Life In The Spirit!Week 9
What we’re about…
1. Getting to know Him personally
2. Growing in fellowship with Him
3. A dynamic relationship
Take advantage…
1. www.HTchurch.com/LifeInTheSpirit
2. Class Q&A
3. Read Acts 22-24
4. Don’t forget to F-L-Y
Review: spiritual gifts
Three main lists of gifts
in the New Testament:
Gifts of the Spirit – 1 Cor. 12
Gifts of the Father – Romans 12
Gifts of the Son – Eph. 4
Review: spiritual gifts
Gifts of revelation
Gifts of power
Gifts of utterance
Class Questions - 1
Does Acts 8:39 mean that the
Holy Spirit "transported" Philip?
Like Star Trek style?
Class Questions - 2
Should there be an expectation
when we pray for healing for others
that it should be immediate?
Class Questions - 3
In Acts 16: 16-18, why did
the spirit in the girl proclaim
God in Paul and Silas?
Class Questions - 4
Do we worship the Holy Spirit?
Class Questions - 5
Acts 12 says that the believers
were praying for Peter.
Do I need more people praying for me?
Why wouldn't my prayers be enough?
Called to be…
…a person of the Spirit!
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into
one Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:13)
People of the Spirit
Or… not.
The Bible contrasts spiritual people
with people of the soul
or people of the flesh.
Important terms in Paul
“Natural” or “sensual” –
Driven by the reasonings of the soul
“Carnal” or “fleshly” –
Led by the desires of the flesh
The wind of God
pneuma =
spirit, breath, or wind
pneumatikos =
the spiritual man
The “natural” man: 1 Cor. 2:14
“…the natural man does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God.”
psuche = soul
psuchikos = soulish
What is a psychic?
The carnal man
“…the organ employed in the
apprehension of spiritual truth
characterizes the man.”
Who’s in the driver’s seat?
The Spirit, soulish mind, or the flesh?
1 Cor. 2:9-16
… “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have there entered into the
heart of man, the things which God has
prepared for those who love him.” But
God has revealed them to us by his
Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things,
yes, the deep things of God.
1 Cor. 2:9-16
For what man knows the things of a
man, except the spirit of man
which is in him?
Even so the things of God no
man knows, but the Spirit of God.
1 Cor. 2:9-16
Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit which is
from God, so that we might know
the things that are freely given to us
by God –
which things we also speak
1 Cor. 2:9-16
not in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. But the natural man
does not receive the things
of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness unto him;
1 Cor. 2:9-16
neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned. But he
that is spiritual discerns all things, yet
he himself is discerned by no man. For
“who has known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct Him?” But we
have the mind of Christ.
How to become spiritual
1. Realize that God’s work is done through God’s power
Zech. 4:6, John 15:5
How to become spiritual
1. Realize that God’s work is done
through God’s power
2. Seek God for fresh
fillings of power
How to become spiritual
1. Realize that God’s work is done through God’s power
2. Seek God for fresh fillings of power
3. Wait on God for living words of guidance and instruction
How to become spiritual
4. Engage in Kingdom living by doing
the words of Jesus regardless of your
experience or customs.
How to become spiritual
5. Do not judge situations with your natural senses
“…he shall not judge with the sight of
his eyes, nor decide with
the hearing of his ears…”
(Isa. 11:3)
How to become spiritual
6. Let your actions be regulated
by love
How to become spiritual
7. Renew your mind to the
realities and possibilities
of Kingdom living, and see
yourself as an ambassador and
agent of the Kingdom
in every circumstance.
His passions & emotions
What we can attract or lose
is His blessing
and the sense of
His engagement with us.
Grieving the Spirit
Let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth, but that which is
good to the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace unto the hearers.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed
unto the day of redemption.
Grieving the Spirit
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger,
and clamor, and evil speaking, be put
away from you, with all malice:
and be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you. (Eph. 4:29-32)
Uncleanness & Immorality
For God has not called us to
uncleanness, but to holiness.
He therefore who despises,
despises not man, but God,
who hath also given unto us
his Holy Spirit.
(1 Thess. 4:7-8)
A vengeful & vindictive heart
But he turned, and rebuked them,
and said,
You know not what manner
of spirit you are of.
(Luke 9:55)
Resisting & Rebelling
But they rebelled, and vexed
his Holy Spirit: therefore he was
turned to be their enemy,
and he fought against them.
(Isaiah 63:10)
How long will He strive?
And the LORD said,
“My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also is flesh;
yet his days shall be a hundred
and twenty years.”
(Gen. 6:3)
Advancing ourselves
If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another,
envying one another.
(Gal 5:25-26)
Excessive Control
Quench not the Spirit.
Despise not prophesyings.
(1 Thess. 5:19-20)
Attracting His Presence
By walking in the fear of the Lord:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the LORD… (Isa. 11:2)
Attracting His Presence
Through humility:
…to this man will I look, even to him
that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word.
(Isa. 66:2)
Cultivate His Presence:2 Cor. 6:3-10
Giving no offence in anything, that the
ministry be not blamed: but in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers
of God, in much patience, in afflictions,
in necessities, in distresses, in stripes,
in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,
in watchings, in fastings; by pureness,
Cultivate His Presence:2 Cor. 6:3-10
by knowledge, by longsuffering, by
kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the
power of God, by the armor of
righteousness on the right hand
and on the left, by honor and dishonor,
by evil report and good report:
Cultivate His Presence:2 Cor. 6:3-10
as deceivers, and yet true; as
unknown, and yet well known; as
dying, and, behold, we live; as
chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful,
yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing,
and yet possessing all things.
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