Why the ministry of the Holy Spirit is so Critical in our Lives.

It all started with Jesus accomplishing his mission on earth. He paid for the sins of all mankind on the cross. After that He rose from the dead, to have his ministry with God the Father in heaven. Now, His mission is to pray for us 24/7 where there is a constant battle going on in heaven. Satan is there accusing the brethren and Jesus is there as our advocate to the Father.
Jesus didn’t want to leave us without that personal touch from God like the world had when he was here on earth the first time, so he said he was going to send us a helper.
In John 14:16 Jesus said “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
18“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19“After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. 20“In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

This is how God makes His relationship personal to us. It’s through the Spirit of God living in us. This is a special privilege for all of us in the church age. The Holy Spirit never lived in anyone in the Old Testament. Oh He would come and accomplish his mission in people like David and the prophets, but when His mission was accomplished, He would leave. Never in history has the Spirit of God actually lived in individuals until the church began in Acts chapter 2. When the church is raptured, the Spirit will no longer be indwelling people during the great tribulation. So as you can see, we happen to be living in one of the greatest times God ever developed for man. A time window where God the Holy Spirit will actually be living in all true believers.

There is only one caveat that mars this wonderful gift of God, it’s sin in the believer’s life. Sin doesn’t cause the Holy Spirit to leave the believer, but the bible says we grieve the Holy Spirit with our sin. What happens is, sin blocks God’s power from flowing through our lives. This is described as the believer living in the flesh. Oh we may try to do ministry, but we fall flat, because it’s void of God’s power.

This is why the ministry of the Spirit is critical to every believer. For example, the apostles all left Jesus the night he was on trial for His life. They ran away. Fear filled their hearts, their flesh gripped them, but after acts chapter two, all those apostles were baptized in the Spirit and were so filled with God’s power, they were willing to take the gospel out to the then known world, and they were all martyred accept the Apostle John who was boiled in oil, and because he wouldn’t die was imprisoned on the island of Patmos where he wrote the book of Revelation.

My question for all of us today is, Do we really understand the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Are you seeing His power, are you sharing the gospel? Do we have that drive to accomplish God’s will here in the calling He’s given us? Think about it, let me know what you think.

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