| Teacher: Rusty Kennedy Series: Holy Spirit |
Rusty's Notes
The Spirit teaches us
- John 14:26 - 26 ”But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit —the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.”[1]
- The pressure is off of me and you… to teach.
The Spirit guides us into all truth
- John 16:12-13 – 12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t 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, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.[2]
- The disciples couldn’t receive any more information because they were so focused on the earthly issues of Jesus persecution/death.
- God will tell the Spirit what to teach us about His Son, Jesus.
The Spirit reveals Christ to us and in us.
- John 16:14-15 - 14”He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.”[3]
The Spirit teaches us to pray
- Romans 8:26-27 - 26 In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us ewith unspoken groanings. 27 And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. [4]
- Jude 20 – 20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit,[5]
The Spirit reveals the deep things of God to us
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:17 - 1 When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom. 2 For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom
- No pressure for end results. Not on him/me.
but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit,
- While they value wisdom and logic, they cannot deny their experience of the Spirit’s power,[6]
- Unexplainable, obvious, it was real.
5 so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.
- This understanding wipes out all marketing for churches.
6 However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
- The word teleiois was used in the first century ad by professional speakers to describe their followers: the more followers they gained, the more teleiois they considered themselves to have. Paul uses the same word to describe those who understand and conform to the message of Jesus Christ.[7]
7 On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written:
What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind--
God prepared this for those who love Him. t
10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.
- The Spirit reveals what has been given to us through God.
13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
- Opinionated discussions are worthless unless you are both working out of the same filter/mindset.
- That you are a “new creation” and have the Spirit of God living inside of you.
- Ally Batista in “Elite Daily” says never to discuss money, politics, Bible/religion, politics, sex and complaints in discussions.
- I am pretty sure in this article that sex and complaints were intended as two different topic items.
- There goes Facebook.
15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16 For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
- I think you can always discuss those items mentioned previously if you do it with someone who has the same Spirit.
- This is when real community happens.
3 Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers? 4 For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,” are you not unspiritual people?
5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.
16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.[8]
The Spirit speaks to, in, and through us
- 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 3 Therefore I am informing you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.[9]
- 1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,[10]
- Revelation 2:11 - 11 “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.”[11]
- Hebrews 3:7 - 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, [12]
- Matthew 10:20 - 20 because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.[13]
- Acts 2:4 - 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.[14]
- Acts 8:29 - 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.”[15]
- Acts 10:19 - 19 While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, “Three men are here looking for you.[16]
- Acts 11:12, 28 - 12 Then the Spirit told me to accompany them with no doubts at all. These six brothers accompanied me, and we went into the man’s house.[17]
- 28 Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.[18]
- Acts 13:2 - 2 As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”[19]
- Acts 16:6-7 - 6 They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia. 7 When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.[20]
- Acts 21:4, 11 - 4 So we found some disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.[21]
- 11 He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’ ”[22]
The Spirit reveals the mystery of God to us
- Ephesians 3:5 - 5 This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:[23]
[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 14:26). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 16:12–14). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 16:14–15). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ro 8:26–27). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jud 20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Barry, J. D., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Mangum, D., & Whitehead, M. M. (2012). Faithlife Study Bible (1 Co 2:4). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
[7] Barry, J. D., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Mangum, D., & Whitehead, M. M. (2012). Faithlife Study Bible (1 Co 2:6). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
[8] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Co 2:1–3:17). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[9] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Co 12:2–3). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[10] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Ti 4:1). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[11] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Re 2:11). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[12] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 3:7). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[13] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Mt 10:19–20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[14] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 2:4). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[15] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 8:29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[16] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 10:19). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[17] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 11:11–12). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[18] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 11:27–28). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[19] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 13:2). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[20] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 16:6–7). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[21] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 21:4). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[22] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 21:10–11). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[23] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Eph 3:5). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
- John 14:26 - 26 ”But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit —the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.”[1]
- The pressure is off of me and you… to teach.
The Spirit guides us into all truth
- John 16:12-13 – 12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t 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, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.[2]
- The disciples couldn’t receive any more information because they were so focused on the earthly issues of Jesus persecution/death.
- God will tell the Spirit what to teach us about His Son, Jesus.
The Spirit reveals Christ to us and in us.
- John 16:14-15 - 14”He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.”[3]
The Spirit teaches us to pray
- Romans 8:26-27 - 26 In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us ewith unspoken groanings. 27 And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. [4]
- Jude 20 – 20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit,[5]
The Spirit reveals the deep things of God to us
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:17 - 1 When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom. 2 For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom
- No pressure for end results. Not on him/me.
but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit,
- While they value wisdom and logic, they cannot deny their experience of the Spirit’s power,[6]
- Unexplainable, obvious, it was real.
5 so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.
- This understanding wipes out all marketing for churches.
6 However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
- The word teleiois was used in the first century ad by professional speakers to describe their followers: the more followers they gained, the more teleiois they considered themselves to have. Paul uses the same word to describe those who understand and conform to the message of Jesus Christ.[7]
7 On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written:
What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind--
God prepared this for those who love Him. t
10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.
- The Spirit reveals what has been given to us through God.
13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
- Opinionated discussions are worthless unless you are both working out of the same filter/mindset.
- That you are a “new creation” and have the Spirit of God living inside of you.
- Ally Batista in “Elite Daily” says never to discuss money, politics, Bible/religion, politics, sex and complaints in discussions.
- I am pretty sure in this article that sex and complaints were intended as two different topic items.
- There goes Facebook.
15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16 For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
- I think you can always discuss those items mentioned previously if you do it with someone who has the same Spirit.
- This is when real community happens.
3 Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers? 4 For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,” are you not unspiritual people?
5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.
16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.[8]
The Spirit speaks to, in, and through us
- 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 3 Therefore I am informing you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.[9]
- 1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,[10]
- Revelation 2:11 - 11 “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.”[11]
- Hebrews 3:7 - 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, [12]
- Matthew 10:20 - 20 because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.[13]
- Acts 2:4 - 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.[14]
- Acts 8:29 - 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.”[15]
- Acts 10:19 - 19 While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, “Three men are here looking for you.[16]
- Acts 11:12, 28 - 12 Then the Spirit told me to accompany them with no doubts at all. These six brothers accompanied me, and we went into the man’s house.[17]
- 28 Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.[18]
- Acts 13:2 - 2 As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”[19]
- Acts 16:6-7 - 6 They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia. 7 When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.[20]
- Acts 21:4, 11 - 4 So we found some disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.[21]
- 11 He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’ ”[22]
The Spirit reveals the mystery of God to us
- Ephesians 3:5 - 5 This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:[23]
[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 14:26). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 16:12–14). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 16:14–15). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ro 8:26–27). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jud 20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Barry, J. D., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Mangum, D., & Whitehead, M. M. (2012). Faithlife Study Bible (1 Co 2:4). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
[7] Barry, J. D., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Mangum, D., & Whitehead, M. M. (2012). Faithlife Study Bible (1 Co 2:6). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
[8] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Co 2:1–3:17). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[9] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Co 12:2–3). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[10] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (1 Ti 4:1). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[11] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Re 2:11). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[12] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 3:7). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[13] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Mt 10:19–20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[14] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 2:4). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[15] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 8:29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[16] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 10:19). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[17] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 11:11–12). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[18] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 11:27–28). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[19] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 13:2). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[20] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 16:6–7). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[21] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 21:4). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[22] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ac 21:10–11). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[23] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Eph 3:5). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
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