Back To The Basics - Holy Spirit

Back to the Basics
What We Believe and Why?

Definitions:
FUNDAMENTALS - basic, essential, foundations of something
FOUNDATION – a solid base, a basis for beliefs

Bible Verses:
Matthew 7.24-28
Psalm 11.3
Hebrews 5.12-14

The Holy Spirit?

A Great Quote
“The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and the Son: not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.”
—The AthanasianCreed

Why the Holy Spirit is Avoided?
We fear what we cannot understand.
We avoid what is hard to understand.
We take the Holy Spirit for granted.

What the Holy Spirit is?
The Holy Spirit has a personality:
Referred to in the masculine tense. (John 15.26)
He intercedes. (Romans 8.26)
He searches. (1 Corinthians 2.10)

What of the Holy Spirit Today?
It bears that we are children of God. (Romans 8.16)
In Him we abound in hope (Romans 15.13)

Final Thought!
“In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”
-Ephesians 1.13,14

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