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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Life was, in the end of the day, farmless and life was also empty.
And that may have been the very thing that, first of all, drew you to Jesus Christ.
My life is farmless.
It doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
My life is really empty, although I've tried to fill it with all kinds of things.
And when the Spirit of God brings us to faith in Jesus Christ, He brings order and purpose and form into our lives.
And then marvelously, remember how Jesus puts it?
He says, I've come that you might have fullness of life.
And He does this through the power and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
So that's the first thing the Spirit is doing.
He hovers over the waters because He's going to bring form and fullness.
It helps us to understand who He is, the kind of ministry that He has.
But there's something else to notice here that I think is really very fascinating and actually very thrilling.
The Spirit is not only hovering in order to bring form and fullness, but what the Spirit is actually doing in creation, and this becomes typical of everything He does in the pages of Scripture, is that He is creating a temple.
a meeting place for God to meet with and of fellowship with his creation and especially with man, and in which man can also happily meet with God, have communion with him, fellowship with him.
Remember how Adam walks with God and in order that in this temple that God is creating through his Holy Spirit,
man might be brought, as you remember the Shorter Catechism says in its answer to its first question, man might be brought to know God, to love God, to trust God, to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
So here are two ways right at the beginning that we can think about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
and especially about His ministry in our lives.
He comes to bring form to our formlessness, to bring fullness to our emptiness, and He comes because He wants to restore us to that kind of fellowship with God in which we worship God in His holy temple.
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