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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Hovering is probably one you very rarely use.
You rarely speak about the Spirit of God hovering across
But it's actually a very significant verb that's being used here because, first of all, it's encouraging to help us understand what it is that the Spirit is doing as He hovers over the waters.
And then as God speaks from His throne in heaven, the Spirit of God, through the Word of God, begins to do something.
And without going into the details in Genesis chapter 1, you'll notice that there are two things that the Spirit does.
The world is formless and empty.
And what the Spirit does as He hovers over the waters in this ministry is to bring form and order out of the shapelessness and formlessness
of the original created mass, and then to bring fullness into the emptiness of that original created mass.
You know that Augustine believed that God had created everything instantaneously and the days of creation were simply pictures to help us to understand all the different bits.
But that's not what the Scriptures teach, is it?
The Scriptures teach this very remarkable thing
that when God created the cosmos right at the beginning, it didn't have the form and fullness that it was to have during the days of creation, and that it was this that was the ministry of the Holy Spirit to effect, to take formlessness and create form, and to take emptiness
and to give that emptiness fullness.
And as you know, the rest of the first chapter of the book of Genesis describes how the forum begins to take place.
And then marvelously, as the Spirit of God continues to effect the speech of the Word of God, that emptiness is more and more filled with fullness.
Actually, I think right at the beginning of the Bible, God is teaching us the two things that the Holy Spirit characteristically does every time He works.
Think about your own life, especially if you're a Christian who has a non-Christian past, how easy it is to think about that non-Christian past as formless.
It didn't have any purpose.
It had no rationale to it.
You weren't going anywhere.
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