Consecration: The Key To God’s Heart
 Three Steps To God’s Perfect Will - Part 1

I. Three Steps To God’s Perfect Will For Your Life

‘SK’= Sense Knowledge

‘G’=Guidance

A. Step #1: 2Cor 5:17. ‘Ye Must Be Born Again’. 

  1. ‘God is a Spirit’ Jn 4:24.You’re created in God’s Image. Gen 1:27. 
      Therefore you are a spirit. 
  
  2. You are a spirit, have a soul and live in a body. 1Th 5:23, Lk 16:19, 2 
      Cor 5:6-8, Phil 1:21-24. 
      
  3. When you were born again, only your spirit was affected. 2Cor 5:17. 

  4. The Holy Spirit then came to live in your spirit. The ‘Spirit Within’  
       for eternal life. 1Cor 3:16. 

  5. Being Born again is Voluntary, but necessary for salvation (to obtain 
      eternal life) and a first step into God’s Perfect Will. 

B. Step #2: Be Filled With The Spirit. 
  
  1. After Jesus rose from the dead, he appeared to His disciples several 
       times.

     a. Jn 20:22: Disciples receive ‘spirit within’ for eternal life. 
    
     b. Mk 16:14-17: Disciples receive Great Commission and permission 
         to do works in His name.

     c. Lk 24:46-49. Disciples receive orders to wait for the ‘Promise of the 
         Father’ to give them the Power to carry out the Great Commission. 

     d. Acts 1:4-5,8 2:1- 4, 14, 33, 39, 41. Disciples receive this Promise of Power. Peter 
         transformed, begins immediately to use this new power to preach. 3000 saved.
  
     e. This is the pattern throughout New Testament. Acts 8:, 10:, 19: ,  including Paul himself.

  2. The ‘Spirit Upon’ is for Service. Acts 1:4-8, 2:41. 

  3. Being filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:4) also called ‘Baptism in the Holy Ghost’.Acts 1:5, 
      11:16.Comes with evidence of new prayer language (tongues) Acts 2:4, 11. 

  4. Being filled with the Holy Spirit is voluntary, not necessary for salvation, but is necessary for 
      service in the full power of the Spirit. Being ‘filled’ with the Spirit for service is the 2nd step 
      into God’s Perfect Will.
HOMEWORK – HBS-4

___. The Holy Spirit came to live in my spirit when I was born.

___. God is a soul and I’m made in God’s Image, therefore I am a soul.

___. I am a three-fold being. I am a soul, I have a spirit, and I live in my body.

___.  Paul said in Phil 1:23 that he had a desire to depart from his physical body to be with Christ which would be far better. The person that would depart from the physical body would be _____.

___. The part that departs to be with Christ when we die physically, is our physical body.

___. Paul went on to say that for him to remain in his body would be better for the Philippians.

___. When Paul said this, he was indicating that the real ‘Paul’ was not his body- but his spirit.

___. This is the same with us Christians. We are spirits just like Paul is. When we die physically, our spirit will go to be with God.

___. All people will live forever somewhere because they are spirits. Spirits never die.

___. The rich man’s body went to hell. That’s how he could see Lazarus.

___. The angels carried Lazarus away after he died, but his body stayed behind. 

___. The Lazarus that went to ‘Abraham’s bosom’ (‘side’-NIV) was his spirit - not his body. 

___.  If a man is not born again, the information that he gets comes from his four senses.

___. After we are born again, we can receive information from God as well as our senses.

___. Only those in the ministry need the in-filling of the Holy Spirit because they are the ones in service to God.

___.  Some of  Jesus’ disciples received the Spirit (were born again) at one time and then filled with the Spirit later at Pentecost. They had 2 distinct, separate experiences.

___.  When the 120 were filled with the spirit, on Pentecost, they all spoke in tongues.

___.  Jesus mother experienced this also.

___. When I was born again, only my spirit was affected, my mind was not renewed and my body stayed the same.

___. When I’m born again the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within my spirit, but when I’m filled with the Spirit, the Holy Spirit comes upon me in power for service.