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“Perhaps the single most powerful quality in your preaching is that you are not talking about the Holy Spirit's work in global mission, you have lived it.”
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In his final hours with his disciples, Jesus made remarkable promises about the Holy Spirit, whom he called the Helper. Pastor Jacob Boss walks through John 13-16 to show how the Spirit empowers witness, convicts the world through the gospel, glorifies Christ, and guides believers into truth. These promises belong not only to the first disciples but to every believer who goes to neighbors, communities, and nations in Jesus's name.
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“Perhaps the single most powerful quality in your preaching is that you are not talking about the Holy Spirit's work in global mission, you have lived it.”
Read the full insights report →Six sermon moments, automatically clipped, subtitled, and sized for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts.
Unlock with your sermon →“The Spirit who knows every detail of their life, every wound, every question they haven't voiced yet, is the same Spirit living in you. That's not pressure. That's actually the most freeing thing imaginable.”
Read all 5 days of the devotional →“Every believer in this room is qualified and empowered to the gospel mission, whether it's across the street, in your community, or to the ends of the earth.”
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Unlock with your sermon →“What happened when Jacob Boss heard a Francis Chan analogy while walking in London with headphones in?”
Take the sermon quiz →“John 13-16 is called the "Upper Room Discourse", Jesus's longest recorded private teaching, delivered the night before his crucifixion. The disciples didn't yet understand what was coming.”
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Unlock with your sermon →“John 13-17 constitutes what scholars call the Farewell Discourse, a recognized literary genre in both Jewish and Greco-Roman antiquity in which a departing leader delivers final instructions to his successors.”
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Unlock with your sermon →“sharing the gospel is like walking into a cemetery, looking at a grave, and saying, "Get up." None of us have the power to do that. But we've been promised Someone who works through us who does. That changes everything.”
Read the pastor's blog post →“The same Spirit who fell at Pentecost, who emboldened Peter to preach to thousands, who scattered the early church from Jerusalem to Antioch and beyond, that same Spirit lives in every believer in this room.”
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Unlock with your sermon →“This mission that we've been given is like going into that cemetery and looking at one of those graves and saying, 'Get up.' Who in here has the power to do that?”
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Unlock with your sermon →According to this sermon, it's not your education or experience that qualifies you, it's the Holy Spirit working through you. When you share the gospel, the Spirit convicts hearts, exposes guilt, and brings spiritually dead people to life. Your job is simply to speak the truth; the Spirit does the transforming work.
Jesus promised greater works because he would send the Holy Spirit as helper. The Spirit empowers believers' witness, convicts the world of sin, and glorifies Christ through mission, enabling the gospel to spread globally through ordinary believers rather than being limited to Jesus's physical presence in one location.
This sermon teaches that the Bible is not merely words on a page, the Holy Spirit breathes it alive into our hearts. That's why believers who've read Scripture for decades still find fresh truth each time. The Spirit knows our needs and makes God's word active, powerful, and personally revealing.
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