You're Note Alone! Life With the Holy Spirit | Women and Faith | Stephanie Schwartz

Main message: The Holy Spirit is the promised, personal gift given to everyone who repents and trusts Christ; he indwells, seals, sanctifies, empowers, and guides believers and must be followed (not quenched) as part of the new life in Christ.

Key points:

• A right response to the gospel—repentance and trusting Jesus—results in being sealed with the Holy Spirit and entry into a secure relationship with God.
• The Holy Spirit is a distinct person of the Trinity (fully God) who applies Christ’s work to us, making us positionally holy and progressively sanctifying us.
• The Spirit defends, intercedes, equips with gifts, produces fruit (joy, love, peace, etc.), and helps believers resist sin when they walk by him.
• The Spirit convicts and draws people (conviction ≠ conversion); believers should identify when they truly responded to the gospel so they can clearly testify.
• Christians must not quench or grieve the Spirit; instead they are called to be filled with him so their lives are led by God rather than by worldly things.

Scriptures mentioned: Acts, 1 Corinthians 15, Romans 8:9, Deuteronomy 6:4, Romans 3:30, 1 Corinthians 8:4, Matthew (end of the gospel), Ephesians 1:13, John 16:8, Romans 11:33, John 6:44, Acts 16 (Philippian jailer), Revelation (letters to churches), Galatians, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, Ephesians