Life in the Spirit: The Big Picture
Life in the Spirit: The Big Picture
Sermon Synopsis
All Summer of ’23, we are looking at Life in the Spirit. Knowing God the Holy Spirit as One who is with us, in us, and among us to lead us into His purposes and plans is essential in the Christian life. It is more than spiritual gifts. It isn’t just the ability to rightly interpret the Bible. Life in the Spirit is about the fullness of God coming to bear on our lives. Walking as Jesus did – totally submitted and obedient to God the Father, empowered in His flesh to walk in the Spirit. Abiding in Christ is a fruit of knowing God the Holy Spirit deeply, personally, and intimately.
This summer we hope to learn all about how He works, what He is doing in and through us, and the desires He has as a near expression of the Godhead three-in-one.
John 15:26–16:14
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
16:1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.