Fellowship/Community with the Spirit

• 2 Cor 13:14
  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
   
• Philippians 2:1

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

The Holy Spirit in Acts

• The Holy Spirit as another companion on the journey with the apostles.

1 Corinthians 2:10b-11 (the thoughts of God)

Romans 8:14

Romans 8:14 (NLT)

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

Galatians 5:16-25

Galatians 5:16-25 (NIV)

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Who is the Holy Spirit Leading?

Transition of Temple

• Read Exodus 28 (garments of the high Priest)
• Read Lev 16:15 --> the day of atonement, the Holy of Holies
• Hebrews 10

1 Corinthians  3:16 (NIV)

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

Circumcision and Flesh vs Spirit / Galatians

• Acts 10,11 - tearing down the barrier between Jews/Gentiles

Ephesians 1:13-14 (NIV)

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.

Struggle between Spirit and Flesh

• Placing no confidence in the flesh
• Same struggle exists today, manifested differently
• "Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh …"
• Romans 8:5

Galatians 3:1-3 (NKJV)

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?  This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

Cloud by Day; Fire by Night

Numbers 14:24

Where is the Holy Spirit Leading?

• Streams of Living Water
   
• "Filling to completion" in Acts 2

John 7:37 (NIV)

"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.

The Continual Command: "Be Filled!"

Ephesians 5:18-20 (NIV)

Be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yielding to the Holy Spirit (pnuema - wind or breath)

Wind turbines

ACTS 6 / STEVEN

When is the Holy Spirit Leading?

Keep in Step with the Spirit

• Led by leaps or steps?
• Picture of
  • "to walk in the tracks …"
  • "to follow in the tracks …"

• How do you know you are on the right path?
•  identify the fruit of the Spirit & the flesh

Galatians 5:16; 22-25

16: So I say, live (walk) by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

22-25:But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Revelation “on the way” / Acts 8                                     

How is the Holy Spirit Leading?

All of us have heard the Spirit of God calling (1 Corinthians 12:3)

1 Kings 19

Romans 8:16; 9:1 -- The Spirit bears witness

How do I know it is the Holy Spirit talking ?

• Look to the Word; John 6:61
• Lean into Community

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.