Rockwood Church Connect Group Insert
Sermon #116 What About the Holy Spirit? Pastor Shane Ogle
*I Cor 2:14-16
1. Public Gift of _____________________.
I Cor 12:7; 14:2-6, 10, 20-25, 40
2. Personal Prayer _______________________.
OT= Hand of God: Guides, Provides, _________________________.
I Cor 12:3, Jn 20:22, Acts 1:4-8, Acts 2:38-39
a. Wisdom for _____________________.
b. Power for ______________________.
c. ____________________________ for the weary.
d. Strength is __________________________.
Rom 8:26-27, I Cor 14:2
Historical:
Literary:
Scientific: (Pennsylvania University)
Missional: (20th Century Salvations)
Spiritual:
Biblical: (Moses, Joel, Peter)
Psalm 16:11 (Believe, Ask, Open your heart, Pray out loud)
Connect Group Questions for Further Study
Getting to Know YOU
1. Have you seen past abuses of the gifts of the Spirit (by yourself or others)that perhaps turned you away from the Spirit’s work in your own life’s experiences? How might you overcome those abuses/ hurts?
2. Have you ever experienced the supernatural presence of God in a Spirit-filled service that you knew was from God? How did that make you feel?
3. How did it make you feel when you found out God wanted to you to have a relationship with Him and leave behind “dead religion”?
Passages to Ponder
1. Read Acts 18:24-19:7. What do you suppose it means when it says that Aquila and Priscilla “explained the way more accurately/ fully” to Apollos? It seems Apollos was already a powerful preacher before this explanation, why would he need their “teaching”? Notice Paul came and taught to the Ephesian Church what Apollos had not. Does this story surprise you? Why or why not?
2. Read Acts 10:44-47. How was it known that Cornelius and his household were baptized in the Spirit?
Show Me the Way
1. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not a one-time experience. Why would it be an ongoing thing in a person’s life? Or, What is God’s purpose in it?
2. How might the Baptism of the Holy Spirit make you better than “you”?
3. What was the one big takeaway you got from this message?
Another great work of the Holy Spirit, which is not accomplished, is the bringing on of the latter-day glory. In a few more years—I know not when, I know not how—the Holy Spirit will be poured out in a far different style from the present. There are diversities of operations; and during the last few years it has been the case that the diversified operations have consisted in very little pouring out of the Spirit. Ministers have gone on in dull routine, continually preaching—preaching—preaching, and little good has been done. I do hope that perhaps a fresh era has dawned upon us, and that there is a better pouring out of the Spirit even now. For the hour is coming, and it may be even now is, when the Holy Ghost shall be poured out again in such a wonderful manner, that many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased—the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the surface of the great deep; when his kingdom shall come, and his will shall be done on earth even as it is in heaven. We are not going to be dragging on forever like Pharaoh, with the wheels off his chariot. My heart exults, and my eyes flash with the thought that very likely I shall live to see the outpouring of the Spirit; when "the sons and the daughters of God again shall prophesy, and the young men shall see visions and the old men shall dream dreams." ~Charles Spurgeon, The Power of the Holy Spirit, June 17, 1855
…the folk of Rivendell were gathered…intent upon the music of the voices and the instruments, and they gave no heed to anything else. Frodo began to listen.
At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as he began to attend to them. Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. Swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.
There he wandered long in a dream of music that turned into running water, and then suddenly into a voice.
~J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Rings Vol 1, pg 227 Houghton Mifflin Publishers
Another great work of the Holy Spirit, which is not accomplished, is the bringing on of the latter-day glory. In a few more years—I know not when, I know not how—the Holy Spirit will be poured out in a far different style from the present. There are diversities of operations; and during the last few years it has been the case that the diversified operations have consisted in very little pouring out of the Spirit. Ministers have gone on in dull routine, continually preaching—preaching—preaching, and little good has been done. I do hope that perhaps a fresh era has dawned upon us, and that there is a better pouring out of the Spirit even now. For the hour is coming, and it may be even now is, when the Holy Ghost shall be poured out again in such a wonderful manner, that many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased—the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the surface of the great deep; when his kingdom shall come, and his will shall be done on earth even as it is in heaven. We are not going to be dragging on forever like Pharaoh, with the wheels off his chariot. My heart exults, and my eyes flash with the thought that very likely I shall live to see the outpouring of the Spirit; when "the sons and the daughters of God again shall prophesy, and the young men shall see visions and the old men shall dream dreams." ~Charles Spurgeon, The Power of the Holy Spirit, June 17, 1855
…the folk of Rivendell were gathered…intent upon the music of the voices and the instruments, and they gave no heed to anything else. Frodo began to listen.
At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as he began to attend to them. Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. Swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.
There he wandered long in a dream of music that turned into running water, and then suddenly into a voice.
~J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Rings Vol 1, pg 227 Houghton Mifflin Publishers
