Holy Spirit Self Study Guide 6

Monday

Read Matthew 12:22-37

What were the Pharisees accusing Jesus of doing?

Why might verse 37 be the key to this passage?

Tuesday

Read Matthew 12:22-37

According to Verse 32 what is the unforgivable sin?

According to verse 37 why might this be the unforgivable sin?

Wednesday

Find a couple of dictionary’s preferable bible dictionary’s and define  what is blasphemy?

How is Blasphemy used in the New Testament?

Matthew 12:32                                 Mark 15:29                                         2 Peter 2:2

Jude 10

Why would speaking against Jesus our Lord and Savior,  be giving offense to Holy Spirit?  Who anointJesus and His ministry (Matthew 3:16)

Thursday

Read Mark 3:20-30

What is similar to Matthew 12 Passage

What is the difference?

From our current study what do you feel the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is?

Friday

Read Luke 12:1-10

What is similar to Matthew 12 & Mark 3 Passages

What is Different?

Saturday

Find the Notes in the Life Applications bible For Luke 12:10, Matthew 12:10 And  3:22-27 reading it

Sunday

A couple of good online articles available are:

1.       Shane J Wood http://www.shanejwood.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=103

2.       John Macarthur’s analysis

 http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/2292/blaspheming-the-holy-spirit-part-1

3.       http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=1218

OPPORTUNITY

Snippet

How do you spell love?  T.I.M.E   Rick Warren

Scripture

A wise youth makes hay while the sun shines, but what a shame to see a lad who sleeps away his hour of opportunity.  Proverbs 10:5 LB

Song  Time by Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U

Ticking away the moments

That make up a dull day

Fritter and waste the hours

In an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground

In your home town

Waiting for someone or something

To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long

And there is time to kill today

And then the one day you find

Ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

(Solo)

And you run and you run

To catch up with the sun

But it's sinking

Racing around

To come up behind you again

The sun is the same

In a relative way

But you're older

Shorter of breath

And one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation

Is the English way

The time is gone

The song is over

Thought I'd something more to say

Home

Home again

I like to be here

When I can

When I come home

Cold and tired

It's good to warm my bones

Beside the fire

Far away

Across the field

Tolling on the iron bell

Calls the faithful to their knees

To hear the softly spoken magic spell...

Sentence Prayer

Father; thank you for today it is a gift of opportunity.  Help me make the most of today, because we will never get it back.  Jesus; open my eyes to people today who need your love so we can all make it home. Holy Spirit;  in the dull moments of life make me aware of your presence, so I do not fall into the temptation of sleeping away my life.  Amen

What Beautiful Nonsense!

Snippet

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Scripture

The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It’s written,

I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head,

I’ll expose so-called experts as crackpots.

So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn’t God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation. 1 Corinthians 1:18-21 Message

Song
Beautiful Collision 
David Crowder Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjYQB3cxVLE

The heart breaking makes a sound

I never knew could be

So beautiful and loud

Fury filled and we collide

So courageous until now

Fumbling and scared

So afraid You'll find me out,

Alone here with my doubt

Here it comes, a beautiful collision

Is happening now.

There seems no end to where You begin and there I am now

You and I collide

Something circling inside,

Spaciously you fly

Infinite and wide,

Like the moon and sky

Collide

Here it comes, a beautiful collision

Is happening now.

There seems no end to where you begin and there I am now

You and I, collide

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Here it comes, Here it comes, Here it comes now

Here it comes, Here it comes, Here it comes now

Here it comes, Here it comes, Here it comes now

Collide

Here it comes, Here it comes now (You and I)

Here it comes, Here it comes now (You and I)

Here it comes, Here it comes, Here it comes now

Feel it coming on, Feel it coming on now, Here it comes now

Here it comes, Here it comes, Here it comes now

Sentence Prayer

Father, remind me throughout the day the plan that change me seem like nonsense to

the world.  Destroy worldly foolishness in my life!  Everyday I invite your Holy Spirit 

to collide with my pride destroying the foolish things I take pride in.  Instead, teach 

me to laugh at myself and the world so I may know the way of the cross better.  Amen

Mavericks

Snippet

From the movie Chasing Mavericks: Jay pleads with Frosty  to join in surfing Mavericks but Frosty reminds Jay of the harsh reality that he is not nearly trained or skilled well enough to safely survive.

Jay: "I want to ride that wave." 

Frosty: "Untrained boys don't step into the ring against Mike Tyson."

Scripture

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.  Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. I Peter 5:7-9 NIV

Song 

Plowed by Sponge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKcUS2Npic

Will I wake up

Is it a dream I made up

No I guess it's reality

What will change us

Or will we mess up

Our only chance to connect

With a dream

Say a prayer for me

I'm buried by the sound

In a world of human

Wreckage

I'm lost and I'm found

And I can't touch the

Ground

I'm plowed into the sound

To see wide open

With a head that's broken

Hang a life on a tragedy

Plow me under the ground

That covers the message

That is the seed

Sentence Prayer

Father you care for me, save me from becoming human wreckage.  Help me to be self-controlled and alert so I may see the enemy coming, even if it is me!  Help me to train hard so I will stand firm against the enemies of God!  When I hurt keep my faith strong, by looking at other human wreckage that need my help!  Save me from myself, so I can guide others to the Light.  In Jesus Name Amen!

Holy Spirit Self Study Guide 5

Monday

The Holy Spirit is called the “counselor, Helper or comforter” and yet I have received very little if any comfort or help from Him. Why is this?  (Rom. 8:12-14,14 & Gal 5:17-26)

What is The Holy Spirit’s part and our Part in overcoming sin?  Is it instantaneous?

Tuesday

How do we “walk by the Spirit” (Gal. 5:16; 25, I Cor 10) ?

What are three aids in walking by the Spirit?

Wednesday

Longsuffering,  and Patience is a product of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22)

So why do some non-Christians  have more patience?  (Jude 18,19)

Thursday

How does the Holy Spirit help me in Temptation?  (Rom 8:13,14, 1 Cor 10)

Friday

How does the Holy Spirit help us in Prayer?  (Romans 8, focus on verse 26)

Saturday

How do we know when we have quenched the Holy Spirit? (1 Thess 5)

Sunday

What does Ichabod mean in Scripture?  And how did it happen? (1 Same 4:20-22)