Holy spirit lesson 2

HOLY SPIRIT LESSON 2
Question-have you ever run away from home? I did
as a kid and did not get far into the field before I
realized I could not surviveon my own and so headed
back to the security of my home. I thought about it a
few more times but it never made enough sense to
really do it.
Taste Test.
The topic of the “Holy Spirit” is one that makes many
people uncomfortable.
Many of us know what it’s like to see some pretty
yucky things happening, all supposedlybeing led by
the Holy Spirit. We’vesaid to ourselves, “If that’s the
Holy Spirit, then I don’t want any!”
You’vetasted of the wrong thing. It wasn’t the Holy
Spirit.
Come and see what the Holy Spiritreally tastes like.
The Holy Spirit produces “fruit”. Come and take a
taste and see if you like it.

(Gal 5:22-23 KJV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,faith,
{23} Meekness, temperance: againstsuch there is no
law.
Taste the real thing.
Psalm34:8 says Taste and see that the Lord is good.
IN OUR LAST SESSION WE READ-
2 Corinthians13:14 May the grace of the LORD Jesus
Christ, and the loveof God, and the fellowshipof the
Holy Spiritbe with you all.
THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PRAYER PARTNER
ROMANS. 8:26, "Likewise the Spirit also helps our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as
we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered.

26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit
himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of
the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people
in accordance with the will of God.
AMPLIFIED, "26 In the same way the Spirit [comes to us
and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what
prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the
Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time]
intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too
deep for words. 27 And He who searches the hearts
knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit
intercedes [before God] on behalf of [c]God’s people in
accordance with God’s will.
Phillips: The Spirit of God not only maintains this hope
within us, but helps us in our present limitations. For
example, we do not know how to pray worthily as sons
of God, but his Spirit within us is actually praying for us in

those agonising longings which never find words.
(Phillips: Touchstone)
"The very sense of dissatisfaction is a sign of the
indwelling Spirit. The world wonders at the lamentation
so frequent in religious biography."
The Holy Spirit is not content with us yet, but like our
Lord Jesus longs deeply for progress in our spiritual life
and groans along with creation and us to become all God
wants us to be.
SPURGEON, "MY venerable friend, who, on the first
Sabbath of the year, always sends me a text to preach
from, has on this occasion selected one which it is very
far from easy to handle. The more I have read it, the
more certainly have I come to the conclusion that this is
one of the things in Paul's epistles to which Peter
referred when he said, "Wherein are some things hard to
be understood." However, dear friends, we have often
found that the nuts which are hardest to crack have the
sweetest kernels, and when the bone seems as if it could

never be broken, the richest marrow has been found
within. So it may by possibility be this morning; so it will
be if the Spirit of God shall be our instructor, and fulfil his
gracious promise to "lead us into all truth."
It appears from the text that this groaning is universal
among the saints: there are no exceptions; to a greater
or less extent we all feel it. He that is most endowed with
worldly goods, and he who has the fewest; he that is
blessed in health, and he who is racked with sickness; we
all have in our measure an earnest inward groaning
towards the redemption of our body.
You may judge of a man by what he groans after. Some
men groan after wealth, they worship Mammon. Some
groan continually under the troubles of life; they are
merely impatient -- there is no virtue in that. Some men
groan because of their great losses or sufferings; well,
this may be nothing but a rebellious smarting under the
rod, and if so, no blessing will come of it. But the man
that yearns after more holiness, the man that sighs after
God, the man that groans after perfection, the man that
is discontented with his sinful self, the man that feels he

cannot be easy till he is made like Christ, that is the man
who is blessed indeed. May God help you, and help me,
to groan all our days with that kind of groaning. I have
said before, there is heaven in it, and though the word
sounds like sorrow, there is a depth of joy concealed
within,
"Lord, let me weep for nought but sin,
And after none but thee;
And then I would, O that I might,
A constant weeper be."
spurgeon, "The feeblest prayer, if it be sincere, is written
by the Holy Spirit upon the heart, and God will always
own the handwriting of the Holy Spirit.Many a prayer
that is written on the heart by the Holy Spirit seems
written with faint ink, and, moreover, it appears to be
blotted and defiled by our imperfection; but the Holy

Spirit can always read His own handwriting. He knows His
own notes, and when He has issued a prayer He will not
disown it. Therefore, the breathing which the Holy Ghost
works in us will be acceptable with God."
BEECHER, "I go into the studio of my friend the artist, and
he makes the outline. I recognise the likeness to some
extent as my friend's, but it is not perfect. He takes his
pencil, and, as he gazes upon the countenance he wishes
to express, he applies the pencil, and by degrees, by
touch after touch, the likeness comes out, until at last,
when finished, it is perfected so far as it may be
perfected, and I say it is the perfect likeness of my friend.
So the Holy Spirit has been sitting on your hearts, and, I
humbly trust, on mine. There is Jesus, the great example.
Here is my heart. The rude outlines have been already
formed. I have been adopted into the family. I bear a
family likeness; I can be recognised as something like the
blessed Saviour, be it ever so little, but the Holy Spirit is
changing, transforming, touching this part and that,
making me a little more loving and more meek, more
self-denying, more active, until by and by I shall be

brought into His likeness; it shall be said: "It is enough";
and then, released from mortality, I shall mount up as on
wings of eagles; I shall see Him in glory.
(H. W. Beecher.)
COMMENTS
AND IN THE SAME WAY
MacArthur explains that "In the same way refers back to the groans of the
creation(see note Romans 8:22) and of believers (see note Romans 8:23) for
redemption from the corruption and defilement of sin. Here Paul reveals the
immeasurably comforting truth that the Holy Spirit comes alongside us and
all creationin groaning for God’s ultimate day of restorationand His eternal
reign of righteousness. (MacArthur, J: Romans 1-8. Chicago:Moody Press)
"And in the same way," or in "like manner," says that what the Spirit is
doing in us corresponds to what precedes. Justas we wait out the time longing
for the event that is coming, the Spirit is there to help us through it.
And so as the creationand believers both groanfor ultimate restoration, the
Holy Spirit does as well.
MACARTHUR

He begins in verse 26 by saying “in the same way.” In the same way as what?
In the same way as creationgroans, and you have creationgroaning in verse
22, the whole creationgroans and suffers togetheruntil now. All of the whole
universe has been tainted by sin and the whole universe sort of is personified
as if a person were groaning. The whole universe feels the pain of sin because
it cannot be everything God had originally designedit in Eden to be. The
whole universe groans to be all it can be. It is not an actualgroaning. It is
metaphoric. And then in verses 23 to 25 believers are groaning. We groan,
verse 23, within ourselves. We...This groaning longs to be delivered from the
impact of sin just like the whole creationdoes. So you are talking about a
groaning here that is inexpressible.
You can't hear creationgroaning and you can't hear us groaning. And it's in
the same way that the Spirit also helps our weakness by groaning. It is not an
audible groaning anymore than the creation’s groaning is audible or
believers’groaning is audible. It is a longing, and creationlongs to express
itself fully in the glory of a restoredearth and we long to express ourselves in
the fullness of a glorified body with no more sin and the Holy Spirit longs in
the same way for us to come to glory.
The Holy Spirit has a desire for us to be freed from sin, freed from the effects
of the Fall. The Holy Spirit is groaning in anticipation of the glorious
liberation of the children of God. The Holy Spirit is groaning for our eternal
glory just as we are groaning for our eternalglory and creationis groaning
for its glory. There's nothing in here about any human gibberish. This is the
Holy Spirit groaning.
Mrk 8:12 And groaning in his spirit, he says, Why does this generationseek a
sign? Verily I sayunto you, A sign shall in no wise be given to this generation.
John 11:38 Jesus therefore againgroaning in himself cometh to the grave. It
was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

James Rafferty, "The word “groaning” in this verse means “to voice a deep,
inarticulate sound, as of pain, grief, or displeasure.” If there were no other
text in all of Scripture, this text alone tells me that God has a heart. The very
capability of voicing a deep sound of pain or grief requires feeling deeply
about something or someone, and to feel deeply requires a heart.
The groaning of human beings overwhelmedby suffering, loss, and pain are
recordedthroughout the Old Testament, but in the New Testamentthere are
only two references to the Greek word for “groaning.”
Feelings that are often too deep for words reachHis heart.
One belongs to the Holy Spirit in our scripture verse Romans 8:26. It
describes how He groans out the heartache we fail to find words to convey.
There is also an indirect reference in Matthew 27:46 (from Psalm22). This
one also belongs to Godin the person of Jesus Christ and the anguish He
experiencedfor us all when He felt completelyforsakenon the cross. In the
Old Testamentour groaning moves God to action. In the New Testament
[NT], God Himself experiences the very groaning of the human race. The
picture we have from the Bible is that God hears and experiences our deepest
heartache. The one common thread is that God feels our despair, our
bondage, and our oppression. Feelings that are often too deep for words reach
His heart.
The secondreference to groaning in the NT is in Acts 7 where Stephen
recounts the history of God’s people and their captivity in Egypt, which had
continued for over 400 years getting steadily worse and worse until the
Egyptians finally passeda law to kill every baby Hebrew boy. In this context
God says, “I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them.”
A COMMON MEDIUM by which our desires are put in harmony with the
will of God. "Groanings whichcannot be uttered." The cry of the infant is
interpreted by its mother, the sighof the sick man is as goodas words to the
nurse, so the groaning (Psalm 102:5)and the weeping (Psalm6:8) are voices in
the earof God.

