Knowing The Holy Spirit Part 3

Knowing The Holy Spirit (Part 3)

The Five Great Redemptive Acts of God.

A. The Incarnation of Jesus
God the Father by the agency of the Holy Spirit incarnated Jesus the Son in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
(Luke 1:35; Matthew 1:20)

But as Joseph was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. The angel said, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take Mary home as your wife. The baby inside her is from the Holy Spirit.

B. The Earthly Ministry of Jesus
God the Father anointed Jesus the Son with the power of the Holy Spirit. The result: healing and deliverance for humanity.

Acts 10:38: You know how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went around doing good. He healed all who were under the devil's power. God was with him.

C. The Atonement of Jesus
Jesus the Son offered himself to God the Father through the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 9:14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

D. The Resurrection of Jesus
God the Father raised up Jesus the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 1:4: ...who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness...

Romans 6:4: Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of God the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

E. The Gift of the Holy Spirit
At Pentecost Jesus the Son received from God the Father the gifts of the Holy Spirit and poured them out upon His disciples

(Acts 2:32-33) God has raised this same Jesus back to life. We are all witnesses of this. Jesus has been given a place of honor at the right hand of God. He has received the Holy Spirit from the Father. This is what God had promised. It is Jesus who has poured out what you now see and hear.

Likewise, the ongoing relationship of God to his people in this age directly involves all three personas of the Godhead. The end purpose of God is that we come to Him as Father; but we have access to God the Father only through Jesus the Son by the Holy Spirit.

(Ephesians 2:18-19) Through Christ we both come to the Father by the power of one Holy Spirit.

So you are no longer strangers and outsiders. You are citizens together with God's people. You are members of God's family.

Similarly, God the Father indwells His people only in Jesus the Son through the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 2:22: In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Prayer:
Amen n Amen. Praise be to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit for the redemptive works! May God himself, the God of peace sanctify us thru n thru. May our whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls us is faithful and He will do it. In Jesus Name We give thanks. Amen.