The Ministry of Jesus is a ministry saturated by the Holy Spirit

I want to continue these lessons that we have been examining concerning the life of the Holy Spirit, the life of the believer anointed and filled with the Holy Spirit in order to have an effective and fruitful life in the things of the Lord.

We already have many programs that we have been dedicating exclusively to this theme of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church and of believers. And as you may have noticed, I have confined myself primarily to the Old Testament as a way to prepare ourselves to enter into what is really, in a sense, most important to us and most applicable in the life of the Church after the Coming of God. Christ Jesus and His ascension, through which we must understand how to effectively use that powerful gift that God has left us, of the Holy Spirit, to carry out the work that God has entrusted to us through His Son Jesus Christ.

So what I want in these next studies is to leave with you some reflections concerning how the Holy Spirit works in this dispensation of the Church, at this time now when the Church is on Earth carrying out the great commission that Christ left us. How can we effectively use that powerful gift of the Holy Spirit?

So from now on, I am going to limit myself mostly to the New Testament, although perhaps I will use some illustrations from the Old. We have seen, however, studying the life of Saul and how the power of God moved in the life of Saul, a very imperfect man, but that this helps us even to understand this Ministry of the Holy Spirit much better because, after all, we are imperfect people and the movement of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers is extremely dynamic. It is not one-dimensional and easy to catalog or define, but it has many interesting aspects.

The Power of God, the fullness and the Work of the Holy Spirit interact and relate to the life of the believer, which is an imperfect, limited, changing, progressive life, and the Holy Spirit is always there beside us accompanying us through the zigzags and ups and downs of the spiritual journey of each believer.

So I think that Saul, a believer in quotes, "very imperfect" can help us. And we have also seen in the life of David that same type of situation where David, a tremendously imperfect man as well, and how the Spirit of God, through the anointing that he received through the impartation from the prophet Samuel, also David He benefited from this move of the Holy Spirit, although he was also an extremely imperfect man who also made many mistakes, and all this helps us to understand in our own life how the Holy Spirit also moves in us.

Now we turn to the New Testament especially, and we see there that the purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ was always for the Church to move in the anointing and in the Power of the Holy Spirit. We even see that in the very Ministry of Jesus, the Holy Spirit played an absolutely key role from the very beginning of His Ministry.

We see for example in passages like Luke, where in chapter 4 just beginning His Ministry says there, chapter 4 verse 1 Luke: "Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert." We also see that the Holy Spirit was there at the very birth of Jesus, resting on the life of his mother, Mary and engendering the full life of God in the body of the man Jesus, who then became a perfect man, a perfect God, living together in a single person.

We also see that the Holy Spirit was there when Simeon and Anna received revelation that this child who had been born to Joseph and Mary was indeed the anticipated Messiah. And in Luke chapter 2 verse 5 it says that: "There was in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, and this man was just, and pious, and awaited the consolation of Israel" meaning the Messiah "and the Holy Spirit was upon him; AND It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before the Lord's anointed came. " Anointed, Mashiach was the anointed one from the Holy Spirit, full of the Power and anointing of the Holy Spirit, who was Jesus Christ.

And it says that Simeon, moved by the Spirit, came to the temple. That is to say that we see there in that scene of Simeon and Anna how the Holy Spirit was operating continuously. About Ana it is said that, in verse 36, Luke chapter 2, that: "Ana was also there, she prophesies" that is, Ana had the gift of prophecy. It is interesting how we see there clearly, even in the New Testament in that time of transition between the birth of the Messiah and the full life of the Church of Jesus Christ, there was the gift of the Holy Spirit both in Simeon receiving the prophetic Word, receiving revelation from God, Ana, moving in the prophetic gift, all this around the Person of Jesus Christ.

We see John, he was filled with the Holy Spirit too. And we also see that, when the Lord is baptized, the Holy Spirit descends on Him and approaches the Lord in the form of a dove, and anoints the Lord Jesus Christ with the filling of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord also, in His first public appearance, takes the Book of Isaiah, the scroll of Scripture and speaks of that: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor, to the imprisoned , to the afflicted in spirit. " That is, the Lord moved in Power, in the anointing of the Holy Spirit in His incarnate form and the Holy Spirit was with the Lord Jesus Christ wherever He went.

We even see also that, in the passage when the Lord resurrects and approaches the disciples already in His crucified form, He tells them: "Receive the Holy Spirit" and we assume that if the Lord said: Receive the Holy Spirit, these men in that moment they received a touch, an anointing of the Holy Spirit.

John also speaks of Jesus Christ as the one who baptizes, he is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. John 1:32, just to quote it, so that you can have it for your own studies, speaks precisely about that saying: "John also gave testimony saying: I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it remained on Him." And the Holy Spirit says to John: "On whoever you see the Spirit descend and who remains on Him, that is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit."

How interesting that the Ministry of Jesus is a ministry surrounded, saturated, covered, accompanied by the Ministry of the Holy Spirit and that the Lord Himself had to move, in His incarnate form, in that mystery of the incarnation and of the Trinity as well, God himself who dwells in the body of Jesus, the Son, the Father but also the Holy Spirit is required to be there, and because Jesus specializes, according to John, in baptizing; that's the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. In another passage, John speaks of Jesus being the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire, while He only limits himself to water baptism.

So the Spirit of Jesus Christ is characterized by that Presence, that company, that move of the Holy Spirit. And the last passage that comes to mind so that we already have that teaching as a single unit, is that the Lord Jesus Christ, when He is practically saying goodbye to His disciples, I think it is in John chapters 14 or chapter 15 they can look for it there, He talks about: "I'm going but I will send you a comforter" the paraclete, right? and He will teach you all things, it is the Spirit of God that God will send to the Church when the Lord ascends so that this Spirit accompanies them, nourishes them, encourages them, stimulates them, strengthens them, endows them with power and authority. . All of these things are related to the Ministry of the Holy Spirit.

I hope this helps you a little to understand that the Ministry of Jesus is a ministry that has to be characterized by a Presence and a movement of the Holy Spirit, and that has a lot to do as we will see later, with our own lives, our lives. ministries and the ministry of the Church with a capital i in all the Earth. God bless you and we will continue our study later, blessings.