(W. Harris).
THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPS (lends a hand togetherwith, come to aid of) OUR
WEAKNESS:
Now back to verse 26. In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness.
What is he talking about here? Well, "for we do not know how to pray as we
should but the Holy Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep
for words." Theyare unutterable. They aren't audible groanings. Theyare
inaudible groanings. Theyare too profound for words. There are no words.
There are no sounds. There are no noises. It is the Holy Spirit doing this. Not
us. And what is it He's doing? He's helping our weakness. This refers not
just to sort of weak prayers but it refers to the whole debilitating power of our
fallenness. We are so sinful, so fallen, so stained by sin. Sin is so endemic to
us, it's so much into the fabric of our beings that we...we beartwo heavy
burdens. We bear the burden of sin and the burden of suffering. And under
both of those, we're supported by the Holy Spirit. Under the burden of
suffering, He's our comforter. Under the burden of sin, He is our intercessor.
He helps our infirmities, the Greek says. He deals with the whole scope of our
weakness. It's not just weaknessin the style of our prayers or the frequency
of our prayers or the manner of our prayers, it's weaknessin our very nature
that limits the expressionof prayer. And it's weakness in the content of
prayer. God answers prayers but we just don't know how to pray. We don't
know how to pray, he says, as we should. Why? Becausewe can'tsee the
future. Becausewe can'teven understand the present. Becausewe don't
know what's goodfor us. Becauseif we had our choice we'd pray that we
never had any suffering or pain or anything and that we'd always be healed of
everything and all of our difficult circumstances wouldgo away.

Mistakendesires, hurtful and unwise choices in regardto what will make for
our true happiness. Sometimes we pray for things positively hurtful to us, as
when the Israelites prayed for meat in the wilderness;sometimes for things
not wrong in themselves, but yet wrong because in an unsubmissive spirit, as
when Rebecca said, "God, give me children, or else I die." We ask for
medicines to be takenaway which are working heaven's kindest cures, and we
desire change in our outward lot which can only encompass us with new
dangers and snares.
. It speaks ofthe actionof a personcoming to another’s aid by taking hold
over againstthat person, of the load he is carrying. The personhelping does
not take the entire load, but helps the other personin his endeavor. The word
is used where Martha says to the Lord Jesus concerning Mary
But Martha was distractedwith all her preparations;and she came up to
Him, and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sisterhas left me to do all the
serving alone? Then tell her to help me. (Lk 10:40)
Comment: It is a beautiful word -- to take hold oneselfat his end of the task
togetherwith one
One could translate, “Bid her lend me a helping hand,” the idea being that
Martha would continue preparing the meal but needed Mary to help her. Just
so, the Holy Spirit indwelling the saint, comes to the aid of that saint in his or
her spiritual distressesand difficulties, not by taking over the responsibility
for them and giving the saint an automatic deliverance without any effort on
his or her part, but by lending a helping hand, allowing the saint to work out
his problems and overcome the saint's difficulties, with His help.
A. T. Robertsonsays "The Holy Spirit lays hold of our weaknesses along with
(sun) us and carries His part of the burden facing us (anti) as if two men were
carrying a log, one at eachend.
Weakness(769)(astheneia [wordstudy]) means literally without strength and
speaks ofthe state of incapacityto do or experience something. The infirmities
here are not physical but spiritual. This refers to our human limitation due to

sinfulness which produces a weaknessthatconsists, atleastin part, in that
“we do not know what we ought to pray.”
The writer of Hebrews uses astheneia writing…
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses
(astheneia), but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without
sin. (Heb 4:15-note)
Wuest explains that…
The weakness spokenofhere is defined by the context which speaks ofprayer,
one of the things in the spiritual realm in which our weaknessneeds His
power. The infirmities here therefore are, not physical, but spiritual. The
weakness spokenofhere is the inability of the saint to know what to pray for.
We do know what the generalobjects of prayer are. But we do not know what
the specific, detailedobjects of prayer in any given emergencyor situation
are. (Wuest's Word Studies)
Vine says that…
Without the aid of the Holy Spirit our patience would fail and we should
succumb to despair. (Collectedwritings of W. E. Vine.)
Robert Morganasks…
What kind of weakness? We are weak in many ways, but in this passagethe
apostle Paul is specific about the particular weaknesshe is addressing—our
prayer lives. We are weak when it comes to prayer. In what way? Well, we are
weak in many ways, but here againPaul has something specific in mind. We
are weak in our ability to know what we should ask. Many times we really
don’t know what we should specificallypray for. We are not omniscient. We
don’t know everything, nor canwe see into the future. So we don’t know
whether the things we’re asking for will turn out goodor bad for us.
An old story illustrates: A Chinese gentleman lived on the border of China
and Mongolia. In those days, there was constantconflict and strife along the

perimeter. The man had a beautiful horse. One day, she leapedover the
corral, raceddown the road, crossedthe border, and was captured by the
Mongolians. His friends came to comfort him. “That’s bad news,” they said
sadly. “Whatmakes you think it’s bad news?” askedthe Chinese gentleman.
“Maybe it’s goodnews.” A few days later the mare came bolting into his
corral, bringing with it a massive stallion. His friends crowdedaround.
“That’s goodnews!” they cried. “What makes you think it’s goodnews?” he
asked. “Maybe it is bad news.” Later, his son, while riding the stallion and
trying to break it, was thrown off and broke his leg. “That’s bad news,” cried
the friends. “What makes you think it is bad news?” askedthe Chinese
gentleman. “Maybe it’s goodnews.” One week later, warbroke out with
Mongolia, and a Chinese generalcame through, drafting all the young men.
All later perished, except for the young man who couldn’t go because his leg
was broken. The man said to his friends, “You see, the things you thought
were bad turned out good;and the things you thought were goodturned out
bad.”
Hudson Taylor once said:
Ill that God blesses is our good
And unblest goodis ill.
And all is right that seems most wrong
If it be his sweetwill.
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Spurgeonwrote…
Nevergive up praying, even when Satan suggeststhat prayer is in vain. Pray
in his teeth. “Pray without ceasing”(1Thess. 5:17). If the heavens are brass
and your prayer only echoes above your head, pray on! If month after month
your prayer appears to have miscarried, if you have had no answer, continue
to draw close to the Lord. Do not abandon the mercy seatfor any reason. If it
is a goodthing that you have been asking for, and if you are sure that it is

according to the divine will, wait, tarry, pray, weep, plead, wrestle, and
agonize until you getwhat you are praying for.
Nevercease prayerfor any reason. If the philosopher tells you that every
event is fixed and that prayer cannotpossibly change anything, go on praying.
If you cannot reply to every difficulty that man suggests,resolve to be
obedient to the divine will. “Praywithout ceasing.”Never, never, never
renounce the habit of prayer or your confidence in its power.
God wants us to ask, but there are times when the situation is simply too
complex or we are too distraught that we don't know what to pray for. We
have all experiencedsituations in which we wondered how to pray specifically.
We didn't know what would be best and in the will of God for the specific
issue at hand.
praying for others and have no idea what is best. Prayerfor leaders and their
agenda and not know if they promote Gods will. Our ignorance is indeed
great.
Mostof the time, when we are in the midst of suffering, we are inclined to
pray for our problem’s removal. Waiting and believing Godthat He is using
this for greaterpurposes seems too difficult. Even the apostle Paul prayed
three times that God would remove the thorn in his flesh. The answerhe
receivedshould have been what he prayed—No. But, the Holy Spirit makes
goodthese deficiencies in our prayers.
SPURGEON,"Theyare prayers offered in a proper manner. The Spirit works
in us humility, earnestness,intensity, importunity, faith, and resignation, and
all else that is acceptable to God in our supplications. We know not how to
mingle these sacredspices in the incense of prayer. If left to ourselves, we get
too much of one ingredient or another and spoil the sacredcompound, but the
Holy Spirit's intercessions have in them such a blessedblending of all that is
goodthat they come up as a sweetperfume before the Lord.

EXAMPLE READ CONTEXT
Acts 1:24: "And they prayed, and said, ‘Thou, Lord, who knowestthe hearts
of all men, show which one of these two Thou hast chosen.’"
MACARTHUR
We are securedby two interceding priests. Now how does the Holy Spirit
intercede for us? Let's look back at verse 26, "the Holy Spirit makes
intercession."The word, the verb here has the idea of rescue. Has the idea of
rescue by one who finds someone in trouble and has no resourcesto deal with
it. It's a verb that means saving a life that otherwise would be lost. And that's
the point. The Holy Spirit rescues us. And apart from Him we wouldn't
make it. He pleads for our deliverance, which to us is impossible. You'd like
to think that you could pray your way through life right? Call upon God. I
need your help here. I need your strength here, Lord. I see this coming. It's
more than I can bear and you've promised no temptation shall be take...shall
overtake me that I'm unable to bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13 etc. We can't pray.
We just can't do that. So the Holy Spirit - I love this - Himself and the writer
adds the autos, the pronoun, Himself, personally.
BARCLAY
. We are often in the position of a child who wants something which would be
bound only to hurt him; and God is often in the position of a parent who has
to refuse his child's request or compel him to do something he does not want
to do, because he knows whatis to the child's goodfar better than the child
himself.

BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR
1. There is none in heaven or earth nearerto us than the Holy Spirit; yet there
is none whose presence is more deeply hidden. Mostmysterious is the manner
of His Eternal Being. Fatherhoodand Sonship we may in some measure
realise;but no earthly relationsymbolises the processionof the Holy Ghost.
And not less inscrutable is the manner of His presence and work in the human
soul. Unseenbecause He is so near, unrecognisedfor very intimacy, there is no
depth of personalitywhither He will not come; and even the soul which He
purifies and strengthens may only discern Him in its own new purity and
strength. The bodily eye cannever see in its simplicity the light whereby it sees
all else;and the Spirit of Truth is Himself hidden from the soul which owes its
sight to His illumination.
we all have an assistentin the task of living the Christian life. We cannot do it
alone.
EZEKIEL 37:1-14read it and make comments.
Historical context
This vision dates to the period of Israel's history known as the Babylonian Exile. In 597
BCE, the armies of Babylon forced the capitulation of the rebellious city Jerusalem and
deported the Judean king and many Judean leaders to Babylon (2 Kings 24:10-16). Ten
years later, in 587/6 BCE, after Jerusalem had rebelled again, the Babylonians razed
Jerusalem and its temple and deported a second wave of Judean leaders. Among the first
wave of the deported was the young Ezekiel, whom God later called in Babylon to the office
of prophet. For those deportees forced to live in Babylon, the future seemeda black hole
into which the people were destined to disappear. A century-and-a-half previously, many
citizens of Judah's sister kingdom Israel had been similarly deported, had lost their
identity, and had faded into the mists of history--the so-called lost tribes of Israel. The exile

was more than just a crisis of physical suffering and communal identity. It also necessitated
a crisis of faith. The key symbols of Judean faith--Jerusalem, its temple, its people, and the
Davidic monarchy--had been destroyed (cf Psalms 89 and 137). According to the
theological rationality of the ancient world, many exiled Judeans assumed that their deity
had been defeated by a stronger deity from Babylon (cf. Ps 42:3, 10; 79:10; 115:2). The
people wondered if the Lord was truly lord and truly faithful.
Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian army invaded Israel. They had reduced Solomon’s
Temple to ashes, and had taken many of the Jewish people back to Babylon as captives.
This is the condition that Ezekiel is in. The nation of Israel is DEAD. BUT … God has a
vision for the nation.
Ezekiel was a young man, twenty-five years of age when he, his family, and his nation
suffered one of the worst disasters a nation or people can everexperience. You see, Ezekiel
was carried off as a captive of war, (a POW, Prophet of War). He was deported to the
country of Babylon, 900 miles from home. This wasn’t a planned move; rather it was a
vicious and forcible deportment.
Breath Of God
Psalm33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
Job 26:13

"By His breath the heavens are cleared
Job 33:4
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of
the Almighty gives me life.
Job 32:8
"But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the
Almighty gives them understanding.John3:5-8
2 Thessalonians2:8
Then that lawless one will be revealedwhom the Lord
will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an
end by the appearanceof His coming;
Exodus 15:10
"You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
2 Samuel 22:16
"Then the channels of the sea appeared, The
foundationsof the world were laidbare By the rebuke
of the LORD, At the blastof the breath of His nostrils.
Psalm18:15

Then the channels of water appeared, And the
foundationsof the world were laidbare At Your
rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your
nostrils.
Job 4:9
"By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of
His anger they come to an end.
Job 15:30
"He will not escape from darkness;The flame will
wither his shoots, And by the breath of His mouth he
will go away.
Job 27:3
For as long as life is in me, And the breath of God is in
my nostrils,
Job 34:14-15
"If He shoulddetermine to do so, If He shouldgather
to HimselfHis spiritand His breath, All flesh would
perish together, And man would return to dust.
Isaiah11:4

But with righteousnessHe will judge the poor, And
decide with fairness for the afflictedof the earth; And
He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the
wicked.
Isaiah42:5
Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens
and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and
its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And
spiritto those who walk in it,
Acts 17:25
nor is He served by human hands, as though He
needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people
life and breath and all things;
Revelation11:11
But after the three and a half days, the breath of life
from God came into them, and they stoodon their
feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching
them.
BREATH

Wind and breath canbe symbols of the Holy Spirit. In the book of Acts, the
coming of the Spirit was accompaniedby the sound of a mighty rushing wind.
In the book of John, Jesus breathedupon His disciples and instructed,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.”
It was the wind of Heaven that opened an impossible path for the Israelites to
move through the red sea.
At the blast of your breath, the waters piled up! The surging waters stood
straight like a wall; in the heart of the sea the deep waters became hard.
(Exodus 15:8, NLT)
It was the breath of God that was releasedthrough the shouts of the Israelites
- causing the walls of Jericho to fall.
BARNES
the Resurrectionof the Body is at leastimplied. Such a
figure would only have force with those who were
familiarwith this idea (compare ; Job 19:25-27;Psalm
16:10-11;Daniel12:1-13). The visionwas intended not
only to comfort the despairing childrenof Israel -
prefiguring the reinstatementof Israel now scattered
and lifeless, as a community restoredto their home,
and rein-vigoratedwith spiritual life - but also to
impress upon them the great truth of the
Resurrection, which was greatly developedin the

Scriptures of the Old Testament, but found its clear
and unambiguous enunciationin the New. The
prophecy concerns not only the Israel after the flesh
but also the Israel of God; it points to a home in
heaven and to a life of immortality.
Job 19:25-27 25I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the
earth. 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; 27I myself
will see him with my own eyes-I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Psalm 16:10-11 10because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you
let your faithful one see decay. 11You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me
with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Daniel 12:1-3 At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise.
There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations
until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the
book—will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleepin the dust of the earth will awake: some to
everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise[a] will
shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the
stars for ever and ever.
The lyrics are based on Ezekiel 37:1-14, where the
prophet visits the Valley of Dry Bones and brings
them to life by mentioning God's name. 1.2. Ezekiel
cried, "Dem dry bones!" - Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry
bones!" Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" - "Oh, hear
the word of the Lord." The foot bone connected to the
leg bone, The leg bone connected to the knee bone, The

knee bone connectedto the thigh bone, The thigh bone
connected to the back bone, The back bone connected
to the neck bone, The neck bone connected to the head
bone, Oh, hear the word of the Lord! Dem bones, dem
bones gonna walk aroun', (3 x’s) Oh, hear the word of
the Lord.
IT IS A HORROR STORY WITH A HAPPY
ENDING.
EZEKIEL THE POSITIVE THINKER OF HIS DAY.
THIS ISTHE PENTECOSTOF THE OLD
TESTAMENT
Lessons from the valleyof vision
The primary object of this chapter was to encourage
the Jews to expect their restorationfrom the
Babylonishcaptivity. At the time of the utterance of
this prophecy they were scatteredamong the cities of
the Babylonishdominionswithout any existence as an
independent nation. But as the bones in the valley of
Ezekiel’s visiononly needed the quickening process
describedin the narrativeto become a living army, so

the Jews only needed the interpositionof God on their
behalf to become again an independent nation. The
meaning of the visionis explained in verses 11 to 14.
But there are three other meanings that it is regarded
as conveying. Applying the visionto the nominal
ChristianChurch, it teaches that if any of God’s
people have lost their spirituallife, and so their
capacity for usefulness, the Holy Spirit can quicken
them, and so restore to them their power for
efficiency, making them an army for Immanuel.
Applying the visionto the human race, it shows us
God’s method of awakening into spiritual life the dead
in trespassesand sins.
A third view looks upon the visionas teaching the
resurrectionof the body at the lastday, especial
reference being had to the bodies of believers.
. The Visionof the Dry Bones. Judah and Israel Re-united. Chapter 37.
Ruah/ruach is translatedbreathinEzekiel 37:5, 8, 9, 10.

Ezekiel 37:11 clearly states "thesebones are the whole house of Israel."So
what is your interpretationof the bones? Clearly the whole house of Israel.
What does that mean "whole house"? What is a synonym for "whole"or
conversely what is an antonym for "whole"? Dividedor undivided. So clearly
whole house refers tothe undividedKingdom of Israel, whichin 931BC was split
by the SovereignLordintoa NorthernKingdom(10 tribes) andSouthern
Kingdom (Two tribes = Benjaminand Judah).
3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “SovereignLord, you alone know.”
Ezekiel’s first thought was probably what yours and mine would have been. Are you
joking?
These bone have been laying here for years. What do mean, “Can they live?”
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.
When Sarah was 90 years old and God told her that she would bear a son, He reminded
her…
Gen 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the LORD?…
God reminded Jeremiah…
Jer 32:27
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
The angel Gabriel reminded Mary…
Luke 1:37
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Jesus encouraged His disciples…

Matt 19:26
…With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
SPURGEON TESTAMONY
And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have openedyour graves, O my
people, and brought you up out of your graves. (Ezekiel 37:13)
Indeedit must be so: those who receive life fromthe deadare sure torecognize
the hand of the Lord in sucha resurrection. This is the greatest andmost
remarkable of all changes that a man can undergo--tobe brought out of the
grave of spiritual deathand made to rejoice in the light and liberty of spiritual
life. None couldwork this but the living God, the Lordand giver of life.
Ah, me! How well do I remember whenI was lying inthe valley full of dry
bones, as dry as any of them!Blessedwas the day whenfree and sovereign
grace sent the man of God to prophesy upon me!Glory be to God for the
stirring whichthat wordof faith causedamong the dry bones. More blessedstill
was that heavenly breathfrom the four winds which made me live!Now know I
the quickening Spirit of the ever-living Jehovah. Truly Jehovahis the living God,
for He made me live. My new life eveninits pinings and sorrowings is clear
proof to me that the Lord can kill and make alive. He is the only God. He is all
that is great, gracious, and glorious, and my quickenedsoul adores Him as the
great I AM. All glory be unto His sacredname! As long as I live I will praise Him.
RobinMark has a great song that mentions the "Days of Elijah" - this song is
sure toget your blood pumping as they say...

These are the days of Elijah,
Declaring the wordof the Lord:
And these are the days of Your servant Moses,
Righteousness being restored.
... And thoughthese are days of great trial,
Of famine and darkness and sword,
Still, we are the voice in the desert crying
'Prepare ye the way of the Lord!'
BeholdHe comes riding on the clouds,
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;
Lift your voice, it's the year of jubilee,
And out of Zion's hill salvationcomes.
These are the days of Ezekiel,
The dry bones becoming as flesh;
And these are the days of Your servant David,
Rebuilding atemple of praise.
These are the days of the harvest,
The fields are as white in Your world,
And we are the labourers inYour vineyard,
Declaring the wordof the Lord!

COMEFROM THE FOUR WINDS, O BREATH!NO. 2246
A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD’S-DAY, MARCH 6, 1892.
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, ATTHE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE,
NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1890.
“He saidto me, Prophesy unto the wind, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus
says the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.”Ezekiel 37:9.
The chapter before us is an excellentexample of this fact and supplies an
illustrationof several Scriptural truths. Some think they see here aparable of
the resurrectionof the dead. Assuredly, Ezekiel’svisionpictures what will
happen in the day when, “The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised.”Nomatter how dry the bones may be, the bodies of those who sleepin
the dust of the earthshall rise again. That which was sownshall spring up from
the grave and in the case of the childrenof God, it shall wear a newglory. At the
word of Christ it shall come to pass—“For the hour is coming, inwhich all that
are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth;they that have done
good, unto the resurrectionof life;and they that have done evil untothe
resurrectionof damnation.”
Others see here the resurrectionof the almost destroyedhost of Israel which
had been dividedintotwocompanies and carriedaway captive intoBabylon.

