The Spirit of the Lord
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Holy Spirit who dwells in us is the same Spirit who ministered in Jesus' life. Today, Sinclair Ferguson explains how Christ's constant Companion and Friend is powerfully at work in the lives of Christ's people.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for several Ligonier teaching series, including Union with Christ. He is author of many books, including The Whole Christ, Maturity, and Devoted to God’s Church. Dr. Ferguson is also host of the podcast Things Unseen.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | So often in the Christian life, we're more concerned about what the Holy Spirit is doing in me. |
| 0:06.2 | And when you think about the last century in the Christian church, the aspect of the spirit |
| 0:10.8 | that people have been most interested in are the things the Holy Spirit does in and through me. |
| 0:17.4 | And the most important thing about his person and all the things he's done throughout the whole |
| 0:22.7 | history of the world is that he was with the Lord Jesus Christ throughout the whole course |
| 0:28.5 | of his ministry. His constant companion, we might even be bold enough to say his very best friend. |
| 0:37.0 | Music to see his very best friend. |
| 0:43.3 | It is the work of the Holy Spirit to take our heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh. |
| 0:49.3 | Throughout our life, the Spirit conforms us more and more into the image of the Lord Jesus as we grow in |
| 0:56.0 | holiness. But what was the role of the Spirit in the life and ministry of Jesus? This is the |
| 1:02.7 | Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. There is so much confusion |
| 1:09.8 | in the Church when it comes to the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:12.7 | which is why Ligonier's vice chairman, Sinclair Ferguson, recorded a 12-Message study to answer |
| 1:18.8 | the question, who is the Holy Spirit? This is a wonderful teaching series, so I'd encourage |
| 1:25.0 | you to request it with your donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org |
| 1:29.7 | before this offer ends at midnight. To give you a taste of this study and to help you see the |
| 1:35.8 | role of the spirit in the life and ministry of Jesus, here's Dr. Ferguson. |
| 1:42.9 | There's a wonderful illustration in the writings of the great Princeton |
| 1:47.4 | theologian, B.B. Warfield. He describes the Old Testament scriptures and the Old Testament |
| 1:54.7 | period like a darkened room full of furniture. He says, now, all the furniture is in the room, but it's only when you turn |
| 2:05.2 | the light on that you realize all the furniture is there. And he says, this is very like the Old |
| 2:11.9 | Testament revelation of God. The God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament. He is Father |
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