Imperative: We have a responsibility to do it. Not optional equipment in the Kingdom!
- Present: Keep on doing it as a regular happening in our lives
- Passive: We set up the conditions for the Holy Spirit to make it happen
The Goal: Fullness of The Holy Sprit
- Who IS the Holy Spirit?
- *John passages Truth, counselor, from the Father, also: baptismal formula, blessings, Acts 7 called God; person attributes, etc.
- What Is His Role? Guide, Speak, Empower For Ministry & Holiness
The Contrast
- Contrast, NOT Comparison (Addicted to God, Drunk in the HS NOT apt descriptions)
- Addiction always wrong; characteristic of sin nature; tolerance
- Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Highs: [*slides]
The Process: Walk In The Spirit
- Obey (grieve) holiness Eph 4:29-31
- Ministry (quench) 1 Thess 5:19-20
The Nature of Fullness: (Next Week)
- Filled, baptized, walk, sealed, washed/regenerated
- How do you get filled w/ a person?
The Results:
- Contrast w/debauchery from drunkenness
- [check context of exhortations of chs 4,5
- Look at other passages in Eph on HS Ephesians 5:18
Characteristics Of Unhealthy Highs:
- Escape From Reality
- Direct – not processed through thinking & evaluation for appropriateness
- Deception - Anchored in lies, not reality; Wishes, not Reality or Hopes; commitment to self-deception (*much of entertainment & recreation)
- Indulgence, not celebration
- No boundaries (one def of addiction is bonding w/out boundaries)
- Distortion Blocks ability to perceive & respond appropriately to changes in reality
- Wrong Focus (not God) Phil 3:19 ‘god is their belly, mind earthly things’ practical atheists
Characteristics Of A Healthy High:
- Celebration Of Reality
- Conscious Control; processed though our mind [Boundaries: time, respect, restraint]
- Connected To Reality: Our Real Life Situations; how things really are
- Shalom in celebration mode
- -Circumstances, Physical, Relational, Spiritual, Inner Enjoyment
- Healthy Bonding with healthy boundaries
- God-Centered
Verses:
- Ga 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- Eph 1:13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
- Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- 1Th 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit.
- Tit 3:5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
- 1Pe 1:2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