Plague and pestilence andthe swordof the Chaldean had gone far to cut off the
chosennation, but God promisedto restore His people, thus mingling mercy
withjudgment, and again setting inthe cloudthe bow of His everlasting
covenant. A partial fulfillment of this promise was givenwhen, for a while, the
Lord set up again the tribes of Israel at Jerusalemand they had a happy rest
before the coming of Christ. But Israel’s full restorationis yet tobe
accomplished. The people shall be gatheredout of the graves inwhich as a
nation they have so long lainburiedand shall be placed in their ownland—and
thenwill come topass the word of Jehovah—“Then shall you know that I the
Lord have spokenit, and performedit, says the Lord.”
There are others, who looking beyond the literal for the spiritual teaching, see,
and I think rightly see, that here is apicture of the recovery of ungodly men
from their spiritual deathandcorruption—aparable of the way in which sinners
are brought up from their hopeless, spiritually deadcondition, andmade to live
by the power of the Holy Spirit. I shall, at any rate, use the text inthis sense, for
I am not now aiming at the interpretationof prophesy, nor concernedgreatly
withwhat is to happen in the future. Neither doI wishto conduct you intothe
deepthings of God, but I am just now thinking of practical uses towhich I can
put this incident inorder tostir up God’s people to deal withthe Holy Spirit as
He should be dealt with, and to urge the unconvertedtoseek the Lordin the
hope that some of them, as dead and dry as the bones in the valley of vision,
may be made to live by His divine power.
I. Now, first, inusing this text as I have said for practical purposes, I am going to
make this remark upon it—WE ARENOTHING WITHOUTTHE HOLY SPIRIT.
We are nothing. You are nothing. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,
says the Lord of Hosts,”

Holy Spirit, Wind of heaven,
breathe fresh life into my soul
Come again, Thou Gift once given,
raise these bones and make me whole
As at creation, Lord Life-Giver,
stir the depths within my heart
Spring in me, Thou living River;
fill and flow through every part
Seal, Deposit, Guarantee,
Earnestof my Savior’s love,
grant me eyes of faith to see
his face who pleads for me above
Then come in fire in this dark hour,
Christ’s image in our hearts restore
Revive your church, your saints empower;
make us your witnessesonce more.
Lyrics

Blow Mighty Breathof God
Move upon this place
Blow mighty breathof God
Come move in power and grace
Streams of mercy flowing down
Light of Heavenall around
Falling tothe ground
Move upon this place
Blow mighty breathof God
Come in power and grace
Spirit fire fanthe flame
Passionfor the Holy name
Burning everything
Christy Nockels Lyrics
Play "Breath Of God"
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"BreathOf God"
[Chorus:]
Breathof God, breathe onus
We adore You, come before You
To magnify Your name
Breathof God, fill this place
Withyour spirit drawing near us
We'll never be the same
Mighty God
You are endless inpower and mercy
Be glorified
We exalt Youand lift up Your name
Lord of all
King of heavenand earth
You are holy, holy
Come sosweetly andcompletely
As we seek Your face

Breathof God, reigninour hearts
And restore us, stay before us
To leadus all our days
[Chorus]
Breathof God
You are endless inpower and mercy
Breathe onus
We exalt Youand lift up Your name
Lord of all
King of heavenand earth
You are holy, holy, holy, holy
Breathe onme, Breathof God,
fill me withlife anew,
that I may love the way you love,
and do what you would do.

2 Breathe onme, Breathof God,
until my heart is pure,
until my will is one withyours,
to do and toendure.
3 Breathe onme, Breathof God,
so shall I never die,
but live withyou the perfect life
for all eternity.
Walking With Wisdom:BreathPrayer
Breathing…It’s the firstthing we dowhen we’re bornand the last thing we do
when we die. Jesus last words on the cross were, “Father, intoyour hands I give
my spirit.”and he breathedhis last.
HOLY SPIRIT IN EZEKIEL
Ezekiel 2:2 2As he spoke, the Spirit came intome and raisedme to my feet, and I
heard him speaking tome.
Then the Spirit liftedme up (Ezek 3:12-14, 8:3, 11:1 etc)
Then the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me (Ezek 11:5 NKJV)
He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of
the valley;and it was full of bones. (Ezek 37:1)
HE HAD HOLY SPIRIT TRANSPORTATION-LIKEPHILIP IN NEWTESTAMENT.

These are only a few of the many passages inEzekiel that speak of the ruach.
There are actually 51 occurrences inthe book which has ledDaniel Block tocall
Ezekiel, “the prophet of the spirit”
Most all of them deal withbreathor wind.
Randymccracken, "Ezekiel’s use of ruachis certainly deepand rich. The ruach is
a destructive windthat brings judgment onthe rebellious people of Israel, but it
is also the life-giving agent, the breaththat revives deadbones. It is alsothe
medium of inspirationfilling andenabling the prophet as well as the God-
breathedwords whichare communicated. Ezekiel uses termswhenspeaking of
the ruach which will become familiar to readers of the NewTestament. The
Spirit “falls”on Ezekiel, andhe prophesies of it being “pouredout” on the
people of Israel. Along withwords of judgment, Ezekiel holds out the hope that
God will put a new spirit inhis people, infact, He will put “His Spirit”inthe
people enabling themto obey. Ezekiel was dependent uponthe Holy Spirit for
his ministry and his life was markedby intimacy with the Spirit. Godentrusted
him withremarkable visions andexperiences.
Ezekiel reminds us that intimacy withthe Holy Spirit is foundational to our lives
and ministries andis to be treasuredandcultivatedabove all.
10 DIFFERENTNAMES IN ISAIAH
8. Spirit of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2; Acts 5:9)
9. Spirit of wisdom (Isaiah 11:2; Ephesians 1:17)
10. Spirit of counsel (Isaiah 11:2)
11. Spirit of might (Isaiah 11:2)
12. Spirit of understanding (Isaiah 11:2)
13. Spirit of knowledge (Isaiah 11:2)

14. Spirit of the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2)
15. Spirit of judgment (Isaiah 4:4; 28:6)
16. Spirit of burning (Isaiah 4:4)
17. Spirit of the Lord God (Isaiah 61:1)
The Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: Isaiah 11:2
TATOO'S IN THE BIBLE.
Isaiah44:3-5 3For I will pour water on the thirsty
land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out
my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessingon your
descendants. 4They will spring up like grass in a
meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. 5Some
will say, 'I belong to the LORD';others will call
themselves by the name of Jacob;still others will write
on their hand, 'The LORD's,'and will take the name
Israel.
Isaiah 49:14-16 14ButZion said, "The LORD has forsakenme, the LORD
has forgottenme." 15"Cana mother forget the baby at her breast and have
no compassionon the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not
forgetyou! 16See, Ihave engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls
are everbefore me.

Isaiah63:7-14
7I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds
for which he is to be praised, accordingto all the
LORD has done for us- yes, the many good things he
has done for Israel, accordingto his compassionand
many kindnesses. 8He said, "Surely they are my
people, children who will be true to me"; and so he
became their Savior. 9In all their distress he too was
distressed,and the angel of his presencesaved them.
In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted
them up and carried them all the days of old. 10Yet
they rebelledand grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned
and became their enemy and he himselffought against
them.
ot and nt are so much alike.
Psalm 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
Lorriane Pintus offers some interesting insights on grieving the Spirit in the Old Testament
-
The Israelites "rebelledand grieved [God's] Holy Spirit" (Isa. 63:10). Psalm
78 documents the actions that prompted God's sorrow. (1) Forgetting God.
"They forgotwhat he had done, the wonders he had shownthem" (Ps. 78:11).
God freed the Israelites from captivity, parted the Red Sea, provided bread in
the desert, and led His people to a prosperous land. "In spite of all this, they

kept on sinning" (Ps. 78:32). God lamented, "Cana mother forgetthe baby at
her breastand have no compassionon the child she has borne? Though she
may forget, I will not forget you" (Isa. 49:15). But "you desertedthe Rock,
who fathered you; you forgotthe God who gave you birth" (Dt. 32:18). (2)
Grumbling. "Theyspoke againstGod" (Ps. 78:19). Daily, God provided the
Israelites with the "bread of angels." Butthey weren't satisfied;they whined
for more. Their complaints made God "exceedinglyangry" (Num. 11:10).
Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses, God's appointed leader. "The angerof
the LORD burned againstthem, and he left them," and Miriam became
leprous (Num. 12:9). When God allowedthe Israelites to glimpse the glory of
the promised land, they grumbled about the greatsize of the people instead of
being grateful for the greatsize of the grapes. Godsighed, "How long will this
wickedcommunity grumble againstme?" (Num. 14:27). (3) Disobedience.
"They did not keepGod's covenantand refused to live by his law" (Ps. 78:10).
"Again and againthey put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel"
(Ps. 78:41). The Israelites'repeateddisobedience saddenedGod. "How long
will you refuse to keepmy commands and my instructions?" He asked(Ex.
16:28). (4) Disbelief. "Theydid not believe in God or trust in his deliverance"
(Ps. 78:22). Ten times God is described in Psalm 78 as being angry, grieved, or
vexed. Disturbed by their lack of faith, God cried, "How long will these people
treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of
all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?" (Nu 14:11).
mark 3:5 After alooking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He
said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was
restored.
Acts 7:51 “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always
resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
Ephesians 4:30-32And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealedfor
the day of redemption."Let all bitterness. all outbreaks of passion, all long-lived anger, all
loud talking, all insulting language be removed from you with all evil. Show yourselves
kind to one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."

