Sunday 01/15/14 Topic: Review: Co-partnership in His Sufferings Series – The Ministry of the Holy Spirit V.mp3 Key Text: Acts 9:13-16 Phil. 1:27-30 Phil. 3:7-11 Heb. 5:5-9 Heb. 2:14-18 Partnership in sufferings I began to night be reading a excerpt from the second chapter of A.W. Tozar’s book, God’s Pursuit of Man. In it he brings up the very sobering point, that the church has been progressively been moving towards a gospel which is devoid of a changed life. As if confession to a list of doctrinal statements somehow caused God to adjudicate in our favor […]
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The Ministry of the Holy Spirit IV
Sunday 01/12/14 Topic: Review: Unity, Co-partnership & The Spirit Series – The Ministry of the Holy Spirit IV.mp3 Key Text: Jn. 14:15-27 Matt. 25:14-25 Well we began again with a review since there were so many interruptions through the holidays. So this morning we began with reaffirming the Holy Spirit’s roll in convincing the church that we are unified with God. After this we began looking at our co-partnership with the Holy Spirit by reading several biblical references highlighting this fact. The first of which we spent a little time one… Co-participation within His Kingdom work & […]
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Wednesday 11/18/13 Topic: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Series – The Fear of the Lord: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit.mp3 Key Text: Matt. 12:20 Amos 3:3 John 15:1-7 John 16:8-11 The ministry of Jesus, became the ministry of the Holy Spirit and subsequently – OUR ministry. This is called the ministry of reconciliation. We began this week with brief review and then started talking about reconciliation. To purchase mankind back from sin and death and restore them to righteousness and life was what Jesus accomplished on the cross. The action of being reconciled is […]
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Wednesday 11/06/13 Topic: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Series – The Fear of the Lord: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit.mp3 Key Text: John 14 John 15 John 16 John 17:1-5 Jesus passes the baton to the Holy Spirit… This week we read through and commented on John chapters 14-17, where Jesus talks with His disciples as they walk from the upper room where they just took the Seder meal, to the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was to be betrayed. It seems clear that the disciples must have known that something was up. Yes, Jesus had […]
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Wednesday 10/30/13 Topic: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Series – The Fear of the Lord: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit.mp3 Key Text: Rom. 12:1-10 2 Peter 1:16 John 14 The Ministry of the Holy Spirit… We began by looking at Romans 12 because of Paul’s definition of worship by way of explanation in verse 1. Here Paul defines worship as a mode of life – a life-lived passionately honoring God. I therefore offered the definition…”Worship in a believer is a life style which communicates “I adore you Lord”. Paul then He went on to show the […]
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