Phil started the new academic year off looking at how we need to experience the Holy Spirit's power that raised Jesus from the dead.
Introduction
Do you want to know more of God's power?
Do you want to experience his power working in you and through you?
How different would our everyday lives be if we knew and experienced Gods power in every area of our lives?
Family life
Work life
School life
Our friendships
Our finances
Here's a bold truth
Romans 8 v 11
The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
Paul makes this amazing revelation,
This was a new concept for the new Christians
A new understanding
The first 16 chapters of Romans Paul writes this amazing revelation of the mystery of the Gospel
Back to the Beginning
This is not where we first see the activity of the Holy Spirit though but right back at the beginning of creation
The spirit of God who in Genesis 1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
Genesis 1:1-2 NLT
http://bible.com/116/gen.1.1-2.nlt
In Genesis 2
“Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.”
Genesis 2:7 NLT
http://bible.com/116/gen.2.7.nlt
“Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
Zechariah 4:6 NLT
http://bible.com/116/zec.4.6.nlt
Through the Old Testament the Spirit of God is at work demonstrating the greatness of God
A new Way
In the New Testament Jesus ministry truly began when he was filled with the Holy Spirit at his water Baptism.
At the end of Ephesians 1. the final section is one long sentence, a prayer comprising nine verses and 168 words.
Paul's prayer turns into a revelation, he's almost preaching at this point
In this prayer, Paul asks that the recipients of his letter might know God better and what it is he wants them to I know
The more this happens, the more we will also know the hope and power that are ours in God.
As Paul prays for us to know God's power, he begins to expound upon this power and the way it reveals the glorious power of Christ.
In effect, Paul has begun preaching in his prayer.
Yet he is doing this not to be manipulative, but rather to exalt Jesus Christ and draw us into the exaltation.
The power of God for us was seen most dramatically when God "raised Christ from the dead" (1:20).
The resurrection of Jesus was not some poetic way to express the victory of goodness or a myth dreamt up by the first Christians to dress Jesus up as divine.
Rather, the resurrection was something many of the earliest followers of Jesus experienced as a real, historical event.
To be precise, they did not witness the resurrection itself, but the resurrected Jesus who, much to their surprise, had conquered death and appeared to some of them
There were to many witnesses to deny that it had happened
This passage says that the very power that raised Jesus from the dead is not just available to us but the one who exercises that power lives in you!
We do not control this power, of course, as if it were some universal force.
Rather, we have access to such power because God dwells in us and among us through the Holy Spirit.
As we do the work God has given us to do, he helps us with power that exceeds our comprehension and expectations.
As we live our lives going about our day he is always there and available
We can call on him at any moment
When you need help its not like if your car has broken down wand you call the recovery service who promise to be there in under 1 hr.
• He is always present!
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