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What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
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04/17/15 01:42 PM
04/17/15 01:42 PM
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We talk a lot about the role of the Son of God in our lives, but not as much about the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
I, therefore, want to devote this thread about the role of the Holy Spirit.
What then is the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives???
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/17/15 03:23 PM
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Another question to help us in our research are the other names of the Holy Spirit?
The ones that immediatley come to mind are "Comforter" and "Holy Ghost."
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/17/15 04:59 PM
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"...The Holy Spirit, the representative of Himself, is the greatest of all gifts. All 'good things' are comprised in this. The Creator Himself can give us nothing greater, nothing better...."(MB, p.188)
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Godsloveandlaw]
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04/17/15 05:57 PM
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"...The Holy Spirit, the representative of Himself, is the greatest of all gifts. All 'good things' are comprised in this. The Creator Himself can give us nothing greater, nothing better...."(MB, p.188) um - {MB 132.2} The Spirit is given as a regenerating agency, to make effectual the salvation wrought by the death of our Redeemer. The Spirit is constantly seeking to draw the attention of men to the great offering that was made on the cross of Calvary, to unfold to the world the love of God, and to open to the convicted soul the precious things of the Scriptures. {AA 52.4}Interesting is it not, that the Spirit is what makes effectual the salvation wrought out by the death of our Redeemer? If it were a legal issue, what more is needed? This is becaues it is not a legal issue, it is a real issue, and salvation is HEALING. And the healing is wrought out by the Spirit.
Oh, that men might open their minds to know God as he is revealed in his Son! {ST, January 20, 1890}
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/17/15 07:53 PM
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In those two quotes I see the role of the Holy Spirit as being:1 - The representative of the Son of God in our individual lives. 2 - As a regenerating healing agency in our individual lives. The Holy Spirit's role is more than that though.
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: APL]
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04/18/15 12:51 AM
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Interesting is it not, that the Spirit is what makes effectual the salvation wrought out by the death of our Redeemer? If it were a legal issue, what more is needed? This is becaues it is not a legal issue, it is a real issue, and salvation is HEALING. You make this an either/or issue, when it is a both/and issue.
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/18/15 01:01 AM
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The Holy Spirit is also sometimes simply referred to as the Spirit as in John 16:13 where we see another role or function: John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Another role or function of the Holy Spirit is to guide us into all truth.
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/18/15 01:14 AM
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In those two quotes I see the role of the Holy Spirit as being: 1 - The representative of the Son of God in our individual lives. 2 - As a regenerating healing agency in our individual lives. The Holy Spirit's role is more than that though. I think we could add, on the basis of the second quote, that other roles of the Holy Spirit are to call our attention to Christ's sacrifice, unfold the love of God to us and open to us the truths of Scripture.
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Rosangela]
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04/18/15 01:29 PM
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Interesting is it not, that the Spirit is what makes effectual the salvation wrought out by the death of our Redeemer? If it were a legal issue, what more is needed? This is becaues it is not a legal issue, it is a real issue, and salvation is HEALING. You make this an either/or issue, when it is a both/and issue. How does the legal model save you? It doesn't. We are not in legal trouble, we are in real trouble. Is the roll of the Holy Spirit judicially clear us? Do you have any evidence to that effect? And when we look at the roll of the Holy Spirit, it is to make effective that which Christ did. If there is any legal aspect, it is only that God has the right to heal us. Our salvation is not that we are legally off the hook because of what Christ did. No. Christ did not come to save us in our sins. He came to save us FROM our sins, not some judicial execution. Sin pays it wage, death. God is not the executioner of the sentence against sin. We need to be "born again", remade in the image of God. It is not a legal process as much at you insist that it has to be. Forgiveness is not a legal process. So yes, I do focus on the reality that our salvation is a HEALING process, not a LEGAL process, because that is what it is. No healing, no salvation. Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
Oh, that men might open their minds to know God as he is revealed in his Son! {ST, January 20, 1890}
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Re: What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives?
[Re: Daryl]
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04/18/15 03:29 PM
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Amen to that. John 16:13, I believe is an absolutely important function of the Holy Spirit.
The Lord speaks to His people through the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Truth), which He gives to His prophets, to communicate to us. As we learned in Zech. 4, He authorizes His prophets to be the spokesperson for His will and prophecy.
Yes, truth is shown to any and all who humbly and obediently follow Him, but prophecy (That which will come) is given ONLY to His prophets. The danger is that when we as NON prophets interpret the Scriptures in a way where we declare prophesy( private interpretation) that is in contradiction to His authorized prophets, we are heading down a false path that will lead to destruction.
Our perfect example is Korah and his followers. Moses was God's AUTHORIZED prophet, to speak the words of the Lord. Yet as they marched forward in the desert, certain men became full of themselves thinking they were hearing the Lord's voice just as Moses was.
They declared, on that fateful day that THEY were being guided just as Moses was and that God had made no distinction in speaking to Moses His prophet. In other words, they showed unbelief in God because they showed unbelief in HIS prophet.
So too today. God gave us a most beautiful prophet (EGW) to lead and start our church. Yet He did not authorize her to finish the work before the "great and dreadful day of the Lord". His word authorized His "Elijah" prophet to do that (Malachi 4:5).
The Spirit of Truth has spoken through the unrolling of the scroll. Are we humbly accepting the message that His word says will be viewed with disdain?
"What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right, when they are all wrong? The message of the True Witness finds the people of God in a sad deception, yet honest in that deception. They know not that their condition is deplorable in the sight of God.
While those addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the message of the True Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true situation of spiritual blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe, cannot be a mistake; for it is the True Witness who speaks, and his testimony must be correct."
"It is not enough to merely profess to believe the truth. All the soldiers of the cross of Christ virtually obligate themselves to enter a crusade against the adversary of souls, to condemn wrong, and sustain righteousness. But the message of the True Witness reveals the fact that a terrible deception is upon our people, which makes it necessary to come to them with warnings, to break their spiritual slumber, and arouse them to decided action." (RH, Sept.16, 1873)
"There is to be in the churches a wonderful manifestation of the power of God, but it will not move upon those who have not humbled themselves before the Lord, and opened the door of their heart by confession and repentance.
In the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God, they will see only something which in their blindness they think dangerous, something which will arouse their fears, and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work according to their expectations and ideal, they will oppose the work.
"Why," they say, "should we not know the Spirit of God, when we have been in the work so many years?" Because they did not respond to the warnings, the entreaties, of the messages of God, but persistently said, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing."(Maranatha, p.220)
The Lord in Rev. 3 warned us the Laodicean church, we would think we don't need more truth. But He gave us a life rope--His last message of Elijah.
Are we listening or scoffing?
Last edited by Godsloveandlaw; 04/18/15 04:57 PM.
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