Three Spirits
December 31, 2023
my top 5 Christmas movies… what’s your favorite___________
1. Christmas Carol
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
3. Charlie Brown Christmas
4. Elf
5. It’s a Wonderful Life
Charles Dickens 1843 book is overwhelmingly Christian…
1. Tiny Tim - on Christmas, remember who made the lame walk and the blind see…
2. Ebenezer Scrooge - 1Sam 7:12… “here I raise my ebenezer (stone of help)… “
3. Spirits - visit on 3 nights, not one… Scrooge raised to life on the 3rd day…
4. Come Thou Fount (1757)… here I raise my Ebenezer, by thy help I come…
amazing story of salvation, transformation, redemption, restoration…
Rom 1:16-17… “gospel… is power of God for salvation to all who believe…”
2Cor 5:17-21… “if anyone is in Christ… he is a new creation… the old is gone…”
Gal 3:10-14… “Christ redeemed us from curse… so the blessing would come…”
1Pet 5:10… “God of all grace… will restore, establish, strengthen, support you…”
how does that happen… spirits visit him during night… pointing him to his Savior, Transformer, Redeemer, Restorer… then he shares good news with others… pray…
Luke 2:17… “after seeing… told everyone what had happened about this child…”
John 16:13… “Spirit… will guide you into all truth… declare what is to come…”
1Cor 9:18-19… “preach gospel free of charge… in order to win more people…”
2Tim 2:2… “teach these truths to faithful men who will be able to teach others…”
Christmas Past
what can we learn from Spirit of Christmas past… set aside etp… HS leads us into NC revelation of glorious, better promises… not death and condemnation of old…
Matt 9:17… “no one puts new wine into old wineskins… or both will be ruined…”
2Cor 3:5-18… “enabled us to be ministers of NC, not of written laws, but of the Spirit… OC ends in death, NC gives life… OC brings condemnation, NC is much more glorious… OC was not glorious at all compared to NC… OC has been replaced, NC remains forever…”
2Tim 2:15… “present yourself approved… worker who rightly divides truth…”
Heb 7-10… “Jesus obtained superior ministry… better covenant, better promises…”
does sin (always bad, evil, death) separate us from God… no… how can it if nothing can snatch us out of His hand… if HS is with us forever… if He will never leave…
John 10:28-29… “my Father is greater than all… no one can snatch them out of His hand….”
John 14:15-17… “my Father will give you the HS to be with you forever…”
John 17:20-26… “may they be one as We are One… I in them, You in Me…”
Rom 8:31-39… “nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ…”
1Cor 3:16… “you are God’s temple… the Spirit of God lives in you…”
Heb 13:5-6… “I will never leave or abandon you…”
how can we be separated by something God says He let go… by something He doesn’t even remember… at one time He did remember sins… at one time, HS would leave us… not today… Spirit of Christmas Past cries you are forgiven…
Psa 103:12… “as far as East is from West… has He removed sins from us…”
Matt 26:28… “this is blood of NC… poured out for the forgiveness of sins…”
Acts 10:43… “everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins…”
Eph 1:7… “in Him we have redemption thru His blood… forgiveness of sins…”
aphesis… letting them go as if they have never been committed…
Heb 8:12; 10:17… “I will forgive… I will never again remember your sins…”
Christmas Present
because of what Jesus did in the past… your present looks amazing… HS leads you into truth of who you are in God’s eyes… up to you to hear, believe, receive…
Mark 1:11… “you are My beloved son… with you I am fully pleased…”
1Cor 1:2… “the church… sanctified in Jesus… called as saints (most holy thing)…”
1Cor 3:17… “God’s temple is holy… and that is what you are…”
1Cor 6:11… “you were washed, sanctified, justified… in the name of Jesus…”
2Cor 5:17-21… “you are the righteousness of God in Christ…”
Gal 4:1-6… “you are no longer a slave… but a son and an heir…”
Eph 1:4-6… “you are holy and blameless… you are My beloved…”
Eph 2:10… “you are God’s masterpiece… created in Christ to do good works…”
Col 1:22… “reconciled you… you are holy, faultless, blameless before Him…”
Heb 10:10-18… “made holy by the sacrifice… forever has made us perfect…”
1John 4:17… “as He is… so are we… in this world…”
Christmas Future
because of Jesus… gonna need sunglasses at night… future is bright because God only wants to bless you… no curses in NC… but can miss blessings…
Hos 4:6… “people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… rejected knowledge…”
Eph 4:18… “excluded from life… because of ignorance and hard hearts…”
God is a God of goodness… desires all people to prosper and be in good health… devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy… never God… our etp struggles with that…
Psa 35:27… “the Lord takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servants…”
Jer 29:11… “plans I have for you… for good, not evil… give future and hope…”
Matt 7:11… “how much more will your Father in heaven give good things…”
John 10:10… “I have come to give life… and life more abundantly…”
Gal 3:14… “Jesus became curse… so blessing would come thru Christ…”
1Thess 5:18… “give thanks… this is God’s will for you in Christ…”
thelema… purpose of God to bless mankind thru Christ…
James 1:17… “every good and perfect gift is from above… from the Father…”
3John 2… “I wish above all things… you prosper and be in good health…”
Spirit is telling us to stop searching world for answers… start searching the Word for Jesus… all things already given to you… found in the truth about Him… pray…
Matt 6:25-34… “seek first His righteousness… all other things will be added…”
2Cor 3:5… “do nothing of lasting value on our own… only power and success from God…”
2Pet 1:1-3… “may grace and peace be multiplied… thru the knowledge of Him…”
GSV… “may joy, pleasure, delight, goodwill, favor, strength, benefit and state of national tranquility and exemption from rage between individuals; safety, security, prosperity be multiplied to you thru precise and correct knowledge of Jesus… His divine strength, ability, power to perform miracles has given us everything required for absolute fullness of life, essential and ethical, that belongs to God… thru precise and correct knowledge of Him…”