Chapter 2: JESUS WAS WIDE OPEN TO GOD’S SPIRIT
“Jesus was human and because Jesus was a human, he needed to be empowered from day one with and by the Holy Spirit. If this is true—and I am about to show how this is found in the Bible—then it is true that you and I need the Holy Spirit. Even more so.”
HOW DID HE PULL OFF THE MIRACLES? The gospel writes make it clear that Jesus’s power came God and the Spirit working in him.
JESUS, THE SPIRIT-FILLED MAN. At his baptism, the Holy Spirit descends on Jesus and Jesus realizes that he is God’s son.
SPIRIT-UALITY IN TIMES OF TESTING. The gospels are clear—Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit.
WHEN DID GOD UNLEASH THE SPIRIT? Many references the Holy Spirit in the accounts of the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus.
THE DAYS OF THE SPIRIT UNLEASHED. “ If Jesus could do his ministry only by the power of the Spirit, and if special but ordinary humans such as Elizabeth and Mary and Simeon could do their ministries only by the power of the Spirit, then you and I especially need to be more and more open to the Spirit.”s
Excerpt From: Scot McKnight & Dave Ferguson. “Open to the Spirit.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/open-to-the-spirit/id1255402428?mt=11