Hello Everyone, 2

Joel expresses the hope of a great day when God would visit His people.

Joel 2:28-32, “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. 32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved”

The outpouring of the Spirit in this future age will extend to all God’s people and will be characterized by the Spirit’s empowering work.

The second function of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is Purification.
The Old Testament looks ahead to the Spirit’s future inner-transforming or purifying work.

This is seen in Ezekiel 36:25-27: I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Ezekiel is describing a new age where God would transform the hearts of His people by God’s own Spirit taking up residence in each individual.

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil