THIRD PERSON
April 28 - May 19
Following Jesus’ ascension to heaven, God sent the Holy Spirit to guide and empower the church. That power is at our disposal and lives in each person who receives Jesus. We’ll study this Third Person of the Trinity and explore how that affects our daily lives.
WALK BY THE SPIRIT
April 28 | Adam Barnett
The Holy Spirit has been working and moving since before the dawn of time. Our tendency is to isolate the Spirit to period of Pentecost, but the Holy Spirit has been an active part in history and lives in us today. Adam Barnett begins our study of the Third Person of the Trinity by encouraging us to be led by this powerful Presence in our lives.
MESSAGE NOTES
WALK BY THE SPIRIT
Third Person | Week 1 | April 28, 2019
The Holy Spirit cannot be isolated into one singular event in history. (Pentecost)
Galatians 5:13-15 NIV
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
Freedom is not a license to sin, but a mandate to love.
Galatians 5:16-18 NIV
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
“I know that in [INSERT YOUR NAME], that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing.”
— Romans 7:18 (paraphrase)
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
May 5 | Adam Barnett
The fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5 is a well-known and well-read passage, but often it's missed that "fruit" is not plural. We don't receive parts of the fruit, or only percentages of the fruit. When we choose to follow Christ, and yield to the Holy Spirit, we get it all! Adam Barnett continues our look at the Third Person of the Trinity with the reminder of all the power Holy Spirit provides!
MESSAGE NOTES
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
Third Person | Week 2 | May 5, 2019
Galatians 5:22-26 NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Spirit-fueled development of Christ-like character is evidence of knowing God.
Unhealthy
A marriage lacking the collective fruit of the Spirit, therefore, failing to thrive.
13% love
10% joy
12% peace
11% patience
12% kindness
10% goodness
11% faithfulness
10% gentleness
11% self-control
100% love
100% joy
100% peace
100% patience
100% kindness
100% goodness
100% faithfulness
100% gentleness
100% self-control
Love keeps no record of wrongs.
Galatians 5:24 NIV
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
FILLED
May 12 | Bill Clark
Paul gives two specific directives in Ephesians 5:1-2. Be imitators of God and live a life of love. These two things are seemingly impossible, and they are when we attempt them on our own. But Bill Clark reminds us that it's very possible when we are fill by the Holy Spirit and yield to the Spirit's direction.
MESSAGE NOTES
FILLED
Third Person | Week 3 | May 12, 2019
Ephesians 5:1-2 NIV
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Be imitators of God.
Live a life of love.
Ephesians 5:15-18 NIV
Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery (dissipation). Instead be filled with the Spirit.
Don’t be controlled by too much wine, be controlled by the Holy Spirit.
You ask for the Holy Spirit to fill you. That’s it.
Galatians 5:22-23 NIV
…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
SPIRIT vs. FLESH
May 19 | Bill Clark
There is a battle inside each of us between the flesh and the Spirit. We must choose to allow the Spirit to fight on our behalf and yield to His power. Bill Clark reminds us of this battle and the power that is at work on our behalf in the conclusion to our Third Person study of the Holy Spirit.
MESSAGE NOTES
SPIRIT vs. FLESH
Third Person | Week 4 | May 19, 2019
Romans 8:12-17 NIV
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Romans 8:17b NIV
...we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.