As we end this series on the Holy Spirit, we will look at what Romans 8 has to teach us about the Spirit of Adoption. What does it mean for our relationship with God in and through Christ?
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God does want us to know and have the knowledge that He has purposed that we should have about His works and plans for eternity. Our challenge is whether we know the Holy Spirit whose joy it is to grant us this knowledge. And are we leaning on Him to help us grasp it all spiritually.
In our past studies, we have seen how the Spirit is the Spirit of Life, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of Pentecost. In this study, we consider the role of the Holy Spirit in making us holy. More specifically, we will look at the Holy Spirit’s role in making us holy as the living temple of Christ.
“Your body is a temple” is a common saying amongst Christians, and it often used to remind us of the need to treat our bodies well, even with reverence. It is so common that even the secular world has picked it up, for example in the health and fitness world, or in memes. But what does it really mean? What is the Spirit’s role and what is ours?
This series thus far has helped build out what we know and understand of the Spirit — the Spirit of life that creates, that gives life to dry bones, that makes all things new; last week we saw the spirit of Christ that is part of the Trinity and points to Jesus. In this study, we look at the Spirit of Pentecost — the same Holy Spirit, but here in Acts 2 we see the clearest record of how the Holy Spirit has come and what it does in and for God’s people. From these verses, let us see that the Holy Spirit is real, important and necessary for Jesus’ believers, enabling us to bear fruit and follow Jesus.
In Ezekiel 37, we learnt that the Spirit of God is the Spirit of life. He is the one who brings life to the dead, who makes things out of nothing. He creates ex nihilo. He creates and recreates in new creation. Genesis 1:2 talk about God and the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the earth. The Spirit of God is active and present in creation. The Holy Spirit is the one who creates and makes all things, together with the Father and the Son.
This is the Doctrine of Inseparable Operations, where we see that the Godhead acts as one. The roles that they play are distinct and different. We know the third person of the Trinity by knowing the second person of the Trinity and how He relates to the third person.
What do you know about the Holy Spirit? Do we know the Spirit?
Where in the Bible do you see the Spirit at work?
But where in the Old Testament do we see the Spirit?
The Father, Son and Spirit are known throughout Scripture. God’s word informs us of each person of the Godhead. The verb form of the word Spirit is “spirare” which means to breathe and come forth form.
But, who is this person of the Spirit that we meant to experience? What does it mean that He is the Spirit of life? In this series, we will learn more about the Holy Spirit, and to start us off, we will be looking at what the Old Testament says, in Ezekiel 37.