GETTING ACQUAINTED // PART 1

FOR YOUR GOOD

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; but if I go, I will send him to you. —John 16:7 (NIV)

Some of us are ignorant about the Holy Spirit and it was also that way in the early church.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” —Acts 19:1-2 (NIV)

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

A. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept

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, because it neither sees

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nor knows

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. But you know

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, for

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lives with you and will be in you. —John 14:16-17

B. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS

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3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the

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and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to

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.” —Acts 5:3-4

WHY IS THE HOLY SPIRIT SO IMPORTANT?

WANTS US TO HAVE HIM!

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; but if I go, I will send him to you. —John 16:7 (NIV)

WHAT WILL THE HOLY SPIRIT DO?

1. HE WILL

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   And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— —John 14:16

2. HE WILL

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   TO YOU

   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. —John 14:26

3. HE WILL

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   When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. —John 15:26

4. HE WILL

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   And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. —John 16:8 (NLT)

5. HE WILL

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   But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. —John 16:13