You are sealedby the Spirit and so are savedand safe, but you can still grieve Him and
lose favor and suffer in terms of lost guidance and wisdom, and evenpossible judgment.
(lupeo [word study] from lupe = sadness, grief) means to feel deep emotional or physical
pain, distress. As used here lupeo means to afflict one with sorrow.
Amplified: And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [do not offend or vex or sadden Him],
by Whom you were sealed(marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of
redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin).
read EPH 4 verses 29 to 32 and take note of how much of what grieves the Holy Spirit is
due to the abusive use of our wind or breath. He is the source of our breath and when we
use it to do evil and hurt others it is an abuse of his gift. If you give a child a ball to play
with and he uses it to knock other children over by hitting them you will not be happy but
grieved. Words are meant to be a blessing and not a thing of harm. Use them wisely and
you please the Spirit. Use them to hurt and harm and you hurt yourself by grieving the
Spirit.
Note, we have freedom and can use it to hurt our Savior, Father, and Guide. He allows this
kind of freedom just as we do our children who hurt us, but he hates it when we choose to
use that freedom to hurt Him. He wants what every parent wants-love and obedience that
builds a positive relationship.
Barclay, " Paul urges us not to grieve the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the guide of life.
When we act contrary to the counsel of our parents when we are young, we hurt them.
Similarly, to act contrary to the guidance of the Holy Spirit is to grieve the Spirit and to
hurt the heart of God, the Father, who, through the Spirit, sent his word to us."
Barber, "I want to show you something here. When he says, "Do not grieve," the word
"grieve," lupeo, is a love word. In other words, there are several things you can do with the
Holy Spirit. I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is not an "it." He is not the force as
Star Wars tells us. He is a person who lives within us. He is the person, the Spirit of Christ
who lives within us, the third person of the trinity.
Do you ever grieve somebody you love? There have been times that I have said things that
have pierced my wife’s heart, not really knowing how much damage it could actually do.
This was true especially years ago when I was just learning how to walk and live the
Christian life. It’s not as much often now, thank God, as it was then. But when you grieve
somebody you love and you can’t take back what you have said and you know now how
they feel, that is exactly what happens to the Holy Spirit every time we refuse to put on the

new garment of Jesus Christ. It grieves Him. It distresses Him. The word means to distress
someone."
Well, maybe you feel convicted. I am. Do you know what you do when you realize you’ve
sinned? Let me tell you what to do. There is such grace in this. Come right back to where
you departed. You confess, which means you agree with God,
"God, I have missed the mark. I am doing more damage to the body of Christ than I am
building it up and God, I want to stop it."
Secondly, you repent. Now the forgiveness will be there when you confess. You can
appropriate that at that point. Now you must repent.
If you’ve done wrong, if you have been wearing the wrong garment this past week, if
you’ve offended other people and you know by what you have said that you have hurt
them, first of all confess it and make sure you make it right with them and then repent of it.
A young fellow was in the house with his dad and his family. It was warm inside. Outside it
was below zero, the wind blowing, snow stacking up. It was awful outside. Inside it was a
warm house, insulated, fire in the fireplace. You can just get the picture. A ball game on
television. Carpet on the floor. You could smell the bread cooking in the kitchen. Supper
was about ready. It was just where you want to be. The boy was sitting there enjoying it,
and the father looked over at him and said,
"Hey listen, son, put another log on the fire."
The son jumped up and said,
"I am 18 years old and I’m sick and tired of being told what to do when I am in this house.
I am leaving, and you can have it. You do it yourself. If you want a log on the fire, put it on
yourself."
He went upstairs, got a duffle bag, put his clothes in it and walked out of that house. He
walked about a block. The wind was picking up. The chill factor now below zero. The wind
was burning his face it was blowing so hard. He was cold and thinking to himself,
"You know, I was just inside that house and it was warm. I was about ready to eat, and it
was wonderful fellowship. This is sort of stupid."
He finally decides to go back. So he walks back to the house kind of sheepishly and
knocked on the door. The father opened the door and said,
"Hey, son. Good to see you. Beengone 30 minutes. I thought you were leaving for a while.
Good to see you. Come on in. Take your stuff upstairs, unpack and come on down and
watch the ball game with me."

He went downstairs and sat in the chair. Boy, he was glad to be home! This is where he
belongs. While he was sitting there, the father looked over at him and said, "Oh, by the
way, put another log on the fire."
FATHER WELCOMES THE PRODIGAL BACK.
SPURGEON, "Although the word ‘grieve’ is a painful one, yet there is honey in the rock;
for it is an inexpressibly delightful thought, that he who rules heaven and earth, and is the
creator of all things, and the infinite and everblessedGod, condescends to enter into such
infinite relationships with his people that his divine mind may be affected by their actions.
What a marvel that Deity should be said to grieve over the faults of beings so utterly
insignificant as we are!
Sin everywhere must be displeasing to the Spirit of holiness, but sin in his own people is
grievous to him in the highest degree. He will not hate his people, but he does hate their
sins, and hates them all the more because they nestle in his children’s bosoms. The Spirit
would not be the Spirit of truth if he could approve of that which is false in us: he would
not be pure if that which is impure in us did not grieve him.
The Holy Spirit’s grief is not of a petty, oversensitive nature. “He is grieved with us mainly
for our own sakes, for he knows what misery sin will cost us; he reads our sorrows in our
sins . . . He grieves over us because he sees how much chastisement we incur, and how
much communion we lose."
MACDONALD, "The favorite ministry of God’s Spirit is to glorify Christ and to change
the believer into His likeness (2 Cor. 3:18). When a Christian sins, He has to turn from this
ministry to one of restoration. It grieves Him to see the believer’s spiritual progress
interrupted by sin. He must then lead the Christian to the place of repentance and
confession of sin. (Ibid)
Rick Renner has this note on the word group lupe/lupeo
Many years ago, when I first studied the word "grieve" in Ephesians 4:30, I ran to my
bookshelf and pulled out my Greek New Testament to discover exactly what the word
"grieve" meant. I found that this word was taken from the Greek word lupete. This
surprised me, because the word lupete is from the word lupe, which denotes a pain or grief
that can only be experienced between two people who deeply love each other.
This tells us, first of all, that the relationship that exists between us and the Holy Spirit is
precious! The Holy Spirit is deeply in love with us. Just as someone in love thinks about,
dreams of, and cherishes the one he loves, the Holy Spirit longs for us, thinks about us,
desires to be close to us, and wants to reveal Himself to us. But when we act like the world,

talk like the world, behave like the world, and respond the same way the world does, we
cause the Spirit of God to feel shock, hurt, and grief. You see, when we deliberately do
what is wrong, we drag Him right into the mire of sin with us, because He lives in us and
goes wherever we go. The Holy Spirit convicted us of sin and brought us to Jesus; then He
indwelt us, sanctified us, empowered us, and faithfully remains alongside to help us. So
when we deliberately enter into sin, it grieves Him."
Holy Spirit, all divine,
Dwell within this heart of mine;
Cast down every idol throne,
Reign supreme and reign alone. —Reed
Listen To His Promptings - After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia,
but the Spirit did not permit them. —Acts 16:7 On Friday, my day of rest as a pastor, the
Holy Spirit prompted me to call a young single mother in our faith community to see if her
car had been repaired. I had some reservations about making the call, but I obeyed. Little
did I know that my obedience would help save her life. She said later: “Friday at work I
was planning on taking my life; but in a time of need, I believe God was there for me. He
had Pastor Williams call me, and just by listening to his voice, I knew that God loved me.”
The apostle Paul must have had reservations when the Holy Spirit prompted him and his
team not to go into the provinces of Asia and Bithynia. Instead, they felt the Spirit’s call to
go into Macedonia to preach the good news. In each situation, they obeyed the Spirit’s
promptings. As a result, Paul and his team were instrumental in giving birth to a new faith
community in Philippi (Acts 16:11-15). As believers in Christ who are indwelt by the Holy
Spirit (Eph. 2:22), our desire should be to please Him. May we not grieve the Holy Spirit
(Eph. 4:30) by ignoring His gentle promptings. When we obey Him, we might be used by
God to lead someone to Christ, to disciple new believers—or evento help save somebody’s
life. Marvin Williams
Holy Spirit, we would hear
Your inner promptings, soft and clear;
And help us know Your still, small voice

So we may make God's will our choice.
—D. De Haan
Make the right choice: Obey the Spirit's voice.
When God Feels Pain - If you love Me, keepMy commandments. —John 14:15 (Read:
Hebrews 4:14-5:3) A men’s group was discussing the reasons for living a morally pure life.
One man argued that it was fear that kept him in line. Another insisted it was love. But a
third man suggestedthat it was a love-motivated fear. Yes, he did fear the shame, the
disgrace, and the punishment he might endure for wrongdoing, but worst of all was the
fear of making his wife suffer. “I’d rather be beaten to death,” he exclaimed, “than to see
the hurt in the eyes of the woman I love.” That sheds some light on our Savior’s statement,
“If you love Me, keepMy commandments” (Jn. 14:15).
If we willfully break those commandments, we will suffer loss. But it should also matter to
us how God responds to our disobedience. Hosea 11:8 tells us that God the Father feels
loving anguish. Because of Israel’s sin, He said, “My heart churns within Me; My
sympathy is stirred.” Jesus also experiences pain when we disobey. He wept over the city of
Jerusalem when it spurned His love (Lk. 13:34). And in Ephesians 4:30-31, Paul exhorted
believers not to grieve the Holy Spirit by being hard-hearted. If we consider how much
pain God feels when we are disobedient, we will find ample motivation to shun what is
wrong and pursue what is right.
O help me, Lord, to be afraid
Of disobeying You;
And may I bring You highest praise
In everything I do. —Sper
Know this: not only does the Holy Spirit God have a distinct personality, he also can be
specifically sinned against! The New Testament mentions six offenses that can be
committed against the Holy Spirit. Some specifically apply to unbelievers, while others
apply to believers. Still others apply to both.

