A RIVER OF BLOOD

#9 – The Holy Spirit And Blood

One Of Our 50 Is Missing

As a New Mexican, I’m aware that a large part of our nation doesn’t understand New Mexico is a state (since 1912).

Story of Al Unser Jr. and Indianapolis 500.

One Of The Persons Of God Is Missing

• Who is the Holy Spirit?• God the Father We Love• God the Son We Love• God the Spirit ????

• God the Father is personal

• God the Son is personal• God the Spirit is ?????

Illustration From The Shack

Represents the Holy Spirit as Sarayu (wind)

Depicted as a small Asian woman who shimmers.

Defined by Papa (a large black woman who is God the Father): “She is Creativity; she is Action; She is the Breathing of Life; she is much more. She is my Spirit.”

Glorify Thy Name

“Father, we love You, we worship and adore You, glorify Thy name in all the earth.

Jesus, we love You, we worship and adore You…

Spirit, we love You, we worship and adore You???

The Spirit Is VITAL To Salvation

• The Holy Spirit serves in a vital role in our salvation and eternal life.

• As Christians we need to understand His role in redeeming us through the blood of Jesus.

Three Witnesses 1 John 5:7-11 – “For

there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement….And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.”

The Water

Baptism 1 Peter 3:21 –

Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you – not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ….

The Blood

• Romans 5:9 – “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.”

The Spirit

Indwelling Divinity 1 Thessalonians 1:5

– …for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction….”

The Spirit’s Involvement In Blood

Hebrews 9:14 – “…how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”

Where Was The Holy Spirit?

Holy Spirit came upon Jesus at His baptism and remained on Him.

John 1:32 – “John testified saying, ‘I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.’”

The Holy Spirit At Crucifixion

The Holy Spirit was therefore in/upon

Christ at His crucifixion. The Holy Spirit was

then sent by the resurrected Christ on the

day of Pentecost. He has since been the ever present person

of God dwelling in each of God’s children.

Hebrews 10:29

“How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?”

How Do We Understand ETERNAL

Hebrews 7:16-17 – [If another priest arises] who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical require-ment, but according to the power of an indestructible life, “For it is attested of Him, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’”

Hebrews 9:12

“…and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.”

Hebrews 10:14 “For by one offering He

has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.”

All three persons of God were involved in the act of redemption.

Eternal God Eternal Plan Eternal Redemption

The Spirit And The Blood The Holy Spirit could

not dwell in man until the blood was shed.

John 7:39 – “But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believe in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

The Spirit Administers The Body

Acts 20:28 – “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.”

The Spirit Sanctifies The Body

1 Peter 1:2 – “…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace by yours in the fullest measure.”

The Spirit Seals Us

Ephesians 4:30 – “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”