as Christ loved us.

• He was the eternal Word Who was fully Deity that had been made flesh by being conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of Mary.
• A human body had been prepared and the eternal Son of the Father was conceived in the womb of His human mother by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• We are born of the Holy Spirit and made one with Him, for we are a new creature in Christ.

• May we continue to grow in grace. May we press on to the high call of God in Christ Jesus. May we be ready to declare the awesome deeds of the Lord to the next generation with hymns of praise, words of wisdom, and a humble heart that reflects the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the sweet fellowship that come from the Holy Spirit.

• Yet in His wisdom, God has revealed that He is three distinct Persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit... and because God is united in purpose and character, God is ONE.

• We are positioned in Him through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and it is by being baptised into the Body of Christ at salvation, that we become identified with His death as well as His life.

• Purity and grace only comes through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, but in Him we have everything we need for life and purity, goodness, and grace.

• Luke writes: His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel.'

• Let us never forget that just as we were justified by faith when we first believed, we are to spend the rest of our lives being sanctified by faith in the power of the Spirit, as we abide in Christ and submit to the leading and guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• But we are expected to take responsibility for walking in spirit and truth, living as unto the Lord, trusting in the Word of God, depending on our Heavenly Father, submitting to the Holy Spirit, abiding in Christ, and appropriating all that is ours in Him, by faith.

• Despite the truth Christ taught and the warnings He gave, the Scribes and Pharisees finally went too far by committing the unforgivable sin - they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, by calling Christ the son of the Devil.
• They accused Jesus of working through the power of Beelzebub and not through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• And so, Christ gave a blistering response to these blind leaders of the blind, Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. 
• But no-one who believes that Jesus died for their sin, was buried, and rose again the third day can ever commit this unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit. 

• May we, with spiritual discernment, read, mark, learn, inwardly digest, and rightly divide the Scriptures through the guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit so that we do not fall into any presumptive practices or lean towards any form of legalism.

• Paul knew that the most effective cure for a loss of peace and a lack of joy is a mind that is focused on Christ, submissive to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and which humbly seeks to esteem others as more important than themselves.
• Let us submit to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and walk in spirit and truth so that we may live godly in Christ Jesus.

• He clearly lays out the path that we are to follow and we should read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the Word of God with an undivided heart so that in the power of the Holy Spirit, we may grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus.

• Only those that are born again believers who walk in spirit and truth, are enabled to display the good and godly attributes that come from above, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Paul instructs them to remain united together with one mind... before committing them into the Lord's safe-keeping with a beautiful benediction that has become beloved by generations of believers: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of God, the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
• while it was Paul who bestowed an equally beloved blessing on the Church, by commending them into the safe-keeping of the triune Godhead - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Indeed, it is often prayed as a parting benediction before brothers and sisters in Christ depart from a time of Christian fellowship and it is often prayed as a beautiful blessing over those for whom we care deeply: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with YOU.
• It is the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit Who has been sent by the Father to commune with us as our Comforter and Guide - our Shield and Defender.
• It is the Holy Spirit Who counsels and comforts us and is always there for us, no matter what difficulties or dangers we may have to face - and it is the Holy Spirit that points us to Christ, our God and Saviour.
• And may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you ALL - Hallelujah - what a Saviour.

• Although no-one would come to salvation except the Spirit draws them, ALL who choose to believe in Christ, when convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin, righteousness, and judgement, become part of that Body of believers that are given by the Father to the Son.

• We are reminded by Paul that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit Who is in us.

• The apostle brought them the gospel of grace, and they received his teaching with the joy of the Holy Spirit - despite the difficulties they faced, and in so doing became imitators of Paul.
• In spite of the inevitable adversity that comes to all who believe in Jesus, we read that the Thessalonians also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation - and with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
• The fact that these believers displayed the work of faith, labour of love, steadfast hope in the Lord, and joy in the Holy Spirit, despite the many tribulations they underwent, is something we should seek to emulate.
• Throughout his epistles, Paul explains that we are not to rely on our own strength but to live and move and have our being in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.
• We are to live our lives in the power and strength of the Holy Spirit, walking in spirit and truth, trusting in the Word of God, and depending on our heavenly Father in all things.
• But Christ won the victory, which enables us to receive the gospel of Christ in much tribulation - but with joy in the Holy Spirit.
• May we never forget that we have an assurance that if we die to the old self-life and live the new life of Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, (as did this great apostle of God), our consolations will more than compensate for the inevitable afflictions and difficulties that accompany the lives of all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Let us, like the Thessalonians, be imitators of Paul and of Christ, so that we may increasingly discover the joy of the Holy Spirit within, and exercise His sufficient grace in the tribulations we face, until we can claim, with him, it is not I that lives but Christ that lives in me.

• We are given wisdom, discernment, and the indwelling Holy Spirit to judge between the good and the evil, and we have been given the Word of God to judge between truth and error.

• As the angel told the young virgin of her forthcoming pregnancy and that the baby that was to be conceived in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit, her firstborn Son Who would spend nine months secretly hidden from the world in her womb, was God's only begotten Son, she was filled with wonderment and amazement and worshipped God.
• He would live a perfect life, trusting His Father in submission to the Holy Spirit as an example of how unfallen man should live in a fallen world.

• It is through the unity of the Trinity that we are presented with the many precious promises of our salvation, our sanctification, our glorification, and an eternal heritage that is kept for us in heaven. It is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, together as One Who illuminates our hearts and leads us in the way of righteousness and peace.
• May we who have been so blessed by God to be His children, be used by Him as channels of His blessing through Whom the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is poured out in great measure to others, this day and forevermore, AMEN.

• Unlike David, Church-age believers need never be concerned that the Holy Spirit will be taken from us, for He took up permanent residence in our heart the moment we trusted Christ for salvation and He will NEVER leave us nor forsake us, even when we sin.

• As Jesus ascended into heaven, He reminded them of the promised presence of the Holy Spirit Who would come to them a few days hence.
• As we reflect on their plight, we know that the Holy Spirit would be sent to them in 10 days' time.

• Luke further informs us that Christ was in prayer when the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form, like a Dove, and a voice from heaven declared, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.
• I baptised you with water - unto repentance; but He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit - unto redemption.

• Love is a product of the Holy Spirit in the life of a man or woman that is walking in spirit and truth.

• This glorious prophecy of Christ's Messianic appointment openly displays the triune Godhead: The Holy SPIRIT of Israel's Lord GOD Almighty rests upon ME.
• The inspired Scriptures are the unique, supernatural work of the Holy Spirit: And the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, and those that were present beheld His glory: The glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• The Lord Jesus was identified by the Father as: My Beloved Son, and He was anointed by the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, and walked in spirit and truth.

• The gifts of the Holy Spirit are truly wonderful, and we should all desire the gifts of the Spirit, but it is the fruit of the Spirit that is to be much more earnestly pursued.
• The gifts of prophecy, tongues, knowledge, and all the many ministerial gifts with which the Holy Spirit graciously endows each one of His children according to His choosing will one day will vanish away forever.

• We are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, as, in the power of the Holy Spirit, we are being transformed into His image, day by day.

• Peter unhesitatingly replied, The Christ of God, and we discover elsewhere that His confession had been prompted by the Holy Spirit.

• Oh, we are certainly being sanctified in this life as we grow in grace and mature in the faith through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, but even this group, whom we discover to be the most carnal Christians in the New Testament, have been sanctified in Christ Jesus and set apart unto God.
• Should we not seek, day by day, to willingly submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our life, and seek to live godly in Christ Jesus, as we grow in grace? Should we not humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and cry out for Him to search our hearts, test our thoughts, and identify any offensive behaviour in our lives?

• Keep teaching the unchangeable truth which was breathed out by the Holy Spirit into the Word of truth - was the message that Paul was keen to instil in his young protégé... and be careful not to change it or modify God's Word to fit in with the ever-changing philosophies and worldview of this fallen world system.

• No doubt, when Simeon saw Mary with the baby Jesus, his heart was stirred by the Holy Spirit so that he would take the baby into his arms and sing his memorable song of praise and thanksgiving: Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, according to Your Word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples - a light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people, Israel.

• Some erroneously suggest that the unfruitful branch is a man or woman pretending to be a Christian, but no unbeliever is ever placed into Christ by the Holy Spirit.
• Let us acknowledge the privileged position we have in Christ and make it our important day-by-day responsibility and delight to abide in Him, to walk in spirit and truth, to submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and to willingly embrace the pruning knife of our Heavenly Father so that we may bear fruit, more fruit, much fruit to His praise and glory.

• How blessed, therefore, is the home, the family, the nation – the people, who have God as the Head of their house and Jesus as Lord of their lives.It is king Solomon to whom this psalm is ascribed, whose great wisdom was acclaimed throughout the world and many of his precepts and proverbs, which were inspired by the Holy Spirit, are contained in the Scriptures.

• For just as the mortal life of man's flesh is in the blood, so the eternal life of man's spirit is in the Holy Spirit.
• Just as the LIFE of corruptible flesh is given by means of the blood, so the LIFE of the incorruptible flesh is given by means of the Holy Spirit of God.
• Just as blood is required to maintain the life of mortal man so the Holy Spirit is required to maintain the life of the one who has been saved by grace through faith in Christ; for we have been given His life in us.

• Before the Lord Jesus was crucified, He spoke of the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who was to be given to all believers.
• Having chastened them for their fleshly ways, and reminded them that their body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, he talked in this section about the qualities and characteristics that should be manifest in a spiritual man or woman; one who is walking in spirit and truth; one who is under the authority of the indwelling Spirit of God; one who is correctly manifesting the gift, or gifts they have received.
• Spiritual gifts or spiritual abilities are given to all who have confessed Christ as Saviour and have been indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
• Similarly, we are not to be ignorant of the spiritual gifts and graces bestowed on us by the Holy Spirit of God, or use them unwisely or inappropriately.
• For we are the Body of Christ, who have been individually endowed with a unique gift, as the Holy Spirit has ordained.

• He had already been baptised in the Jordan by John and identified as the 'coming One' for John testified: When He came up out of the waters of baptism, I saw the Holy Spirit descending on Him in the form of a Dove, and a voice came from heaven saying, 'You are my Son, Whom I love.

• Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good, healing all manner of sickness, and delivering all who were oppressed of the devil.

• It is the Holy Spirit of God that imparts life into the dead spirit of man - and it is that same Spirit of life that broods over the child of God and breathes hope into the heart and life of those that trust His name.

• Once saved, we are enabled to live a victorious life that honours God so that in the ages to come, we will receive a reward for the work we have done through the power of the Holy Ghost. 

• And although He appeared at God's appointed time as the sacrifice for the sin of the whole world, only those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are identified with Him, through the forgiveness of their sins; only they receive eternal life; only they are equipped by the Holy Spirit to live godly in this evil age.

• The hallmark of true faith is active, Christian love which is carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Firstly, we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit of God as His children.
• Secondly, we have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise in our heart, as a pledge and guarantee of God's everlasting faithfulness to His promises.
• We read in John's epistle that having believed in Christ for salvation, we were sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit of promise and that seal of God can never be broken, for the Word of God is true and stands fast forever.
• But God not only sealed us, but gave us an actual pledge to validate His unbreakable Word: He sent the Holy Spirit of promise into our hearts as a stamp of His identification with us, to ratify (or to endorse) His seal of ownership on our lives.
• Eye has not seen and ear has not heard the wonders that God has prepared for His purchased possession who have not only been sealed by Him, but also have the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise in their heart as a pledge and guarantee.

• We are to study to show ourselves approved unto God and we are to live our life in full submission to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, for He is the One Who has been sent to teach us all things and to guide us into all truth.

• We are the Body of Christ and united together in Him. We are identified with Him and one with Him through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The gospel he preached had everything to do with Christ's sacrificial offering of Himself as payment for man's sin, and the supernatural power to live a victorious life, in Christ which came through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• But God's gracious response provided life; a full, abundant, satisfying, productive life in this world, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit working through us, and in the world to come life everlasting.
• And although our sinful nature is incapable of keeping God's perfect Law or of producing meritorious acts in our own strength, we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to carry out good works which God ordained that we should do through the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Every good work and each generous gesture, whether material or spiritual, will reap a great reward when carried out by the enabling power of the Holy Spirit with a good and generous attitude.

• Every believer is called upon to commit his works and activities unto the Lord, but all too often we discover ourselves trying to carry out the works that He has prepared for us to do in our own strength, and not in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• In Ephesians, Paul opens the floodgates of God's blessing on His people, with the words, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him - in love.He has blessed us with pardon and peace, redemption and adoption, and illumination and truth from His Holy Spirit.
• He has redeemed, sanctified, and sealed us with His Holy Spirit and by God’s grace, there is laid up for us an inheritance in Christ – and He is building us all up in the most holy faith.He has made us to be part of His new creation and we are members of the one new man in Christ.
• He knows who will resist the convicting work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, and He knows those who will respond to the gospel and trust in the Son of His love - and everyone who is converted was chosen, by Him, before the world began.

• He explains the only way to attain spiritual maturity is through faith; firstly, being justified by grace through faith in Christ, and secondly, by living a sanctified life of faith in Christ, day by day, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• But he also showed his delight that the gospel he taught didn't simply come by word-of-mouth, but also came through the supernatural power of God: Our gospel did not come to you in word only, Paul wrote, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.
• Paul knew that the gospel he taught was the Truth that has come directly from the Almighty, Whose never-ending love is supernaturally shed abroad in our hearts by the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ, Who is gloriously imparted to ALL who believe.
• Paul insisted that his message and preaching were accompanied by a demonstration of power through the Holy Spirit of God.
• Our gospel came also in power and it came in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.
• We do not know whether it was through supernatural signs and wonders, a display of their spiritual gifts, or simply their godly conduct and victorious Christian walk to which he was referring, but Paul could confidently claim: For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction, and you know what kind of men we proved to be, while we were living among you, for your benefit!
• As we live our lives for Christ and share the gospel in word and in deed, may we demonstrate a life that is consecrated to Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit for the glory of God the Father.

• But in this verse, we discover that each believer is also being reminded that our individual body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, for at the point of salvation, He took up permanent residence within our heart.
• It was the Son Who redeemed our body, and it is the Holy Spirit Who indwells our body.

• As God's children we either trust in the Word of God and submit (yield) to the Holy Spirit, in which case we are clinging to our faith in Christ and keeping our consciences clear.
• Or we do not trust God's Word and grieve or quench the Holy Spirit, in which case we will violate our consciences, which will result in the shipwreck of our faith.

• Neither the ravages of the old sin nature nor the temptations of the enemy who seeks our destruction, can separate us from the love of God or remove the hope that is ours, in Christ Jesus our Lord.Paul’s dear desire for the Body of Christ is translated into the most beautiful, intercessory prayer: Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Paul's prayer is that we all may overflow and abound with that blessed hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Such a prayer can only be accomplished through the supernatural work of the indwelling Holy Spirit within the heart and life of a spiritual man or woman.

