The Holy Spirit bears testimony to the Truth of the Gospel!
By The Holy Spirit, Paul wrote in Hebrews chapter 2:
3 Then how would we expect to escape punishment if we despise the very Truths that give us life? The Lord Himself was the first to announce these things, and those who heard Him firsthand confirmed their accuracy.
4 Then God added his witness to theirs. He validated their ministry with signs, astonishing wonders, all kinds of powerful miracles, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he distributed as he desired.
The term validate means: to confirm, corroborate, to recognize, establish, illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy, approve.
These signs shall follow those who believe. How many ministries are being validated by The Holy Spirit today?
In Scripture, the Gospel is supernaturally attested. The whole Bible indicates when GOD sends somebody with a message, HE bears supernatural testimony to that message. We are totally dependent on The Holy Spirit. Without The Holy Spirit, we cannot successfully do our job of bringing forth The Kingdom of GOD on earth as it is in Heaven. We can go through the motions, we can make the plans, we can form our programs, but it is The Holy Spirit Who gets the job done.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 6:
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of The Father, even so we also should walk in newness of Life.
Jesus did not raise Himself from the dead. He totally trusted Father to raise Him by THE SPIRIT. The Holy Spirit Who is the Glory of The Father raised up Christ from the dead.
Just as Jesus was raised by The Holy Spirit, we should walk in the newness of Life given to us by The Holy Spirit. We should be as totally dependent on The Holy Spirit as Jesus did for His resurrection. We cannot walk this new Christian Walk in our own strength, we cannot do it in our own wisdom. Education won’t do it; finance won’t do it. They can be useful but they only function to serve us.
The only power that will enable us to live the kind of life that GOD expects and that will accomplish HIS purposes is the Supernatural power of The Holy Spirit.
The Book of Acts represents the formation and growth of the early church. Of the 28 chapters, how many chapters contained Supernatural manifestations of The Holy Spirit? All of them!
Some examples:
Acts 1:1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, [3] to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 3:4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”
5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:
9 If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness.
Acts 5:12 And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch. 13 Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly.
14 And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
15 so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. 16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
Acts 6:3 Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of God reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and Wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business;
4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word.” 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,
8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 7:55 But Stephen, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into Heaven and saw the Glory of God, and Jesus standing at the Right Hand of God,
56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the Right Hand of God!”
We see that the early church totally relied on The Holy Spirit in all areas. Shouldn’t the church in the end times operate in the same manner?