THE WAY OF THE CROSS

Part 3: The Way of the Spirit

March 22, 2026

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Romans 7:18-19 (NIV) For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

 

John 14:1-6 (NIV) “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

John 16:7 (NIV) But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

 

John 16:12 (NIV) I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.

 

Who is the Holy Spirit?

 

• The Holy Spirit is a you can .

 

John 14:17 (NIV) The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

• The Holy Spirit is a who t

 

John 14:16 (ESV) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.

 

John 16:8-11 (NLT) And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

• The Holy Spirit is a who into .

 

John 14:26 (NIV) But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

 

John 16:13 (NIV) But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

• The Holy Spirit is the One who your .

 

John 15:5 (NIV) I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

 

John 16:14 (NIV) He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.

 

1. of His presence.

 

1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV) Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.

 

Galatians 5:16 (NIV) So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

 

Romans 8:5–6 (NIV) Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

3. to Him.

 

2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV) May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

4. to His prompting.

 

Galatians 5:25 (NIV) Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

 

Acts 8:29 (NIV) The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

 

Romans 8:14 (NIV) For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.