• It was on the day of Pentecost that Christ's amazing promise was fulfilled: John baptised with water, Jesus told them, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.
• We read: On that Day of Pentecost, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and all received the gift of languages.
• The promise that they would be baptised by the Holy Spirit had first been mentioned by John the Baptist.
• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a onetime event, which happens in the life of a believer the moment of their salvation.
• He is positioned IN Christ, placed into the family of God, and permanently in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit of truth.
• The Filling of the Holy Spirit however, is something that happens to a believer time and again after regeneration, when believers are walking in spirit and in truth.
• We are called to be filled and with the Holy Spirit throughout our Christian life.
• We not only see Peter being filled with the Holy Spirit on that day of Pentecost: For they were ALL filled with the Holy Spirit, but in the fourth chapter of Acts, we see this apostle being filled once again by the Holy Ghost, and speaking boldly to the religious leaders of the day, concerning a man who had been healed by the power of Jesus Christ.
• We read: Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers and elders of the people... know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, Whom you crucified but Whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.'
• He proudly proclaimed God's holy Servant, Jesus, had been resurrected from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit of God, which proved His Messianic claims.
• The apostle Paul similarly encouraged the Body of Christ to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to go on being filled with the Spirit.

• Rather, we are to keep on building up our strength by praying in the Holy Spirit, walking in truth, remaining in the love of God, dying to self, and living for Him.

• The Holy Spirit is currently working out His role as the Restrainer of evil as he indwells believers in this Church Age.
• This happens when the Church is raptured and the role of the Holy Spirit as Restrainer of evil will come to a close.
• Nevertheless, as Paul taught, the evil of the world is still being held back by the prayers of a righteous remnant, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• And we discover that by faith in Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the Holy Spirit of God does many wonderful things in our hearts.
• We are born from above, regenerated, sealed, adopted, baptised into the Body of Christ, and permanently in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit Himself, and He calls us to walk in spirit and truth and to live godly in Christ Jesus.

• It was by Jesus submitting His whole life, in thought, word and deed, to the leading of the Holy Spirit so that He ONLY said and did those things that He heard from the Father.
• Christ therefore submitted His WHOLE life, in thought, word, and deed, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
• And for you and me, it is also an act of our free-will to submit all we think and say and do to the leading of the Holy Spirit of God, if we are to do the good works of God.
• Only believers can produce good works that God has prepared in advance for us to do, as only believers have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God. When we abide in Christ, trust His Word, and walk in spirit and truth, we are demonstrating faith – for without faith, it is impossible to please God.
• When we submit our lives to the Spirit, day by day, we automatically do the good works that God has prepared for us to do, because it is God Who is working in us Himself, producing in our heart the desire to do the good works that He has prepared in advance for us to do, in the only way that is pleasing to Him (through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit), until it is not I that do the good works but the new life of Christ within.

• Such a one walks in the light of God's truth, hearkens to the godly counsel of the indwelling Holy Spirit, submits to the voice of his Lord, and sits at the feet of Jesus, day by day.
• The longer a believer remains in the company of ungodly men and women, the more rapidly his conscience begins to be seared and the attitude of scoffing sinners taints the truth of the gospel until the Holy Spirit is quenched and grieved.

• There are certain characteristics and identifying marks of the believer who is walking in spirit and truth, and a changed life that is exercising the gifts of the Spirit and producing the fruit of holiness, is a testimony of the inner workings of the Holy Spirit of Christ which is transferred into the outward actions of the individual life.

• But in His grace, He sent the Holy Spirit into the world to convict fallen man of sin, righteousness, and judgement and to draw sinful man into the saving arms of Jesus.
• We would not have had the desire to trust in Him if His Holy Spirit had not spoken to our hearts and drawn us to Himself with cords of love.
• Today, the Holy Spirit continues to convict every man of sin and the written Word of God teaches the many spiritual truths that feed our hungry soul.

• But God's love is only given through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• To suffer at the hands of an enemy and yet to unfailingly bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, and to confer blessings on their heads of those that despitefully use us or threaten us, can never be achieved by a person that is not in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit of God... and is in a right relationship with the Father.

• And though apostolic authority ceased with the last apostle, all God's children are gifted by the Holy Spirit as He sees fit, and like Timothy we too are called to: Kindle afresh the gift of God that is in us.
• It is the Holy Spirit that sealed us and baptised us into the Body of Christ at salvation, and it is the Holy Spirit that enables and empowers us to serve the Lord as we grow in our spiritual life.
• It is the Holy Spirit that gives to each of God's children the spiritual gift or gifts that each requires to fulfil the role to which we have been called, and it is the Holy Spirit Who works in us all: To will and to do of HIS good pleasure.

• At the start of the book, these pernicious insects symbolise an all-pervasive and relentless enemy attack on God's people, while it concludes with the glorious out-pouring of the Holy Spirit on 'all people' during the millennial reign of Christ. 

• Paul was a man who was full of the Holy Spirit, but he was also a man who was filled with a caring concern for his brothers in Christ. 
• He was to do this so that his life would become a sacrificial offering to God, in order that lost Gentiles might become acceptable to God, saved by grace through hearing the truth, and positionally sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

• And we have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God Who guides us into all truth, convicts and corrects us, chastises and trains us so that we may mature in the faith and live a fruitful life that honours the Lord, as empowered by His sufficient strength.

• The beauty of the inner abiding in Christ as we surrender to His will, reflect on His Word, and hearken to the inner guidance of His Holy Spirit, is that we will walk in His way and receive the power to live as He lived.

• The last we hear of these born-again believers is that some continued to revert back to the influence of the old sinful nature instead of submitting to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit in their heart. 

• God has given us the indwelling Holy Spirit as a pledge and guarantee that His promises are sure.

• Passing through the midst of the Red Sea, presents us with a beautiful picture of baptism, for we are identified with Christ when we are baptised by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ - when we place our trust in HIM for salvation.

• He spoke of the coming Holy Spirit Who would not only be with them, but would one day permanently dwell within their bodies.
• They heard that they would be guided into all truth by the indwelling Holy Spirit and would be used by God as Christ's mouthpiece - to do even greater works than He carried out.

• Christ had come with the promise of salvation and the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God for all who would believe on His name.
• They were promised the full empowerment of the Holy Ghost: For up until that time the Spirit had not been given.

• One of the mysteries that was hidden for ages and generations but which was revealed to Paul for Church age believers is the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ for all who are saved by grace through faith in Him.
• We were made to enjoy fellowship with our heavenly Father and to be led and guided by His Holy Spirit Who guides us into all truth, as we abide in Christ and He abides in us.

• We can only walk in spirit and truth when we are led by the Holy Spirit of truth and guided by His Word of truth.
• He alone has given us the power to overcome the desires of the flesh and it is achieved as we walk in spirit and truth, in submission to the Holy Spirit of Christ.
• Only as we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit and depend on Him by grace through faith in Christ, are we able to walk by the Spirit and be enabled to live as God as intended us to live.

• And the Holy Spirit, in His grace, is transforming and transfiguring my new nature, day by day, into the image and likeness of the lovely Lord Jesus Christ.
• In this Church age of grace, the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life is to bring us into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Himself.
• Behaviour modification of the old sin nature may produce a superficial change that meets the standards of the world, but only the Holy Spirit alone can transform the old life in Adam into the new life in Christ that we received at salvation.

• The sun hid its light as three hours of oppressive darkness shrouded the blackened sky, until Christ screamed in horror as He met the deepest point of suffering possible - separation from the Father.The price of sin had to be paid by the One and Only Sacrifice for sin, and it demanded that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit pour out the wrath of God upon the holy Son of God, by turning their face away from the One Whom They had loved for an eternity.No wonder that the Son cried out in anguish: My God!

• Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and Paul felt it was necessary to remind us of the specific danger of sexual immorality and the ongoing need to guard our bodies from engaging in impurity.
• He urges us to 'possess our vessel in sanctification and honour.' While sexual union between a man and his wife is a beautiful, holy act, and a God-given gift of grace, we should run from sexual immorality and fornication, for our body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit and the marriage bed should be kept undefiled.
• Paul wanted to impress on all of us that sexual promiscuity is not only a sin against one's own body and cheats another person of their own conjugal rights, but it is a gross violation against the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who has taken up residence within the body of all believers.

• The love that we are called to exhibit in our lives is the foremost fruit of the Spirit, which can only be ministered to us by the Holy Spirit Himself as we die to self, abide in Christ and He in us.

• If, by grace through faith in Christ, we have been made alive (born again) by the Spirit of God, we also need to live the rest of our lives in the same way; by means of the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.

• And we who are part of this holy construction which will soon be completed, have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our promised heavenly inheritance, which is being kept for us in heavenly places.

• There are many gifts that are given through the Holy Spirit as He chooses, but unless those spiritual gifts are ministered to one another through love, they are of little significance and of no spiritual value at all.

• However, if we choose to continue to become a true disciple of the Lord, then under the influence and power of the Holy Spirit, we are to abound in the good works which will flow from our God-given Christian grace.

• It is not attained by self-effort and self-reliance, but by letting the life of Christ grow and develop within as we submit to the Holy Spirit and look to Jesus for our sufficiency and strength.

• By God's grace, we are given the perfect, sinless, holy life of Jesus Christ as our very own life, which the Holy Spirit seeks to conform into the image and likeness of Jesus throughout our earthly life.

• He wrote of our wonderful redemption, our heavenly inheritance, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the peace of God we have received through His sacrificial blood.

• Adam was to be God's appointed representative on earth who was to enjoy unfettered access to the Holy Spirit. 

• May we remember that today it is our body that is a temple of the Lord in which dwells the Holy Spirit of God.

• It was once said that the Son of God is revealed TO us by the teaching of men, but the Son of God is revealed IN us by the illumination of the Holy Spirit.

• And when our hope is in Him, and by faith we have trusted Him as our Saviour, we become increasingly like Him through the power of the Holy Spirit.Like the Lord Jesus, we too are despised by this pagan world system and increasingly have become targets of ridicule and ill-treatment by a world which does not understand what manner of love the Father has towards you and me... who by faith in Christ have become His children and been made joint-heirs with Christ.

• We are all saved by grace through faith, and God's Holy Spirit has individually and selectively conferred different and individually selected gifts and graces on all His children so that we are enabled to live by grace and serve Him in newness of life, by grace.

• Just before being stoned to death for his faith in Christ, Stephen (a beloved disciple of the Lord Jesus, who was full of grace, truth, faith, hope, power, wisdom, and filled with the Holy Ghost), was falsely accused by various groups of religious legalists of sedition and blasphemy, and hauled before the Jewish court; the Sanhedrin.
• They did not realise that the Law had been given to point them to Christ, and Stephen rightly accused them of being stiff-necked people who were uncircumcised in heart and who resisted the Holy Spirit; for they had killed the Lord of glory and refused to be convicted of sin, righteousness, and judgement.

• He was filled with the Holy Ghost and lived His life in spirit and truth.
• He spoke only those things that He heard from the Father, performing only those acts as authorised by God's Holy Spirit.

• The moment we were saved, we were baptised into the Body of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• When the Holy Spirit placed us into the Body of believers at re-birth, we were baptised into Christ – we were placed into the Body of believers, which is the Church.When Christ died, we were buried with Him which permanently severed us from sin – although we must never forget that the influence of the old sin nature still remains and needs to be subdued daily.

• He wants to stir up our hearts by reminding us that Scripture is the product of holy men of God who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write history in advance, for our warning.

• As Church age believers, our bodies are a temple of the Lord for we are in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.

• Just as our letters and emails are not divided into chapters and verses, so Paul's epistles show one continuous flow of thought throughout, which the Holy Spirit has seen fit to include in the canon of Scripture for our learning.

• At His baptism, the Lord Jesus was endowed with the Holy Spirit when the Spirit of God descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, after which Jesus, Who had been filled with the Holy Spirit, was led away from the Jordan River into the wilderness where He fasted for forty days and was tempted of Satan; and triumphed.
• At the beginning of His ministry, we discover the Lord Jesus to be both supported by the Spirit and led by Him, but after passing the testings in the wilderness, we discover the Lord Jesus was further empowered by the Holy Spirit for we read: He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.
• Jesus is the ideal blueprint of a life submitted to the Holy Spirit; a life that is sanctioned by the Spirit of God.
• Jesus is the representative Man Who demonstrates to you and to me how we should live our lives, for His was a life that was attentive to the Holy Spirit and willingly obeyed God's Word.
• And so empowered, filled, led, and supported by the Holy Spirit, we discover Jesus to be the only Man Who, from the beginning to the end of His life, freely chose to walk in spirit and truth and freely chose to fully submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
• We see the Lord Jesus at the start of His ministry returning to Galilee in the power of the Holy Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district, as He set out on His long, three year trek to the Cross where, as the sin-substitute for the whole world, He would pay the price for your sin and mine so that whosoever believes on Him would not perish, but have everlasting life.

• Such a life is available to us by means of the Holy Spirit and expressed through our new life in Christ, but only those who choose God-dependency over self-dependency can avail themselves of God's love.

• May we seek to fulfil this worthy directive in the sustaining and almighty power of the Holy Spirit of God, for without Him we can do nothing, but in His sufficient strength we can demonstrate godly love to others in the same way that Christ loved US.

• There were probably many reasons why some in the crowd were pretenders, but John, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, was well able to see through any pretence.

• Indeed, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, since we do not know how to pray as we should.

• We are to be holy for He is holy, so that in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit we may bear much fruit to the glory of God.

• This parable reminds us of a truth that all believers would do well to recognise, which is the Holy Spirit equips us all with gifts, talents, abilities, and works which God has foreordained that we should do.
• But we need to understand that those who use their God-given gifts and abide in Christ, by humbly submitting to the Holy Spirit, will be given even more.
• BUT those who do not use their God-given gifts, or who undertake works in the power of their fleshly nature, will quench (or grieve) the Holy Spirit with their conduct, and even the little they have will be taken away from them at the believer's judgement seat of Christ.

• Our bodies are a temple in which the Holy Spirit abides.

• He has promised to guard us and guide us through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He has pledged to never leave us nor forsake us.

• It appeared to Paul that these believers, who had been saved by the work of the Holy Spirit within, had been placed under a magic spell or an evil influence.
• But it is only by the work of the Holy Spirit within the life of a Christian who willingly bows to His guidance through love and deep gratitude, that we are enabled to live a godly life.
• And so, Paul challenged the Galatians with a one searching question: This is the only thing I want to find out from you; did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by hearing with faith? Oh, this was a rhetorical question for the only answer in Scripture is that salvation is through the work of the Holy Spirit, within.
• It is through the work of the Holy Spirit that unsaved men and women are saved through faith.
• The work of the Spirit is to convict the unconverted of sin of righteousness and judgement, and when that man or woman believes in their heart that they are a sinner and that Christ died for their sins and rose again the third day, the Holy Spirit, Who reads the very motives of the heart, places them into the Body of Christ as they transfer from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son.

• We do not become a god as some falsely teach, but we receive His life and are indwelled by His Holy Spirit.

• In many church assemblies today, there is much emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and though the gifts of the Spirit are wonderful and exciting, if they are not administered in love, they are of little worth and can even become abused and destructive.

• We have often grieved and quenched the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

• Each of us are to lay aside the deceit and hypocrisy of this fallen world and grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour. Each of us are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and have a unique part to play, as the Lord Jesus Christ builds His Church and constructs His holy habitation.

• Let us in the power of His Holy Spirit, seek to develop that childlike disposition that is birthed from simple trust in His faithful Word, for both here on earth and in His eternal kingdom, the life that reflects the Lord Jesus is the child of God that gives glory to the Father.

