Life In The Spirit!Week 7

What we experience…

1. Knowing Him personally

2. Growing in fellowship

3. A living relationship

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3. Bible readings: Acts 16-18

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Last week… Spirit Baptism

1. An experience subsequent, distinct

2. The Spirit coming upon us

3. The sign of tongues

4. Languages never learned

5. Receive it by faith

1. Tongues: what’s happening?

A. You are the one speaking

And they were all filled with the

Holy Ghost, and began to speak

with other tongues, as the Spirit

gave them utterance.

(Acts 2:4)

1. Tongues: what’s happening?

B. You are speaking words

(utterance) given by the Spirit

1. Tongues: what’s happening?

C. Your spirit is speaking

For if I pray in a tongue,

my spirit prays,

but my understanding

is unfruitful…

(1 Cor. 14:14)

1. Tongues: what’s happening?

D. A volitional activity

What is it then?  I will pray with the

spirit, and I will pray with the

understanding also; I will sing with

the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also…. (1 Cor. 14:15)

Under his control…

I thank my God, I speak with tongues

more than you all, yet in the church

I would rather speak five words

with my understanding, that I might

teach others also, than

ten thousand words in a tongue

(1 Cor. 14:18-19)

2. Primarily praise and worship

A. Praise

…we do hear them speak

in our tongues

the wonderful works of God.

(Acts 2:11)

2. Primarily praise and worship

B. Mysteries

For he who speaks in a tongue

speaks not to men, but to God:

for no man understands;

however in the spirit

he speaks mysteries.  (1 Cor. 14:2)

2. Primarily praise and worship

C. Prayer

For if I pray in a tongue,

my spirit prays,

but my understanding is unfruitful…

(1 Cor. 14:14)

2. Primarily praise and worship

D. Song

What is it then?  I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the

understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the

understanding also…. (1 Cor. 14:15)

2. Primarily praise and worship

E. Blessing & Thanksgiving –

1 Cor. 14:16-17

For you truly are giving thanks well,

but the other is not edified.

3. The gift of tongues

A. The gift of tongues – 1 Cor. 12:27-30

Now you are the body of Christ, and

members in particular.  And God has

set some in the church, first apostles,

secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,

after that miracles…

3. The gift of tongues

…then gifts of healings, helps,

governments, diversities of

tongues.  Are all apostles?  Are all

prophets? Are all teachers?  Are all

workers of miracles?  Do all have the

gifts of healing?  Do all speak with

tongues?  Do all interpret?

3. The gift of tongues

B. As used personally

(a “prayer language”)

He that speaks in a tongue

edifies himself …

(1 Cor. 14:4)

3. The gift of tongues

B. As used personally

(a “prayer language”)

I thank my God,

I speak with tongues more than you all,

yet in the church…

(1 Cor. 14:18-19)

3. The gift of tongues

B. As used personally

(a “prayer language”)

But if there is no interpreter, let him

keep silence in the church; and let him

speak to himself, and to God.

(1 Cor. 14:28)

4. To edify ourselves and pray

A. Praying with groanings, etc.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our

infirmities; for we do not know what we

should pray for as we ought;

but the Spirit himself makes

intercession for us…

4. To edify ourselves and pray

A. Praying with groanings, etc.

…with groanings which cannot be

uttered.  And he who searches the

hearts knows what is the mind of the

Spirit, because he makes intercession

for the saints according to God. 

4. To edify ourselves and pray

A. Praying with groanings, etc.

And we know that all things work

together for good to those who love

God, to those who are the called

[ones] according to his purpose.

(Rom. 8:26-28)

 

4. To edify ourselves and pray

A. Praying with groanings, etc.

- not how to pray but what to pray

- praying according to God

- avoiding soulish praying  

4. To edify ourselves and pray

B. Communing with God

All the forms within 1 Cor. 14:

- praise, worship

- thanksgiving

(all whether sung or spoken)

4. To edify ourselves and pray

C. Edification of your spirit man -

1 Cor. 14:4, 18

He that speaks in a tongue

edifies himself…

I thank my God, I speak with

tongues more than you all…

4. To edify ourselves and pray

C. Edification - Jude 20

But you, beloved, building yourselves

up on your most holy faith, praying in

the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the

love of God, looking for the mercy of

our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 

4. To edify ourselves and pray

The release of the Spirit (John 7:38):

If any man thirsts, let him come to me,

and drink. He who believes on me, as

the scripture has said, out of his belly

shall flow rivers of living water.

But He spoke this of the Spirit…

What Paul knew way back when

“…their frontal lobes — the thinking,

willful part of the brain through

which people control what they

do — were relatively quiet, as were

the language centers. The regions

involved in maintaining

self-consciousness were active….”