1. We lie to the Holy Spirit. Acts 5:1–5 tells the story of Ananias and Sapphira, two so-
called Christians who tried to cheat the church out of some money. Peter caught them in
the act and rebuked them, telling them in lying to the Holy Spirit, they had lied to God.
Immediately, Ananias dropped dead.
2. We grieve the Holy Spirit. This offense applies to believers. Ephesians 4:30–31 tells us,
“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealedfor the day of
redemption.
3. We quench the Holy Spirit. This, too, applies to believers. The apostle Paul exhorted the
Thessalonians, “Do not put out the Spirit’s fire” (1 Thess. 5:19). Unbelief certainly can
hinder the working and moving of God’s Holy Spirit. This happened in Jesus’s hometown
as the people questioned his authority. We read that “He did not do many mighty miracles
there because of their lack of faith” (Matt. 13:58). Quenching the Spirit can occur when the
Holy Spirit is leading you to do a certain thing, such as sharing your faith with someone,
praying more, or taking a stepof faith in a certain area, and you flatly refuse to do it.
4. We resist the Holy Spirit. Stephen, as he spoke to the unbelieving Sanhedrin, said, “You
stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers:
You always resist the Holy Spirit!” (Acts 7:51).
5. We insult the Holy Spirit. When someone refuses to accept Jesus Christ, he is denying
the very mission of the Holy Spirit. He’s saying he doesn’t need salvation or doesn’t believe
Jesus Christ can save him or that Jesus’s work on the cross was unnecessary. Hebrews
warns, “How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has
trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the
covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Heb.10:29).
Therefore, to resist the Holy Spirit’s appeal is to insult God and cut off all hope of
salvation. The Bible poses this alarming question: “How shall we escape if we ignore such a
great salvation?” (Heb. 2:3).
6. We blaspheme the Holy Spirit. This is the unpardonable sin, which can be committed
only by unbelievers. In speaking of this sin, Jesus said, "And so I tell you, every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks
against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."
(Matthew 12:31–32)
Ray Pritchard

Ephesians 4:29-32 - “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those
who listen.”
What the NIV translates as “unwholesome talk,” the King James translates as “corrupt
communication.” The underlying Greek word means “rotten.” It was used for decaying
flesh, rotten fish or rotten fruit. The meaning is, “Don’t let any putrid words come out of
your mouth.” Or we might say in street lingo, “No trash talk!” Why is this so important?
Proverbs 18:21 says, “The tongue has the power of life and death.” Every time you open
your mouth either life or death comes out. The Bible speaks of the throat as an “"open
grave” (Romans 3:13). When there is death on the inside, it will eventually show up in the
your words. According to Proverbs 12:18, “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the
tongue of the wise brings healing.” And James 3:5-6 offers this penetrating warning:
Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a
great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among
the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire,
and is itself set on fire by hell.
Ephesians 4:29 offers a Christian alternative: First, we are to speak good words that build
up instead of tearing down. Second, we are to speak words that minister grace to those who
hear them. And we are to do it all the time and in every circumstance. We are to speak
good words that bring grace according to the need of the moment. Here is the teaching of
the verse put very simply:
Every word … all good … all grace … all the time.
Every time I speak carelessly, I hurt at least three people: The person I speak carelessly
about. Myself. The Holy Spirit. Every time I open my mouth, one of two things will
happen: I build someone up, or I tear someone down.
This does not mean that we will never say anything hard or difficult. The warning goes to
motive or purpose and must be judged by the context. Proverbs 27:6 reminds us that
“faithful are the wounds of a friend” (KJV). Sometimes true friends “wound” each other in
order to bring healing. Just as a doctor must sometimes cut us in surgery in order to
remove what is killing us, true friends sometimes say things that aren’t easy to hear. Rotten
Attitudes

Those things must go … and be replaced with something much better. “Be kind and
compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you”
(Eph 4:32).
Kindness speaks of gentleness in the face of provocation. It reaches out to the unworthy
and withholds punishment evenwhen it is deserved. Kindness is daring and dangerous
because some mistake it for weakness. It is “the oil that lubricates the machinery of life.”
Isaiah63 see verse 1-10
11Then his people recalledthe days of old, the days of
Moses and his people-where is he who brought them
through the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where
is he who set his Holy Spiritamong them, 12who sent
his glorious arm of power to be at Moses' right hand,
who dividedthe waters before them, to gain for
himself everlastingrenown, 13who led them through
the depths? Like a horse in open country, they did not
stumble;
14likecattle that go down to the plain, they were given
rest by the Spirit of the LORD. This is how you guided
your people to make for yourself a glorious name.

Numbers 11:29
Numbers 11:29 29But Moses replied, "Are you jealous
for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's peoplewere
prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on
them!"
Judges 13:24-25New InternationalVersion(NIV)
24 The woman gave birth to a boy and named him
Samson. He grew and the Lord blessedhim, 25 and
the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him while he was in
Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Three times the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson (Jdg 13:25, 14:6; 14:19; 15:14), and
it is implied in his other exploits as well. In the OT the Spirit came upon individuals to
empower them for special service and He did not permanently indwell them in contrast to
the NT (Jn 14:16,17).
His final feat of superhuman strength, pulling down the temple of Dagon and slaying more
than 3000 Philistine leaders and people, came in answer to his final prayer to God (Jdg
16:28). His right to call upon God like this in these times of great need was contingent,
however, upon his obedience to his Nazarite vows, specifically never to cut his hair (Jdg
16:17; Nu 6:5). Clearly, Samson was a man who yielded frequently to the lusts of his flesh
(Jas 1:14-note, Jas 1:15-note), but amazingly God's Spirit still classifies this man of
frequent failure as a man of faith in Hebrews 11 (Heb 11:32-note).

Isaiah61:1-3
Isaiah61:1-3 1The Spirit of the SovereignLORD is on
me, because the LORD has anointedme to proclaim
good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaimfreedom for the captives
and releasefrom darkness for the prisoners, 2to
proclaimthe year of the LORD's favorand the day of
vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3and
providefor those who grieve in Zion- to bestow on
them a crown of beauty insteadof ashes, the oil of joy
insteadof mourning, and a garment of praiseinstead
of a spiritof despair. They will be calledoaks of
righteousness, a plantingof the LORD for the display
of his splendor.
All of those last phrases refer to the glorious year of Jubilee, when the mortgaged lands
return to their former owners, to the families to whom God hath allotted it, when those
who were sold in debt were liberated and freed, when the slaves were given their
everlasting pardon [Leviticus 25:8-55].
He transforms ashes into beauty, sorrow into joy, & despair into praise 3.6.1. Oh, that we
would care for the outcasts like Jesus! 3.6.1.1. How do we? Be anointed as Jesus was w/the
Holy Spirit.

3.7. (3) Beauty for ashes – or, a priests turban, or garland, or headdress. 3.7.1. Oh, the
ashes of this sin cursed earth! 3.7.2. Ashes a symbol of sorrow, grief, bereavement, failure,
despair. 3.7.3. Garland a lovely fragrant symbol of joy, gladness, blessing, success, reward.
3.7.4. Jesus has come to replace earthly sin & sorrow with heavenlybestowed garlands of
salvation & consolation & blessing. 3.8. He came to give… 3.8.1. The garland of hope for
the ashes of fear; The garland of love for the ashes of hate; The garland of new promise
for the ashes of regret; The garland of divine friendship for the ashes of human loneliness
The garland of joy in God for the ashes of sorrow in sin; The garland of inward healing for
the ashes of soul sickness; The garland of moral victory for the ashes of defeat; The
garland of spiritual liberty for the ashes of bondage; The garland of heart’s ease for the
ashes of unrest; The garland of godly contentment for the ashes of worldly envy; The
garland of a worthwhile life for the ashes of godless pleasure The garland of victory &
holiness for the ashes of defeat;2
OIL OF JOY
There’s a story of an eccentric old man who carried an oil can with him everywhere he
went. If he passed through a squeaky door or a stiff gate, he applied oil to the hinges. His
practice of lubricating made life easierfor those who followed after him.
Nearly every day we encounter people whose lives creak and grate harshly with problems.
In such situations we face two choices—either to aggravate their problems with a spirit of
criticism or to lubricate their lives in the Spirit of Christ.
Some people we meet carry unbearable burdens and long for the oil of a sympathetic word.
Others are defeated and feel like giving up. Just one drop of encouragement could restore
their hope. Still others are mean and sin-hardened. Such people can become pliable toward
the saving grace of Christ through regular applications of the oil of kindness.
When we receive Christ as our Savior and Lord, the Holy Spirit indwells us and equips us
to bless others. If we’re prepared to pour out God’s oil of helpfulness every day and
everywhere, beginning at home, we’ll minister Christ’s beauty and the oil of joy to many
hurting people.
spurgeon

“The oil of joy for mourning.” Isaiah 61:3.
MOURNERS in Zion ought to be doubly comforted, for here, in this gracious
promise, is a secondgift of divine love to them—a secondexchange ofloss for
gain. The varied expressions ofthis choice Scripture show the manifold
lovingkindnesses ofthe Lord to His afflicted and the plentiful devices of
wisdom by which He ministers consolation. It was not enoughto give the
sorrowing ones, “beautyfor ashes”—He must add oil with which to enhance
the beauty and take away, not only the ashes, but the mourning which lay
beneath them!
OUR LOVING LORD BRINGS HIS MOURNERS TO SIT AT A FEAST.
This is clearly intended, for oil was largely used by Orientals upon festive
occasions.The oil which makes man’s face to shine was associatedwith the
bread which strengthens man’s heart, and the wine which makes gladthe
heart of man, (Psa 104:15), because these are the chief provisions of a
banquet. Before the feast, or during the entertainment, the guests were
refreshedwith perfumed oil which would be either poured upon the head, or
furnished for anointing the face. It was part and parcel of a greatfeast. Hence
we read of those who “drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with their
chief ointments.” Therefore our first thought is this, that the Lord Jesus
brings mourning souls to a feastof love at which they sing, “You prepare a
table before me in the presence ofmy enemies, You anoint my head with oil.”
How greatwill be our joy if we can feelthat our Lord has brought us into His
banqueting house and that we are now reclining there! Now, to all believers,
this is truly the case.Our hunger now is relieved, for He satisfies our mouth
with goodthings.
! A supernatural life has been implanted in us that cannotdie because it is
born of God! We have this and we know it—and because ofit we greatly
rejoice. And not only so, but because we are the sons of God, we are heirs
according to the promise, since it is written, “If children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ.” Is not this oil to make the face shine? What
better delights can your imagination conceive than the divine joys of
adoption? O, you mourners, have you not here the oil of joy? Further, we
have the presentjoy of a high calling involving the exercise ofsacred

