The Face of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can we find the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament? Today, Sinclair Ferguson shows how the Spirit has intimately revealed the heart of God throughout history, culminating in the fullness of God's revelation in Jesus Christ.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | The Holy Spirit is the intimate companion of the Heavenly Father |
| 0:06.2 | who has the privilege of unveiling the Father's face |
| 0:11.8 | so that we can see what the Father and the Spirit want to do for the children of God. |
| 0:28.5 | Music do for the children of God. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit have the same purpose, the same agenda. But some view the God of the Old Testament as being cruel and mean, while |
| 0:34.4 | seeing the Holy Spirit in the New Testament as gentle and kind. |
| 0:39.3 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and today on renewing your mind, Sinclair Ferguson will show us |
| 0:44.3 | that our triune God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He'll also point out that |
| 0:51.3 | the Holy Spirit is portrayed in the Old Testament, and he pointed |
| 0:55.5 | us forward to Jesus. |
| 0:57.9 | Here's Dr. Ferguson, continuing his series, Who is the Holy Spirit? |
| 1:05.0 | Now, in our introductory study, we were thinking about the beginnings of the ministry of the |
| 1:09.6 | Holy Spirit, and especially his |
| 1:11.4 | work in creation, how he brings fullness into the emptiness of creation and then brings |
| 1:17.3 | fullness and wonderful joy into the emptiness of our lives and how he brings order into |
| 1:22.5 | creation. And in the same way, all the way through Scripture, we are taught about the way in which he orders |
| 1:28.6 | and reorders our lives for the glory of God. I want us in this study to think particularly |
| 1:35.3 | about his ministry in what we call the Old Covenant. That is, especially in the days of the Old |
| 1:42.6 | Testament as he works in men and women |
| 1:45.4 | and prepares his people for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:50.4 | Because, of course, somebody's biography in many ways is a clue to their identity. |
| 1:58.6 | If you want to know who I am, today you need to understand, as it were, |
| 2:05.2 | how I got here, what my history is. And in the same way, if we are going to be able to understand |
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