Let me give you some reasons, maybe just one, why I'm excited about the topics I've been assigned.

My topics are to talk about living and preaching and praying in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I am thrilled to spend time thinking and meditating and speaking now about the ministry of the Holy Spirit in those three areas in fact

there's just two living is everything and then two subsets are preaching and

praying so if you get this message you don't need to come back for the other two,

but it might help by just putting a little more meat on the bones.

Because if you know how to live by the spirit, you know how to preach by the spirit, you know how to pray by the spirit

because the dynamic of doing, doing by the spirit, doing in the power of the spirit is the same wherever

you turn in life. So first a reason for why I am so

excited to spend time in the last week or two and then now thinking and talking about this. My main reason for why I love

this topic is because I love the glory of Jesus Christ. I love the fact that Paul, whatever else the gospel is, he calls it,

the God, this is 2 Corinthians 4.4, the gospel of the Glory of Christ.

That his glory shines most brightly in his work on the cross where he brings grace to its apex of expression

and suffers for sinners. Nothing in all the universe. Nothing is more grand, more glorious, more

magnificent than the death of Jesus Christ for sinners and his resurrection to vindicate his great work.

And I love the Gospel.

I love the way the glory of Christ manifests itself in the Gospel. I love to think about my Lord

dying for me, rising again, coming to me. I love Christ. I love the

love the glory of Christ. Now, you know the next step in the syllogism, right?

The Holy Spirit was given, according to John 1614,

in order to glorify Christ.

I will

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