The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can we find the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament? Today, R.C. Sproul shows how the Spirit of God empowered certain individuals in the Old Testament to carry out their unique roles and callings in God's kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | God says, let there be light, and there was light, and the lights came on. |
| 0:06.0 | We see that the Holy Spirit, as the New Testament says, is not the author of confusion. |
| 0:12.2 | He does not generate chaos. |
| 0:14.9 | And that's something we need to understand that the Spirit of God is a Spirit who brings |
| 0:19.5 | order out of this order, who brings something out of nothing, who brings light out of darkness. |
| 0:31.0 | When the Holy Spirit is discussed today among Christians, we often turn to the incredible |
| 0:37.7 | event described in Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost, or perhaps to Paul's writing to the church |
| 0:42.8 | at Corinth. |
| 0:43.8 | But what about the Old Testament? |
| 0:45.7 | What does that teach about the Holy Spirit? |
| 0:48.2 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind. |
| 0:53.0 | Each Saturday for the past few weeks, RC Sproul has taken us on a study of the person and |
| 0:57.5 | work of Christ. |
| 0:58.5 | And today, he begins a section of his foundation series on the Holy Spirit, the person of |
| 1:04.2 | the Godhead who is perhaps the most misunderstood among Christians. |
| 1:07.8 | So grab your Bibles, as Dr Sproul considers the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. |
| 1:14.7 | The older I get, the more I tend to be nostalgic, reminisce, look back over the years of |
| 1:22.9 | my life and think of the regrets and those crossroad experiences that I've had. |
| 1:29.7 | And every time I do that, the one thing that jumps out at me, of course, is that the most |
| 1:34.3 | overwhelmingly significant event that changed my life more than any other crossroads event |
| 1:42.7 | in my life was my conversion to Christ. |
| 1:45.9 | I mean, that, of course, turned my life upside down. |
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