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Love gives so the one loved can be better, do better, live better, have more, be more. God’s love empowers!
Empowerment - to give official authority or legal power to enable; to promote; to help an individual realize fully their potential and promote their influence.
The first step to being empowered by God is to surrender your will to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
The Great Exchange
I. Give away your life in order to take up the life of Christ.
A. Mark 8:34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Mt. 16:24, Lk 9:23
B. Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
Mt. 10:39, Mt. 16:25, Lk. 9:24, Lk. 17:33, Jn. 12:25
C. Mark 9:35
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.“
Mt. 19:30, Mt. 20:16, Mk. 10:31, Lk. 13:30,
II. The Holy Spirit Gives Power
A. The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament
1. 1 Samuel 10:6 The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.
a. Here we see the power of the Holy Spirit gives Saul the ability to change into a different person and prophesy.
2. In Judges 14 and 15 we see the Holy Spirit giving Samson incredible physical strength.
3. 1 Samuel 11:6 When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came upon him in power, and he burned with anger.
4. Micah 3:8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
1. Acts 1:8 (Ampl.) 8But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.
a. Power to witness
2. Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
a. The empowering love of God through the power of the Holy Spirit gives overflowing hope.
3. Romans 15:19 by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
a. The empowering love of God gives signs and wonders as a demonstration of God’s reality.
C. The Holy Spirit Right Now
1. John 3:34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
2. Luke 11:11-13
11"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
3. Ephesians 5:18
18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
keep on being filled by the Spirit.
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