The Spirit illuminated us to understand our sinfulness.

The Spirit illuminated us to understand the gospel.

The Spirit illuminated us from the very beginning and continues this work of shining

the light of truth brightly in our minds. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

It's like being in a fist fight and suddenly being knocked out.

That's how one man described the Holy Spirit's work in his life.

One television evangelist said that the power of the Holy Spirit knocked his mother to the

ground and another said he talks to the Holy Spirit and the Spirit talks back to him.

Those are common stories these days, but do they accurately represent what the Holy

Spirit does and how he ministers to people.

What does the Bible say about the third person of the Trinity?

To find out, stay here as John MacArthur continues his study,

taking the mystery out of the spirit's work and with the

lesson now here's John. Now we want to talk a little bit about the doctrine of the

Holy Spirit and look at what is important and critical and revealed in scripture instructive for us

and effective and necessary for our spiritual lives with regard to the spirit of God.

First of all, we have to start where we have to start, and that is that the Holy

Spirit is the agent of salvation.

The Holy Spirit is the agent of salvation.

If I want to evangelize somebody, if I want to preach a message that really can change people's hearts. The first thing I have to understand is I can't do

that. I can't do that on my own. There's only one who transforms people and that's the Holy Spirit. So I want to ask the

question, what is it that the Spirit of God does? What is it that the Spirit of God uses to begin the work of conviction and it is the truth

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