Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Sonship: David Wilkerson's Biblical Teachings

Understanding the Holy Spirit's ministry of comfort and sonship.

The Holy Spirit's role in teaching us sonship and reminding us of our identity as children of God.

The importance of proclaiming our identity as sons of God to resist the enemy's lies and temptations.

The Holy Spirit's role in waging war against the flesh and its lusts, and the need for faith and confidence in God's word.

I want to speak about the two primary ministries of the Holy Spirit. And I'm saying you can't know him personally until you understand his ministry or his ministries. First of all consider First the ministry of comfort Jesus calls him a comforter That's a phrase He's a comforter If I ask you who is the Holy Spirit You answer for us He's the comforter That's the word But you see we have to know how he comforts What are the evidence of that comfort I'm going to get to The Lessons the Holy Spirit's been teaching me Especially this past week Bring it far more open to me Than I've seen it before He is the Spirit First of all of Sonship But the Comforter Which is the Holy Spirit Whom the Father will send in my name He shall teach you all things and bring you remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you. The Holy Spirit is going to come as a teacher, the Scripture says. And He's going to teach you sonship. The Spirit of His Son. The Bible, He's called in Scripture the Spirit of the Son of God. And here's how the Holy Spirit comforts us. By bringing us into the knowledge of who we are. the spirit of the Son. What is it that He will bring to our remembrance? It's the proclamation that Jesus made. It was the proclamation Jesus made to the devil and to the world. And this is that that kept Him above the trials and temptations of the world that came to Him in the wilderness and His times of rejection here on earth. He could boast. There was a proclamation in His heart. I am the Son of God. No matter what anybody said. No matter what the enemy tried to cast on him. No matter what the trial was. There was a proclamation of the spirit of the living God in him. I am the son of God. I have the father in heaven. I have a father and I'm the son of God. Folks, the Holy Ghost has been telling me to lay hold of that truth. And every time that I walk the street and the enemy comes in with a lie. Every time he comes in with a temptation. Every time he comes with discouragement, fear, shame, whatever it may be. There has to be something in your heart. And you ask the Holy Spirit, stop if you have to. And say, make the proclamation to me again, Holy Spirit. And you will hear the proclamation of the Holy Spirit. Because he abides in you as the Spirit of the Son. That I am the Son of the living God. What strength what power that is I am not alone I am not a victim The enemy cannot bring me down because I am the son I a son of the living God That spirit of sonship that lays hold of the heart And I walk the street anymore and I don't let those lies of the devil come anymore. Devil, I'm the son of the living God. I have a father in heaven who stands with me and he's given me the Holy Spirit to remind you to remind me to run my flesh. I am not going down. You cannot take control of this mind of mine because I have the mind of Christ in me. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying, Abba Father. My Father. is he your father are you his son are you his daughter why don't you proclaim it wherever you are in temptation no matter where you stand say it out loud on the street everybody talks on the street anyhow you have a right to New York is full of street talkers talk everywhere on the elevators everywhere nobody knows who's insane and not insane well if this is insanity give me more of it I'm a son of the living God Jesus said God has loved you John 17 20 God has loved you just as he's loved me glory to God if that doesn't put some holy zeal in your heart nothing will another source of comfort is to know and believe that the Holy Spirit has come to wage war against every lust and enticement of our flesh he has been sent to take over the battle let me read it to you Galatians 5 17 for the flesh lust against the spirit the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary one to another so you cannot do the things that you would now you see you can say I love God and I know I have access and I claim this sonship and I'm going to walk in the faith of that sonship and I know that I'm justified I know that I'm being sanctified through the power of the Holy Spirit you can say all that and it can be true But there's a war raging in the inner man. There's a war fair going between the flesh and the spirit. And let me tell you why the devil comes after you. Let me tell you what if why the devil comes to inflame your flesh. He comes at you because you invited the Holy Spirit to come in and take control of your vessel. And when you do that, it stirs all the powers of hell. Folks, I know that when I have made these commitments to the Lord And to walk in His righteousness And begin to seek Him with all my and