The X-Factor | Message 4: Transforming Power | Pastor Jason Riffe | 01/26/2025
January 26, 2025 / Bethesda Church1 John 2:27 (Amplified)
As for you, the anointing which you have received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But just as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as His anointing has taught you, you must remain in Him. (MULTILINE)
Ezekiel 36:26-27 (MEV)
Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And, I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues, and you will keep my judgements and do them. (MULTILINE)
1. Who is He (The Holy Spirit)? (MULTILINE)
1 John 5:7 (KJV)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (MULTILINE)
2. What Does He (The Holy Spirit) Do? (MULTILINE)
John 16:7-8 (KJV)
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is one, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (MULTILINE)
Romans 14:17 (MEV)
For the kingdom of God does not mean eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (MULTILINE)
Galatians 5:16 (NLT)
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then, you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. (MULTILINE)
3. How Do I Receive Him (The Holy Spirit)? (MULTILINE)
Luke 9:23 (KJV)
And he said to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (MULTILINE)
John 8:31-36 (ESV)
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my world, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the ouse forever; the son remains forever. So, if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (MULTILINE)
2 Timothy 3:1-4 (MEV)
Know this: In the last days, perilous times will come. Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, unrestrained, fierce, despisers of those who are good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. (MULTILINE)
2 Timothy 3:5 (NLT)
They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that! (MULTILINE)
Luke 15:18-24 (KJV)
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto Him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called by thy son. But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. (MULTILINE)
Mark 10:17-22 (MEV)
When He set out on His way, a man came running and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone. You know the commandments, do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.” He said to Him, “Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth.” Then Jesus, looking upon him, loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go your way: sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come, take up the cross and follow me.” He was saddened by that word, and he went away grieving. For he had many possessions. (MULTILINE)