Breathe On Me
Introduction: Prisca Hyemenkiere
Workship: Grace Band: Taste and See, Deep Cries out
Ministry: Part 2 on The Holy Spirit
Today we’ll continue our teaching on the Holy Spirit by starting with a short summary of last week’s teaching:
Ruach Hakodesh the Holy Spirit in:
Who was hovering (Rah Gaaf) over the waters compared to a ‘mighty’ wind where
Then we looked at two words:
Ruach from the Hebrew and Pneuma from Greek
- Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God
- life-giving breath or Spirit,
- combines the two to moving air
- that is moving either inside or outside man.
The breath is always God’s gift
the Source of Life.
The last Adam – Jesus is a life-giving spirit.
Today’s teaching will focus on what Jesus broadly taught on the Holy Spirit and we’ll begin with a few introductory points:
- Jesus recognized the Holy Spirit to be the inspiration of the old testament writers the Spirit’s work with respect to the Messiah.:
Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42, Matthew 13:14
Jesus recognized the spirit as God’s gift
Matthew 7:7-11 Ask
Luke 11: 9-13 This is how you pray
how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
- He promised that the Spirit will be with them to help them in ministry, and anoint them even in the midst of persecution:
Matthew 10:16 – 2020 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Mark 13:11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
Luke put it slightly differently in 12: 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”
- Jesus commanded baptism to be in the Name:
Of Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:19
- They were commanded to wait
Luke 24:49 – I am going to send you what my Father has promised; Acts 1:8
Matthew 25: The Lord as the giver of good gifts
Luke 11:13
When we ask; he will not give us something bad, nor less than the best but will grant us the Holy Spirit himself.
Matthew 7:11 How much more will your father in heaven grant you good gifts to those who ask
James 1:17 Shifting shadows like the moon who has phases of shadow he is always the same source of bright and pure light.
Mathew 6:25-33; Romans 8:32 graciously give us all things?
The father firstly sent the Son as the living word
Then to do His work of Salvation
Then the Father sent the Holy Spirit to bring gifts to us and to continue His work in and through us!
a response to prayer: the 120 were praying
Peter prayed for others to receive Acts 8:15
Gal 3: 14 so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit, eagerly desire and that they come from a prepared heart
Matthew 5; Cor 12;31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
14;1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.
Asks How much is this not true of the Holy Spirit himself? If we should eagerly desire gifts.
Ps 42:1; Phil 3:10
John 1:33 ; Acts 4: 8
In conclusion:
Finally when Jesus sent his disciples or when he prepared them for what is to come he painted a picture that they should
- expect opposition,
- not expect to be welcomed
- not to be pessimistic, but realistic
- not to have a shallow optimism, but reliance on the promises of god
- matthew 16;18 I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
- To wear the armour of god, eph 6;11-18
salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions
- we should expect these to increase over time 2 Tim 3;1
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
Breath of God
The third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.
Gen 1: 1-2 (Raghaf)
Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.
The creation apologetic is then the first evidence of the Spirit of God being associated with the creation activity.
John 1:3 Through him all things were made,
1 Tim 2:5 From the beginning He was the mediator
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God
Psalms 104 When you take away their life’s breath, Spirit
they die and return to dust.
Spirit, wind, breath and mind
Exodus 14:21 strong east wind
Num 11: 31 a wind went out from the Lord
Gen 3:8 – The wind of the day
Gen 2:7 breath of life or lives
Job 19 “My breath is offensive
combines the two to moving air
it is always God’s gift
The sense here is that The Spirit is a life giving energy that God alone possesses permanently by His own nature.
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John 5:26 – “For just as the Father has life in Himself, so to the Son
prototype of Jesus.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn (Prototakos) over all creation.
Ephesians 3:16 –
to be strengthened with power through His Spirit
Thus the emphasis is not on the kind of life but on the Source of Life.
So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.