This Gift Ain’t Free – Part IV – Getting To Know The Holy Spirit

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This Gift Ain’t Free – Part IV – Getting To Know The Holy Spirit

July 22, 2024

Series: Getting to Know The Holy Spirit

Topic: blessed, confession, Faithfulness, Jesus, Joy, Savior, Son of Man, The Lord's Benefits

Book: Acts, Psalm

Reverend Kirkpatrick Tyler

Scripture: Psalm 51:10-15, Acts 8:17-23

Scriptural Reading

Psalm 51:10-15

10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.¹¹Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.¹⁴Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.¹⁵Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Sermonic Text

Acts:8-17-23 (New International Version)

¹⁷Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money ¹⁹and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

²⁰Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! ²¹You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. ²²Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. ²³For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”