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Aug 03, 2025

The Promised Spirit | Spirit, Power & The Church

The Promised Spirit | Spirit, Power & The Church

Follow Along with the Message

The Promised Spirit

 

August 3, 2025

Acts 1:1–2
1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

PRINCIPLE: History and intelligence both support and back up the of Jesus and the of God.

HOW SHOULD WE STUDY THIS BOOK?

1. We should NOT study Acts like academics.

2. We should NOT study Acts like fans.

3. We SHOULD study Acts as servants of Jesus.

PRINCIPLE: The people God uses in Acts are an encouragement for all of us ordinary people today to walk with and be used by God.

Acts 1:3

After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:4–5

4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

PRINCIPLE: Salvation and the Spirit are a deal; you can't have one without the other. The moment Christ saves you, God Himself moves in.

The holy spirit's:

1. Presence is not just an experience, it’s .

Romans 8:9–11

9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 ...the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Romans 8:14

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

2. Desire is to us whole and spiritually mature.

John 16:12–13

12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Romans 8:14

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

3. Invitation is for us to either walk in the sprit, or Him in our lives.

Galations 3:3

Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Acts 1:5–8

5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

4. God's gift is not only His presence also His to fully live for God.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

5. Influence in our heart always produces from our mouths.

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