Sinclair B. Ferguson
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1,725 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Sinclair B. Ferguson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His spirit had really been lifted, or you might say his spirits were very depressed.
Or you might say, he was in a very crotchety spirit.
He was out of sorts.
And what we mean by that is the driving energy, the characteristics of an individual as that individual expresses himself or herself to us in personal contact and personal communication.
And the same is true, we might say, in God.
God's Spirit is the way in which God personally expresses Himself and His power and His character to us in a personal form—the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
the Father who plans, the Son who brings salvation to pass, and then the Holy Spirit who expresses the inner drive and desire of God in creation and in redemption and communicates God to us in this particular kind of way.
It's one of the basic axioms of our Christian theology, that God is in himself as he reveals himself to be.
Or to put it the other way around, he reveals himself to be exactly what he is in himself.
Now we understand that as John Calvin said, when God reveals Himself to us, we are human beings, we are creatures, we are finite.
He accommodates His revelation to our ability to take it in and to understand.
And the same is true of the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
God in Himself is infinite.
The Spirit is infinite.
We cannot possibly fully comprehend who the Holy Spirit is.
One of the marvelous things that we find in the Scriptures is that in this revelation God has given to us of Himself, God makes Himself known as the Holy Spirit in ways we can understand in order that through His revelation we may have fellowship with, we may enjoy the communion or the communication of the Holy Spirit.
And fascinatingly, right from the opening verses of the Bible to the closing verses of the Bible, the Bible is a story about the Holy Spirit.
We often think it's a story about God the Father and His plan, or God the Son and His redemptive work, and both of these things are true, but it's also a story about the Holy Spirit.
The very first verses of the Bible point us to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and among the last verses of the Bible, we're pointed to the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
And so if we're going to know the Spirit, as some of our hymns encourage us to do, to enjoy living in the Spirit, then we need to ransack the whole of the Scriptures in order that we may not only know the Father and the Son, but by God's grace, come to know the Holy Spirit too.
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