Holy Spirit

The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven

Luke 24:36-44

… This is assuredly none other than He who always spoke His Father's mind and will—and constantly did honor to the Holy Spirit by whom the sacred …

The Sight of Iniquity

Habakkuk 1:3

… He says that they do, by their own strength, at least to a great degree, though assisted by the Holy Spirit, keep themselves and that, to some extent …

The True Priesthood, Temple and Sacrifice

1 Peter 2:4

… With equal truth the Apostle Paul tells us that our bodies are "the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in us"—and that not by imagination but …

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… I pray the Holy Spirit to bear witness to that fact, even while I am speaking, by applying the text to all Believers who are assembled here. The …

Threefold Sanctification

1 Corinthians 1:2

… The Person is the Holy Spirit but the bath is the precious blood of Christ. It is strictly correct to speak of the Person cleansing, as being the …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… Gill endorses this view, and moreover says that it also refers to the descent of the Holy Spirit. At this I am staggered! How any man can find …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… Upon that I am going to speak, this morning, as the Holy Spirit shall help me. In tracing the gracious work of God upon the heart of Timothy …

Jesus Knew What He Would Do

John 6:6

… OBSERVE, dear Friends, how careful the Holy Spirit is that we should not make a mistake about our Lord Jesus Christ. He knew that men are liable to …

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… And why? It may be replied that the Lord's people are preserved in some degree by their intrinsic weight—because the Holy Spirit gives them substance and …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… But I feel quite powerless to produce it before you so that you shall be affected in the same manner unless God the Holy Spirit shall now be …

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… Now, what is this? From where comes this savor? In a word, it comes of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit bears witness with the Word of God …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… To sin against the Holy Spirit, against His admonitions, warnings, promptings, invitations—this is "exceedingly sinful!" To go on sinning after you have smarted. To continue to sin …

Not Bound Yet

2 Timothy 2:9

… May the Holy Spirit, Himself, bless the subject to us! That the Word of God is not bound, is, at this time, true in many senses. And, first …

Prayer 24 — "Deliver Us from Evil"

… Come, Holy Spirit, help us to feel that we are in the immediate presence of God and may this thought lead us to sincere and earnest petitioning. There …

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… It is a picture of the darkened soul gradually illuminated by the Holy Spirit, and brought by Jesus Christ into the clear light of His kingdom. This morning …

Unseasonable Prayer

Exodus 14:15

… O you who are most empty, most guilty, most lost, most ruined, you are the most "fit" for the great Savior to save! May the Holy Spirit enable …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… It is also as a free gift that the Holy Spirit applies this salvation to the hearts of men. You dream, perhaps, that you are to pay to …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… When You are calling this one and that, Lord, call me with the effectual call of Your Holy Spirit! Be pleased so to call me that, when I …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… If I have ever sung God's praise so as to please Him, that praise was first written in my heart by the Holy Spirit." "What have you …

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… May God the Holy Spirit enable you to do so! II. Now I come to the second head of my discourse, which is, WHAT THIS QUESTION TEACHES US …

A Sunday School Sermon

Isaiah 40:11

… Therefore have I selected this subject this morning in the hope that God the Holy Spirit may bless it, not only to those who are teachers, but to …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… So let us pray the Holy Spirit to sweep away, with His Divine wind, the clouds of our unbelief and enable each earnest eye in the light of …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… The Gospel of Habakkuk is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ! A clearer light was cast upon this Truth of God by the giving of the Holy …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… But in a far shorter time, in the power of the Holy Spirit, one Paul or one Peter would have evangelized all lands! View yourselves as grains of …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… The Holy Spirit is also the flame by which the oil is kindled and made to burn and give its light—and thus we have the Truth of …

The Perseverance of the Saints

Philippians 1:6

… with Him in Glory." The Holy Spirit dwells in us. "Know you not that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?" O Beloved, God Himself shall as …

Defiled and Defiling

Haggai 2:13

… And, dear Friends, you and I must have the Holy Spirit pouring in upon us the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ to make us clean. There is …

God of the Hills and God of the Valleys

1 Kings 20:28

… I grant you there was—but if it were real power, from where did it come but from the Holy Spirit? And has the Holy Spirit ceased to …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… Despair has something in it of sinning against the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit brings you rich cordials in the promises of God which will raise your …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… The same principle in different stages of spiritual life is seen in varying forms—let me point out four of the most necessary—and may the Holy Spirit …

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… But that fact is just what you and I must as persistently remember! We must dwell upon what Christ has, by His Holy Spirit, worked within our nature …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… In the power of the Holy Spirit, then, let us talk with one another concerning these words, "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good …

Heavenly Geometry

Ephesians 3:16-19

… Oh the blessedness of being strengthened of the Holy Spirit! How spiritually strong do we become when He infuses His might into us! But the Spirit of God …

Struggling Against Sin

Psalm 119:145

… To obtain this, through the power of the Holy Spirit, being cleansed by the blood of Jesus, he will cheerfully suffer any imaginable privation! Do observe how David …

Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram

Genesis 12:5

… Take care of that salvation which does not take its rise in the work of God the Holy Spirit, for only that which comes from Him will lead …

The Lord's Eternal Rest

Psalm 132:14

… If there were in the Church of God honor only for God the Father, but none for God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, it could never …

The Wordless Book

Psalm 51:7

… May God's Holy Spirit graciously help us to do so to our profit! I. First, LET US LOOK AT THE BLACK LEAF. There is something about this …

The Powerful Truth of God

Acts 19:19

… I know the Holy Spirit works, but when He works, He makes us work! Find me one instance in Scripture where the Holy Spirit ever moved a city …

'The Church of the First-born'

Hebrews 12:23

… And unto Father, Son and Holy Spirit shall be the glory forever and ever! Amen. EXPOSITION BY C. H. SPURGEON: HEBREWS 12. After giving a long list of …

Man Transient—god's Word Eternal

Isaiah 40:8

… Now, all other seed throughout the world, and that which comes from a mortal source, dies, but the Seed of the Divine Truth, dropped by the Holy Spirit …