and i allowing the holy spirit to change me and i have said lord i going to walk with you i going to minister to you and i'm going to allow the holy spirit to minister to me the devil will inflame everything in the flesh because the flesh is warring against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh you and I are no match to our flesh. You've made promise after promise and missed and failed on every one of them. But God has sent the Holy Spirit through His Son Jesus Christ to wage warfare against the flesh. Folks, this battle is going to go on as long as you live. If you think the time is going to come that, well, I've reached a place, and by the way, anybody tells me they don't have this spiritual warfare of the inner man is already acknowledging pride. So he needs as much help as I do. You see, this war is going to go on because flesh is going to be flesh, is going to be flesh, is going to be flesh. Flesh is flesh is flesh. And always will be flesh. But you see, the Holy Spirit has been given to wage war against the flesh. And this, folks, demands faith. demands confidence in the word of God. He said, I'm a spirit of truth. And when he comes to me and he presents to me as he is now, he's presenting to you in the power of his own name. The Holy Spirit right now, through the words of Jesus, Jesus presented this, that the Holy Spirit is a spirit of truth. He comes to remind you that he is there to do battle. He's your prayer warrior. He's your battling warrior. He is your strength and He is your might. He is the living power of Almighty God. We think thoughts we shouldn't think. Thoughts unworthy of Christ. We look at things we ought not to. We're tempted by things we should no longer be tempted by. We listen to what we should not listen to. And it makes us feel so unclean. Makes us feel very strange. And the Lord said, think it not strange, these fiery tests and trials that come as if some strange thing has happened. Folks, that battle that is raging in your heart, that battle against the flesh. Folks, you can't walk the streets of New York without seeing signs, filthy signs. signs. You turn on the radio, you hear outlandish, vitrolic, I mean, amazing meanness coming from what they call the talking heads. You see it everywhere. You turn in society today, and there is a battle that is raging, and the thought life, how the enemy comes to inject thoughts into the mind of discouragement and all of these things that pound against the flesh and the inflaming Satan inflaming the evil desires of the flesh and it makes us feel that we are different than the others around us And when you go into a battle that makes you ashamed of having to face that battle because you thought you were stronger in the Holy Spirit, you thought you were further up in the ladder, you thought you knew more about Christ and this power of the Holy Spirit in you, and now you say, well, I'm just not getting it. Everybody around me is getting it. No, the scripture says these temptations are common to all flesh, common to all man. So don't think it's strange. And you can't win this battle until when you walk with Jesus and these things come against you. You're going to have to say, I'm not strange. This is not unique with me. This is common to all flesh. So I'm not going to let the devil tell me that I'm an unclean son of the living God. I'm going to trust the blood of Jesus Christ and his cleansing power in my life. And I will not listen to this lie. And the devil wants to isolate you and put you aside in a corner and say, you are the stupidest, you are the most unclean, and you are the most unworthy of all servants. You're not getting it. Everybody else is getting it. That's a lie. These things are common to all flesh. Don't build up men and look at men and say, well, there's a man who never goes through a battle. There's a man who never has an unclean thought. Well, I don't know one on the face of the earth. Not on this stage. Not here looking and preaching at you. We are all subject to the sin nature. We're still, not subject, but still. That sin nature has to be dealt with through the power of the Holy Spirit. it but this this is what god has been helping me with there's no temptation taking you but such is common to all men but god is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what you were able he will with the temptation make a way of escape that you may be able to endure it he said yes I'll make a way of escape that you may be able to live under it you're able to bear it because you know that you have the Holy Spirit in you who will not let you go will not let you down he's going to be faithful in this warfare glory be to God and that's why after 76 years of age and over many many years of serving the Lord I can say he is faithful He has fought battles by my side And he's poured strength in And folks this is not a fancy That when we tell you the Holy Ghost will come and give you power But you have to acknowledge that power You have to by faith saying I lay hold of it I have to take it And I have to receive it into my being Thank you.

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