THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT YEAR 9 2020/2021

 

THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 

                                                          

CONTENTS: 

1. The Promise –John 14; 16:5-16; Acts 1:3-5,8

 2. The Coming of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-13.


 THE PROMISE     

The Holy Spirit is referred to as God the Spirit. He is the third

 personality in the trinity of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is

 also called the counsellor, comforter, instructor and teacher 

that direct the affairs of the Church. The Greek name for the

 Holy Spirit is paraclete.

Jesus made several appearances to His disciples within the

 period of forty days after His resurrection. It was during this

 period He gave His disciples the great commission to

 evangelize the whole world by teaching and preaching to the

 people and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and

 Holy Spirit.

Jesus instructed his disciples to remain in Jerusalem till they

 receive the power from above which is the Holy Spirit which

 the Father will send unto them. He said, John the Baptist

 baptized with water but in a few days time they would be

 baptized with Holy Spirit:

“John baptized you with water, but before many days you

 shall 

be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Jesus assured them that when the Holy Spirit comes, He will

 guide them into all truth. This is referred to as the promise of

 the father.


IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. It enables one to work effectively for God.

2. The Holy Spirit gives wisdom to understand the gospel

 message.

3. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual courage to preach and win

 souls for God.

4.The Holy spirit melts the heart of stones and replace it with

 the heart of flesh


THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Jews have many festivals. One of the Jewish festivals

 was the Pentecost. It is also called the feast of weeks.

The Pentecost was an agricultural festival held seven 

weeks or on the fiftieth day (50th day) after the Passover

 to thank God for a successful agricultural year and to

 seek His protection and blessing for the next agricultural

 year. 

Many Jews came from far and near to celebrate the festival in

 Jerusalem. Whit-Sunday is the Christian festival

 corresponding to the Pentecost of the Jews.

Before the coming of the Holy Spirit while they were praying

 and waiting for the promise, Peter rose up one day and

 addressed the disciples numbering about one hundred and

 twenty, on the matter of the successor of Judas Iscariot. 

The qualification was personal knowledge of Jesus and His

 ministry. 

Joseph called Barsabbas and Matthias were picked. After

 prayer and casting of lots, Matthias was chosen to complete

 the twelve disciples/ apostles.

The coming of the Holy Spirit took place on the day of

 Pentecost.

This was ten days after the ascension of Jesus

 into heaven. On this particular day, the disciples were

 together in the upper room where they had eaten the last

 supper with Jesus. They had remained in the room after the

 ascension of Jesus for fear of the Jews. They prayed and

 worshipped together in the upper room. Suddenly there was

 first the sound of a great wind which came from heaven into

 the room. Then, they saw what look like flames in the form of

 tongues resting upon each of them. 

They were immediately filled with the Holy Spirit and began to

 speak in an unknown tongue i.e. they began to speak in

 different languages the goodness of God.

The people around there who had come for the feast of

 Pentecost had the noise, they rushed to see what was

 happening and discovered that the disciples were speaking

 and preaching about God because each of them heard the

 disciples preach in his own language. 

There were Parthians, Medes, Elamites and residents of

 Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia,

 Pamphilia, Egypt and parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene.

There were also visitors from Rome, Create and Arabia.

 They were all amazed at the wonderful event but some

 mocked and made a jest of the disciples accusing them of 

being drunk.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. God fulfilled His promise by sending down the Holy Spirit 

on  the disciples/apostles on the day of Pentecost. 

2. This shows  how reliable, dependable and trustworthy God is in His  dealings with human beings. He never fails in His promise.










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