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Nicaea vs. the Spirit-Killers: The Holy Spirit is "The Lord and Giver of Life"

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Grace, Scripture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, God, Knowledge, Christ, Gospel, Jesus, Faith, Belief, Religion, Christian, History, Theology, Bible, Reformation, Horton, Discipleship

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Holy Spirit isn’t a vague force or junior member of the Trinity. Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb explore how the church came to affirm the Spirit’s full divinity and how missteps today can distort worship, the gospel, and Christian life.

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In a world full of noise and screens, families need truth they can trust.

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Tell Me a Story is a new devotional podcast from Sola Media that helps kids see the promises of God throughout all of Scripture.

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With gospel-rich storytelling and short devotionals, it's the perfect way to spark faith conversations at home.

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Would you consider making a gift today to help us continue this work?

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Your donation will help us produce more episodes that teach kids about our wonderful God

0:36.3

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0:43.3

What you see here is that the work of the Holy Spirit is to bring us to Christ.

0:50.3

So to be Christ-centered is to be spirit-filled.

0:53.3

And if you're focused on being spirit-filled and not focused on Christ,

0:58.0

you're not, this is not what the Holy Spirit does.

1:01.0

The Holy Spirit is not self-referential.

1:02.0

He's always pointing back to the Lord Jesus.

1:04.0

He's always to do so in order to glorify the Father.

1:07.0

So there's a sense in which we always want to remember that the work of the

1:12.3

spirit is to get us to Christ.

1:26.2

Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.

1:29.9

This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture.

1:53.6

There are clear passages in the scriptures that teach that the Holy Spirit is a third person of the Godhead.

1:58.1

The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.

2:01.8

The Holy Spirit does what only God can do, just as the Father and Son do what they do because they are God. And yet they are one in essence, three in person, but one

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