1. THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1

2. A.THE SHEEP’S RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE GREAT SHEPHERD – PART 2: “DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT; DO NOT DESPISE PROPHETIC UTTERANCES. BUT EXAMINE EVERYTHING CAREFULLY; HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD; ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL. “ (5:19-22) B.PAUL EXHORTS THE THESSALONIANS NOT TO BE LIKE THE GALATIAN CHRISTIANS WHOM HE HAD TO REBUKE REGARDING THE HOLY SPIRIT. “O FOOLISH GALATIANS! WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU? LET ME ASK YOU ONLY THIS: DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT BY WORKS OF THE LAW OR BY HEARING WITH FAITH? ARE YOU SO FOOLISH HAVING BEGUN BY THE SPIRIT, ARE YOU NOW BEING PERFECTED BY THE FLESH?” (GAL. 3:1-3) 2

3. C.OUR RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO ‘QUENCH THE SPIRIT.’ “DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT;“ (5:19) 1.LET US REMEMBER WHAT THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN A BELIEVER’S LIFE. i.GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT REGENERATES SINNERS. “THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. “ (JN 3:6) ”AND YOU WERE DEAD IN THE TRESPASSES AND SINS.... EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN OUR TRESPASSES, (HE) MADE US ALIVE (REGENERATED) TOGETHER WITH CHRIST—BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED” (EPH. 2:1, 5) “ HE SAVED US, NOT BECAUSE OF WORKS DONE BY US IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN MERCY, BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION AND RENEWAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,” (TITUS 3:5) 3

4. ii.HE EFFECTS A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SPIRITUAL AFFECTIONS. “BUT A JEW IS ONE INWARDLY, AND CIRCUMCISION IS A MATTER OF THE HEART, BY THE SPIRIT, NOT BY THE LETTER. HIS PRAISE IS NOT FROM MAN BUT FROM GOD. “ (ROM. 2:29) ”THEREFORE, IF ANYONE BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW. ” (2 COR. 5:17) iii.HE FREES US FROM THE SLAVERY TO HABITUAL SIN. “FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH SET THEIR MINDS ON THE THINGS OF THE FLESH, BUT THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT SET THEIR MINDS ON THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. “ (ROM. 8:5) 4

5. iv.HE TAKES UP PERMANENT RESIDENCE WITHIN EACH ONE OF US. “EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT NEITHER SEES HIM NOR KNOWS HIM. BUT YOU KNOW HIM, FOR HE DWELLS WITH YOU AND WILL BE IN YOU. “ (JN. 14:17) ” IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM WHO RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELLS IN YOU, HE WHO RAISED CHRIST JESUS FROM THE DEAD WILL ALSO GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES THROUGH HIS SPIRIT WHO DWELLS IN YOU. ” (ROM. 8:11) v.HE POURS THE LOVE OF GOD INTO OUR HEARTS. “AND HOPE DOES NOT PUT US TO SHAME, BECAUSE GOD'S LOVE HAS BEEN POURED INTO OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US. “ (ROM. 5:5) 5