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Wind comes, of course, in many different varieties. There are the global wind patterns that are due to the permanently cold (poles) and warm (equator) areas and the jet streams that develop when huge temperature differences within the atmosphere create great pressure differences, producing a slim ba
God made us breathing creatures to teach us something about himself, for, as we noted several days ago, the Holy Spirit is the breath of God. There are many similarities between our breath and God’s. Just as your breath proceeds from you, flowing out of your lungs, so the Holy Spirit proceeds from t
The power of the Holy Spirit is signified by terms such as “breath” and “wind”. The phrase “the word of God”, occurring no less than 394 times in the Old Testament according to Brown, Driver and Briggs, is used to express three different forms of divine activity; namely, creation, providence and rev
Not onJy does Scripture never speak of the love of the Spirit for the Father or the Son, but aJso it never speaks of the Spirit's love for the saints. OnJy once, in Romans J5:30, does the New Testament mention "the love of the Spirit": Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, a
The Old Testament word for Spirit literally means wind. Here Jesus’ breathing is symbolical, showing that the Holy Spirit now given unto them is His very life and power. So the disciples receive the gift of remitting and retaining sins. This is the power of the Keys. The disciples will be vested, w
We believe in God the Father, we believe in God the Son, and we believe in God the Holy Spirit. Let's see briefly this morning what that confession is. Believing in the Holy Spirit. And see in the first place that there's something very mysterious about the Spirit. There are things about the Spi
You talk a lot about the Father. You talk a lot about the Son. You don't talk a lot about the Spirit, and that's a problem. And then those who have this more charismatic bent try to correct this supposed imbalance by drawing more attention to the Spirit. And so the Spirit is front-lined through
In the Trinity, God the Father begets the Son, and God the Son is begotten of the Father, and the Father breathes forth the Spirit to the Son, and the Son breathes forth the Spirit to the Father. That is the love of God, and that is the life of God. This is life. Father and Son breathing the Sp
Every time we read in the New Testament of the persons of the Trinity side by side, that's the order in which they are given. For example, the Great Commission of Jesus right before His ascension. He said, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, first person, in the name of
What happens if you go camping this summer and your campfire starts dying in the embers? You need to fan it back into a flame. You need to blow on the fire to revive it again. What does the Holy Spirit do in creation according to Psalter number 287, which is entitled, A Meditation on Providenc