The Witness of the Holy Spirit to Holiness
The Holy Spirit is our witness to holiness, teaching, guiding, and sealing us for eternity.
Samuel Alexander Danford preaches about the Holy Spirit as the Comforter and Guide who teaches believers all things, brings to remembrance the words of Jesus, and reveals truths about the future. He emphasizes that the Holy Spirit, given by God who knows our hearts, enables believers to understand the things freely given by God and seals them with the promise of salvation. Through the Holy Spirit, believers are perfected, receive an anointing that teaches them truth, and dwell in God by keeping His commandments.
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John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
2 Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Hebrews 10:14-15 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Sermon Outline
- The Holy Spirit as a Witness to Holiness
- The Holy Spirit's witness to our salvation
- The Holy Spirit's role in teaching and guiding believers
- The Holy Spirit's role in sealing and giving the earnest of the Spirit
- The Holy Spirit as a seal of our salvation
- The Holy Spirit's role in perfecting us for eternity
Key Quotes
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” — Samuel Alexander Danford
“He will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.” — Samuel Alexander Danford
“The anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,” — Samuel Alexander Danford
Application Points
- We can trust the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and show us things to come.
- We can know the Holy Spirit abides in us by the Spirit which he hath given us, and by keeping His commandments.
- We can rely on the anointing that we have received to teach us of all things and guide us in our walk with God.