The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
His Gifts
I Corinthians 12:4-6

His Gifts

• This passage reveals the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives
  
  • Motivations
    
  • Ministries
    
  • Manifestations
• Learning and pursuing His gifts
  
  • Access – By grace through faith
    
  • Availability – To all by one Spirit
    
  • Attitude – Value, desire and pursue
    
  • Attributes – The 25 grace gifts

"Impartation" not "Imitation"
Romans 1:18, 39
No Condemnation
No Separation

Our task, as image bearing, God-loving, Christ-shape, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to the world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion. --- N.T. Wright

Grace
Divine gratuity
Spiritual endowment

G.R.A.C.E.
God's Riches At Christ's Expense!

A Life of Grace

• "The priesthood of all believers"
  
  • At Cornerstone Community Church every member is a minister!
    
• We are to be living Sacraments!
  
• John 15 "You did not choose me; I chose you."

Human things must be known to be loved: but divine things must be loved to be known.
---Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

The Promise of the Father
Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but are to stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. Luke 24:49
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. John 16:7

The Nature of the Holy Spirit

• A mysterious power?
  
  • "How can I get more of the Holy Spirit?"
    
• A person
  
  • "How can the Holy Spirit have more of me?"
    
• He cannot be bought, but He can be sought!
  

Two lines of scriptural revelation:

1. That which insists on the unity of the Godhead.
   Deuteronomy 6:4; I Corinthians 8:4b
   
2. Than which reveals the distinctions of the Godhead.
   Genesis 1:26a; II Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 3:16; Matthew 28:18ff

The Person of the Holy Spirit

• John 15:26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me."
• John 16:7-8, 13-14 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:"
  "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. "He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you"
• Romans 8:26-27 "Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God."
• I Corinthians 2:10-11 "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God."
• Galatians 4:6 "And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!""
• Revelation 2:7 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."

Three Keys

1. The Holy Spirit is the Person and the power by which assistance and ability are given for serving, for sharing the life and power of God's kingdom with others.
   
2. The Holy Spirit's power must be received; His power is not an automatic experience.
   
3. When the Holy Spirit fills you, you will know it!

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
God's Part & My Part
Romans 8:1, 38-39

Impartation not Imitation

Our task, as image bearing, God-loving, Christ-shape, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to the world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion. --- N.T. Wright

That's Grace!
Revenge – Justice – Grace

• If take things into your own hands
  that's revenge
  
• If you're content to allow the law and the courts to arrest and punish the offender
  that's justice
  
• But if you pardon the murderer, adopt him, and take him home to live with you as your son
  that's grace!

Grace

• Romans 3:23-24 ". . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus"
  
• Romans 11:29 ". . . for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
• Divine gratuity
  
• Spiritual endowment
  
• G.R.A.C.E.
  
  • God's riches at Christ's expense!
    
• Romans 8 Promises

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10

The initial gift of the Holy Spirit

• Eternal Life
  
  • Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
    
• Justification
  
  • Romans 5:15 "But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

Without Excuse

• Romans 1:18-21 and Romans 2:1
  
• The Two witnesses of Romans 1 & 2
  
  • Creation & Conscience
    
  • Gratitude & Guilt
    
  • Awe & Ought

A Call To Worship
Celebrating Our Freedom
Galatians 5:1

Psalm 96
Two themes; To Redeem and to Restore

• O Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
  
  • Vss 1-6 Worshipping God as Savior – redemption
    
    • Romans 1 – 2 - Creation & conscious, awe & ought, gratitude and guilt
      
  • Vss 7-13 Worshipping God as King – restoration
    
• • Matthew 1:1 "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."
• Sing to the Lord a new song!
  • The song is in the new believer
    • Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book, and to break its seals; for You were slain, and You did purchase for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation."
      
  • Where the Glory of God dwells, the voice of God is heard!
    
  • Where The Glory of God has departed, the voice of God is not heard.

But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:23-24