Today I'm renewing your mind. Who is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is the intimate companion of the heavenly Father

who has the privilege of unveiling the Father's face

so that we can see what the Father and the Spirit want to 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 seeing the Holy Spirit in the New Testament as gentle and kind.

Is that an accurate betrayal? Today on renewing your mind

Sinclair Ferguson shows us that our triune God is the same yesterday,

today and forever. He also points out that the Holy Spirit is portrayed

in the Old Testament and he pointed his forward to Jesus Christ.

Now in our introductory study we were thinking about the beginnings of the ministry

of the Holy Spirit and especially his work in creation, how he brings fullness

into the emptiness of creation and then brings fullness and wonderful joy

into the emptiness of our lives and how he brings order into creation

and in the same way all the way through Scripture we are taught about the way

in which he orders and re-orders our lives for the glory of God.

I want us in this study to think particularly about his ministry

in what we call the Old Covenant. That is especially in the days

of the Old Testament as he works in men and women and prepares his people

for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of course somebody's biography

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