The Promise Of The Holy Spirit

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We're delighted to be present today. This evening with my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Grace be to us all.

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Today, this evening, brother, I'm going to talk to you about the scriptures concerning the promise of the Holy Spirit. We serve a God of promises. And the Bible tells us all the promises of God are yea and amen.

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Yes. Not in a negativity, yea and nay, but yes and amen.

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So I like to teach the Bible to the revelation of the Bible, especially in New Testament. I like to teach concerning the promises that God has given us. These promises, especially the promise of the Holy Spirit, is God has given to the church, that each person, each member of the church might have the Holy Spirit in his or her life. Without the Holy Spirit in one's life. No stability in life without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives stability to the Christian, his or her life. May the Lord help us tonight as we look into the prophecy of the Holy Spirit from the book of Joel.

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Joel 2 and verse 28.

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And I will be exegeting other portions concerning the Holy Spirit.

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We live upon what God has done in our lives through the Holy Spirit.

Joel Foretells A Spirit Outpouring

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He didn't have a clear view of the Holy Spirit and the teaching of the Holy Spirit. And as a result, their lives showed things contrary to what God called in his word. But now I hear more and more in the prayers of some concerning the gift of the Holy Spirit. You believe it? Once was taught that the gift of the Holy Spirit is the Bible. I believe what God has done to our lives, especially what He has done for me as a believer in Christ. I walk by faith and not by sight. We believe in the truth that comes from the Word of God. So we take time to search out the Word of God and listen to the Spirit as He speaks to us. How does the Spirit speak to us? Through the Word of God. We have to listen carefully as He has taught to us. In Joel 2, verse 28, I'm reading from the New The American Standard, the Bible says, and it will come about after this, that I will pour out my spirit on all mankind. And your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream James, young men will see visions, and even on the male and female servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days, and I will display wonders in the sky on the earth.

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Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

What “Afterward” Means In Joel

The Spirit In Old Testament Times

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The sun will be turning to darkness and the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And I will and it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. Oh Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls. In this prophetic vision given by Joel as he prophesies, he prophesies concerning the promise of the Holy Spirit. The Bible contains many rich promises from God to his people. Our lives will be greatly impartished if we do not discover these promises and claim them for our own lives. The Old Testament focuses primarily on promises concerning the coming of the Messiah, that is, the coming of Christ, who is to be the Savior of the world. Also, a number of promises concerning the coming of the Holy Spirit that were to find their fulfillment in that which took place on the day of Pentecost with great profit. We need to look to these promises that we might enter into our full inheritance as the children of God. First of all, the promise of the Father through the Prophet John. After that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joel two verses twenty eight to twenty nine. Word afterward in this passage is very significant. It refers to an experience in the future concerning all of the children of God that was not that was not true at the time when Jael was writing. In Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit came upon individuals to endow them with the ability and strength for a special task. He came as a unique gift from God to enable them to render a needed service.

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I want to call your attention to some of these prophecies found in scripture.

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Joshua 6 verses 3 through 4.

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Read your Bible.

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Not only that, but the Spirit of God came from Samson and blessed him with mighty muscular power, by which he broke the bands that imprisoned him. He fought against the Philistines and achieved a great victory because of the gift of the Spirit. Not only that, but the Spirit of God came upon Saul and filled him with righteous indignation because of the cruel purpose of the Ammonites against the people of Judah, Jabesh Gilead. 1 Samuel 16 reads your Bible. Saul issued a call to arms and led them to victory and became Israel's deliverer. Later in his life we read that following his disobedience, the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. Later, after David had committed great sin, we hear him in his prayer of confession, making a plea for forgiveness, adding, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51 and verse eleven. David was standing in holy horror of the possibility that he was going to experience the same fate as did Saul, David, from our shin. The agony that Saul had experienced because he had been forsaken by the spirit as a shepherd lad with great musical ability. He had been invited to the palace of Saul to try to soothe his distressed nerves and with beautiful music. He prayed that he might spare, be spared that awful faith. This is to be a new departure in the activity of God. As we continue our study, we find too the promise of the Savior.

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As the Savior approached the end of his public ministry, he began to inform the apostles of the necessity of his substitutionary death on the cross.

The Comforter Who Walks Beside

Respond In Faith And Follow

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They were greatly disturbed and cast down by the sad news. They would not understand. And so they rebelled against the idea. Not only did he promise them a heavenly home at the end, according to John 14 and verses 1 to 3, but he also promised them the gift of the Holy Spirit. Praise God. Our Savior sought to instruct them, to comfort them, and to assure them that the future was not going to be as they feared. Consider Jesus' promises in John 4, verse 16 through 18. He says, I will pray to the Father. The Holy Spirit is to come as an answer to the prayer of the Son, to the Father. Actually, the Holy Spirit is the gift of the Father, to the Son, following his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension to the Father. Another comforter. Both of these words are very significant. When Jesus speaks of a comforter, he is not talking about a person who would come to you in a time of sorrow to wipe away tears of grief. The word translated comforter literally means one call to walk by the side of. Do you believe it? When we believe that each of us, our lives will be loving, kind. We will love as God has loved us. Praise God. Don't put down the Holy Spirit. Speak of Him, testify to Him. Believe what the Bible says. Have you not responded to this great truth with reverent reverent faith? Today is more. Wonderful to have the Holy Spirit within each individual heart, and it would be to have the physical presence of Jesus as He was during his earthly ministry. Respond to the fulfillment of this promise of the Savior with reverence, humility, and faith. Cooperate with the divine spirit, for he seeks to reproduce the character and disposition of Christ in your life. Follow his leadership as he guides you, both witnessing and working for our Lord. May the Lord bless us all is our prayer. Unto him that is able to keep you from falling. And to present you for this before his presence with exceeding joy. Now and forever, let us all say Amen.