• Many refuse to look to the Lord Jesus as the second member of the eternal Trinity Who is co-equal and co-eternal with both the Father and the Holy Ghost, because they like to say that nowhere in the Bible does Jesus claim to be equal with God.
• Although He was fully God, the Lord Jesus lived His life as man was originally designed to live before the fall: in spirit, in truth, in total dependence upon God, and in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Nothing is more thrilling for a Christian parent, or a believer who has been influential in pointing one younger in the faith to the truth of the gospel, than to see them living according to the truth, walking in fellowship with the Lord Jesus, living in submission to the Holy Spirit's guiding hand, living under the influence of the new man in Christ (and not the old sin nature), and reflecting the grace, truth, love, and humility that flows to them from their Saviour. 

• At salvation, we receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our eternal life and heavenly inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession - until we are raptured into His presence.

• He enjoyed close fellowship with the Lord and was so in tune with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that: It had been revealed to him, by the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
• He believed the words of Psalm 25:14: The secrets of the Lord are with those who fear Him, and in some wonderful way the Holy Spirit of God had communicated a wonderful truth to this dear man that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah of Israel, the Word made flesh.
• Simeon was privileged to see the baby Jesus and hold Him in his arms, but how blessed are we to have the Holy Spirit of Christ dwelling in our hearts.

• The mystery concerns the Church being baptised into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit.
• The mystery includes our bodies being a Temple of Holy Spirit, Who permanently indwells every member of Christ's spiritual body.

• In this church age, we may not have visible pillars of fire and cloud to lead and to guide, but He is with us every moment of the day, for we have the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who is our ever-present Comforter and holy Helper in time of need.

• Many months if not years earlier, these pious people had blasphemed the Holy Spirit by accusing the Lord Jesus of casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub, and from that time forward He only taught in parables, for Jesus knew that He would be rejected by His own people as prophesied in Old Testament Scriptures.

• He prayed that they may be strengthened with all-power in the inner man, through the might and merit of the Holy Spirit.

• He had told them that after He had gone, the Father would send the Holy Spirit (the Comforter) to them, explaining that although the Spirit was already WITH them, one day very soon He would actually live IN them.
• And now on that special day of Pentecost, His followers were to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.
• John the Baptist was the first to testify that Jesus would baptise with the Holy Spirit, and on that last meeting before His Ascension, the Lord explained that this baptism of the Holy Spirit was not many days away.
• John's pre-Cross baptism was a baptism of repentance with water, but Christ was to baptise with the Holy Spirit, and moments before He ascended He reminded them, But you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.
• And so for ten days, the followers of Christ had been waiting in anticipation to be baptised with the Holy Spirit as Christ had said, and we discover that 120 obeyed the Word of the Lord, as they prayerfully waited in Jerusalem for the promise from the Father when they would be: Baptised with the Holy Spirit, as Christ had earlier explained.
• They were the only ones that were baptised with the Holy Spirit on that special, unique day of Pentecost.
• And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
• For on that day they were baptised with the Holy Spirit as promised by Christ ten days earlier, filled with the Holy Spirit as we read in this passage, and given the gift of tongues by the Holy Spirit, for we hear that they all spoke in languages as the Spirit gave them utterance.

• Sanctification is a lifelong process that the Holy Spirit carries out in the one that is justified in order to conform us into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus.
• We can yield to the Holy Spirit doing a work in our new, born again life that we received at rebirth OR we can resist the work that the Holy Spirit desires to do in our new life and continue to live a carnal type of life under the power of the old sin nature (the old life that still fights for supremacy).

• How we thank God that we are His household, members of Christ's Body, and that our own, frail body has become a temple of the living God and in-dwelt by His Holy Spirit.

• No doubt, the Holy Spirit had been convicting the heart of this rough fisherman of sin, righteousness, and judgement, but Peter exercised His freewill to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved, for when he delivered his earth-shattering reply, Jesus said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father Who is in heaven. 

• The Lamb on the throne had seven horns and seven eyes, representing the sevenfold manifestations of the Holy Spirit of God, and symbolising strength and wisdom, power and knowledge, authority and intelligence, omnipotence and omniscience.

• Similarly, the full canon of Scripture had yet to be written, and much Church-age doctrine had yet to be clarified by the Holy Spirit, Who graciously guided Paul and the other New Testament writers, into all truth.

• Each member of Christ's Body has a unique function and each person has been thoroughly equipped, by the Holy Spirit, with sound judgement and spiritual gifts so that we may carry out the work that God has prepared for us to do.

• At the start of the third chapter of Ephesians, Paul was about to kneel before the Lord and earnestly pray for the Christians in Ephesus, that according to God's riches in glory, they would be strengthened in the inner man with all might, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Inspired by the Holy Ghost, Paul's prayer for all believers was that they might be filled with all the fullness of God, to His praise and glory.

• John knew that shortly before Christ's crucifixion, the Lord Jesus reminded them that He is the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life, and that the Holy Spirit of truth Who indwells all believers, has promised to guide us into all truth.

• is the memorable question he put to them: Did you receive the indwelling Holy Spirit by the works of the Law, or through hearing with faith?

• He has not only provided us with all we need for life and godliness, but has given us the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, to guide us into all truth and to teach us all things.

• They were not to depart from Jerusalem or return to Galilee, but were to wait in the holy city for the promise from the Father, because Jesus told them that they were to be baptised with the Holy Spirit in a few days.

• Christ was a man that humbled Himself, in the power of the Holy Spirit, under the mighty hand of the Father, and at the proper time He was lifted up; first on the Cross, and then to His Father's throne, in heavenly places.

• Water baptism is the outward, visible sign of the inner, spiritual baptism of the Holy Spirit at the point of salvation.

• We all have the same indwelling Spirit and the same Scriptures to guide us into truth - through the power of God's Holy Spirit.

• However, then as now, evil and lawlessness is currently being held back and suppressed, by the One Who restrains evil - the Holy Spirit.
• And during this current dispensation the Holy Spirit, Who indwells all Church-age saints, is restraining evil, through the prayers, praises, and presence of believers, who are called to be salt and light in a dark and putrefying world of sin and lawlessness.
• The restraining work of the Holy Spirit, which is often carried out through the lives and witness of believers, will be halted, when the Church is removed at the close of this current dispensation.
• Oh, the Holy Spirit, Who is omnipresent, will still be on earth to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement, for He is omnipresent... but His specific work of restraining evil, through the prayers and praises of Church age saints will come to an end at the Rapture.

• The coming Tribulation will be on a global scale and in chapter 7, we discover four angels standing at the four corners of the earth restraining the four winds and preventing the prophesied wrath of God from harming anyone until a special group of Jewish believers is sealed by the Holy Spirit of God. The angels are commanded not to harm anything on the earth, or in the sea, or on the trees until they had sealed this particular group of 144,000 young Jewish men: And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
• Just as Church-age believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise at the time of our salvation and are God's 'purchased possession' who are to do His will, so also this group of Jewish Tribulation believers are to be sealed in order to be used by Him during this time of trouble. 
• They failed to obey His commands, refused to acknowledge His heavenly position, poured scorn on Christ's ministry, and even blasphemed the Holy Spirit by attributing His miracles to Satan.
• Today, Christians are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise and proclaim the gospel of the grace of God to every creature: For we are saved by grace through faith in Christ. In the Tribulation, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists will preach the gospel of the kingdom throughout the world, proclaiming the imminent arrival of the King of kings - and a multitude without number will be saved.

• By God's grace, the Holy Spirit lives in us and works through us, to complete the good work that He started in our life at salvation. And when we finally go to be with the Lord, we will be finally and fully sanctified: 'Perfect Sanctification'.
• And in between these two events, the Holy Spirit is the One Who is continuing to sanctify us as we are being changed from glory to glory during our earthly life: being 'Practically or Progressively Sanctified'. 
• This has nothing to do with our own abilities or merit, but comes only from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus Who lives in each one, because He was prepared to be made sin for us.

• The death, burial, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the mainspring upon which our salvation rests, and the Holy Spirit Himself inspired holy men of God to record in advance the saving message of grace, upon which our salvation rests: That Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day - according to the Scriptures.

• And so in His grace, God has given us His indwelling Holy Spirit as a pledge and guarantee that we will one day be forever with the Lord.

• And in this section, we are privileged to discover the amazing power of the Holy Spirit in each of our lives and the power He gives for holy living. 
• The simple truth is that we who were once dead in our sins and at enmity with God, have been made alive by faith in Christ Jesus, brought near to the Father, adopted as His children, and indwelled by His Spirit: And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, that same Holy Spirit will also give life to our mortal bodies, through the Spirit who dwells within each of us. 
• We who have been positioned in Him through faith, will, in like manner, be raised from the dead both spiritually and physically, for the Holy Spirit is the One Who gave us spiritual life when we were born again and He is the same Spirit Who will give life to our mortal bodies at the resurrection of the dead. He is indwelling our bodies and empowering our lives.
• THIRD: We will be GLORIFIED at the resurrection/Rapture of the Church, when the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead and who dwells in our mortal bodies will also give life to our body through His Holy Spirit.

• There are some astonishing mysteries to discover and some wonderful truths to explore about the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, in the lives of all believers.
• While the focus of the Gospels is the Lord Jesus, it is the Holy Spirit Who is the central character in the book of Acts.
• It details the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, and His multiple functions within the Body of Christ in the early years of Christendom.
• It establishes the Holy Spirit as the channel through Whom God works, in the life of Christians, at the beginning of a Church dispensation.
• Before His crucifixion, the Lord Jesus had told His disciples that His Father would send the Holy Spirit, to be with them and to take up permanent residence within their bodies.
• He had told them the Holy Spirit would be their ever-present Comforter in time of need and would guide them into all truth.
• And Jesus explained: Unless I go, the Helper (the Holy Spirit) will not come to you.
• Jesus had explained that He would ask the Father to send the Holy Spirit to them AFTER He left them.
• And moments before He ascended into heaven, Jesus commanded His disciples to wait for the Holy Spirit, promised by the Father.
• The disciples had been taught about the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, but I am sure they were filled with amazement on that first day of Pentecost when: Suddenly, there came a noise from heaven, that sounded like a violent rushing wind, which filled the whole house where they were sitting.
• The all-pervasive ministry of the Holy Spirit began in a small group of 120 disciples, who obeyed Christ's command to: Remain in Jerusalem and wait for the Father to send the Comforter.
• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
• How blessed we are to be recipients of the astonishing ministry of the Holy Spirit and beneficiaries of the mysteries that are ours in Christ Jesus, by grace through faith in Him.

• The new dispensation began at Pentecost, with the coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell Church-age believers, and will finish with the Rapture of the Christian Church.

• In His grace and power, we have been indwelt by the Holy Spirit Who is conforming us into the likeness and character of Christ, while building us up into a spiritual temple for His honour and glory.

• Now, although the Holy Spirit was already indwelling those that were saved, the full canon of Scripture had yet to be written and certain elements of their practice, including communal living, were a hallmark of these early believers.
• Peter, being prompted by the Holy Spirit, challenged Ananias with the question, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
• Peter was led by the Spirit to expose their inner deceitfulness, and identified Satan as the one who filled their hearts and prompted them to lie to the Holy Spirit... by keeping back some of the price of the land while pretending to give it all.
• As believers, our hearts and motives should be pure before God... for although we may be able to deceive others with deceptive words and deceitful actions... we can never deceive the indwelling Holy Spirit!

• But to us who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and who continue to 'be being saved' through the wonderful, sanctification process of the indwelling Holy Spirit conforming us day by day into the likeness of Christ Jesus our Lord, the message of the Cross is the power of God and the wisdom of God, to Whom be all praise and glory for ever and ever amen.

• And as a guarantee from God, all who trust in Christ Jesus as Saviour are given the indwelling Holy Spirit as a pledge.
• What a precious promise that our guarantee is the Holy Spirit.

• We have no role to play in His redemptive plan, other than to believe His Word, for as fallen sinners we would fail and so: He saved us, not on the basis of good deeds which we have done, like being righteousness or performing good works, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and spiritual renewing by the Holy Spirit.
• Washing in water may cleanse our body, but the cleansing of a polluted soul necessitates the supernatural cleansing of regeneration and spiritual renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• Jesus explained this to Nicodemus: That which is born of the flesh is fallen flesh and remains fallen, but that which is born of the Holy Spirit is holy. It is reborn with a regenerated and renewed spirit.
• That which is born of the flesh is flesh but that which is born of the Holy Spirit is spirit; regenerated and spiritually renewed by the Spirit of God. 
• The new birth is the glorious fact of regeneration and spiritual renewal by the Holy Spirit when a lost sinner believes on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• But it is also a wonderful truth that by God's amazing grace and deep compassion for the fallen race man, who was made in His own image and likeness, that: The Lord Jesus saved us, not on the basis of good deeds, moral acts, noble exploits or righteous endeavours, which we have done to display our virtue and goodness before God, but according to His incredible mercy, by the washing of regeneration and spiritual renewing by the Holy Spirit.

• Imagine what thoughts must have spun through John's head as he suddenly beheld those four living creatures surrounding the throne of God, together with those 24 elders... for there, standing in the centre of the throne was a Lamb appearing to have been slain and having seven horns which represent His almighty power, and seven eyes which symbolise the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent Holy Spirit of God.

• Though baptism is a beautiful outward sign of a miraculous inner change effected by the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of the man or woman who trusts in Christ by grace through faith, baptism was not Paul's primary mission.
• Paul was to share the gospel by grace through faith, as led by the Holy Spirit.
• May we seek to be spirit-filled witnesses who die daily to self and walk godly in Christ Jesus, as led by the Holy Spirit of power and to the glory of God.

• What an astonishing happening that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit should unite at this significant moment in history, when the eternal Son of God as the perfect Son of Man is commissioned to begin His earthly ministry to a lost and dying world.
• Christ was in prayer when the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form, descended from heaven and rested upon Him.
• As the Son of God walked into the waters of the Jordan to fulfil prophecy through His water-baptism, we read: The Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form like a dove.

• The sanctification of a sinner saved by grace is both a specific act of the Holy Spirit that takes place at a moment in time, but it is also an ongoing process that is undertaken by the Holy Spirit in the heart of a believer.

• One such non-experiential ministry is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the body of each believer.
• Days before His crucifixion and during His post-Resurrection ministry, Christ promised His Holy Spirit would not only be with His disciples, as their Comforter, but would dwell inside them.
• David's prayer in Psalm 51: Take not Your Holy Spirit from me, can never be uttered by Christians, for we have the permanently indwelling Spirit of God.
• The Holy Spirit began to take up permanent residence in the heart of believers on that special Day of Pentecost.
• When writing to Timothy, Paul is speaking of this wonderful, indwelling ministry when he says, Guard, through the Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.
• No wonder Paul charged Timothy, and all who are purchased by the blood of Christ to: Guard, through the Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.
• Through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, we are to protect, safeguard, preserve, and garrison the truth of the glorious gospel of God and share it with those with whom we come in contact, and so we will fulfil our ministry.
• The Holy Spirit Who began a good work in each of us, is the same Spirit Who guides us into all truth and teaches us all things.

• And so, through the authority of the God-breathed Scriptures, we hear through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that angels are messengers in the service of their creator God: But of the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, God says, 'Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of Your kingdom.'

• And we read that as He was praying, the heavens opened and then the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form, like a dove.

