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The Holy Spirit - Part 2
Sermon
Matthew 9:27-31 - As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, calling out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" When He had gone indoors, the blind men came to Him, and He asked them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Lord," they replied. Then He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you;" and their sight was restored. Jesus warned they sternly, "See that no one knows about this." But they went out and spread the news about Him all over that region.
Subject: How Does Jess Test Our Faith?
Through trials and tribulations
1 Peter 1:6-7 - In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes 3ven though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Isaiah 48:10 - See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Through some of the demands He makes on our lives
God asks the seemingly impossible of us but it is through faith that we may accomplish it.
Hope and faith are positive expectations.
Through our dollars
Malachi 3:10 - Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My House. "Test Me in this," says the Lord of Hosts. "See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."
Luke 16:10 - Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much...
Through delay.
If all or needs were met immediately, we wouldn't need faith.
Isaiah 40:31 - But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount p with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.
The Holy Spirit - Part 2
- Genesis 6:3 - the Holy Spirit strives with man but as humans, our days are numbered.
- Ephesians 4:30 - The Holy Spirit can be grieved by us. (And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, where by ye are sealed unto the day or redemption.) The four cardinal sins forbidden are regarded as grieving the Holy Spirit. This implies that there is a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and man, that He would be grieved by our transgressions.
- Hebrews 10:29 - We can insult the Holy Spirit. (How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?) There is no middle ground between the highest reverence and utter contumely in this case; to those who did not receive Jesus as Lord; has treated with outrage and insult the Spirit of whose gifts he had been a partaker of.
- Acts 5:3 - The Holy Spirit can be lied to. (Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?) The Holy Spirit was in the apostles and well aware of the actions of Ananias and his wife. None but Satan could have been so bold as to influence his heart. Ananias lied against the Holy Spirit when he held back part of the price of the land which he had said that the whole was for charitable use.
- Matthew 12:31-32 - The Holy Spirit can be blasphemed. (And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.) In these verses we see the gracious assurance of the pardon of all sin on the gospel. However, to deny the Holy Spirit, one is denying the power of God.
Sermon
Matthew 9:27-31 - As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, calling out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" When He had gone indoors, the blind men came to Him, and He asked them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Lord," they replied. Then He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you;" and their sight was restored. Jesus warned they sternly, "See that no one knows about this." But they went out and spread the news about Him all over that region.
Subject: How Does Jess Test Our Faith?
- What are you expecting God to do in your life?
- Faith is the substance hope for, the evidence of things unseen. Hebrews 11:1
- When we do what God expects of us, all is well.
- Whatever is not of faith, is sin.
- Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6
- Improving faith is a test from God.
- Faith is like a muscle, we need to develop it by testing it.
- The testing of your faith develops perseverance. James 1:3
Through trials and tribulations
1 Peter 1:6-7 - In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes 3ven though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Isaiah 48:10 - See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Through some of the demands He makes on our lives
God asks the seemingly impossible of us but it is through faith that we may accomplish it.
Hope and faith are positive expectations.
Through our dollars
Malachi 3:10 - Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My House. "Test Me in this," says the Lord of Hosts. "See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."
Luke 16:10 - Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much...
Through delay.
If all or needs were met immediately, we wouldn't need faith.
Isaiah 40:31 - But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount p with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.
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