The Promise

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you
were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise Ep.1:13

 1. Faith is what puts you IN Christ-activating the power

of the Holy Spirit IN your life!
for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians
3:26
It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and
restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up
and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling
them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation
(of the restoration to favor). 2 Cor. 5:19

 2. Your BELIEF was/is AND always will be the

basis of your experience!
Belief = SEALED: to stamp with a private mark for
security or preservation
The fact that there IS a counterfeit only serves to drive
home the fact of the authentic!
It is time for the REAL to rise up and SHOW the love of
God in power and demonstration!

 The Church needs a fresh touch from God,

another encounter like Jacob, that will not let
go till you bless!
We do not need a better ARGUMENT but we
need a more powerful, life changing
experience!

 Never be afraid to judge your experience and

lay it alongside the Word of God.
Never go OUTSIDE the WORD and make your
experience the measure either!
Exegesis vs. Eisegesis

 We are going to study the Holy Spirit as He is

revealed in Scripture, for He is revealed from
Genesis to Revelation.
Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was on the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters

 Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the

world His invisible attributes are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead, so that
they are without excuse,

 John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the

Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2
He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things
were made through Him, and without Him
nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was
life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did
not comprehend it.

 The Holy Spirt MOVED when the earth was

without form- (tohuw)confusion, waste,
desolate, nothing.
Void(bohuw) emptiness, void,
undistinguishable ruin
Darkness(chosek)night,obscurity, hence
darkness

 God the Father spoke and the Holy Spirit

moved and carried out The Fathers Word.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED WETHER IT BE THEN
OR NOW IN YOUR OWN DARKNESS AND RUIN
AND EMPTINESS-GOD SPEAKS AND THE SPIRIT
MOVES!

Ephesians 2
And you He made alive, who were dead in
trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked
according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3
among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, just as the others.

 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which
He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us
alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and
raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show
the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that
not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone
should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.