HOLY SPIRIT, HOLY FRIEND
Sermon Series by Rev. Richard Jones
“Presence, Promise & Pictures”
Various Texts
PRESENCE (in the OT)
Genesis 41:38 (ESV)
38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Numbers 27:18-19 (ESV)
18 So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
19 Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.
Daniel 6:3 (ESV)
3 Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
Judges 6:34 (ESV)
34 But the Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
Judges 16:20 (ESV)
20 And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
1 Samuel 16:14 (ESV)
14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the LORD tormented him.
Psalm 51:11 (ESV)
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
PROMISE (in the NT)
John 14:15-20 (ESV)
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
PICTURES (in the NT)
Clothing
Luke 24:49 (ESV)
49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Dove
Matthew 3:16 (ESV)
16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
Seal
Ephesians 1:12-14 (ESV)
12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Oil
1 John 2:20-21 (ESV)
20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Wind
John 3:8 (ESV)
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”