• We are to look to His earthly life as the most beautiful example of a living sacrifice that was submitted to the Holy Spirit.
• We are to look to the Man Whose life was lived in spirit and truth – a life that only did those things He heard from the Father - a life that was governed by God, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with FIRE (the fires of judgement).
• And this verse in Mark simply says, I have baptised you with water, but He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.
• John gave his prophecy at the start of Christ's ministry, but moments before His ascension into heaven, Jesus informed his disciples that the baptism of the Spirit would happen a few days later: John baptised with water, Jesus told them, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now. Indeed, on that first day of Pentecost, the believers who were all together in one place were not only baptised by the Spirit but were also filled with the Spirit and endowed with the spiritual gift of 'tongues'.
• It was also a sign to John that the Lord Jesus was the holy Lamb of God for he had been told, The One on Whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, He is the One who baptises with the Holy Spirit.
• Being baptised with the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ is perhaps one of the most misunderstood concepts in the Bible, but perhaps 1 Corinthians 12:13 offers the clearest description of this once-for-all, supernatural event that takes place in the life of every Christian, the moment they place their faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting: For in the power of one Spirit, we have all been baptised into one Body; we have been placed INTO Christ's Body; we have become a Member of Christ's Body, which is the Church, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

• The one who aligns their heart's desire to God's desire, develops the mind of Christ, as the Holy Spirit teaches and trains and takes time to conform His child, day by day, into the very likeness of the Lord Jesus.

• We are to put on the full spiritual armour of God so that we are enabled, in the power of His Holy Spirit, to stand steadfast against the schemes of the devil.

• It was a solemn occasion which was designed to remind them of the water that flowed from the Rock in their wilderness wanderings, and which spoke prophetically of their long-awaited, promised Messiah Who would provide water to drink, streams in the desert, and an outpouring of His Holy Spirit on all who would believe.
• John explains that this Living Water is the precious gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit for whosoever will come, and drink, and live.

• Let us be ready and willing to humbly submit to the Holy Spirit within, and ask Him to lead us and to guide us, to teach us and to train us in the way that He would have us go.

• Just as God's grace was sufficient for Moses when he was opposed by Jannes and Jambres, so Timothy would be upheld by the power of the Holy Spirit when he was opposed by similar men with reprobate minds who deliberately opposed the truth of the glorious gospel of God.

• Simeon was righteous and devout in all his dealings, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
• No doubt he was a regular worshipper at the House of God, but at the very moment that Mary and Joseph entered the temple courtyard with their newborn baby, Simeon was prompted by the Holy Spirit to go into the Temple.

• The Holy Spirit wanted to anchor the birth of Jesus at this particular point in time to a particular town in Judea, during the rulership of Caesar Augustus, when Quirinius was governing Syria.

• It talks of the glory and grace we have through the indwelling Spirit of God, and the wisdom and power that comes from our Father in heaven - and it encourages us to endeavour to keep the unity of the Body - for which we should seek after and strive for in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• The fool may say in his heart that there is no God, but the born-again believer is the one who, by grace through faith and in the power of the Holy Spirit, is enabled to walk with integrity, work the works of righteousness, speak truth in his heart, guard his words, and tame his tongue.

• Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, these sacred writings, which were inspired by God's Holy Spirit, are the most compelling testimony to the deity of Christ and His redeeming role - for all with eyes to see.

• Although over 500 people rejoiced to meet their risen Saviour, only 120 were to be found in the right place at the right time when the fledgling Church was birthed, and those present were all baptised with the Holy Spirit, as promised by the Lord Jesus Himself at His Ascension.
• He had promised they would all be filled with the Holy Spirit: Not many days from now.
• It was John the Baptist who first prophesied this momentous event when he explained that the Lord Jesus Himself would one day baptise His people with the Holy Spirit of promise.
• John also warned unbelievers that He would one day baptise mankind with the fierce fires of judgement, and for the first time in history, the people of God were to be permanently indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God: For do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?
• Jesus Himself, in the hours before the Cross, had instructed His disciples to wait in a special place for a unique event when God the Father would send God the Holy Spirit to them, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
• And so Jesus promised them: The Holy Spirit will be in you and will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
• Christ enlarged on this precious promise only moments before He was taken up into the clouds: You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.
• May we be willing to die to self, live to Christ, and be led of the Holy Spirit to proclaim the glorious gospel of Christ, in the power of His might, to whomsoever God puts into our path.

• A ritual baptism, (being baptised in water) represents a real baptism, (the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation).

• Although Christ was the eternal Son of God, we discover Him to be the humble servant of God Who walked in spirit and truth, lived in humble submission to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and became servant of all.

• We are to die to self and live for God through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• He reminded them of their position and privileges in Christ and that they had the indwelling Holy Spirit, Whom the world does not know.
• These divisive, argumentative believers were displaying worldly characteristics and not the Holy Spirit Who is from God.
• They regard such truths as foolishness because spiritual things can only be discerned through power of the Holy Spirit.
• But the Corinthian Christians had become so ungodly that the indwelling Holy Spirit was grieved and unable to function as He desired in their lives.

• As Church-age believers, we are not under law but under grace, which means that we are called to live by a supernatural standard which is only achieved when we live for Christ, die to self, walk in spirit and truth, and submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

• As Paul explains in 2 Thessalonians, the lawless one (the Antichrist) will be revealed after the Restrainer (the Holy Spirit) is taken out of the way.
• The Holy Spirit is working out His role as Restrainer through the Church, as He resides in us.
• This role of Holy Spirit as Restrainer, will come to an end at the Rapture of the Church when He is taken out of the way.

• Not because of their own good works or righteousness which are considered by God to be filthy rags, but according to His mercy through the washing of regeneration, and being made new and clean and whole by the cleansing Word of the Holy Spirit which has been poured out, by God's grace, to everyone that believes in Christ.

• The Lord is the source of all knowledge and the supplier of all wisdom, but His Holy Spirit also prompts us to seek after Him and to hunger and thirst for righteousness, so He can satisfy our souls with all good things.

• The promises of the New Covenant; victory over sin and death, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and all the privileges that come with our great salvation, were cut at Calvary - the promises were secured at the Cross.

• Despite the truth Christ taught and the warnings He gave, the Scribes and Pharisees finally went too far, by committing the unforgivable sin - they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, by calling Christ the son of the Devil.
• They accused Him of working through the power of Beelzebub and not through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• And so Christ gave a blistering response to these blind leaders of the blind: Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come -  either in the dispensation of Law or the dispensation of the Church.
• But no-one who believes that Jesus died for their sin, was buried, and rose again the third day could ever commit this unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit.

• We are to walk in spirit and truth, abide in Christ and He in us, so that in the power of the Holy Spirit we may bring forth much spiritual fruit to the glory of God.

• By confessing the Lord is ONE with the plural word 'ELOHIM', the nation of Israel has for many centuries unwittingly delivered a shaded confession to the unity of the Trinity - the oneness of the Godhead - the uniqueness of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - the tri-unity of the YHWH, Creator of heaven and earth Who alone is to be worshipped and glorified for ever and ever, amen.

• May the grace and favour of God continue to rest upon us, and may the beauty of the Lord Jesus be seen in us and through us as we submit to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit in our life, to His praise and glory.

• There are some essential ministries the Holy Spirit carries out instantly at salvation.
• At the same time the Holy Spirit takes up permanent residence in a believer's body, as corporately and individually we become a temple of the living God.
• The moment we were sealed, God gave us the Holy Spirit in our hearts as a pledge and guarantee that what He has promised He will perform.

• The Lord has prepared good works for each of us to do, as empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The first verse of chapter 2 completes this chronicle of creation which displays the eternal power of the Godhead - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• We have been permanently indwelt by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit of God, the One Whom angels worship and adore.
• Let us worship the Lord in the beauty of His holiness and bow down in awe and wonder before our glorious, thrice holy God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Who loved us so much that He sent the Lord Jesus to die in our place.

• The Holy Spirit has other supernatural offices in the life of a believer that are set in motion at the point of salvation.
• The Church grew rapidly in those early days of Christendom, and in Chapter 4, we find another lovely example of Christians being filled with the Spirit as they prayed together: And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
• May we be ready at all times to submit His sovereign authority over our lives and be filled with His Holy Spirit at His pleasure; to do His sovereign will, in His chosen way, at His perfect time, and for His greater glory.

• One by one, Paul answers every question through the supernatural inspiration of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, and puts every opposing line of reasoning to flight.

• Having laid out the amazing victory we have in Christ Whose sacrifice on the Cross became a sweet smelling fragrance to the Father, Paul announces that in Christ, we too have passed from death to life and have been commissioned by God to be epistles of Christ, declaring the truth of the gospel not with letters that are written with ink, but ones that have been inscribed, stamped, and sealed by the Holy Spirit Himself.
• It is to be the indwelling Holy Spirit Who carries out His supernatural work in the lives of all believers during this dispensation of grace.
• It is the indwelling Holy Spirit who writes the character of the Lord Jesus Christ into the inner beings and character of all believers who willingly submit to His leading.

• Through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, let us love in spirit and in truth - in word and in deed - in motive and in mind.

• We who have trusted Christ for salvation and have had the Gospel revealed to us, the indwelling Holy Spirit to govern our lives, and the living Word to guide us into all truth, have already recognised that Jesus Christ alone is the fulfilment of Jeremiah's prophecy.

• We can trace the spread of the Christian message from the inception of the Church at Pentecost, as men of Israel, proselytes, and believers from further afield, (like the Ethiopian eunuch and Cornelius - the Gentile centurion) placed their trust in Jesus Christ, were baptised into His mystical Body, and were in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.

• It is only by believing the glorious gospel of grace that this great and magnificent mystery of godliness is able to be manifested in the life of a believer, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Only those who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ have the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Only those who have been born again can walk in spirit and truth, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Godliness is not something that we conjure up ourselves. Godliness is the spiritual fruit of a life that is lived in willing submission to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

• However, believers that are living in spirit and truth will submit their life to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit.
• To live in spirit and truth, discovering the freedom we attain by submitting our new, born-again spirit to the Holy Spirit of God.

• Scripture is its own interpreter, and the Holy Spirit becomes the teacher of the believer that is walking in spirit and truth, so let us do our best to present ourselves to God as one that is approved, workers who do not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of truth.

• When we were justified by faith, the Holy Spirit came to indwell our mortal frame permanently.
• And may we present our bodies as a living sacrifice to Him that is holy and acceptable to Him, knowing that the Holy Spirit dwells within our body, and that individually and collectively WE are that Temple of the living God.

• Yet 'The Word' is wholly distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit, for in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
• Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work together in perfect union and thrilling harmony, with each other as Members of this eternal, uncreated Tri-Unity.

• He reminds us that spirituality and godliness is manifested in a life that is emptied of self and is filled with Christ - a life that is walking in spirit and truth and in dependence upon the Father - a life that produces the beautiful fruit of righteousness in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• And so Paul calls us all to reflect on what it means to be in the family of God; to know His grace, His affection, His compassion, His love, and to experience the benefits of the indwelling Holy Spirit (God's gift of grace to all Christians).
• Let us walk in spirit and truth and in utter dependence upon our Heavenly Father, and let us live a life that produces the beautiful fruit of righteousness in the power of the Holy Spirit, to His praise and glory.

• If the Holy Spirit is able to overshadow the womb of a virgin and cause her to conceive the Holy One of God, in order to fulfil mighty prophecies of old, is He not sufficiently able to order the lives of ALL His blood-bought children?

• May we have ears that are open to His call and a heart that is ready to carry out His plans and purposes in our lives... for who knows what opportunities God has for each of us... if we are willing to faithfully obey the guiding hand of the Holy Spirit, in our daily lives.

• We must never forget that all sin dishonours the God Who bought us, grieves the Holy Spirit, and is a terrible reproach on the gospel of Christ.

• Only a born-again believer can confess Jesus is Lord: For no man speaking in the Spirit of God can say, 'Jesus is anathema'; and no man can say, 'Jesus is Lord', except in the Holy Spirit.
• And once that hidden heart decision to trust in Christ for salvation is met, the man or woman is immediately born from above by the power of the Holy Spirit and is freely able to confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord, for as the apostle John reminds us: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and the Spirit of God abides in him.

• We are to seek after the way of righteousness, peace, truth, and love, in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and to cast all our cares upon Him.

• Yes, these are pretty tough words indeed for any believer to receive, but we must remember that God admonishes those He loves, and in the next verse the same Holy Spirit Who dwells within each one of us, is seen yearning jealously over us, for His desire is to make all believers more and more like the lovely Lord Jesus.
• The Holy Spirit of God longs to shower grace and more grace over all that submit to His leading in humility of heart.
• Let us search our hearts, and in the power of the Spirit of God, let us turn from any worldly ways that we know must grieve the Holy Spirit that indwells our heart.

• Just as God the Father and God the Son work together in unbroken harmony and perfect love, to fulfil their unique functions within the Tri-unity of the Godhead, so also God the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, works the work of God in flawless synergy with Father and Son, as each fulfil their respective roles and co-authored responsibilities.
• Every Member of the Godhead is merciful and kind, long-suffering, and of great goodness, and as history unfolds through the pages of Scripture, we can see the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, having distinct duties and tasks in the great unfolding work of salvation.
• That Comforter was the Holy Spirit of God Who would guide them into all truth and work the works of God through them.
• Just as Christ's body was the temple of the Holy Spirit during His sojourn on earth, it is the Church, both corporately and individually, that has become the Temple of the living God.
• Among His many ministries in the lives of Church age believers, the Holy Spirit gives comfort to His people just as Christ gave comfort to the disciples, for He is the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of hope.
• The Book of Acts is a time of transition from the pre-Cross dispensation of the Law, when God was working through Israel, to the post-Cross dispensation of grace, when the Church became God's ministers of reconciliation through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• The early Christians had to learn to listen to the leading of the indwelling Holy Spirit, for when His gentle voice is heeded, He brings comfort, inner calm, and a peace that passes our human understanding.
• They were to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and beyond, but in those fledgling years, the good news of the gospel was shared with no one but Jews, which conflicted with Christ's instruction to go into ALL the world, and conflicted with the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit.
• However, as they began to widen their evangelism to include those in Samaria and beyond, they were comforted of the Holy Spirit, and enjoyed a period of stability and calm as the gospel was taught throughout Judea and Galilee and Samaria: So the Church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the Church continued to increase.
• And this was a time when they all experienced the comfort of the indwelling Holy Spirit in their hearts.

• The Holy Spirit of the resurrected Christ indwells my mortal body so that although I remain in this perishable body of flesh and blood, I live by faith in the Son of God so that it is not I that lives but Christ that lives in me.
• When I was baptised into Christ as His newly born-again child, God sent His eternal, permanently indwelling, life-giving Holy Spirit, to become my life-Guide and my soul-Helper.

• In the power of the Holy Spirit, we are being changed into His likeness and conformed more and more to His image.
• Our hunger and thirst should be for Him - for Christ - that we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, for as we yield our lives to the Holy Spirit He will conform us to become more and more like Christ.

• But the time was at hand when Jesus was to leave them and God would send the Holy Spirit to take His place.
• Christ reassured His fearful disciples that the Holy Spirit of God was coming very soon - to reside in their hearts.
• The Holy Spirit of truth will guide us into all truth.
• One of the ministries of the Holy Spirit for the unbeliever is to convict a guilty world of three important issues; 1) of sin and its terrible consequences, 2) of the righteousness of Christ which is available to all by faith, and 3) of judgement - the judgement of sin, the condemnation of Satan, and the eternal consequences for the unrepentant sinner.
• And all that is His, is to be revealed to us by the indwelling Holy Spirit of God - Who will guide us into all truth and lead us in the path of righteousness.

