Hey, this is John from the Bible Project, and this episode is the final part of a discussion

between Tim and I on the Holy Spirit.

In the first episode, we talked about the Hebrew word Ruaq, which is translated as wind,

breath, and also God's Spirit.

In the second episode, we also talk about how the word Ruaq is used to describe man's

spirit.

It's about the three activities that we find God's Ruaq doing in the Old Testament,

creating, empowering people, and then recreating.

Today's conversation moves into the New Testament.

The New Testament is written in Greek, and so the Hebrew word Ruaq is translated with the

Greek word Numa, which conveniently can also mean wind and breath to blow Numa, and also

mean Spirit.

We look at how the life of Jesus is when empowered by the Holy Spirit.

The resurrection is connected to the Spirit.

Paul uses the creative power of God's Spirit to describe what recreated Jesus' body.

He was a human, and he ate food and could hang out with his disciples, but he had different

properties.

We've tried to cover a lot of ground in these three episodes, but we expect that at the

end of this, there are still lingering questions.

What we'd like to do is hear from you what questions you have about God's Spirit.

You can send them on Facebook, Facebook.com slash join the Bible project, or email them

to us, support at jointhebibeproject.com, and in the next episode of the podcast, we're

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