sunday’s scuds (march 22, 2009)

Part three of Up Close and Personal, Getting to Know the Holy Spirit. Dwight talked about the Holy Spirit’s presence in our lives. Here are the scuds:

• The Holy Spirit can be in you yet you can know very little of his power and his presence.
• Are you open to the Holy Spirit having all of you?
• We spend too much time going around feeling like we’re Clark Kent when we could be Superman.
• It’s possible to be a Christian and still be unwise, still waste our time, and still not understand God’s will.
• It’s impossible to live the Christian life on your own. If you could, you wouldn’t need the Holy Spirit.
• Within our churches today there are so few people who are actually Spirit-filled.
• “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” is a command.
• God doesn’t give suggestions.
• You can’t fill anything that’s already filled with something else.

Dwight’s four main points were four steps that we need to take if we want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Here they are:

1. Desire to be filled.
2. Denounce sin in your life.
3. Surrender yourself fully to Christ.
4. Depend daily on the Holy Spirit.