• How we praise God that the Holy Spirit searched us out when we were dead in our trespasses and sins and convicted us of sin, of righteousness and of judgement.
• How we thank God that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and sent His Holy Spirit into the world to convict us of our guilt before a righteous God and of the need to turn from our sins and accept His gracious offer of salvation.
• How we praise and thank God, and glorify His holy name that by grace through faith in Him we were positioned in Christ, set apart unto Him, and brought into His heavenly family, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Though John may not have fully understood, he prophesied that at a future time Christ the King would baptise these repentant believers who turned to Christ as Messiah, with the Holy Spirit of God: He will baptise with the Holy Spirit and fire, he proclaimed.
• The baptism of fire - a baptism of judgement - was reserved for those that would not turn from their sins and accept Christ, but those that accepted the Lord Jesus as their Messiah were to be baptised with the Holy Spirit one day in the future.
• And now, Jesus reiterated the wonderful promised baptism of the Holy Spirit, forty days after His Resurrection: You will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, in just a few days, they were told.
• He had already appeared to many believers after His Resurrection, one here, a couple there, and one occasion He showed Himself to 500 at one time, but ten days after He ascended to heaven on that special feast of Pentecost, 120 faithful followers were waiting together for the momentous occasion when Christ would baptise them with the Holy Spirit.
• There were many people who had believed in Christ as the Messiah, but until now they had not yet received the promised Holy Spirit as an indwelling reality.
• They had been told, He is now with you, but he WILL be IN You, and so Christ Himself baptised that little body of believers with His Holy Spirit on that very special day.
• The Holy Spirit was given – they were all baptised into one Body – the Body of Christ.
• Until that point they were quite fearful, but on that day the Church was born, they were all filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, and began to witness with great authority and joy.
• On that first Pentecost, it was Christ Who baptised that little group of believers with the Holy Spirit Who became an indwelling reality.
• And Paul tells us that from this point forward, it is the Holy Spirit Who baptises every new believer into the Body of Christ the moment they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

• We are to grow in grace, walk in newness of life, live in willing submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit, and love as Christ loved us, which can ONLY be carried out when we remain in fellowship with Him.

• Finally, Paul found it necessary to rebuke his fellow Hebrews by saying: The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying, 'Go to this people and say, You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; and you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; for the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear.

• We have been born again of imperishable Seed through the power of the Holy Spirit - and the imperishable Seed is the Word of God.
• Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and new birth happens when the truth of God's Word is translated from intellectual, head knowledge into confident, heart faith through the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit of God.

• They were encouraged to glory in the ministry of the Holy Spirit and to draw power and strength from God, knowing that like Paul, all God's children have this same, heavenly treasure indwelling and empowering our earthly, mortal bodies!
• Paul was not ashamed to preach the gospel of Christ wherever he went, for he knew that it was the power of God unto salvation for all who believe, but he relied on the sustaining power of God in the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit, to keep him and equip him in his task.

• The many precious privileges we have in Christ and the supernatural power of the indwelling Holy Spirit should embolden, rather than deter, our Christian testimony, which is why Paul exhorted Timothy in this verse: Do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ... and do not be ashamed of me because I am His prisoner in chains.
• Under the authority of the Holy Spirit, we should be actively engaged in the work God has given us to do because we have received sufficient power to overcome all trials and tribulations.

• Today, it is the Holy Spirit Who opens the minds of the believers to the things of God, and unlocks the meaning of Scriptures - just as Jesus promised His disciples, during His final days on earth.
• As we walk along the pathway of our life, we will not have the physical person of Jesus join us on our earthly walk, to open our understanding to the Scriptures - but we are no less privileged than these two disciples on the road to Emmaus, for He told us that it was better for all of us that He went to be with the Father, so that the indwelling Holy Spirit of truth would be sent to be our permanent Companion and daily Comforter - to be with us and abide in us, FOREVER.

• We are to die to self, grow in grace, and mature in the faith so that the indwelling Holy Spirit may work in and through us to the glory of God the Father (our sanctification).

• It was Jewish prophets, Jewish priests, or Jewish kings who, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, became the human authors of the inspired Scriptures: The oracles of God.

• We are created in Christ Jesus to do good works, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit; good deeds which God prepared beforehand, so that we would walk in them.
• But He set aside His glory and lived His entire life giving honour to the Father, and carrying out His Father's will, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• We are to follow in Christ's footsteps and live in dependant submission to His Holy Spirit.
• We are to do His will and glorify His name, and may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of us evermore - so that in the ages to come we may show forth His glory in the Church, and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, forevermore.

• Disciples are those that are enabled, by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, to produce spiritual fruit like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. This fruit is only produced through a life of obedience, a life that abides in Christ, a life where Christ is permitted to abide in us.

• His unswerving dedication to preach the pure gospel of God, in spirit and truth, was a demonstration of the indwelling Holy Spirit working powerfully in a consecrated life... so that the excellency of the power and the glory of the message he shared, may be of God and not from man.

• He explained that the unsaved would not be able to receive Him, because they know nothing of Him, but that the Spirit of Whom He spoke would stay with them forever, and that in the future this Holy Spirit of truth would take us residence within them and abide in them forever.
• Here, the Lord Jesus expands this truth further by telling them that the Holy Spirit will be their great Teacher and teach them all things, and that He would also bring back to their remembrance all that Christ Himself had taught His faithful followers so that they in turn could teach others.
• We have continuous, daily access to the Holy Spirit, for wherever we go, He is with us and He has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
• Each one of us have dwelling within our hearts the omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, glorious, gentle Holy Spirit, Who has come to live in us, to be our Advocate and Counsellor, our Teacher and Instructor, our Comforter, and our ever present Helper in time of trouble.
• Never forget that whatever you are facing now, the Holy Spirit is within you and is facing it together with you.

• It caused these believers to live their life apart from the sufficient strength that is supplied through the indwelling Holy Spirit, which takes place when a Christian is walking in spirit and truth and remains in fellowship with God.

• The indwelling Holy Spirit, Who comes to reside within the body of all believers, empowers us from above with divine energy.
• Spiritual regeneration, the baptism of the Spirit, His sealing of believers, and the Holy Spirit's indwelling ministry in the Body of Christ, takes place only once in the life of a believer; at his or her salvation.
• In 1 John chapter 2, we discover a ministry of the Holy Spirit not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture; His 'unction' or His 'anointing': You have an UNCTION from the Holy One, we read in the KJV translation, and ye know all things.
• Every sinner who is saved by grace, has his human spirit regenerated by the Holy Spirit, Who sanctifies us and draws us closer to Christ.
• It is at this point that John explains that unlike these false teachers and false-hearted 'believers', true believers have an unction from the Holy Spirit, they have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they have been born-again and have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God: But YOU have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge, he explained.
• Like the readers of John's epistle, we have the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• What a privilege to have the unction of the Holy One of God, Who comforts and corrects, teaches and encourages, guides us into all truth, and carries out all the experiential ministries of the Holy Spirit, in the lives of all believers, during this Church age.

• A heart is purified by the inner work of the Holy Spirit in the man or women who is rightly related to God - through faith in Christ.

• Jesus Himself had promised His chosen apostles that when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne in the kingdom of God, they too would be seated on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel, while prophets like Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel, and Zechariah linked this promised, earthly kingdom of peace and prosperity with a supernatural outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
• It is not surprising that when Jesus told them that the outpouring of the promised Holy Spirit would take place within a few days of His ascension into heaven, that the disciples eagerly asked Him the question: Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?

• The Holy Spirit is the Giver of spiritual gifts and graces.

• Therefore, I make known to you, Paul explained, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, 'Jesus is accursed,' and no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit.
• They often used their spiritual gifts for self-gratification but were not being led by the Holy Spirit.
• Paul knew that many false prophets had gone into the world and so he made it very clear to them that, no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, 'Jesus is accursed' and no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord', except by the Holy Spirit.
• Christ told us that when the Holy Spirit was sent, He would testify of Jesus and point us to Him.
• And similarly, and no one can lift up the name of Jesus and confess, Jesus is Lord, except by the leading of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• He would later pray for their protection in the world through the power of the Holy Spirit, but He first prayed that they would stand firm on the truth of His name, united together in love.

• We became a new creation in Christ, were clothed in His own righteousness and His Holy Spirit was sent to permanently indwell our heart.

• It is in the power of the Holy Spirit and in consequence of our position in Christ, that God has lavished on us all wisdom and insight.

• Should we not, thankfully and in continuous wonder and praise, keep on fixing our eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ? Should we not fall on our faces in submission to His guiding holy Spirit and cry out, Thy will not mine be done?

• He said the Holy Spirit would come and live in them and teach them many things, and that they were to 'abide' in Christ and He in them.
• He may have imagined he was courageous enough to suffer martyrdom for Christ, but he had not yet been given the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit.

• May we, in the power of the Holy Spirit, tell out the good news of the gospel, to lost men and women - before it is too late.

• But we can resist the Spirit of God and grieve Him, and we can quench the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives when we try to live the Christian life and walk the Christian way in our own strength and not in total dependence upon Him.

• As Christians in the Church age, we are issued with many commands, which are to be carried out in spirit and in truth through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• We are accepted in Christ as children of God, and we are called to love others as Christ loves us, and to live and move in the power of His indwelling Holy Spirit.

• However, with the enablement of the indwelling Holy Spirit and as we walk in spirit and truth as God's children, we can reflect this beautiful characteristic as we die to self and live for Him.
• Only as the Word of God dwells in our heart richly and we are empowered to live as Christ lived, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, can we be merciful as our Father is merciful.
• When the godly attribute of mercy or any other spiritual characteristic is manifest in a life, it is through the enabling power of the indwelling Holy Spirit in the life of a believer who has died to self and has submitted their life to the Spirit's leading and guidance - so that the beauty of Christ may be seen within.

• When our lives develop a right attitude towards Him, the Holy Spirit produces in us the fruitful works of righteousness.

• However, we are fallen beings and the thoughts of our mind and the meditations of our hearts should be filtered through the Holy Spirit and submitted to His gracious leading so that the words that we speak are words as from the Lord, full of grace and seasoned with salt.

• As believers we have the indwelling Holy Spirit who is a Listener to every conversation, an Observer to our every action, a Guest at every mealtime, and a Guide and Comforter for every eventuality that life may throw at us.

• The good doctor continued his treatise in the book of Acts and in chapter 1, we find Christ's disciples waiting in Jerusalem for the promised Holy Spirit, as Jesus had instructed them.
• As His disciples watched the Lord Jesus ascend into heaven, He reminded them that soon they would be baptised with the Holy Spirit.
• They only had to wait 10 more days for the amazing Day of Pentecost to arrive, when the Church was born and those present were baptised into the Body of Christ, permanently indwelt by the Holy Spirit, were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were given the gift of languages.
• As a result, Peter stood up among the brethren, who numbered about 120, and set out his reasoning to those that were present: Brothers, he said, Scripture has to be fulfilled, (which was spoken by the Holy Spirit long ago, through the mouth of David) concerning Judas who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
• Peter and other apostles, who walked with Jesus from the beginning of John's baptism, were the men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to pen much of the New Testament, which would become the bedrock upon which our faith is founded, with Christ as the Cornerstone.

• In this passage, we read of Timothy - whom Paul loved to describe as his 'son in the Lord.' We discover that he exhibits the qualities, character, and fruit of the Spirit, that each one of us are called upon to produce, through the power of the indwelling, Holy Spirit.

• He will drink no wine or liquor and be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb.

• He lived His life as we should live our lives - by faith in the Word of God - in total dependence upon our Heavenly Father - in full submission to the Holy Ghost - and walking in spirit and truth by presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice unto the Lord.

• There is nothing we can do to repay the Lord for all His goodness and loving-kindness He has shown towards us, but we can live a life that is pleasing to Him by trusting His Word and seeking in all that we say and do to live a godly life, to walk in spirit and truth, submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit, and letting the love of Christ shine through us in thought and deed, to the glory of the Father.

• Just as Paul had been appointed by God to be a herald, an apostle, an author of Scripture, and a teacher of the gospel, so also Timothy had been gifted by the Holy Spirit as a Pastor-Teacher.
• We may not have experienced the type of vision Paul had on the road to Emmaus, and we may not be a pastor-teacher like Timothy, but we all have received the same great salvation; the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, and we all have work to do in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• We are united together with Him - and have received the indwelling Holy Spirit, to lead us, and to guide us into all truth.

• Both men had dreams and by the power of the Holy Spirit, Joseph correctly interpreted their dreams.
• This is the first time Scripture mentions the Holy Spirit coming upon someone, and Pharoh recognised that there was something special about this man.

• May we be stimulated, in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, to offer Him the honour, praise, adoration, and thanks - for He alone is worthy.

• It is through the written Word of God that His wisdom is revealed to those that are His... and it is by submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit that we are guided into all truth.

• But Paul was convicted of the Holy Ghost and finally saw the light of the glorious gospel of Christ.
• He obeyed the heavenly call, and he submitted to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit in humility of heart.

• And we have the indwelling Holy Spirit, illuminating our path and teaching us His will through meditating on His Word.
• Paul underlines the importance of asking the Lord to open our eyes to the things of the Lord, through the wisdom and revelation of the Holy Spirit and through the washing of water by the Word, when He writes: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. 

• Together, we are being built up into a spiritual temple, in Whom the Holy Spirit of God resides.
• We are blessed to have the indwelling Holy Spirit Who has promised to guide us into all truth, through His gentle inner promptings and by means of the holy Scriptures, for His Word is: Living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword and is able to discern every inner thoughts of the heart and every secret motives of the mind.

• Jesus had to complete His lifework in spirit and in truth, only doing those things that He heard from His Father in heaven, and living day by day in complete submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• What a wonderful witness of the way that we should live our Christian lives, in spirit, in truth, and in complete submission to the Holy Spirit, only doing those things that we hear from God.

• We read in Deuteronomy that the Lord our God is ONE: one God in three Persons, for He is the one sovereign Creator, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• Having laid out the most comprehensive presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Paul finally reaches his joyful conclusion with the most astonishing promise and wonderful truth that is given to all who believe  - that nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord - nothing visible or invisible, nothing in the physical realm or the spiritual sphere, nothing in the heavens above, the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth can separate us from God's gracious and everlasting love.

• And our hope in the Lord will never, ever be disappointed because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by means of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who was given to us the moment we trusted Christ for salvation.

• Knowing that our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God dwells within, each one of us should be more than enough to cause us to flee from every vestige of sexual sin, to shun sexual advances from the world outside, and outlaw any infiltration of idolatry from within.

• We have the Holy Spirit of God, permanently indwelling our very body and guiding us into the way of truth.

• The work of the Holy Spirit in our lives is to conform us into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the more we become like Him, the more we will be hated by the world.

• NOT in our own strength, but in the supernatural strength that He supplies, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit: Without me, You can do nothing.
• BUT: I can do all through CHRIST, Who strengthens me, in the power of His Holy Spirit.

• As born-again believers, we have the life of Christ within and the power of the Holy Spirit to lead and guide.

• Justification is the point where a sinner becomes a saint, is positioned in Christ, and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.

• The exquisite description of this woman and the many godly qualities she exhibits are those that every Christian should seek to emulate, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• But when these gracious qualities of virtue and strength, excellence, dignity and honour are displayed in the life of a Christian, it is simply the fruit of the Spirit being shown forth in the man or woman of God, who is humbly submitted to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

• John also records: It is finished, that great cry of victory when Satan, sin, death, and hell had been forever defeated, after Jesus had endured 3 hours of the most intense physical suffering, followed by three more hours of the most terrifying time, when He underwent spiritual separation from His Father and the Holy Spirit (i.e.
• Did she remember the accusing whispers about her unique pregnancy, as the Child conceived of the Holy Ghost grew in her womb, or the long journey she made with Joseph to Bethlehem, the City of David, where Christ was born?

• If Jesus learned obedience by the things that He suffered... why should we expect to steer clear of problems of life and the chastening of the Holy Spirit?
• We are told, in Hebrews, that the Holy Spirit's chastening will produce a crop of peace and righteousness in the lives of all who are willing to be trained by it. 

• Jesus lived a sinless life so that all who believe in Him might be forgiven of their sins and clothed in His righteousness, but it is only as we die to self, live to Christ, and walk in spirit and truth in the power of the Holy Ghost, that our life can be holy unto the Lord.

• Here in verse 17, we have a most beautiful invitation to all people, from the Holy Spirit of God and the Church, which is the Bride of Christ.

• Jesus started to deliver the mysteries of the kingdom in parables - after the Jewish leaders had blasphemed the Holy Spirit by accusing Christ of casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub.

• And so it was that the Holy Spirit of God came upon Mary, the little virgin from Nazareth, and the power of the Most High God overshadowed her and she conceived in her womb and bore a Son.

• Jesus came to heal the broken-hearted and set the captive free and His Holy Spirit understands - He knows, He loves, and He cares for each one of us, so draw closer to His arms of comfort, and trust in His love today, for a day is coming where there will no longer be any mourning, crying, or pain.

• But only the life that is walking in spirit and truth, a life lived in humble submission to the leading of the Holy Spirit, can love others as Christ loved us.

• All judgement has been given into His hands, and in the first few chapters of Revelation, Christ is extending a warning to Christians in this age of grace, to ensure that our consciences are right with the Lord, that we wake up and return to our first love, eschew every kind of evil, hold fast to His Word of truth, and that we listen to all that the Holy Spirit says to the churches.

• Israel made the right choice, but it is only as we trust Him and rely on His sufficient grace through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, that we can become victorious.

• By faith, we are born from above into the heavenly, spiritual sphere, through the power of the Holy Spirit of God, thus becoming a fully fledged citizen of heaven.

• The things that were done in the power of the Holy Spirit and for the glory of God will receive a great reward of gold, silver, and precious stones.

• His plan is that the new-life-in-Christ that we received when we were born again, grows in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and that the beautiful character of Jesus is formed in us, as we live our lives in spirit and truth by submitting to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit within.

• One such difference is that pre-Cross saints did not have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit, which is one of the graces that ALL post-Cross Christians enjoy... and circumcision of the flesh was another.

• Rather, just as Christ set His life apart unto God and only said and did those things that He heard from the Father, so we are to grow in grace day by day, only saying and doing those things that we hear from the indwelling Holy Spirit and through the study of His Word.

• However, when Scripture calls us to perfection, we have to understand that this is only achievable in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• When we are born into God's family, the Holy Spirit comes to take up permanent residence within our hearts, and He starts a sanctifying work within our new, born again life in Christ.
• On those occasions that we submit to our old sin nature and pander to the lust of the flesh, the enticements of the world, and the accusations of the devil, the Holy Spirit can do no sanctifying work in our new nature in Christ.
• But when, by faith, we submit to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit and allow Him to govern our new life in Christ, it means that we put to death those ungodly lusts.
• It means that we allow the Holy Spirit to do a good work within our new life in Christ, which will grow in grace and become more and more conformed into the likeness of Christ.
• Jesus lived His whole life in submission to the Holy Spirit.
• Let us similarly live our lives in submission to the Holy Spirit set apart unto God, for the One that called us and saved us and is sanctifying us is holy – and as we submit to the Holy Spirit in our lives and function in the sphere of the spirit (our own human spirit), we will fulfil this command.
• As we allow the Holy Spirit to govern our new life in Christ, we will also be holy in all our conduct and behaviour.

• Jesus was just about to go to His Father in heaven and had just reminded His disciples that after He ascended to the right hand of the Father, He would send His promised Holy Spirit to indwell them forever, and to guide them into all truth.
• And until the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost had come: They would not be able to bear it.

• Let us rest in Jesus, listen to His voice, be guided by the Holy Spirit, and live by faith and not by sight, to His praise and glory.

• We are to allow the Holy Spirit to work in us and through us to His praise, and for our eternal benefit.
• However, spiritual works that are carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit will render heavenly rewards of gold, silver, or precious stones, to His praise and His glory.
• In the meantime, let us walk in spirit and truth and live in newness of life as we submit our lives to the work of the Holy Spirit within so that when we are judged for our works at the judgement seat of Christ, God will render to each person according to his deeds.

• Christ was: Put to death in the fleshly realm, when He shed His blood on the Cross for you and me, but He was quickened by the Holy Spirit and: Made alive in the spiritual realm, with a body of flesh and bone so that we too might have newness of life in the spiritual realm, forever.

• The Church is the Body of Christ and can be compared with a building of living stones that is being built up and fit together in a beautiful way by the Holy Spirit, into a holy temple, a permanent dwelling place for God.

• He has covered us with His robe of righteousness and given us the indwelling Holy Spirit as an expression of His fidelity and trustworthiness... and He will not rest until the matter is finalised.

• For the unbeliever, a fear of the Lord should stem from the convicting work of the Holy Spirit.

• Christ's ministry in the gospel of Luke, began with His Baptism by the Spirit in the Jordan, when the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit, in the form of a Dove, descended and rested on Christ.
• Similarly, it is the Baptism of the Spirit in the book of Acts that marks the start of the Christian Church at Pentecost, when the 120 souls were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them.
• The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, where the assembled company were filled with the Spirit and baptised into the Body of Christ, inaugurated a new dispensation.
• At the birth of the Church, it was Peter who took the responsibility to explain what happened when the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in different languages.

• God, Whose Holy Spirit indwells all believers, will use the prayers, praises, ministry, and life of the saints to finish His good work in the destruction of evil.
• May we be alert to the wiles of the devil and submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit so that God can use us in this battle of the ages.
• May we take to heart Paul's serious warning about the dangers of division in the Church, and in the power of the Holy Spirit, be ready to identify and challenge any divisive doctrine and satanic practices that are seductively packaged, in order to twist the truth and even deceive the saints.

• Some years earlier, Paul had written extensively to this same Church to rejoice in their divine election, their adoption into the family of God, the privileges of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the spiritual blessings that have been poured out in such abundance on all who have trusted Christ for salvation.

• By inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Micah tells how God Himself would once again gather his people from exile, emphasising a future hope for the nation and demonstrating the long-suffering grace of Israel's God and King.

• We are to walk in the Spirit and be led by the Holy Spirit of God, for when we submit to His leading and guidance we are delivered from a life of bondage to all sorts of fleshly inclinations and set free from legalistic practices, laid down by law.
• As born again believers, the old life that we received from Adam, through our earthly parents, was crucified with Christ on the Cross of Calvary and must remain nailed to the Cross if we are to stand fast in our new-life-in-Christ, walk in newness of life, and be led by the Holy Spirit of God.
• As born again believers, we receive a new nature that needs to be nurtured and fed throughout our earthly Christian walk, and it is only accomplished in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• And that means all that is of Christ may manifest itself in our lives as we walk in spirit and truth and are led, moment by moment, by the Holy Spirit of God.

• We have not been given the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind, for we have the indwelling Holy Spirit of wisdom and understanding.
• We have the indwelling Holy Spirit of knowledge and understanding Who has promised to guide us into all truth and pour into our hearts the peace that passes understanding.
• We who have trusted Christ as our Saviour, have received the Holy Spirit of power by grace through faith in Christ.

• These fleshly lusts are the sinful cravings, passions, and desires that lurk deep within us, but are not under the control of the Holy Spirit.

• The writer of Hebrews was inspired by the Holy Spirit to pray that God would prepare and equip all believers to say: Thy will not mine be done in me, and to live a life that glorifies God forever and forever, through time and into eternity!
• Let us take this wonderful prayer that was inspired by the Holy Spirit to heart.

• It is not by our might nor by our power that we triumph in this war, but by the Holy Spirit working within, and His victory in us is what glorifies our Father, Who is in heaven.

• While Paul lists the amazing qualities of godly love, both he and the apostle John insists that only those who are born of God are enabled, by the power of His Holy Spirit, to manifest His supernatural love so that they are enabled to love others in the same way that Christ loved us: Indeed, this is the commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also love his brother.
• Love comes from God, is given to us by the Holy Spirit of God, is manifested in the Person and work of the Son of God, and as His blood-bought children we are to love our brother also.

• The moment that we were born again, the Holy Spirit takes us from the kingdom of darkness, places us into the kingdom of God's dear Son, and we are baptised into the body of Christ and become one with Him.
• Sins are forgiven, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, fellowship with the Father is reinstated, we become children of God, citizens of heaven, and placed in unity with Christ Jesus our Lord.

• In it, he sets out the work of the Holy Spirit in those early days, through apostles and other ministers.

• Those that spit out hatred for God and display animosity towards Christ and His people, do at least give the Holy Spirit an opportunity to stop them in their tracks and bring them, in repentance, to the foot of the Cross by convicting them of sin, righteousness, and judgement - as happened with Saul of Tarsus who was wonderfully converted to become Paul, God's chosen apostle to the Gentiles.

• This final book of the Bible is an unveiling of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and through its pages, the Holy Spirit gives us a peep behind the scenes of the glorified Christ in heaven and how He will complete God's plans and purposes for mankind.

• He was not created, but with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, was from everlasting to everlasting.

• Every Christian is put into union with Christ, by the Holy Spirit, the instance they believe on Him as Saviour.
• The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer is to make our new nature exactly like Christ, and in Him there is no sin.
• It is when we abide in Christ that we are submitted to the Holy Spirit.

• As believers, we know that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one, but we also know that we are of God, and that in Christ we have the power to overcome sin and Satan, through Christ's imputed power and His sufficient grace - as we die to our old sin nature and live our new life for Christ, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Praise God that the Holy Spirit has sealed us, and set us apart for God.

• The only escape is to be positioned in Christ, by faith, and empowered by His Holy Spirit.

• Only those that live as Christ lived and who choose to walk in spirit and truth, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can resist the evil and pursue the good.

• Other baptisms are dry, such as the baptism of the Spirit when we are placed into Christ's mystic Body by the Holy Spirit, at salvation.
• Paul records that, by one Spirit, (the baptism of the Holy Spirit) we were all baptised into one Body, (the Body of Christ, which is the Church).
• Having been convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin, righteousness, judgement, and recognising our need of salvation in Christ, we are placed into His Body.
• The work of the Holy Spirit within the life of a believer has far greater consequences that simply the forgiveness of sin through Christ's sacrificial death.

• And over many centuries, holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, to give testimony of the coming Messiah; Jesus Christ the righteous, heir of all things, and through Whom the world was created.
• They were the prophetic voice of God, through whom the message of salvation started to be proclaimed to a lost and dying world, and it was the Holy Spirit of God Himself Who would move them to write the inspired Scriptures.
• Events that were veiled to the eyes of these great men were brought into sharper view when the Holy Spirit started to move in the lives of the apostles, who unfolded the mystery of the Church (which is the Body of Christ), and the free gift of salvation, which is given by grace through faith to all who will believe in the only begotten Son of God as Saviour and Lord.

• But it is only through His divine power that we have been equipped by God to live such a godly life, for we have been imputed with Christ's righteousness, indwelt by Christ's Holy Spirit, identified with all His goodness and grace, and have been accepted by the Father in the Beloved, by grace through faith in Him.
• All that pertains to life and godliness in a believer is achieved through the ministry of the Holy Spirit within our heart and the intercessory ministry of our great High Priest in heaven, for it is God Who works in us, to equip each believer to mature in the faith, to grow in grace, and to come into a fuller and deeper knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

• We may not have been with Paul and learned important truths from this apostle, but we have the Word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit Who has promised to guide us into all truth.

• It may not be evident that Lot was a righteous man in Genesis, nor that He was oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men in Sodom, but the Holy Spirit, speaking through Peter, declares it to be so, for our righteousness does NOT depend on what we DO, but on what Christ has done for us.

• It seems to be at the point where the Pharisees committed the unpardonable sin of unbelief - by accusing Christ of performing His mighty miracles in the name of Beelzebub, rather than through the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Unbelief is the one sin that God cannot forgive - for those who do not believe are condemned already, because they refuse to listen to the Holy Spirit's convicting work.

• They also believed in the Holy Spirit of God and witnessed Him working through certain prophets, priests, kings, and other selected individuals - although, during Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit did not indwell His people permanently... He was selective and temporary.
• Not only was Israel to believe on God-the-Father and God-the-Holy Spirit, but they were also to believe on God-the-Son.
• That blessed man was born of the Spirit the moment he believed the gospel and was permanently indwelt by the Holy Spirit that moment.

• The qualities that are so close to the heart of God are diametrically opposite from those in which the world delights, for the godly character that God has ordained in each of His blood-bought children is only achieved as we willingly submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
• And, little by little, the Holy Spirit conforms us into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself.

• In Christ, we have become partakers of a heavenly calling and are to be diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, for He has given us the Holy Spirit of life and truth, and we worship One God and Father of all Who is over all and through all and in us all.

• He is the one who works the works of God through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and whose words, actions, attitudes, and motives, are grounded on God's Word and honour His holy name.

• But in the book of Hebrews, the Holy Spirit only mentioned his faithfulness and obedience.

• We have been promised a full supply of Christ's sufficient grace through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, no matter what difficulties or dangers we may face.

• Salvation is the responsibility of the convicting work of the Holy Ghost in their lives.
• However, we who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ, do have a responsibility to share the good news with others - as led by the Holy Spirit, so that their faith and ours does not rest on man's wisdom but on the power of God - alone.

• The hatred Saul of Tarsus had for the Body of Christ (whom he had once persecuted), had been transformed into a deep love Paul the apostle had for Gentile believers by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• In his first letter to Timothy, Paul reveals that the Holy Spirit expressly warned us that in latter times, there would be a flood of false teachers who would feed the flock of God with their satanically inspired doctrines.
• The Holy Spirit explicitly tells us in this chapter of Timothy, that in later times some will fall away from the faith because they paid attention to these deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.

• Good works are only carried out through the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

• We are indwelled by the Holy Spirit of truth Who has promised to guide us into all truth - and The Truth shall indeed set us free - free from slavery to sin and Satan, free from the assaults of death and destruction, free from the power of the enemy of our souls, free to live as God intended man to live - in total dependence upon Him for the praise of His holy name.
• We are to maintain the pure covering of Christ's own perfect purity, for it is only as we perform a practical righteousness in the power of the Holy Spirit that we become impregnable to the fiery darts of the enemy.

• God does not dwell in a temple made with hands, but the Holy Spirit of God was resident within the human body of the God-Man.

• Elsewhere, we read that John the Baptist saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus in bodily form like a dove, and remaining on Him, and he heard a voice from heaven saying, You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.
• John also proclaimed, JESUS shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, and in this verse he proclaimed, JESUS, whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.
• John was teaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which took place at Pentecost when the Spirit was given without measure.
• Tongues, like flames of fire, rested on each one of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Before the Cross, the Holy Spirit was only sent for a limited time and specific purpose.
• The Holy Spirit also produces the fruit of the Spirit in the life of all who are walking in spirit and truth; abiding in Christ and following His guidance.
• No surprise that John the Apostle was careful to record every beautiful detail of the incarnate Word of God, for by His grace we have been saved from the slave-market of sin, by grace through faith we are clothed in Christ's righteousness, and by amazing God grace through faith, we are given the Holy Spirit without measure.

