Order from Chaos
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 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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Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
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| 0:00.0 | Who is the Holy Spirit? |
| 0:04.1 | What kind of character does he have? |
| 0:07.5 | How can we come to know him and to have fellowship with him? |
| 0:11.7 | And how is it that it's to our advantage that the Lord Jesus has gone away |
| 0:16.3 | and that the Holy Spirit has come to the church? |
| 0:24.6 | Thank you. and that the Holy Spirit has come to the church. You know, the Trinity can be a difficult doctrine for many of us to grasp, |
| 0:30.6 | particularly when we consider the third member of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:35.6 | Who exactly is the Holy Spirit? Hello and welcome to this Monday |
| 0:40.1 | edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm glad you're with us. Today we joined Dr. Sinclair Ferguson to |
| 0:46.1 | explore the identity of the Holy Spirit to show his important role in revealing the character of God. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's join Dr. Ferguson now. |
| 0:58.0 | I want you to imagine that you're in an upper room around about the year 33 AD. |
| 1:05.3 | You're one of 12 disciples and one of them leaves the room and you're listening to and engaging in conversation |
| 1:13.4 | with the Lord Jesus. You're conscious that something dramatic is going to happen and so you |
| 1:20.2 | have a sense of weightiness upon your heart and you see that when Judas, one of your fellow disciples, left the room, something seemed |
| 1:30.3 | to lift in Jesus' spirit and the room seemed to be filled again with light. And then you |
| 1:37.3 | hear Jesus say to you, it is to your advantage that I'm going away. |
| 1:45.0 | And you blink and turn to one of your fellow disciples |
| 1:50.0 | and whisper to him, |
| 1:53.0 | did Jesus really say that it's to our advantage that he goes away. |
| 2:01.4 | And the disciple who's listened more carefully than you have says to you, you should |
| 2:05.7 | have heard his next sentence, because if I don't go away from you, the Holy Spirit will not |
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