The Holy Spirit: A Breath of Fresh Air

The Holy Spirit
A Breath of Fresh Air
9/6/26
Pastor Mark England

Acts 19:1-2 (CSB)
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples ² and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  “No,” they told him, “We haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

A Breath of Fresh Air

– a wind, breath, a violent exhalation, blast of breath.

Genesis 1:2 (CSB)
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

– a current of air, blast of breath, a strong breeze.

John 6:63 (CSB)
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Wind is .

John 14:16-17 (NIV)
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 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.

Wind is .

John 3:8 (CSB)
Jesus answered… “The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

Wind is .

Acts 1:8 (CSB)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Wind is .

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (CSB)
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived— God has prepared these things for those who love him.  ¹⁰ Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

Perspectives of The Holy Spirit

1. : The belief that miraculous spiritual gifts stopped after the time of the first apostles.

1 Corinthians 13:8 (CSB)
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

1 Corinthians 13:9-10 (CSB)
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

2. : The use of shocking, theatrical, and feeling-led methods to provoke strong emotional reaction around faith.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (CSB)
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. ⁴ They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

3. : The belief that God is a Triune-Being, and exists in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:19 (CSB)
Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 (CSB)
Now concerning spiritual gifts: brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be unaware…  ⁴ Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ There are different ministries, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different activities, but the same God works all of them in each person. ⁷ A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good: ⁸ to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of tongues, to another, interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ One and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as he wills.

Acts 2:38 (CSB)
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

God wants to of you.
We should desire to of Him.

Christianity is not a where you only move forward under your own strength.

Christianity is a that moves forward by the fresh wind (Pneuma) empowering it.

Do you need a behind your sails?

Take a Deep

Ephesians 4:30 (CSB)
And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by him for the day of redemption.

1. Let go of and .

Proverbs 3:5 (CSB)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

2. Go .

Jeremiah 29:13 (CSB)
You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.

3. Develop an with the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:14 (NKJV)
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

God the Father .

God the Son .

God the Holy Spirit .