Part 4: Wisdom from the Holy Spirit

From John 14-16

📖 Ephesians 5:18 (ESV)  And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit

📖 John 20:22 (ESV) And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

📖 Acts 1:4-5 (ESV) Once when he was eating with them, He commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift He promised, as I told you before. 5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

📖 Acts 2:1-4 (ESV) When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance..

📖 Acts 19:1-2 (ESV) And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

📖 Acts 19:3 (ESV) And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

📖 Acts 18:24-25 (ESV) Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

📖 Acts 18:26-28 (ESV) He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. 27 And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

📖 Acts 19:5-7 (ESV) On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. 7 There were about twelve men in all.

God gives wisdom through the in times of great and to people. 

📖 Acts 6:8-10 (NLT) And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Then some …rose up and disputed with Stephen. 10 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

📖 Deuteronomy 34:9 (ESV) And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

📖 Daniel 5:14 (ESV) I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

📖 Genesis 41:38-40 (ESV) Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?” 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. 40 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command.

📖 John 14:15-17 (ESV) “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

📖 John 15:26-16:13 (ESV)  “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me…

📖 John 16:1-8 (ESV)  “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor Me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He comes, He will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment….

📖 John 16:12-13 (ESV)  “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.

1. The Holy Spirit gives Wisdom to in the of . 

📖 John 15:18 (ESV) “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

📖 John 15:26-16:1 (ESV) when the Helper comes…He will bear witness about Me… 1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 

2. The Holy Spirit gives Wisdom to in the of .

📖 John 15:12 (ESV) “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth,

📖 1 Corinthians 2:11-12 (ESV) For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

3. The Holy Spirit gives Wisdom to our lives for the of the .

📖 John 16:13 (ESV) When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.

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