Why Is He Called the Holy Spirit?
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The primary leading of the Spirit in Scripture is leading where? |
| 0:09.1 | What is the will of God for your life? |
| 0:11.7 | If you want to know the will of God for your life, the Scriptures tell us this is the |
| 0:16.0 | will of God, even your sanctification. |
| 0:24.3 | Why? even your sanctification. Why is he called the Holy Spirit? |
| 0:28.7 | Well, there are a couple of reasons for that, not the least of which, is that that term |
| 0:34.9 | holy, as it refers to the Spirit, certainly has a view to the particular |
| 0:41.0 | task that the Spirit performs in our redemption. It is the Holy Spirit who principally is the actor |
| 0:50.0 | among the Trinity working for our sanctification, for enabling that process by which we are being |
| 0:59.5 | conformed to the image of Christ, by which we are being made holy. So often I hear Christians ask |
| 1:08.5 | me, what's the will of God for my life? Or they will speak of being |
| 1:13.4 | led by the Spirit. I try to direct them to the pages of the Scripture and say, please try to |
| 1:20.5 | hear what the Scripture says, and don't try to just simply listen to the terminology or the |
| 1:27.0 | jargon of your Christian subculture where |
| 1:29.4 | you live. Yes, the Holy Spirit at times leads people from place to place to specific |
| 1:36.9 | destinations or to a specific task, but the primary leading of the spirit in Scripture is leading where? |
| 1:45.7 | To holiness. |
| 1:47.7 | And what is the principal will of God for your life? |
| 1:51.8 | Is it to Mary Susie or Sally or Janet? |
| 1:54.8 | No, the principal will of God for your life. |
| 1:57.1 | If you want to know the will of God for your life, the scriptures tell us, this |
| 2:00.9 | is the will of God, even your sanctification. And that is an enterprise that takes place in |
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