Sinclair B. Ferguson
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1,725 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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And the disciple who's listened more carefully than you have says to you, you should have heard his next sentence because if I don't go away from you, the Holy Spirit will not come to you.
Now, I want you to imagine yourself in that situation, and I want to encourage you to make a decision right here, right now.
Which would you rather have?
Jesus as he was in the upper room so that you could see his eyes, that you could tell what height he was, that you could sense his accent on the understanding that you spoke Aramaic and you could follow what he was saying, that you could see his hand movements, that you could sense the power and weight of his personality, or would you rather have the Holy Spirit?
For most of us, that's a dumb question, isn't it really?
Our instinct would be to say, I would rather have Jesus the way He was then than have this Holy Spirit.
Or if you're still using the King James Version of the Bible, Holy Ghost.
What does that mean?
Jesus, we understand in His incarnate grace.
We can understand the character and nature of the Heavenly Father.
But when we speak about Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost,
very hard to understand how it is that Jesus going from the disciples could ever be an advantage to them.
We would far rather have Jesus with us than have this Holy Spirit.
It's partly because of that that the focus of our studies in the Holy Spirit is going to be not so much on the miracles that the Holy Spirit effects or even what we sometimes call the gifts or graces of the Holy Spirit, but the identity of the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit.
When I was a young Christian and a teenager, every time I heard someone speak on the theme of the Holy Spirit, they always began in the same way.
I don't know whether there was only one book on the Holy Spirit, and they'd all been reading it, but they all began by saying, the Holy Spirit is the forgotten person of the Trinity.
Now, actually, that betrayed a good deal of ignorance of the history of the Christian church, and it was never really the problem.
The real problem then and now is not that the Holy Spirit has been forgotten, but that we don't really know who the Holy Spirit is.
We know who the Father is.
We know who the Son is.
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