What The Spirit Gives | Graduation Sunday
Prelude
Never Gonna Let Me Go
Greeting
Opening Song
Graves Into Gardens
Invocation
Worship In Song
Pastoral Prayer
Announcements
Scripture Reading
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[a] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 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.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. —Galatians 5:16-26
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. —1 Corinthians 12:4-7
Message: Pastor Wes Gibson
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The Holy Spirit is the part of God that is always at
Most of our actual
“I will gather you from the peoples… and I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh… Then they will be my people and I will be their God.” —Ezekiel 36:24-29
“Truly, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of both water and spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.” —John 3:5-6
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit gives us the
The Spirit is constantly at work, transforming each
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. —Galatians 5:22-23
God
If God himself has taken up residence in someone’s life, they will find that God’s Spirit is in them—the living and breathing God! Now it stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, by bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new Spirit-filled life. God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! —Romans 8:9-16 (MSG)
Next Steps
Which fruits has the Holy Spirit
grown in your life?
a. List them and give thanks to the
Holy Spirit for His transforming work.Which fruits still need to grow in your
life?
a. List them and pray that the Spirit
would bring growth in this part of
your life.
Recognition of Graduates
Benediction