07 May Rise: Week 8
Pastor Pete Hartwig
Sermon Notes
SLIDE: RISE
Days between Death/Burial/Resurrection
SLIDE: 50 DAYS
Asenscion 39 days after rez
Ascension of Jesus
SLIDE: The Ascension Luke 24:49
I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” ~JESUS
Jerusalem
My father has promised = power
SLIDE: John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you.
Go Away: It is good for you.
Advocate
SLIDE: John 14:16-17 The Father will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Advocate – Forever – WILL BE IN YOU!
College Grads! Sent over the world
SLIDE: John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
What Jesus did for the disciples
The Holy Spirit will CONTINUE
SLIDE: Holy Spirit / Paraclete / Advocate
Paraclete = TRIAL
pará, “from close-beside” and
kaléō, “make a call”
Comforter – Advocate,
Jews, ignorant of the Roman law,
Hire Roman advocates in their trials.
LAWYER JOKES = HOLY SPIRIT
SLIDE: Feet To Your Faith
SLIDE: The Holy Spirit is a WHO not a What or a HOO!
The Holy Spirit is a PERSON!
SLIDE: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?
When I say “YES!” to Jesus
Person of the Holy Spirit
SLIDE: Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be (being) filled with the Spirit
WHAT do you turn to in TRIALS / TOUGH TIMES?
Food, Wine, Sex, pornography, drugs, anger, pity party, pride,
Where does that lead you to?
Holy Spirit = A WHO not a WHAT!
The “WHAT” or a WHO?
command (imperative mood) to all followers of Jesus
The present tense be (Being) filled
Pleroo passive voice “allow yourselves to be filled”.
SLIDE: Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.