The Holy Spirit


8. Obeying the Holy Spirit:
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  • A. The Holy Spirit is given to the obedient:
  • B. Obey the Spirit once you are Spirit-filled:
  • C. Warnings to obey the Spirit & not resist it:
  • D. Results of resisting the Holy Spirit:

  • A. The Holy Spirit is given to the obedient:

    PRO 1:23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

    ACT 5:32. And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

    B. Obey the Spirit once you are Spirit-filled:

    GAL 5:25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

    1PE 1:22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

    REV 2:29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

    C. Warnings to obey the Spirit & not resist it:

    ROM 8:5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

    ROM 8:6. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

    1COR 2:14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    EPH 4:29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

    EPH 4:30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

    1TH 5:19. Quench not the Spirit.

    HEB 3:7. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

    HEB 3:8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    HEB 3:9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

    HEB 3:10. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

    D. Results of resisting the Holy Spirit:

    GEN 6:3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

    ISA 63:10. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

    ACT 7:51. Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

    ACT 7:52. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

    ACT 7:53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

    ACT 20:22. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

    ACT 20:23. Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

    ACT 21:10. And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

    ACT 21:11. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

    ACT 21:12. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

    ACT 21:13. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

    ACT 21:14. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.