Holy Spirit Search
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HOLY SPIRIT SEARCH
Speaker: Pastor Keith Goullette
Theme: Church Life
Thesis: Examined Yourself?
Scripture Text: II Corinthians 13:1-5 (next week II Corinthians 13:6-10)
I. Get Ready - v. 1-2
II. Get Set - v. 3-4
III. Go - v. 5
Scripture Readings
I CHRONICLES 28:9
As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
PSALM 139:1-3, 23-24
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
I CORINTHIANS 11:28
But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
GALATIANS 6:4
But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.
SCRIPTURE TEXT—II CORINTHIANS 13:1-5
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone, since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you. For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
ADDITIONAL NOTES & SCRIPTURE
Examine yourself - is Christ EVIDENT in your life?
REVELATION 4:4-11, 7:9-12 - Be holy.
I CORINTHIANS 1:18-25
II CORINTHIANS 4:7 - Have memorized?
EPHESIANS 1:19-21
EPHESIANS 3:20 - Have memorized?
I JOHN 5:11-13 - Have an assurance of salvation.
Sermon length: 46:20