THE SPIRIT OF JESUS


John 3,19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
2. Cor 4,4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.


If i would be ever enter in to a saving relationship with God : God would not just need to be visible to me but also revealed IN ME.

To send his Son - this was not all God did!
He also sent his Spirit to be IN ME!

God not just speaks to me and shows the truth through Jesus to me
God also opens my eyes and ears to see and hear this truth by sending his Spirit

The Main work of the Spirit:
To apply what the Son did to my live!
John 16,13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

2. Cor 3,17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

John 14,17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 15,26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.

Acts 16,7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
Rom 8,9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.


Satan is blinding the eyes of unbelievers
Spirit of God is opening my eyes/mind - so i can see the truth!
The truth of who God is and the truth of who we are.

The Holy Spirit manifests the truth of our fallen condition and thereby produces conviction and repentance in our lives.
John 16,8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

Th Holy Spirit opens the hearts and minds of people
Acts 16,14 One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
1. Cor 12,3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
1. John 4,2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

We receive the truth from the Holy Spirit and in him we become Children of God
John 3,5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
Rom 8,15 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.”
Gal 4,5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
1. John 2,20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
1. John 5,6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The Holy Spirit infuses me with the love of Christ so that I my live in the truth
Rom 5,5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Eph 2,18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

in doing all of this
the Spirit is simply pointing people to the one who is truth: JESUS CHRIST.

He is confronting and reversing the deceptive assumption of the flesh in our lives.
He is unveiling the true God for us,
revealed in Jesus Christ,
so that he might reveal our true identity as people who are loves by God.