What Is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives if He Doesn’t Give Us Instructions?
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Greg. Are you ready to answer some questions? |
| 0:15.0 | We'll see. |
| 0:17.4 | Okay, let's answer a question from Josh. |
| 0:20.9 | I've started rethinking my beliefs to align with yours on the topic of God, not whispering. |
| 0:26.5 | So I ask not as a challenge, but rather trying to flesh this out. |
| 0:30.6 | What does that leave the role of the Holy Spirit to be in my life? |
| 0:34.1 | Okay, this is – I get this question a lot, and to be honest, it frustrates me. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm trying to think of a parallel here, but I cancel. |
| 0:45.0 | I'll just get straight to it. |
| 0:46.9 | If a person is convinced that the Holy Spirit's job is to speak to us, and that's what he's all about, |
| 0:52.9 | and I'm saying the Bible doesn't teach the |
| 0:56.0 | Holy Spirit does that, and their response is, well, then what good is the Spirit? What the Spirit? |
| 1:04.0 | That lets me know that they have no, what theologians call pneumatology, they have no doctrine of the Holy Spirit. They haven't worked |
| 1:14.6 | through for themselves. What is the Holy Spirit and what does the Holy Spirit do? And I don't necessarily |
| 1:20.6 | blame the people themselves. I think the churches are falling on this. Okay. Jesus says in John chapter 3, all those who are born of the Spirit. |
| 1:36.1 | Okay, well, that means rebirth, regeneration is a function of the Holy Spirit working in our lives. |
| 1:43.9 | So if somebody says, well, what does the Holy Spirit do? |
| 1:46.9 | Well, he regenerates us, okay? |
| 1:50.0 | If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. |
| 1:52.8 | All things have passed away, old things have come. |
| 1:55.2 | For example, that's the role of the Holy Spirit, okay? |
| 2:00.0 | When we read in 1 1 Corinthians 2 or whatever, Paul's talking about the scripture, |
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