Knowing The Holy Spirit Part 5

Knowing The Holy Spirit Part 5

The Holy Spirit is the Now

Presence Representative of the Godhead.

In this age, the Holy Spirit is the resident, personal representative of the Godhead on earth. He takes up His residence among us, around us and in us! The Holy Spirit is our ever present Emmanuel – God with us!
In fact He wants to overtake each one of us, overwhelm us, saturate, marinate, pickle and fill us with His divine presence. We cannot get too much of the Holy Spirit! He wants to fill each of us.

The scriptures depict His dwelling place in two ways:

A. I Corinthians 3:16-17 refers to the collective temple – the Church – the body of Christ.
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple? God's Spirit lives in you. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple.

B. I Corinthians 6:19-20 then refers to the individual temple – the physical body of each believer.
Don't you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is in you. You have received him from God. You do not belong to yourselves. Christ has paid the price for you. So use your bodies in a way that honors God.

Jesus is Lord over the church; the Holy Spirit is Lord in the church.

The Main Purposes of the Holy Spirit

What is the main purpose of the Holy Spirit?
What has He come to do?

John 14:18 refers to the coming of Jesus, at Pentecost, in the Person of the Holy Spirit.
"I will not leave you like children who don't have parents. I will come to you.”

John 14:3 refers to the Second Coming of Jesus, in His own Person, at the close of the age.
If I go and do that, I will come back. And I will take you to be with me. Then you will also be where I am.

Three main purposes for which the Holy Spirit came:

A. To complete the ministry of Christ
John 14:25 I have spoken all these things while I am still with you.

John 16:12-13 "I have much more to say to you. It is more than you can handle right now. But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own. He will speak only what he hears. And he will tell you what is still going to happen.

B. To form the corporate body of Christ

C. To prepare the bride of Christ