Pneumatology Flashcards
(9 cards)
Person of the Holy Spirit (Personality)
Attributes of Personality
*Intellect *
The ability to reason or understand relationships
* Rom. 8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is…
* I Cor. 2:10ff …for the Spirit searches all things… knows the thoughts of God…
*Emotion *
The capability to have feelings aroused to awareness.
* Eph. 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God…
Will
* I Cor. 12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
* Acts 16:11 …having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia
Actions of Personality
* John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit… He will teach you all things.
* I Cor. 2:13 …not in words taught by human wisdom but in those taught by the Spirit…
* John 15:26 When the Helper comes… He will bear witness of Me.
* Acts 8:29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and join this chariot.”
* Acts 8:39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away… (Performed miracles)
* Rom. 8:26 …but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings…
Responses to Personality
* Acts 5:3 Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit…
* Acts 7:51 You men who… are always resisting the Holy Spirit…
* Eph. 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God…
* Heb. 10:29 and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
* I Thess. 5:19 Do not quench the Holy Spirit.
Terms of Personality
Masc. pronouns are used to refer to the Spirit
* John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever he hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Deity of the Holy Spirit
Explicit Claims
* Acts 5:3-4 Lied to the Spirit = lying to God.
* II Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Divine Names
* Is. 48:16 And now the Lord God has sent me and His Spirit.
* Matt. 28:19 …in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
* I Cor. 6:11 …but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Divine Attributes
Omnipresence
* Ps. 139:7 Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Omniscience
* I Cor. 2:11 …the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
Self Existence
* Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free…
Veracity
* I John 5:7 And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
Eternal
* Heb. 9:14 …Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself…
Divine Works
Creation
* Gen. 1:2 …and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Spiritual Rebirth
* John 3:5 …unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Inspiration
* II Peter 1:21 …men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit (Baptism)
The incorporation of the believer into the Body at conversion.
* I Cor. 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized(aorist) into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
* Rom. 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit (Indwelling)
All Christians
* I Cor. 3:6 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
* Rom. 8:9 However you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Permanence
* John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. that He may be with you forever.
* Eph. 4:30 Sin grieves the Spirit, but does not dismiss Him.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit (Sealing)
God’s Possession, Secure Salvation, Future Certainty
* II Cor. 1:22 who has sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge
* Eph. 1:13 having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.
* Eph. 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit (Filling)
The obedient believer under the control of the Spirit.
* Eph. 5:18 …be filled with the Spirit…
Requirements
* I Thess. 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit
* Eph 4:30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.
* Gal. 5:16 walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh
Results
* Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is…
* Rom. 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit to Believers
Teaching
* I John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you…
* I Cor. 2:12 Now we have received , not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God.
Guiding
* Rom. 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Assuring
* Rom. 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Praying
* Rom. 8:26 And in the same way the Spirit helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should…
Spiritual Gifts
A Spirit given ability for service within the Church
Purpose
* I Cor. 12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
* I Cor. 14:26 Let all things be done for edification.
* Eph. 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ.
* I Peter 4:10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold(multi-colored) grace of God.
**Distribution **
Sovereign
* I Cor. 12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
Varied
* I Peter 4:10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold(multi-colored) grace of God.
* I Cor. 12:4 There are a variety of gifts, but the same Spirit.
* I Cor. 12:31 the “greater gifts” are to be emphasized in the gathered church.
Temporary Nature of Some Gifts
Purpose of Sign Gifts
* II Cor. 12:12 …signs of a true apostle
* Eph. 2:20 Having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets…
* Heb. 2:4 …God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His will
* Acts 19:11 And God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul.
Absence of Sign Gifts
* John 10:41 John performed no sign.
* I Tim. 5:23 take a little wine for your stomach.
* II Tim. 4:20 Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.
Tongues
* I Cor. 13:8 …if there are tongues they will cease…
* I Cor. 14:21-22 “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people…” So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers.
No record of the gift of tongues in later epistles.
Healing
* Matt. 7:21-23 Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name, and in your name perform miracles?
Ministry in the Old Testament vs. the New Testament
Special Enabling
* Ex. 31 The Builders of the tabernacle were filled with the Spirit of God.
* Numbers 27:18 Joshua… a man in whom is the Spirit…
* Judges 6:34 So the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon…
* I Sam. 16:13 …and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David…
* I Sam. 16:14 Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul…
Universal Ministry
* Gen. 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever…”
* IS. 63:10-11 …they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit… He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them.
* Zech. 4:6 Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Limited Ministry
The Spirit’s ministry in the OT was largely external.
* Ez. 36:27 And I will put My Spirit within you…
* John 7:39 …the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified
* John 14:7 …but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you.
