THE HOLY SPIRIT in the New Testament - Acts Part 6

Acts 20:20-24  

"You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly from house to house. I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

    "And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me--the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace." 

Acts 20:28-31  

"Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears."  (see all Acts 20)

Acts 21:10-11  

    After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, "The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.' "  (see all Acts 21-27)

Acts 28:25-28  

They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:

    " 'Go to this people and say,

    "You will be ever hearing but never understanding;

        you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."

    For this people's heart has become calloused;

        they hardly hear with their ears,

        and they have closed their eyes.

    Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

        hear with their ears,

        understand with their hearts

    and turn, and I would heal them.'  (Isaiah 6:9-10) 

    

    "Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!"  

(see all Acts 28) 

          

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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