Spirit Edification Order

The Spirit brings Edification & Order – Part 1

In this session we are continuing to learn more about our relationship/partnetship with the Holy Spirit in ministry.

The Corinthian church fell sort in no gift, but were very immarture Christians. Paul addresses all manner of disciplinary issues to this church before addressing their zeal for Spiritual Gifts which they excercised with little to no guidance or maturity – seeking to be seen more than to edify the church.

In Chapter 14 Paul bears down on this expression of immaturity and explains that if one is truly being led by the Spirit of God, there will be order in their assemblies. Paul presses limits on the expression of the gifts and the need to each be used IN TURN rather than all at once. Again the major focus being edification rather than confusion.

I truly hope this lession will aid you not only in better understanding order in the church in the expression of the gifts, but even more importantly in coming to better know the Spirit of God with Whom we partner in the work of the ministry of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ!

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Tongues Prayer Gift

Tongues… Praying in or the Gift of Part 1

This is Part 1 in a mini-Series within our Parent series of The Gift of the Holy Spirit.

There is MUCH confusion regarding the topic of Tongues.

This is not without some cause since there are several expressions of it mentioned in scripture.

There is Praying in the Spirit, there is the Gift of Tongues and then there appears to be some special manifestions of tongues as well.

This series within a series is intended to help you sort through all of these and so enjoy the benefit Praying in the Spirit offers without confusion and without misusing this precious and powerful ability available to all believers subsequent to salvation.

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Spirit within upon

The Spirit within… the Spirit upon Part 3

This lesson finishes up our segment in this series about the Holy Spirit UPON us.

We take a slow look at Jesus’ words in John 14-16 regarding the Spirit within and the Spirit upon and find again the the Spirit upon is for being a living witness or testimony to Jesus WITH the Holy Spirit.

We concluded in 1 John which simply drives the point home.

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Spirit within upon

The Spirit within… the Spirit upon Part 2

Today we continue learning about the foundation of our relationship with the Holy Spirit. That there is a clear and obvious difference between the reception of the Holy Spirit within the heart of the believer at salvation and the subsequent event of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which empowers us as witnesses of Jesus and the Kingdom of God.

The scriptures we cover today are Acts 11; 15; 18 & 19.

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