Dear KKIM/KARS/SHINE Family,
May the Peace and Strength of our Lord be with you!
He is the Spirit of truth, The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you. John 14:17
The World does not know The Holy Spirit, that is why we have all the darkness in our World. We are to be the Salt and Light. We are to bring others to Jesus Christ.
We will get on with our lesson on the Holy Spirit in just a moment…..
I am so blessed to tell you that I will be Preaching at the Chamisal, NM Lighthouse Church this Sunday at 10am! I will be filling in for Pastor Juan Romero. I am thankful for this opportunity to share the message God has given me! It is always a Godly honor to have a Pastor put his trust in me. I have never been to this part of New Mexico, so I am so much looking forward to it. Please pray for me and the message. Sharon will be unable to be with me this Sunday so I need your prayers. One would be that I don’t get lost!!!! LOL! LOL! Sharon knows me well!
The Open Door Church of God in Los Lunas where I serve as Associate Pastor will be holding another Revival in Los Lunas this Sunday. Details are in this Posting, I am sorry I will not be there, but God has called me to Chamisal. We must go where God calls us.
We continue our Teaching on the Holy Spirit today PRAISE GOD! here is what Marsha had to say after yesterday’s lesson………
It’s interesting that you’ve brought up this subject this morning. A few of us in our congregation have been talking about this very thing lately. I made the statement to them, just the other day, that I think people have this perception …of “Holy Rollers” dancing in the aisles and speaking in tongues and it scares them. We hear so much about Jesus and God but very little about the Holy Spirit, so often, in sermons, etc. I’m reading a book called, “Power Surge” by Michael W. Foss and in the very beginning of it there are some disturbing and sad statistics. “91% of all households in the U.S. own at least 1 Bible…80% of adults name the Bible as the most influential book in human history…Yet only 38% of adults read the Bible in any given week…Only 25% of adults volunteer to help a church during a typical week…96% of adults believe in God…93% believe in the virgin birth…Yet 39% say Jesus did not have a physical resurrection…61% SAY THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT REAL…56% say a good person can earn his or her way into heaven…And still 72% of those polled say that they are church members.” Something is terribly wrong!
Yes Marsha, As Pastor Steve Smothermon said on NM News and Views yesterday, something is definitively wrong in the Church!
Not enough Preaching and Teaching is done on the Holy Spirit! Just think 61% in the Church say the Holy Spirit is not real! WOW! What a shame. 41% of Christians don’t believe that Satan is real either! I’m PRAISING GOD because all our Ministries are Bible Believing Ministries and believe in God’s Word!
The Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity!
Charles Stanley asks this…..
The real question to ask about the Holy Spirit is: “When did you receive Him?”
The answer? You received Him the moment you received Jesus as your Savior. That’s what God says in His Word: “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” Acts 2:38
It is the Holy Spirit who baptizes us into Christ—-He is the One who completely covers us with the redemptive shed blood and living presence of Christ Jesus. It is the Holy Spirit who gives us our new identity in Christ so that we truly are born again spiritually. It is Jesus, now sitting at the right hand of the Father, who sends to us His own Spirit to dwell in us. Jesus is no longer with us on earth
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