June 6th, 2023
Recently, we’ve talked about the various aspects of the Holy Spirit’s role in our lives and His purpose on the earth. The importance of walking in the power of Spirit can’t be overemphasized. We can only live the way God intends for us to live, walking in the promises of His word, through the Holy Spirit. He is the very Spirit of the Father and the revealer of truth. What we would otherwise know only intellectually becomes reality in our hearts by His power. The Holy Spirit’s revelation is the difference between religious monotony and a glorious knowledge of God!
One of the most recurring examples of this in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit brings revelation of God’s love. Romans 5:5 tells us,
“Hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
The Holy Spirit is the outpouring of God’s love. You may have heard God loves you, but there is no substitute for that love being poured into your heart through His Spirit. The love of God is not a concept, a doctrine, or an ethereal idea. The scripture says it is a tangible thing that’s been given to us. 1 John 3:1 says,
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so, we are.”
It’s important to keep this in mind as we witness to people who don’t know Him. We will never convince someone by argument or intellect to know God’s love. People come to a knowledge of salvation by hearing His word and then by responding. It’s a work of the Spirit that draws men to the Father and encounter with Him will silence every argument! Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:3-5,
“My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
Even Paul, the scholar and author of the majority of the New Testament, said that his ministry was not full of great intellectual speeches and arguments, but of the demonstration of the power of God. It is the power of His Spirit that reveals truth to the heart of the unbeliever and continues to reveal more and more of God to us, as long as we serve Him!
In Ephesians 3:16-19 Paul prayed,
“…that according to the riches of His glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
How do we comprehend the love of Christ, that surpasses knowledge? It’s only by being “strengthened with power through His Spirit in our inner being.” It’s only by the power of His Spirit that we are rooted and grounded in the love of God!
1 John 4:12-13 says,
“No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
Unfortunately, many people have a false understanding of love. It isn’t an emotion and it’s something that we can only know perfectly by knowing God. It’s the love of the Spirit in us that even allows us to truly love people. Galatians 5:18 says,
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Love is a fruit of His Spirit because it’s part of His nature. 1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love. Now, love is not all that God is, but without God there would be no love at all. His love, which we’ve already seen can only be revealed to us by His Spirit, marks us as His disciples. You can’t love God without loving people, and you can’t love people without loving God. John 13:34-35 says,
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 15:30 says,
“I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf…”
The Holy Spirit is a gift from the Father that unites the church and marks us as His own. He is the revealer of truth, and He always moves in agreement with the Word. He is the One who convicts us, guides us, and purifies us, in order that we may have strength to comprehend the love of Christ. He is the Father’s love poured out on the earth after the sacrifice of His Son and it’s the love of God that makes life worth living. You will never know what you were created for until you’ve encountered His love. Christianity becomes dull religion when you aren’t wrapped up in the love of the One who made you. The Holy Spirit makes real what would have remained a concept. He has poured the love of God into our hearts and that love is what makes sets us apart as His children, removing every fear!
With all that in mind, I want to ask you today, are you rooted and grounded in His love? Have you encountered the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge? Have you truly experienced the love of God for yourself? If you haven’t, all you have to do is ask. It is the longing of the Father to make His love known to His children and He will never disappoint us when we ask him to reveal His love by the power of His Spirit! As Luke 11:13 says,
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
One of the most recurring examples of this in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit brings revelation of God’s love. Romans 5:5 tells us,
“Hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
The Holy Spirit is the outpouring of God’s love. You may have heard God loves you, but there is no substitute for that love being poured into your heart through His Spirit. The love of God is not a concept, a doctrine, or an ethereal idea. The scripture says it is a tangible thing that’s been given to us. 1 John 3:1 says,
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so, we are.”
It’s important to keep this in mind as we witness to people who don’t know Him. We will never convince someone by argument or intellect to know God’s love. People come to a knowledge of salvation by hearing His word and then by responding. It’s a work of the Spirit that draws men to the Father and encounter with Him will silence every argument! Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:3-5,
“My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
Even Paul, the scholar and author of the majority of the New Testament, said that his ministry was not full of great intellectual speeches and arguments, but of the demonstration of the power of God. It is the power of His Spirit that reveals truth to the heart of the unbeliever and continues to reveal more and more of God to us, as long as we serve Him!
In Ephesians 3:16-19 Paul prayed,
“…that according to the riches of His glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
How do we comprehend the love of Christ, that surpasses knowledge? It’s only by being “strengthened with power through His Spirit in our inner being.” It’s only by the power of His Spirit that we are rooted and grounded in the love of God!
1 John 4:12-13 says,
“No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
Unfortunately, many people have a false understanding of love. It isn’t an emotion and it’s something that we can only know perfectly by knowing God. It’s the love of the Spirit in us that even allows us to truly love people. Galatians 5:18 says,
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Love is a fruit of His Spirit because it’s part of His nature. 1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love. Now, love is not all that God is, but without God there would be no love at all. His love, which we’ve already seen can only be revealed to us by His Spirit, marks us as His disciples. You can’t love God without loving people, and you can’t love people without loving God. John 13:34-35 says,
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 15:30 says,
“I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf…”
The Holy Spirit is a gift from the Father that unites the church and marks us as His own. He is the revealer of truth, and He always moves in agreement with the Word. He is the One who convicts us, guides us, and purifies us, in order that we may have strength to comprehend the love of Christ. He is the Father’s love poured out on the earth after the sacrifice of His Son and it’s the love of God that makes life worth living. You will never know what you were created for until you’ve encountered His love. Christianity becomes dull religion when you aren’t wrapped up in the love of the One who made you. The Holy Spirit makes real what would have remained a concept. He has poured the love of God into our hearts and that love is what makes sets us apart as His children, removing every fear!
With all that in mind, I want to ask you today, are you rooted and grounded in His love? Have you encountered the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge? Have you truly experienced the love of God for yourself? If you haven’t, all you have to do is ask. It is the longing of the Father to make His love known to His children and He will never disappoint us when we ask him to reveal His love by the power of His Spirit! As Luke 11:13 says,
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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