The Spirit of the Father
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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When the Holy Spirit indwells us, one of our first and highest privileges is to address God as "Abba! Father" (Rom. 8:15). Today, Sinclair Ferguson expresses the joy of becoming an adopted child of God by the Spirit's power.
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| 0:00.0 | All this week on the podcast, we've been thinking about the person of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:12.8 | Not so much about what he does, his work, although we've been thinking about that, but |
| 0:18.5 | about who he is, his person. |
| 0:22.1 | And I hope we've gone to see that just as we get to know the Father through the revelation |
| 0:26.7 | of the Lord Jesus, remember he said he who has seen me has seen the Father, the same is |
| 0:32.2 | true of the Holy Spirit who's been given to us. |
| 0:36.0 | And so our main focus has been getting to know and love the Holy Spirit through his relationship |
| 0:42.9 | to the Lord Jesus, because he is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 0:51.2 | But you know he's also the Spirit of the Father. |
| 0:55.5 | How Jesus told his disciples that when they were persecuted or even brought to trial, |
| 1:00.7 | the Spirit of the Father would help them to speak. |
| 1:04.7 | And Jesus explained this also more fully in his final teaching session with the disciples |
| 1:09.6 | before his crucifixion. |
| 1:12.4 | He said he would ask the Father and he would give the Holy Spirit to the disciples, because |
| 1:18.8 | he is indeed the Spirit of the Father. |
| 1:23.8 | And later on in John 15 verse 26, he says that the Holy Spirit he sends will be the Spirit |
| 1:31.4 | who comes to them from the Father. |
| 1:35.4 | So who sends the Holy Spirit to us, the Father or the Son? |
| 1:41.7 | Well yes, but yes what, Father or Son? |
| 1:46.6 | Well it's both, isn't it? |
| 1:48.4 | Not one or the other, but both together. |
| 1:52.0 | The Spirit says Jesus proceeds from the Father. |
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