2. Pentecost
Important to Jewish Nation

3. Pentecost
Important to Jewish Nation
Important to Early Church

4. Pentecost Important to Jewish Nation Important to Early Church
Important for us today

5. Who is the Holy Spirit?

6. Who is the Holy Spirit?
Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit

7. Who is the Holy Spirit? Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
“When I first began to study the Bible years ago, the doctrine of the Trinity was one of the most complex problems I had to encounter. I have never fully resolved it, for it contains a mystery. Though I do not totally understand it to this day, I accept it as a revelation of God”
Billy Graham

8. Who is the Holy Spirit?
Acts 5:3–4 (NLT) 3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, why have you let Satan fill your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself. 4 The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was also yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us but to God!”

9. Who is the Holy Spirit?
“God is not like anything. He is incomprehensible, incomparable, and unlike any other being. He is outside our realm of existence and, thus, outside our ability to categorize Him.”

10. Who is the Holy Spirit?
“God is not like anything. He is incomprehensible, incomparable, and unlike any other being. He is outside our realm of existence and, thus, outside our ability to categorize Him.” We will never fully understand the Trinity But we can experience it

11. Who is the Holy Spirit?
“God is not like anything. He is incomprehensible, incomparable, and unlike any other being. He is outside our realm of existence and, thus, outside our ability to categorize Him.” We will never fully understand the Trinity But we can experience it We must not forget the person of the Holy Spirit

12. The Early Church

13. The Early Church
Acts 10:38 (The Message) 38 Then Jesus arrived from Nazareth, anointed by God with the Holy Spirit, ready for action. He went through the country helping people and healing everyone who was beaten down by the Devil. He was able to do all this because God was with him.

14. The Early Church
Acts 15:24–28 (NLT) 24 “We understand that some men from here have troubled you and upset you with their teaching, but we did not send them! 25 So we decided, having come to complete agreement, to send you official representatives, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15. The Early Church
27 We are sending Judas and Silas to confirm what we have decided concerning your question. 28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay no greater burden on you than these few requirements: 29 You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell.”

16. A Personal Presence

17. A Personal Presence
John 15:26 (NLT) 26 “But I will send you the Advocate—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. John 16:14 (NLT) 14 He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me.

18. He Has a Mind
Romans 8:27 (NIV84) 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

19. Wisdom, Understanding & Knowledge
Isaiah 11:2 (NLT) 2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

20. He Has Emotions
Isaiah 63:10 (NLT) 10 But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them. Ephesians 4:30 (NLT) 30 And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live.

21. He Has a Will
1 Corinthians 12:11 (ESV) 11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

22. Challenge

23. Challenge
1 John 2:27 (NLT) But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.