Sinclair B. Ferguson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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But very challenging for us when every time the benediction is pronounced that comes from 2 Corinthians 13 verse 14, very hard for us to understand what does Paul mean when he speaks about the fellowship or the communion or the communication we have with the Holy Spirit.
And so I want us to try and explore together this question of who is the Holy Spirit?
What person is He?
What kind of character does He have?
How can we come to know Him and to fellowship with Him?
And how is it that it's to our advantage that the Lord Jesus has gone away and that the Holy Spirit has come to the church?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Actually, to begin with, the word spirit
in English helps us, and the word spirit in Hebrew and in Greek help us even more.
All of these words actually are onomatopoeic.
Remember onomatopoeia from high school English, a word that by its very sound conveys the sense of its meaning, spirit.
The Hebrew word is ruach.
And the Greek word is pneuma.
And each of these words, spirit, ruach, pneuma, they all have this sense of driving energy, of driving force coming from us in order to communicate with somebody else.
And that, of course, is exactly what these words mean in the Old Testament in Hebrew and in the New Testament in Greek.
Pneuma.
Ruach are words that describe the wind, sometimes even a gale, an expression of power and energy in motion, an expression of great effectiveness.
Sometimes we use the word spirit in exactly that way.
You go and visit somebody in hospital who's been sick, and you come home and they say, well, what kind of spirit was he in today?
And you might say he was in great form.
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