functions. You are at this hour, beloved, as many of you as believe in Him,
made kings and priests unto God! You are consecratedto the service of Him
who has bought you with a price. The mark of the blood is upon you and “you
are Christ’s.” At this moment you are a living sacrifice bound with cords to
the horns of the altar. Your Lord has sent you into the world, even as the
Father sentHim into the world, to proclaim His truth and to do His will
among the sons of men. Is not this cause for delight? Does not your divine
vocationanoint you with the oil of gladness?
The Garment of Praise
“__ __ __ the Lord has anointed me to preachgoodthings to the depressed,
the afflicted, and the humble. To heal the brokenhearted, setthe captives
free, and open prison doors for those who can’t getout of bondage. To give to
them who mourn, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.” (Isaiah61:1,3)
In this Scripture, God promises to give us beauty for the bitter ashes ofregret
for mistakes andwrong choices we have made that burned up our hopes and
dreams leaving us only their ashes to remember them by. God will actually
turn those ashes into something beautiful in your life if you will release them
and let Him.
He also promised to give us the oil of joy when we are mourning and grieving
over the loss of loved ones in our life, and the loss of things we wanted to hold
on to. There does not have to be the death of a personfor us to feel mourning

and sorrow, it can also come from the mental anguish & suffering overthe
loss of something we hoped for all of our life, but it was takenfrom us, and
would never belong to us again. Godwill dry your tears and replace your
sorrow with joy --- He can do that because He knows your future, and the joy
of the blessings He has planned for you will far outweighany loss you have
experienced.
The third precious promise we are given in this Scripture is the one we are
going to talk about today. Godpromises to give us “the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness.” Byusing the words, “the garment,” God is telling us
it is not just a garment to coverup heaviness, but it is the garment -- meaning
the only garment that will drive awaya heavy spirit --- and that is the
garment of praise.
A garment is a piece of clothing that you put on to coveryourself. So the
garment of praise is a spiritual garment that you put on to coveryour spirit.
In other words, a garment of praise is a garment to put on the inside of you
instead of the outside. And the spiritual garment of praise is the only one that
is designed, by the designer(God) to be just the right size to cover and replace
the spirit of heaviness.
So a garment told much about a person: • A garment of pure white linen
showedall Egypt that Josephwas in command. • A purple garment was only
for a king. • A black garment like ashes was forwidows mourning for their
husband. • A garment of sackcloth(gunny sacks)was forthose in grief &
greatloss. • A colorful garment was provided for eachwedding guestby
wealthy hosts. • A garment for shepherds was made of skins. • A garment for
soldiers was red. • Angels garments were long, white, and shining. • Garments
for priests were of finest white linen. They had to wearthese garments to
come into God’s presence to praise Him. They were to enter His gates with
thanksgiving in their hearts and praise on their lips.

In order to offer the sacrifice of praise (adoration and worship), we too have
to put on the spiritual garment of praise as a priest unto God to come into His
presence. “Youalso, as a living stone are built into a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices(ofpraise), acceptable unto God by
Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter2:5)
In the book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible, Jesus is receiving praise
because He died (and rose from the dead), and has redeemed us (bought us),
by His blood to presentus to God. He has made us kings and priests unto
God. We will rule and reign with Jesus when He comes back to earth!! And
when we stand before God, He will clothe us in white robes – a garment
without spot or blemish. He made the first garments, and He will make the
last.
I delight greatly inthe Lord; my soul rejoices inmy God. For he has clothedme
withgarments of salvation. . . . — Isaiah 61:10
Put on the garment of praise
For the spirit of heaviness
Lift up your voice to God
Praise withthe Spirit
And withunderstanding

Oh magnify the Lord!
All you that mourn in Zion
I have authority
To appoint unto you in Zion
Oil of joy that will set you free
Lift up the hands that hang down
Lift up the voice now still
Give unto God continuous praise
Sing forthfrom Zion's hill
Sing toYahweh, alleluia!
Worshipand praise our God
Praise and adore Him
Bow down before Him
Oh, magnify the Lord
It is possible to Praise God Occasionally. But there may be one or two people
here today that will sayanytime you see me you will see 'PRAISE'.
I will be praising God all the time. In Psalm34:1 We see someone who
wearing "PRAISE" as the "GARMENT".

David said.....Iwill bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be
in my mouth.
David said His PRAISE, NotComplain, or Mourning, or Crying.
Now the GARMENT is now left for us wether to wearit or not.
David said In PsalmP 108:1-3.....OGod, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give
praise, even with my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake
early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people:and I will sing praises
unto thee among the nations.
In another word David is saying There is nothing that canchange this
"GARMENT". Am going to wearit. It means Lord I will Praise you.
One thing you need to know about the Garment of Praise is that!
There Is A Link BetweenThe Garment Of Praise And Irreversible Blessing.
Example:- Wheneveryou hear somebody say"I Will Praise God At All Time"
Then God will turn at the fellow and say.... I Will bless you at all time.
When David said... Oh Lord my heart is fixe I will Praise You. ( Psalm57:7 )
LUKE 4:18-21
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointedme to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted,to preach

deliveranceto the captives, and recoveringof sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
poor
"He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor" [Luke 4:18]. To the poor – why
name them? Because they are so oft overlooked and forgotten and neglected. It is easy to
pass them by. The most tender and kindest thing, I think, that I think I found in the Word
of God about Jesus is, "And the common people, the poor people, heard Him gladly"
[Mark 12:37]. They crowded around Him. His words were manna. They were water of
life. They were salvation. And the common people, the poor people, thronged Him and
heard Him gladly.
BROKEN, "The broken-hearted, to bind up the brokenhearted" [Luke 4:18; Isaiah 61:1].
You know, when you break a bone, the physician can so easily splint it and bind it, and it
heals – a broken arm or a hand or a broken foot or a leg. But who is able to bind up the
fractured heart? When the spirit is cowed, and the heart is crushed, and the life is
wretched, when it seems that there is no strength left to fight in the battle of life, when we
are forsaken and forgot and passed by, when we are like an abandoned vessel that floats on
the bosom of the deep.
CAPTIVES
"To preach deliverance to the captives" [Luke 4:18] – these that are in prison. They wear
the galling yoke of sin. They’re behind iron bars and stone walls. They are slaves to sin.
"To announce to them deliverance and freedom" – the opening of the doors. He is the
great liberator and emancipator; to deliver us from sin to salvation, from wrong to right,
from selfishness to service, from hell to heaven, to put a song on our lips and praises in our
hearts, to deliver those who are in prison.
BLIND, " "The recovering of sight to the blind" [Luke 4:18]. That’s a reference to sin.
Sin blinds a man’s eyes. Sin never paid off, never. And to be stumbling and staggering in
the world of sin is to be like a man groping in midnight darkness. To open our eyes that
the light of the glory of God might shine upon us.

19 To preach the acceptableyear of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that
were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this
scripturefulfilledin your ears.
So this is the text that our Lord did read when He preached His first great message in
Nazareth.
MACLAREN, "In the little synagogue of Nazareth Jesus began His ministry by laying His
hand upon this great prophecy and saying, ‘It is Mine! I have fulfilled it.’ The prophet had
been painting the ideal Messianic Deliverer, with special reference to the return from the
Babylonian captivity. That was ‘the liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to
them that are bound,’ and about which he was thinking. But no external deliverance of that
sort could meet the needs, nor satisfy the aspirations, of a soul that knows itself and its
circumstances. Isaiah, spoke greater things than he knew.
There is another beautiful thing in our text, which comes out more distinctly if we follow
the RevisedVersion, and read ‘to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.’ There we have two contrasted
pictures suggested: one of a mourner with grey ashes strewed upon his dishevelled locks,
and his spirit clothed in gloom like a black robe; and to him there comes One who, with
gentle hand, smoothes the ashes out of his hair, trains a garland round his brow, anoints his
head with oil, and, stripping off the trappings of woe, casts about him a bright robe fit for a
guest at a festival. That is the miracle that Jesus Christ can do for every one, and is ready
to do for us, if we will let Him.
Christ as the Emancipator, Christ as the Deliverer, Christ as He who brings us out of the
prison of bondage of the tyranny of sin, who is the great Joy-Giver. For there is no real,

deep, fundamental and impregnable gladness possible to a man until his relations to God
have been rectified, and until, with these rectified relations, with the consciousness of
forgiveness and the divine love nestling warm at his heart, he has turned himself away from
his dread and his sin, and has recognised in his Father God ‘the gladness of his joy.’
John G. Crabbe
I sing the love of God, my Father,
Whose Spirit abides within,
Who changes all my grief to gladness,
And pardons me all my sin.
Though clouds may lower, dark and dreary,
Yet He has promised to be near;
He gives me sunshine for my shadow,
And beauty for ashes here.
Refrain
He gives me joy in place of sorrow;
He gives me love that casts out fear;
He gives me sunshine for my shadow,
I sing the love of God, my Savior,
Who suffered upon the tree,
That, in the secret of His presence,
My bondage might freedom be.
He comes to bind the brokenhearted;
He comes the fainting soul to cheer;
He gives me oil of joy for mourning,

Refrain
I sing the beauty of the Gospel
That scatters, not thorns, but flowers,
That bids me scatter smiles and sunbeams
Wherever are lonely hours.
The garment of His praise it offers
For heaviness of spirit drear;
It gives me sunshine for my shadow,
Refrain
Philip Doddridge, December 28, 1735.
Hark, the glad sound! The Savior comes,
The Savior promised long!
Let every heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.
On Him the Spirit, largely poured,
Exerts its sacred fire;
Wisdom and might, and zeal and love,
His holy breast inspire.
He comes the prisoners to release,
In Satan’s bondage held;
The gates of brass before Him burst,
The iron fetters yield.
He comes from thickest films of vice

To clear the mental ray,
And on the eye-balls of the blind
To pour celestial day. *
He comes the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure;
And with the treasures of His grace
To enrich the humble poor.
His silver trumpets publish loud
The jubilee of the Lord
Our debts are all remitted now,
Our heritage restored.
Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim;
And Heaven’s eternal arches ring
With Thy belovèd name.
Put on the garments of praise
Let the oil of gladness flow down
From Your throne
Put on the garments of praise
Your joy is my strength alone
My strength alone

Make these broken weary bones
Rise to dance again
Wet this dry and thirsty land
With a river
Lord our eyes are fixed on You
We are waiting
For Your garland of grace
As we praise Your name
READ LUKE 4 VERSE 28-30 TO SEE THE RESULT OF HIS FIRST SERMON
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did
not withholdyour manna from their mouths, and you
gave them water for their thirst (Nehemiah9:20;
Nehemiah9:30 30Formany years you were patient
with them. By your Spirit you warned them through
your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave
them into the hands of the neighboringpeoples.