• Paul had already taught these Christians that 'we are children of light' and that we have been blessed with the gift and pledge of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who will never leave us not forsake us - that we are chosen in Christ, that we are not in darkness, but that it is God Who works in and through each one of us.

• All Scripture is inspired of the Holy Spirit, and Psalm 45 was composed in praise of the splendour and majesty of the king and in joyful celebration of his forthcoming wedding.
• Yes, all Scripture is God-breathed and written by inspiration of the Holy Spirit for our learning, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

• By grace through faith in Christ, we have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit to empower us to live the godly lifestyle that God demands; a life that is set apart unto Him; a life that reflects His character and attributes.

• The life that we live is to be a true reflection of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ Who lived in total dependence upon His Father in heaven, through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and in willing submission to the leading and guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Jesus Christ walked in unbroken fellowship with His Heavenly Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit, during His entire sojourn here on earth.
• And like Christ we too are to walk in spirit and in truth and to live our lives in total submission and humble obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.

• The moment we were born from above, all the advantages of our heavenly citizenship became ours, but it is only as the believer continues to abide in Christ and submit to the Holy Spirit within, that Christ can produce the fruit of the Spirit through his disciple.

• Having just been reminded in the previous verse that the Lord Jesus was fully human: Made of the seed of David, according to the flesh, which gave Him the right to the throne of Israel, we now read that Jesus Christ was also: Declared the Son of God with power, because He was Resurrected from the dead, by God's Holy Spirit.

• The Holy Spirit had already informed Peter that the time for his death was fast approaching, and so as he drew his last letter to a close he wrote: Dear friends, this is now the second of two letters I am writing to you, in which I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by way of reminder.

• All who believed in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ and obeyed His instruction to remain in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit was given, were filled with the Spirit and rewarded with spiritual gifts on that unique day, as Joel had prophesied.

• Every difficulty he faced was immediately given to His Father in prayer, through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The Bible is the singular, unchanging, and non-negotiable plumb-line for truth, and it was holy men of God who were moved by the Holy Spirit in bygone days, who were entrusted to record the sacred, inerrant, God-breathed text.
• More than forty human writers over centuries of time were moved by the Holy Spirit of God to bring His sure Word of truth to a lost and dying world.

• As believers, we were saved by grace through faith in Christ and at the moment of our salvation, the Holy Spirit of God placed us into the Body of Christ.

• That role is reserved for the Holy Spirit, Who is in the world to convict the unsaved sinner of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement.
• It is the work of the Holy Spirit to make men aware that the judgement of God awaits all who have not believed in the only begotten Son of God - but not all choose to believe the truth and be saved.
• Jesus was explaining that the importance of hearing the Word of God, and responding positively to His Holy Spirit's ministry in their life, lines up with the rest of Scripture.

• Although Christ was fully God the Son, He lived His whole life in full submission to the indwelling Holy Spirit of God and in total dependence on God the Father, only doing those things which He heard from above.

• As believers on the Resurrection side of Calvary, the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit and in the power of His sufficient strength, we are enabled to love others as Christ loved us.

• Despite Peter's experience with Cornelius (the Roman centurion who was baptised by the Holy Spirit the moment he believed) there was much resistance to admitting uncircumcised Gentile believers into the Body of Christ, but we discover that in Antioch, a great number of people believed in Jesus, and many Gentiles as well as Jews turned to Christ for salvation.
• Led by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas sought-out Paul who had been wonderfully saved on the road to Damascus, some years earlier.

• Sorrow may well be our lot in this life, for we have been told that in this world we will suffer trials and difficulties, but we must be of good cheer, for we have His indwelling Holy Spirit.

• We were imputed with His righteousness, when we were 'baptised', by the Holy Spirit, into God's new creation in Christ.
• Being baptised with the Holy Spirit is to be immersed in the Holy Spirit, just as being baptised with water, as a declaration of our faith means being immersed in water.

• It is a righteousness that is imparted to us by the Father of all mercies and a righteousness that is revealed to us by the Holy Spirit of God.

• It was not a literal river of water that would flow from their belly: But He spoke of the Holy Ghost, Whom those who believed in Jesus would one day receive.
• He knew that the Holy Spirit would soon be given to all who would believe on His name, and He would be like unto a river of living water flowing within their heart.
• Jesus' death was only six months away and His pleading cry was for all to believe on Him, for in so doing, their thirsty souls would be satisfied eternally through this gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, welling up within unto eternal life, and they would be used of God to draw others into His arms of forgiveness.
• And by living water, Jesus was speaking of the Holy Spirit Who would be given to everyone who believed in Him as Saviour.
• But we do not have to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit to be sent like the disciples of Christ's day, for Jesus is our risen Saviour.
• Jesus is the Living Water that is poured into our hearts by His Holy Spirit the moment we believe.
• At that moment, He comes to take up permanent residence within our hearts, for our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

• The Holy Spirit of God was upon the Lord Jesus Christ Who was sent by the Father to bring good news to those that were afflicted.

• We are to have our body washed through the sanctifying work of the Holy Ghost at rebirth; when we were born from above, placed into the Body of Christ, set apart unto God, and made holy by the washing of water with the Word of God.
• Good works can only by carried out in our Christian life through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• But mercy, truth, and unity, only comes when we have the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Spirit flowing through our inner beings, for it is only as we are yielded to the Holy Spirit, that He is enabled to conform us into the likeness of Christ.
• In his letter to the Philippians, Paul gives this vital challenge to all believers: If we have received any consolation in Christ, if we have any comfort of love, if we have any fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and if we have any bowels and mercies in Christ, then we are to demonstrate this in our lives by being of one same mind.

• In His life, Christ submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit and did only those things that pleased and honoured the Father.

• They had to wait until the Holy Spirit indwelled them, baptised them into the Body of Christ, started to teach them, began to guide them into all truth, and showed them things to come.
• During this time, the Scriptures, which have become our plumb-line for truth, needed to revealed and agreed upon by holy men of God, through the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit.

• It is they who embody the unity of the spirit - where there is one body of believers and one Holy Spirit of God Who indwells each one.

• Believers were baptised into the Body of Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, and all received the gift of tongues.
• They had heeded the instructions of the Lord, which were spoken only days before He ascended into heaven: Wait in Jerusalem and you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit not many days hence and will receive power from on high, they were told.
• Just as Christ's first coming was a brief foretaste of His second coming, so the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that day of Pentecost was a tiny taste of the wonderful happenings that will transpire when Jesus returns in power and great glory to set up His eternal kingdom as Israel's Messiah and promised King.

• He knew that only the new-life in Christ can be enabled by the Holy Spirit to approve those things that are good and excellent so that the man or woman of God may live a life of godly service that is sincere and blameless before the Lord.

• Paul explained: He (the Holy Spirit of God) Who effectually worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised, effectually worked in ME also to the Gentiles.
• Paul wanted to make it clear that the same Spirit of God who had empowered Peter for his God-authorised apostleship among the Jews, is the same Holy Spirit Who was working powerfully in his own ministry and apostleship to Gentile believers.

• The living-spirit and life-soul of Adam was breathed into his lifeless, dusty frame, by the life-breath of the eternal Holy Spirit.
• He also related the glorious truth that we were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise Who has been given to us as a pledge and guarantee of our eternal inheritance.
• It is only at the point of the 'new-birth', when the Holy Spirit of Life breathes the resurrected life of Christ into a sinner saved by grace through faith, that the human spirit is revived and spiritual death is changed into spiritual life.

• Those who would trust in Him for salvation, were to become a new-creation-in-Christ; positioned in Him, imputed with His righteousness, permanently in-dwelt and sealed by His Holy Spirit, granted access to the throne of grace, and given an inheritance which is kept for us in heaven.
• It was in the upper room on that last night before He was betrayed, that the Lord Jesus spoke of the coming Holy Spirit Who, at that time, was living ALONGSIDE them (in the Person of Christ Jesus Himself), and Who would one day live IN them (in the Person of Holy Spirit), after Christ's return to His Father in heaven.
• And so it was that after forty glorious, post-Resurrection days, the Lord Jesus gathered His followers together and commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for this promised heavenly Helper, the permanently, indwelling Holy Spirit Which the Father had pledged to send.
• Even John the Baptist had prophesied that Christ would one day: Baptise you with the Holy Spirit of truth, and that the one, unique, singular day of Pentecost was fast approaching.
• But first Jesus must leave them and return to His Father in heaven, for if He did not return to the Father, the Holy Spirit would not come.
• Little did this faithful band of followers know that in ten days time they were to receive that promised baptism of the Holy Spirit, about which both John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had spoken.
• And so it was that on that first day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came down from heaven to abide in God's redeemed ones, and on that day all believers were united by One Spirit into one Body, the Church of God.

• The shock-horror of the cruel Cross, the distressing denial of His Lord at the unjust trial, the bewildering amazement at His glorious Resurrection, the breathtaking baptism of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the astonishing inclusion of the Gentiles into the family of God, and the many hidden mysteries of the Church that were almost entirely revealed to the apostle Paul, were all enfolded and yet enshrouded in one simple act - when Jesus rose from the Passover supper, poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet.
• The manifestation of God's love towards the fallen race of man at Calvary as the entire floodgates of God's wrath was poured out on His dearly-beloved and only-begotten Son, was beyond Peter's comprehension at that time, but by the power of the Holy Spirit he would later receive illumination.

• With the Scriptures in hand, we know the supernatural happenings of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was sent to help, to encourage, to teach, and to guide them into all truth.
• It was to the advantage of this little band that Jesus went away for He was to send the Holy Ghost as their indwelling Helper.
• Let us give thanks to the Lord today, for the indescribable blessing of the indwelling Holy Spirit in all who believe in this Church age.

• There are certain differences in the way that God deals with His servants in different dispensations, and the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit is one unique difference in the Church age.

• We can grow in grace as we abide in Christ, (and receive a reward) OR we can spend our Christian life in spiritual infancy as we ignore His Word and grieve the Holy Spirit, Who indwells us. (and suffer loss of reward at the judgement seat of Christ).

• As Christians we are to be led by the Holy Spirit of God and not influenced by our earthly circumstances.

• There are a number of ways that each one of us can examine our own spiritual lives, and perhaps the most important is the witness of the indwelling Holy Spirit with our born-again spirit, as we cry out to the Lord: Search me oh God and know my heart.

• But how blessed is the saved sinner who must progress in their faith and grow in grace, not through works of the Law, but by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• It is because we are so blessed, and our sin is no longer accountable, that we are called to eschew all forms of evil, to mature in the faith, and to live in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and to be increasingly conformed into the likeness of the lovely Lord Jesus as we die to self and live for Him.

• And although His propitiatory work on the Cross stands fast for whoever believes on His name... the Lord Jesus returned to heaven for a season and God the Father sent God the Holy Spirit as the Heavenly Comforter to convict the world of sin and to warn of coming judgement for those who will not believe. 
• The Holy Spirit was sent to permanently indwell all who by faith in the Lord Jesus, became sons of God... but even in those early days of the Church, we see many resisting the gospel of grace and rejecting the inspired words of Stephen, the first Christian martyr - who was himself filled with the Holy Spirit.
• By God's sufficient grace, Stephen pleaded for the forgiveness of his murderers, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. It appears likely that Stephen's murder completed mankind's rejection of the Triune Godhead - rejection of the Father, rejection of the Son, and now... rejection of the Holy Spirit in Stephen's testimony... and yet in His grace, the Holy Spirit of God continues to convict fallen man of sin, righteousness, and judgement - such that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

• And it was the Holy Spirit Himself that placed us into union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Union with Christ is the most wonderful truth of our salvation that staggers the imagination, for the Holy Spirit baptises us into the Lord Jesus and then comes to live inside our bodies.

• They are also indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God at the point of salvation.

• We are not to allow the world to squeeze us into its mould, but are to serve one another in love, through our spiritual giftings, and by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The gospel of grace is a bright shining light in a darkened world, which is more brilliant than the noon-day sun, but despite the many witnesses to the Word of truth - by means of creation, conscience, the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, and the biblical canon of Scripture, the gospel remains veiled to those that will not believe.

• Christ told them that the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father would one day send to them, would guide them into all truth and disclose to them these precious secrets.
• that He will take what is Mine and will disclose it to you. At this time however, they only saw through a glass darkly, but the day would come when they would be baptised by the Spirit of Truth into the Body of Christ and have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God unfold to them the mysteries of the kingdom... and the privileges of the dispensation of the grace of God.
• We who are saved by grace, are privileged to have both the inspired Word of God to instruct us in truth and righteousness and the indwelling Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and conform us into the image and likeness of Christ - as we abide in Him and HE in us.

• Although Christ was undiminished Deity, He laid aside His glory to demonstrate to man how God intended man to live at the beginning, which was in total dependence upon the Father, only saying and doing those things that He heard from the Father; walking in spirit and truth, living in submission to the inner-promptings of the Holy Ghost, and remaining in unbroken fellowship with the Father.

• Once enlightened by the Holy Spirit as born-again children of God, we have a true sight and sense of sin.
• Having first been convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin, righteousness, and judgment, we are brought face to face with our own depravity and utter sinfulness.

• Despite Israel's Old Testament idolatry, their rejection of God's promised Messiah, and their leader's blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, Amos was moved by the Spirit of God to offer hope, and he prophesied, In that day, I will raise up the fallen booth of David.

• Paul discovered that the only way to victory over the principle of sin, was by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - as he allowed His Holy Spirit to rule and reign within until he could say, it is not I that live, but Christ that lives in me.

• But Jesus was also divinely approved at His baptism when the Father said: This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove.

• We do this by walking in spirit and truth, living godly in Christ Jesus, and praying at all times in the power of the Holy Ghost.
• We are to recognise the impotency of repetitive prayers that are reiterated carelessly and mechanically, in preference to the tender promptings of the Holy Spirit in the heart, and His gentle guidance through the Word of Truth.
• Let us, therefore, encourage one another and seek to build each other up in our most holy faith, praying in the power of the Holy Spirit, as we wait for the any day appearance of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ Who has given us eternal life, by grace through faith in Him.

• Unlike Church-age believers, not all Old Testament saints were indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

• Salvation is the amazing gift of God’s grace, and does not have anything to do with us. All that is required of you and me is to believe – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.Those of us who believe this by faith are justified, saved, redeemed, declared righteous, positioned in Christ, clothed in His righteousness, in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit, and have been given a whole host of other supernatural and eternal benefits, simply by believing on the finished work of Christ at Calvary, for He died for our sin according to the Scriptures, was buried and rose again according to the Scriptures.

• Paul was called to unveil many hidden truths about God's Son, which had previously been concealed during the past ages, but which was given to us by direct revelation from God through His chosen apostles and prophets, by means of His Holy Spirit.

• His wrath will be poured out upon prideful sinners who, of their own volition, resist the convicting work of the Holy Spirit within and refuse God's free gift of salvation, in preference to indulging in worldly trifles, fleshly lusts, legalistic practices, and idol worship.

• Christ's glorious Resurrection made us a new creation in Christ and gave us His indwelling life (in the Person of the Holy Spirit).

