Knowing the Holy Spirit - Part IV
August 29, 2021      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Recap:
Aug 7 - Who is the Holy Spirit?
  Carnal vs Spiritual Believers
  “….that we might know”

Aug 15 - Knowing through prayer language
  Holy Spirit is brooding over the church to clean house
  Let Him in

Aug 22 - Knowing Him deeper through “koinonia”
  Intimate communion in the spirit

Knowing the Holy Spirit – Part IV
Three Responses to the Presence of God Returning to the Church

Old Testament stories speaking to New Testament Realities

Romans 15:4 (NIV)
4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 10: 6, 11 (NIV)
6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

Knowing God the Holy Spirit = Most Practical & Life Impacting Practice
- Sonship
- Purity
- Power
- Fruit
- Joy in Life
- Freedom

Why was the Holy Spirit Given?

1 Corinthians 2:12 (NIV)
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

Normal vs Abnormal Christians

1 Corinthians 2:10-11 (NIV)
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

To Know God You Must Know the Holy Spirit

Learn the History of God’s Presence among His People:
Exodus 25:10-16 (Ark Intro)
Exodus 30:34-38 (Result of God’s Presence)
Joshua 3:3-4 (Crossing Jordan)
Joshua 6:8 (Jericho)
1 Samuel 3:2-3 (in Shiloh)
1 Samuel 4:21 (Ichabod - the glory departed)
1 Samuel 5:1-2 (Philistines “capture”)
1 Samuel 6:13 (returned during harvest)
1 Samuel 6:19 (70 died for looking inside)
1 Samuel 7:1-2 (Abinidab’s house for 20 yrs)

2 Samuel 6 (NIV)
1 David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand.
2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.
3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart
4 with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it.
5 David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.
7 The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
8 Then David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.
9 David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”
10 He was not willing to take the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed him and his entire household.
12 Now King David was told, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.
13 When those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might,
15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
17 They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord.
18 After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord Almighty.
19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.
20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”
21 David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord.
22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”
23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

1 Chronicles 13:3 (NIV)
3 Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Saul.”

1 Chronicles 15:2, 13-15 (NIV)
2 Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before him forever.”
13 It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.”
14 So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
15 And the Levites carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the Lord.

1) Fear of God (not familiarity)
2) No Condescension (freedom from offense)
3) Cost (Time)
4) Praise (Exulting worship)
5) Bible Focus (Word lighting path)

Three Responses to His Presence Inside Us
1) We become too familiar & lose our fear
  - Results in Spiritual Death
2) We, through tradition, become controlling & mind / knowledge centered
  - Self-righteous, condescending of others’ freedom
  - Results in Spiritual Barrenness
3) We “learn the prescribed day” through the Word
  - We dwell in His presence, rejoicing with gladness
  - We worship and follow His presence

Obed-Edom followed the ark. Became “a doorkeeper”.  (1 Chronicles 15:24)

1 Chronicles 15:24 (NIV)
24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah and Eliezer the priests were to blow trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-Edom and Jehiah were also to be doorkeepers for the ark.

Psalms 84:10-12 (NIV)
10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
12 Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.