But it is the Spirit in a man, the breath of the
Almighty, that gives him understanding(Job 32:8).
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may
your good Spiritlead me on level ground (Psalm
143:10).
The Holy Spirit as the Manifestationof God’s
Presence
Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy
Spirit from me (Psalm51:11).
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee
from your presence? (Psalm139:7).
By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord, and
trouble came to Moses because of them; for they

rebelled againstthe Spirit of God, and rash words
came from Moses’ lips (Psalm106:32-33).
“Woeto the obstinatechildren,”declares the LORD,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
Forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin
upon sin; who go down to Egypt without consulting
me; who lookfor help to Pharaoh’s protection, to
Egypt’s shade for refuge” (Isaiah 30:1-2).
“But they refused to pay attention;stubbornlythey
turned their backs and stoppedup their ears. They
made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen
to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty
had sent by his Spirit through the earlierprophets. So
the LORD Almighty was very angry (Zechariah 7:11-
12).
The Holy Spirit Filledand Empowered Men in the Old
Testament

A. Craftsmen, Artists, Designers, Builders:
Bezalel (and others, involvedwith tabernacle
furnishings):
And I have filledhim with the Spirit of God, with skill,
abilityand knowledge in all kinds of crafts (Exodus
31:3).
Then Moses saidto the Israelites, “See, the LORD has
chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, and he has filledhim with the Spirit of God,
with skill, abilityand knowledge in all kinds of
crafts—to make artisticdesigns for work in gold,
silverand bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in
wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic
craftsmanship. And he has given both him and
Oholiabson of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the
abilityto teach others. He has filledthem with skill to
do all kinds of work as craftsmen, designers,
embroiderers in blue, purple and scarletyarn and fine
linen, and weavers—allof them master craftsmen and
designers. So Bezalel, Oholiaband every skilled
person to whom the LORD has given skill and ability
to know how to carry out all the work of constructing

the sanctuary are to do the work just as the LORD has
commanded” (Exodus 35:30–36:1).
David(design of the temple):
He gave him the plans of all that the Spirit had put in
his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and
all the surroundingrooms, for the treasuriesof the
temple of God and for the treasuriesfor the dedicated
things (1 Chronicles28:12).
B. Administratorsand Leaders (includingkings):
Joseph:
So Pharaohaskedthem, “Can we find anyone like this
man, one in whom is the spirit of God?” (Genesis
41:38).
Numbers 11:17, 25-29
Moses and the 70 Elders who help him:
17 “I will come down and speak with you there, and I
will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit
on them. They will help you carry the burden of the

people so that you will not have to carry it alone.”…
25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke
with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him
and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the
Spirit rested on them, they prophesied,but they did
not do so again. 26 However, two men, whose names
were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp.
They were listedamong the elders, but did not go out
to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and
they prophesiedin the camp. 29 But Moses replied,
“Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the
Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would
put his Spiriton them!” (Numbers 11:17, 25-29).
David:
13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointedhim in
the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the
Spirit of the Lord came upon Davidin power.
“The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me; his word
was on my tongue (2 Samuel 23:2

also Acts 1:16; 4:25).
Acts 1:16 16andsaid, "Brothers and sisters, the
Scripture had to be fulfilledin which the Holy Spirit
spoke long ago through DavidconcerningJudas, who
served as guide for those who arrestedJesus.
4:25, "You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the
mouth of your servant, our father David:"'Whydo
the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
C. The Judges of Israel:
Othniel:
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, so that he
became Israel’s judge and went to war. The Lord gave
Cushan-Rishathaimking of Aram into the hands of
Othniel, who overpoweredhim (Judges 3:10).
Gideon:
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he
blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow
him (Judges 6:34).

Jephthah:
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. He
crossedGileadand Manasseh, passedthrough Mizpah
of Gilead, and from there he advancedagainstthe
Ammonites (Judges 11:29).
Samson:
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him while he
was in MahanehDan, between Zorah and Eshtaol
(Judges 13:25).
6 The Spirit of the Lord came upon him in power so
that he tore the lionapart with his bare hands as he
might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his
father nor his mother what he had done… 19 Then the
Spirit of the Lord came upon him in power. He went
down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men,
stripped them of their belongings and gave their
clothes to those who had explainedthe riddle. Burning
with anger, he went up to his father’s house(Judges
14:6, 19).
As he approachedLehi, the Philistines came toward
him shouting. The Spiritof the Lord came upon him
in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred

flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands (Judges
15:14).
D. The Prophets:
Balaam:
When Balaamlookedout and saw Israel encamped
tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him
(Numbers 24:2).
Isaiah:
“Come near me and listento this: “From the first
announcementI have not spoken in secret; at the time
it happens I am there.” And now the SovereignLORD
has sent me, with his Spirit. This is what the LORD
says—yourRedeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am
the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for
you, who directs you in the way you shouldgo” (Isaiah
48:16-17).
Ezekiel:
He said to me, “Son of man, stand up on your feet and
I will speak to you.” As he spoke, the Spirit came into

me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him
speaking to me. He said: “Son of man, I am sending
you to the Israelites, to a rebelliousnationthat has
rebelled againstme; they and their fathers have been
in revoltagainstme to this very day” (Ezekiel 2:1-3;
cf. also 3:12, 14, 24; 11:1, 5, 24; 13:3;43:5).
Micah:
“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not
prophesy about these things: disgracewill not
overtakeus.” Should it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is
the Spirit of the Lord angry?
Does he do such things?” (Micah 2:6-7)
“But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit
of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to
Jacobhis transgression, to Israel his sin” (Micah 3:8).
E. Others, Who Spoke to Men for God:
Amasai:
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the Thirty,
and he said: “Weare yours, O David!We are with
you, O son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and

success to those who help you, for your God will help
you.” So Davidreceivedthem and made them leaders
of his raiding bands (1 Chronicles 12:18).
Azariah:
The Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded (2
Chronicles15:1).
Jehaziel:
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel son of
Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son
of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendantof Asaph, as he
stoodin the assembly(2 Chronicles20:14).
Zechariah:
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of
Jehoiadathe priest. He stoodbefore the people and
said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the
Lord’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you
have forsaken the Lord, he has forsakenyou’” (2
Chronicles24:20).

22 “Thereforesay to the house of Israel, ‘This is what
the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, O
house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but
for the sake of my holy name, which you have
profanedamong the nations where you have gone. 23 I
will show the holinessof my great name, which has
been profanedamong the nations, the name you have
profanedamong them. Then the nations will know
that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when
I show myself holy through you before their eyes. 24
“‘ForI will take you out of the nations;I will gather
you from all the countries and bring you back into
your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you,
and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your
impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a
new heart and put a new spiritin you; I will remove
from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of
flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you
to followmy decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 You will livein the land I gave your forefathers;
you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will
save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the
grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine
upon you. 30 I will increasethe fruit of the trees and

the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer
disgrace among the nations because of famine. 31
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked
deeds, and you will loatheyourselves for your sins and
detestablepractices. 32 I want you to know that I am
not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign
Lord. Be ashamed and disgracedfor your conduct, O
house of Israel! (Ezekiel 36:22-32).
I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will
pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the
SovereignLord” (Ezekiel 39:29).
Haggai
3 ‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former
glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem
to you like nothing? 4 But now be strong, O
Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord. ‘Be strong, O Joshua
son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you
people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For
I am with you,’ declares the Lord Almighty. 5 ‘This is
what I covenantedwith you when you came out of

Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not
fear.’ 6 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a
little while I will once more shake the heavens and the
earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all
nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I
will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty.
8 ‘The silveris mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the
Lord Almighty. 9 ‘The glory of this present house will
be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says
the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant
peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty” (Haggai 2:3-9).
Zechariah
6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to
Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my
Spirit,’says the Lord Almighty. 7 “Whatare you, O
mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become
level ground. Then he will bring out the capstoneto
shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’” 8 Then the
word of the Lord came to me: 9 “The hands of
Zerubbabel have laid the foundationof this temple;
his hands will also completeit. Then you will know
that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you (Zechariah
4:6-9).

I lookedup again—andthere before me were four
chariots coming out from between two mountains—
mountains of bronze! The first chariothad red horses,
the second black, the third white, and the fourth
dappled—all of them powerful. I asked the angel who
was speakingto me, “Whatare these, my lord?” The
angel answered me, “Theseare the four spirits of
heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the
Lord of the whole world. The one with the black
horses is going toward the north country, the one with
the white horses toward the west, and the one with the
dappled horses toward the south.” When the powerful
horses went out, they were strainingto go throughout
the earth. And he said, “Go throughoutthe earth!” So
they went throughout the earth. Then he called to me,
“Look, those going toward the north country have
given my Spirit rest in the land of the north”
(Zechariah 6:1-8).
10 “And I will pour out on the house of Davidand the
inhabitantsof Jerusalema spirit of grace and
supplication. They will look on me, the one they have
pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns
for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one
grieves for a firstbornson. 11 On that day the weeping

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