Charged: How Do I Know I Have the Holy Spirit? (05/05/19)

Charged: The Power of Spirit-led Life How do I know I have the Holy Spirit? Romans 8:9-17 and Galatians 5:22-23 

Ephesians 1:13-14, “…when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised…”

 How do you know you have the Holy Spirit?

LIFE See v10-11

            Jesus and the Holy Spirit at Work:  

                   What Jesus did was to kill the power of sin/death.

                  What the Holy Spirit did was to give life to the already dead.

DEATH  See v12-13

 “Always be killing sin, or sin will always be killing you."  - John Owen

 1 Peter 5:8, “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.”

BETTER LIFE  See v15-17

LOOK More Like Your Father

“…you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him Abba Father.”

LISTEN More to Your Father

See v16, affirm …

LOVE more Like Your Father

See v17, glory / suffering

 “The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”                                  - Galatians 5:22-23 

Final Thought:

            What we want from the Holy Spirit is Fantastic, Spectacular, Inexplicable, even Magical … What God wants is the Holy Spirit to empower you be faithful, surrendered, empowered, ever more like him.