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Holy Spirit
Jesus speaks of the Living Water foretelling
of the Holy Spirit given to those that believe in Him
- John 7:37 In the last day, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
- 38 He that believeth on me, as
the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water.
- 39 (But this spake he of the
Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy
Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Jesus our savior and Lord thought of
everything. He knew that it was time to instruct His disciples about
the time when He was to depart from them and go back to the Father
until the time He was to return to earth again to gather His people
together, put down all evil and set up His kingdom. He was not going
to leave them or any after them, alone, comfortless and without
power to spread this good news to others, who would spread it to the
whole world before His second coming. Someone was coming in His
place to empower us to do the work Jesus called us to do.
All who believe in Jesus, out of their
bellies shall flow rivers of living water. This living water was the
Holy Spirit to whom all that believed would receive. They would
never be alone. The Holy Spirit, was to come after the resurrection
of Jesus to those that believed.
Jesus said that the living water was
mentioned in the scriptures. At that time the scriptures were in the
Old Testament. I will share a few.
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Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour
water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground:
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring:
4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by
the water courses.
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Jeremiah 2:13 For my people
have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of
living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,
that can hold no water.
Joel memtions the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit.
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Joel 2:28 And it shall come
to pass afterward, 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:
To believe means more than just mentally
believing a person called Jesus exists. To believe in something
means to partake of, obey, listen to and to give one's life
to. To believe then, means to receive, to live for and to walk with.
God then baptizes us with the Holy Spirit who comes along side and
walks with us never leaving us alone. He abides within us. What an
unspeakable, wonderful gift from God. As God walked with Adam in the
garden before he sinned against God, God walks with us again through
the Holy Spirit given to those that receive His Son Jesus Christ.
This is given to all who believe. Men, women
and children. This promise was given even to the hated people of Samaria.
Jesus spoke of this to one woman who then brought others to hear of this good news.
- John 4:4 And he must needs go through
Samaria.
- 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,
near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
- 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied
with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth
hour.
- 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
unto her, Give me to drink.
- 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy
meat.)
- 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that
thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
- 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift
of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living
water.
- 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living
water?
- 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
- 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of
this water shall thirst again:
- 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
We saw from John chapter 7 that this living
water is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is who draws us to Jesus
for our salvation. We are born again, inherit eternal life and
become a new creature through faith in Jesus Christ and it is the
Holy Spirit that comes within us after we repent of our sin, believe
in Jesus and receive Him into our lives. Jesus is here talking with
a woman telling her of this wonderful gift from God. If we read
further in chapter 4 of John we see that God deals with her sin
first before she becomes one that believes and then goes to tell
others of this new way.
The Holy Spirit is the Comforter
- John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
- 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
- 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you.
- 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more;
but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father,
and ye in me, and I in you.
- 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he
it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I
will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it
that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
- 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me,
he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
- 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and
the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
- 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet
present with you.
- 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things
to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
- 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
- 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and
come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto
the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
- 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass,
that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
- 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
- 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father;
and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Here is another incident where Jesus tells of
the Holy Spirit coming and abiding with us. He is referred to as the
Comforter. He brings us peace. Not any peace like the world around
us calls peace but an inner peace and comfort given by God Himself
to those that keep His word. If we love Him, we will keep His
commandments, then we receive the Holy Spirit. We see that it is
more than just a mental knowledge that someone named Jesus once
existed. We receive, we believe, we obey His word and we love this
one that died for our sins and rose again giving us the hope of
rising from the dead and inheriting eternal life.
Different baptism than water baptism.
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Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water
unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the
Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Here we have John the Baptist telling his
followers of the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water;
but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
- 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of
the earth.
Here is see that the Holy Spirit is the one
that gives us power to spread the good news of the gospel throughout
all the earth. Without the Holy Spirit drawing and convicting those
that hear, no one could be saved. That power is what draws us to
Christ.
The Holy Spirit should be someone we truly
want to be with us and never lose. David writes of this back in the
Psalms.
- Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O
God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me.
- 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me
with thy free spirit.
Old Testament mention of how the Holy Spirit
can be grieved or vexed.
- Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed
his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he
fought against them.
- 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his
people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit
within him?
- 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his
glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
everlasting name?
Our Father's Gift to Us
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Holy Spirit Part
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