• Indeed, Paul reminds us of the need for personal purity, knowing that our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit, and that one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him - and because of that truth we are to flee sexual immorality.

• We are ministers of reconciliation with the indwelling Holy Spirit abiding in our hearts.

• By His grace we were given His indwelling, holy life, in the Person of the Holy Spirit.

• We are to be used by God to restrain the evil of this world through prayer and praise - in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Timothy, like us all, needed to be reminded that we have the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit of God Who has gifted us and empowered us with all that we need for life and godliness, no matter how difficult or dangerous life in this world may become.
• But as we look to Jesus and willingly submit to the ongoing child-training and chastening work of the Holy Spirit within, we will experience an inexplicable, inner peace that passes understanding, for this is the promise of God to all whose mind is resting in Christ.

• At the moment we trust, the Holy Spirit places us into Christ Jesus and we become members of His Body, which is the Church.

• Paul tells us early in Ephesians that whoever believes in Christ as Saviour, is sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise when we first believe.
• What an assurance to know that God the Holy Spirit has sealed us and will keep us sealed until Christ comes to claim us as His own.

• The Father turned His face away from Him and the indwelling Holy Spirit departed as He was made sin - for US.

• Throughout His earthly life He walked in spirit and truth, in-dwelt by the Holy Ghost, and only saying and doing only those things that He heard from His Father in heaven.
• And in the same way that the living God sent the eternal Son into the world to live a life of total dependence upon His Heavenly Father, we too are sent into the world by Jesus to live a life of total dependence upon Him by faith and through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Faith is vital, for we live by faith and not by sight, and the blessed hope we have in Christ, and His soon return, does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who has been given to all who trust in Christ for salvation.

• No doubt through the eternity of eternities, we will thank God that although we were once slaves of sin, estranged from God, and without hope in the world, His Holy Spirit convicted us of our own gross sinfulness, our need of a Saviour, of Christ's perfect righteousness, and of God's righteous judgement on all that is evil.

• How important it was that the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven at the end of His earthly ministry, for only then could He send the indwelling Holy Spirit as the seal of all God's promises to those who believe on Him.

• These actions and works can only be carried out through our new abundant life in Christ, which is to be governed and guided by the Holy Spirit working in and through us, so that the works that I do are not of me (my old self), but my new nature in Him.

• And the Holy Spirit of God took up permanent residence within our weak, mortal frames, from the moment we trusted Christ Jesus, for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• The almighty Creator, Who caused light to shine out of darkness, is the One Who has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ – so that His life may dwell in us and His love may shine into our hearts, so that we may be made ministers of His grace and show forth the excellency of His power to those that remain dead in their trespasses and sins.There is no merit in us that we should be so honoured, as the contrast between our frail, feeble, perishing bodies and His divine strength and eternal light demonstrates – but by His goodness and grace, this heavenly treasure has been placed in earthen vessels - our human body, which is Christ in us the hope of glory, so that the excellency of that power may be shown forth in our lives.We are the earthen vessels into which the glorious truth of the gospel of God has been poured, causing our mortal bodies to become the temple of the Holy Spirit, Who uses this gospel light to guide us into all truth and as we proclaim the glorious gospel of grace to others.

• God has supplied all our needs according to His riches in glory and has given us the permanently, indwelling Holy Spirit to lead and to guide, to teach and to train, to correct and to comfort, and to conform us day by day into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord.

• The lost sinner is saved by grace through faith in Christ, but once that man or woman has been redeemed from the kingdom of Satan, and transferred into the kingdom of Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, that believer is expected to continue living his or her life by faith.
• And we are to carry out the good work that God has prepared for us to do, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• It was at the start of Christ's ministry that Jesus walked from His hometown in Galilee to the River Jordan to be baptised by John, to be anointed by the Holy Spirit, and to be confirmed as God's only Begotten Son and Israel's promised Messiah.
• That signal was the sign of the Dove (which is an emblem of the Holy Spirit), descending and remaining upon Christ: And behold, a voice out of the heavens said, 'This is My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I am well pleased.'
• Jesus submitted His whole life to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and depended on God by faith, all for you and for me.
• And so once the Lord was immersed in the water and washed by John (in the manner of all God's priests), and anointed with the Oil of the Holy Spirit Who rested upon Him in the form of a Dove, the very voice of God was heard to proclaim: THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED!

• Let us be transformed into the likeness of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, which will enable us to discern what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God and to display it in our lives.

• This is done only as we submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our life until it is not I that lives but Christ that lives in me.

• God promised to give them a spirit of grace - through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit of life and love.
• The promise of the New Covenant was to be fulfilled in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ - such that all who trust in Him as their perfect, sinless, Kinsman Redeemer - Jew and Gentile alike, are beneficiaries of this gracious promise which includes a renewed heart and an enlightened mind - with godly understanding and right judgements - and this would come through the power of God's own Holy Spirit.
• The cold, hard, impenetrable heart of the unregenerate man, with its self-centred passion and unyielding opinions, was to be renewed and replaced with a clean heart of flesh, in which the Holy Spirit of God Himself was to dwell.
• The human heart, which had become so infected with sin, was to be changed and cleansed, so that it could become a holy habitation for the Holy Spirit of God.

• Paul, as led by the Holy Spirit, argues logically and unquestionably that man is unrighteous, unprofitable, deceitful, destructive, and ungodly by nature.

• He was born for this priestly role and anointed as God's great High Priest by the Holy Spirit, Who rested on Him in the likeness of a Dove at His baptism.

• Godly love for our brothers in Christ, is a demonstration of the grace of God, the love of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, to whomsoever we come in contact.

• Paul understood that the more we comprehend the love and the grace of God - and recognise that the righteousness and justice of God is underpinned by His goodness and grace - the more we grow in understanding, mature in the faith, and are strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit in our inner man.

• We can be governed by our old sinful, carnal nature, and refuse to keep self nailed to the cross OR to we can be guided by the Holy Spirit and walk in spirit and truth.

• We are commanded to live in a manner that honours His name, but unlike Israel, we already have the indwelling Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and to carry out the good work that God has prepared for us to walk in.

• David had been moved by the Holy Ghost to write: The LORD (God Yahweh) said to my Lord, (the Lord Jesus), sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.
• Inspired by the Holy Spirit of truth, David addressed the Lord Jesus as my Lord.

• But as citizens of heaven and members of the new creation in Jesus Christ, we can say with reverence and awe that we are of Christ Who was begotten of the Father, very God of very God, Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary - God made Man - and we are: Of Jesus Christ.

• It encompasses the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit in all believers, the one Body of believers made up of Jews and Gentiles, the Rapture of the Church, and the mystery of the gospel, to name but a few.
• We have the indwelling Holy Spirit who enables us to live victorious lives from the moment of our salvation.

• The Holy Spirit carries out this beautiful transformation in each of His children, but we need to be willing to go through the training programme that God has planned for each of us, which is set out in His holy Word.
• We are to live holy lives in the power of the Holy Spirit, by trusting His unchanging Word and living in utter dependence upon the Lord.

• Love for God and love for our brothers and sisters in Christ is the fulfilling of the law - but it can only be carried out by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit in the life of a spiritual believer i.e.
• Jesus said, Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters, while Peter, who was prompted by the Holy Spirit to confess Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, became a fleshly tool in the hands of Satan immediately after his great spiritual revelation from God.

• The one who, in eager expectation, searches the Scriptures and examines its content daily, with a deep desire to know the truth, will be guided by the Holy Spirit into all truth: And you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. 
• God has concealed precious promises and truths in the Bible that are only uncovered by searching the Scriptures, meditating on the Word, and following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

• The climax of Stephen's inspired speech to the Sanhedrin, just before his cruel martyrdom, rehearsed the faithfulness of God towards His people while contrasting Israel's rebellion against their God, causing him to conclude: You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.

• It is a spiritual weapon of war that can only be wielded by the one who is in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit.

• This glorious 'conforming into the image' is accomplished through sanctification, which is carried out in two beautiful ways:Firstly: By the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives at initial salvation.

• We are positioned in Christ, in union with Him, indwelled by the Holy Spirit, and accepted by God the Father in the Beloved, and it is all by grace through faith in Him.

• One result of trusting in Jesus as Saviour is to have God's Holy Spirit come and take up permanent residence within our mortal frame.
• Or we can choose to submit to the Holy Spirit, die to self, and live to Christ so that it is God Who works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
• But within every believer dwells the life-giving Holy Spirit, the true source of comfort, hope, and joy.
• The constant indwelling of the Holy Spirit in all Church age believers, from the moment we are saved, is a blessing of such magnitude, it is hard to comprehend.

• The promised Holy Spirit had been sent from heaven to indwell and empower all who believe. The same cowardly men who had fled from Gethsemane and denied their Lord only 50 days earlier were suddenly filled with the Spirit, baptised into the Body of Christ and began proclaiming the wonderful works of God to all who were present in Jerusalem for that feast of Pentecost.
• The convicting power of the Holy Spirit was so mighty on that day, that 3000 people were cut to the heart when they realised the severity of their sinful actions; so much so that many cried out to Peter and the rest of the Apostles: Brethren, what are we to do?

• It was the Holy Spirit Who caused the prophet Jeremiah to write of the New Covenant which God promised to make with Israel, His chosen and earthly people.
• And it is the Holy Spirit Who also caused the writer to the Hebrews to reiterate that same, precious promise to Israel and to build upon its truth when he wrote: And the Holy Spirit also testifies, 'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days.

• We have been purchased for God with the blood of Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit is His down-payment to us.
• It is the indwelling Holy Spirit that has been given by the Father, to every newborn believer at the point of their salvation, and He has given the Holy Spirit of promise as a guarantee, a down-payment, a pledge that confidently assures us that our heavenly inheritance stands fast forever.
• We have been given eternal life and have been told that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has man been able to imagine the wonderful things that God has prepared for those that love him, and the gift of the Holy Spirit to all believers is God's unbreakable surety to us.
• The Holy Spirit is our guarantee.

• He did this to demonstrate that a man who is subject to the Holy Spirit will walk and talk in accordance to the will of God.
• But a life that is lived seeking the Lord with all their heart - a life that is submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit– a life lived with ears open to hear His Word and eyes open to see His truth, will be a life that speaks the truth in love, with gracious speech and seasoned with salt.

• Godly love is only possible in those that have the indwelling Holy Spirit and it can only be expressed when that life is completely submitted to the Lord in thought, word, and deed.

• Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, for we are in-dwelt by the Spirit of God and our body belongs to Him.

• And Paul rejoiced that when this group of Christians HEARD this message of truth, they BELIEVED, and when they believed they were immediately SEALED with the promised Holy Spirit.

• But in the life of men, it is not only disregarding our innate, human conscience but can often be resisting the Holy Spirit and impeding His convicting work in our life.

• John the Baptist told us that Christ would baptise believers with the Holy Spirit and unbelievers with a baptism of fiery judgement.

• We are to submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit - knowing that His grace is sufficient.

• The consequences of living in a sinful world are pain and sorrow, but from the time that we wake until the moment our head touches the pillow in the night-time hours, we have a choice to seek the Lord in all things and to submit to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

• And it was the Holy Spirit of love Who wooed us and challenged us, convicted and finally breathed new life into our fallen frames, birthing us into God's family, and enlightening us with the abundance of His life.

• First, He would baptise with the Holy Spirit - for salvation, forgiveness, and eternal life, and second, He would baptise with Fire - for judgement, condemnation, and eternal separation from God.
• However, when seen in its correct context, we discover that 'baptism of the Holy Spirit' refers to salvation while the 'baptism of fire' refers to judgement.
• At salvation, we see a separation of the good wheat, (true believers - baptised with the Holy Spirit) who will be stored in the granary... and the bad chaff, (unbelievers) who will be burned forever with unquenchable fire - the baptism of the fires of judgement.

• And although our 'fleshly' nature will continue to be in opposition to our new human 'spirit' during our journey through life, we are instructed to yield to the indwelling Holy Spirit of God: For greater is He that is in us that he that is in the world.
• When yielded to the Holy Spirit, our human spirit will grow in grace.
• It will mature and ripen as we become increasingly conformed into the likeness of Christ, through the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• John had received confirmation from above, that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, for at His baptism, he heard the voice of God the Father testifying of Jesus, and saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Him in the form of a dove, and resting upon Him.

• And because we have trusted Him as Saviour, we have been forgiven of our sins, sealed by the Holy Spirit, imputed with His righteousness, in-dwelt by the Spirit of Christ, showered with the riches of His grace, seated with Him in heavenly places, adopted as sons of God, and made joint-heirs of Christ's rich inheritance: And you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God.  

• We have an assurance, because our future is not only recorded in the Word of God and settled in heaven, but we have the indwelling Holy Spirit in our heart as God's guarantee that all that He has promised to those who trust in Christ for salvation - He will fulfil.

• The outpouring of God's Holy Spirit will be over the whole nation, both leaders and people alike.

• We do not want to have a blot or blemish on our wedding garment as it is important that our linen is bright and clean, and we achieve our clean bright linen through our righteous acts, which are carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit during our lifetime.
• Before we are presented before the Lord, we will all have to stand before the judgement seat of Christ to give an account of the righteous acts we carried out by the will of God in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Having believed the truth of the gospel of Christ for salvation, an outward demonstration of a holy life should be the result of that inward regeneration through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• That brand new life was given to us directly from God's Holy Spirit when we were born-again, and that brand new self, which is in the image and likeness of God, has been created in the righteousness and holiness of God Himself.

• One is being led and guided by the Holy Spirit while the other is resisting, quenching or grieving the Spirit of God.
• The unsaved man cannot understand the wisdom of God, because God's ways are above the way of man and are spiritually appraised and spiritually discerned through the power of the Holy Spirit of God.
• For the things of the Spirit are spiritually discerned through the promptings and power on the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• The prophets rejoiced that their coming Messiah would sit on David's throne and save His people from their sins, but they diligently inquired into what time and what circumstances the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ was indicating, when He testified to them in advance of the terrible messianic sufferings that their Messiah would have to endure, and the thrilling, heavenly glories that would follow.

• As believers, our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we are living stones being built up into a spiritual house.

• When we were born of the Holy Spirit, we received a holy and spiritual nature.

• For just as the life of this mortal body is in the blood, so the life of our new, heavenly body is given to us by the Spirit - a spiritual body that is animated and enlivened by the Holy Spirit of God.
• All of us have been assured that we will be given an eternal body that will be energised by God's Holy Spirit of life.

• He tells of our redemption through the blood of the Lord Jesus, our changed relationship to God, the birthright we have in Him, and the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit Who guides us unto all truth.

• When we become a Christian, we take off our former way of life and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, are severed from our old, original, self-centred, Adamic-life which corrupts by deceitful desires of the flesh, into precious union with our Saviour into and sweet communion with our God.
• Let us therefore live our lives unto Him, permitting the Holy Spirit of God renew the spirit of our minds, day by day.

• Paul may not have understood why his plans to visit Rome were always prevented by the Holy Spirit, but we recognise his Roman epistle to be one of the greatest influences in maintaining the purity of the gospel of grace throughout the history of Christendom.

• He told Paul of, their great love in the Holy Spirit of Christ.
• It was a supernatural love that was created and fuelled by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.
• The identifying mark of a man or woman who is submitted to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit is the one who walks and works and lives and prays in spirit and in truth - until it can be said that it is not I that live - but Christ Who lives within.