Order from Chaos
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Holy Spirit is often the most misunderstood person of the Trinity. Who is this Spirit, and how do we relate to Him? Today, Sinclair Ferguson considers the identity, character, and work of the Spirit of God.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Who is the Holy Spirit? What kind of character does he have? How can we come to know him and to |
| 0:09.0 | have fellowship with him? And how is it that it's to our advantage that the Lord Jesus has gone away |
| 0:15.0 | and that the Holy Spirit has come to the church. |
| 0:29.3 | That is the overarching theme of the series you'll be hearing this week on renewing your mind. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm glad you're joining us. |
| 0:38.9 | Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligner Ministry's teaching fellow and also the vice chairman of Ligonier, and he taught this series precisely because there is a level of confusion in the church about the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:45.9 | In some circles, he is the forgotten person of the Trinity. |
| 0:49.5 | In other circles, his work is overemphasized in a vain search for signs and wonders. |
| 0:56.4 | So who is the Holy Spirit? |
| 0:58.4 | It's an important question, and if you'd like to go even deeper in your study, |
| 1:02.6 | be sure to request the entire 12-message series on DVD and digitally, |
| 1:06.8 | along with the study guide and a copy of R.C. Sproles booklet on the Holy Spirit when you donate |
| 1:12.4 | this week at Renewing Your Mind.org. Well, here's Dr. Ferguson to help us answer the question, |
| 1:19.2 | who is the Holy Spirit? I want you to imagine that you're in an upper room around about the year 33 AD. |
| 1:30.6 | You're one of 12 disciples and one of them leaves the room, |
| 1:35.4 | and you're listening to and engaging in conversation with the Lord Jesus. |
| 1:40.5 | You're conscious that something dramatic is going to happen, |
| 2:03.6 | and so you have a sense of weightiness upon your heart, and you see that when Judas, one of your fellow disciples, left the room, something seemed to lift in Jesus' spirit, and the room seemed to be filled again with light. And then you hear Jesus say to you, it is to your advantage that I'm going away. And you blink and turn to one of your fellow disciples |
| 2:13.2 | and whisper to him, did Jesus really say that it's to our advantage that he goes away? |
| 2:23.3 | And the disciple who's listened more carefully than you have says to you should have heard his next sentence, |
| 2:30.3 | because if I don't go away from you, the Holy Spirit will not come to you. |
| 2:39.1 | Now I want you to imagine yourself in that situation, and I want to encourage you to make |
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