A gift for you! We will study at the 2014 Faithful Conference on the Work of the Holy Ghost, but we would like you to study the person of the Spirit. To this end, will the Ministry of Faith, in partnership with the Ligonier Ministry, make DVD lessons free?Who is Holy Spirit? by Sinclair Ferguson so he can learn more.
Lesson summary
- The scriptures give many titles to the Spirit.
- Both explicitly and implicitly.
- He is our.
- Our lawyer and the one who regenerates our hearts and turns life into dust.
- However.
- There is one title we simply neglect because of its familiarity: the Spirit.
- He is the Holy Spirit.
- He is holy in himself.
- And Jesus sends his Holy Spirit to live in us so that we can be holy.
- Long ago.
- The Lord commanded.
- “Be holy.
- For I am holy.
- “The Spirit of Jesus helps believers in their sanctification and growth in the image of our holy Savior.
Isaiah 6,1: 7; Romans 3. 21 – 31; 6,1?11; 7,14 – 25; 8,1 “4, 9” 14; 1 Corinthians 6. 15; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Galatians 5. 16 – 24; Ephesians 4. 30; Philippians 2. 12?13
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not of the flesh, which is obliged to live according to the flesh; For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; But if by the Spirit you kill the actions of the body, you will surely live; because all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God (Romans 8:12-14).
Spiritual titles
Throughout the Bible, titles are given to express the work, purpose, and role of the people to whom they are assigned.
B. The Spirit receives or conquers several titles in the scriptures.
Ⅰ. It’s a creative and recreational mind
II. . Jesus refers to the Spirit as a divine paraclyte.
III. . The Spirit is the Holy Spirit, because he is holy in himself.
II. . The role of the Holy Spirit in creating holiness in the lives of believers
A. La Christian life is full of tension between holiness and sin (Romans 7:14-25).
I. Christians still have sin despite their regeneration
II. . However, as sons and daughters of God, we have a union with Jesus and the abode of the Spirit, which requires holiness.
B. Paul teaches the Romans in his letter how Christians can mortify the actions of the body by the Spirit.
I. The Spirit creates in believers the feeling that they should mortify sin in their lives (Romans 6. 1-11).
Ii. The Spirit makes possible the mortification of sin
III. . The Spirit creates in the believer the feeling that he is responsible for his resistance to the temptation of sin (Philippians 2:12-13).
Iv. The Holy Spirit creates in us the desire to be like Christ.
C. Paul also points out that the Holy Spirit creates patterns in us that make us want to live in a holy way (Romans 8. 1-4, 9-14).
I. The Holy Ghost shifts our attention from the short term to eternity, from the visible to the invisible.
II. . The Spirit directs our eyes to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which makes sin unthinkable.
III. . The Spirit gives us an idea and an idea of how we should behave.
Ⅳ. The Spirit enlightens our union with Jesus Christ, which makes any form of sin or union with sin inconceivable. This reality shows that when we sin, our sinless holy Savior is bound to filth because of our actions (1 Corinthians 6:15).
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