Sermon Series: The Holy Spirit       
Title: The Familiar Stranger
Text: 1 Corinthians 3: 10-16

Focus: The Holy Spirit is God who lives inside of us when we trust in Jesus Christ.

“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s spirit dwells in your midst?” – 1 Corinthians 3:16

· Three Common Responses to the Holy Spirit

- Suspicious

- Uninformed

- Thirsty

· Is the Holy Spirit a force or a person?

· “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” – Genesis 1:1-2

· Ruakh = Spirit or breath

· “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and then man became a living being.” – Genesis 2:7

· “Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” – Exodus 40:34

· “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” – John 1:14a

· Dwelling = skenoo = tabernacle

· “And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.” – John 20:22

· “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s spirit dwells in your midst?” – 1 Corinthians 3:16