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

 This message is on the importance of the

ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
The Person of the Holy Spirit not only SEALS
you(mark of Divine ownership), but He is the
one who BROUGHT you to Jesus in the first
place:

 But when the goodness and loving-kindness of

God our Savior to man [as man] appeared, He
saved us, not because of any works of
righteousness that we had done, but because of
His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath]
of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of
the Holy Spirit, Which He poured out [so] richly
upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:46

 Scripture calls this work of the Holy Spirit a first

love experience.(Rev.2:4)
There is nothing more exciting than the
adventure of new found relationship.
This is what makes our new life in God so
joyous and contagious!
Many of us are like an old married couple who
take each other for granted. Time to re-new

 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, chaos
Void(bohuw) emptiness, void,
undistinguishable ruin
Darkness(chosek) night, obscurity, hence
darkness

 Chaos: complete confusion and disorder; a state

in which behavior and events are not controlled
by anything
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.