Testify
John 15:26-16:15
Pastor Bob Hiller
5/24/2015
Series:
Pentecost 2015
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/hsRvKeJ8rkU
John 15:26 When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
1. The work of the Holy Spirit is to ____________ about ____________.
2. The Spirit works by ____________ of the ____________.
3. How do you know the Holy Spirit is at work for you?
- He ____________ you of ____________.
- You ____________ ____________ for Christ's sake.
- You hear of the ____________ condemnation.
Scripture Readings
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Acts 2:1-21
John 15:26-16:15
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In these matters, which concern the spoken, external Word, it must be firmly maintained that God gives no one his Spirit or grace apart from the external Word which goes before. We say this to protect ourselves from the enthusiasts, that is, the "spirits," who boast that they have the Spirit apart from and before contact with the Word. On this basis, they judge, interpret, and twist the Scripture or oral Word according to their pleasure. Muntzer did this, and there are still many doing this today, who set themselves up as shrewd judges between the spirit and the letter without knowing what they say or teach. The papacy is also purely religious raving in that the pope boasts that "all laws are in the shrine of his heart" and that what he decides and commands in his churches is supposed to be Spirit and law -- even when it is above or contrary to the Scriptures or the spoken Word. This is all the old devil and old snake, who also turned Adam and Even into enthusiasts and led them from the external Word to "spirituality" and their own presumption -- although he even accomplished this by means of other external words.
Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles
