Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Red Headed Stepchild of the Trinity: Knowing God Chapter 6

Is the Holy Spirit this red headed stepchild in your theology? For many people, including myself, we neglect the study of the Holy Spirit, thinking of Him as someone that is not worthy of our thinking. Packer says that we think of the Holy Spirit like we think of the spirit of Christmas. Is that all he is to us?
We must remember that the Spirit draws us to the father. We must remember that it is the Spirit who convicts us of sin. We must remember that without the Spirit's work we would never understand the bible. However, we tend to think that spirit thoughts should be left to Pentecostals or better yet ghost busters.
Spend some time right now reading back over how the spirit works in our lives. This book only begins to touch on his amazing work in us. Could you be saved if the spirit did not exist? Stop living out your salvation then acting as if that is true.
For next week, read chapters 7-8, and I will post about them next Friday. God bless, and have a great weekend.

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