The Holy Spirit (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Holy Spirit is promised to every believer. So what is the Spirit’s purpose, and how can we determine if He’s at work within us? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg considers these questions as he examines the role of the third person of the Trinity.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. The Holy Spirit is promised to every believer, but what is the Spirit's purpose, and how can we tell when he's at work in us? |
| 0:35.3 | Alistair Begg helps us think about these questions today on Truth for Life as we look at |
| 0:39.7 | Chapter 16 in John's Gospel. |
| 0:42.5 | Alistair has already identified key attributes of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:47.0 | He's a unique person. |
| 0:48.7 | He is one with the Father and the Son. |
| 0:51.2 | He was an agent of creation. |
| 0:54.1 | And that's where Alistair picks things up. |
| 1:01.1 | Fourthly, the spirit of God is the agent of God's new creation. He is the one who created |
| 1:07.7 | the world, and he is the world who creates Christians. God, the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:15.6 | has created brand new people. Those who were dead, he has made alive. Fifthly, he is not only |
| 1:24.8 | the author of creation and of new creation. he is also the author of the scriptures. |
| 1:30.1 | He's the author of the scriptures. That's the explanation that we have for our Bible. |
| 1:34.3 | That the scriptures in 2 Timothy 316 are said to be breathed out. |
| 1:38.6 | They are theopneustus, that God has breathed out his word. |
| 1:43.2 | That the breath of the almighty of God in the person of the Spirit |
| 1:46.5 | is the one who creates Scripture itself. And indeed, when Peter writes about this, he says, |
| 1:52.5 | the prophets have written all these things in the past, and they were men who were carried along |
| 1:57.4 | by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, they were in control of their senses. They |
| 2:02.6 | were not automaton's. They had distinct personalities. They lived in a period in time. But as they |
| 2:10.6 | themselves gave voice to what they said, as they themselves had written down what they |
| 2:16.6 | proclaimed, they were to discover what was said of God concerning Jeremiah, |
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