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Holy Spirit, the Helper

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Vangie:
Great scriptures Mark and Marques.  Thank you.

Kat:


Rom 1:20  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

We have all of nature around us as a witness that there is a creator and no need for a word spoken or written to verify that.  The fact that this world is here should be a clear indication that God exist. 

Now when the Holy Spirit is given to a person it is to teach them beyond the superfical and into "the deep things of God." 

1Co 2:10  But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
v. 11  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

When your eyes are opened to the truth, it's like the light bulb is turned on in the darkness.  The Holy Spirit takes us far beyond the things that can be understood on our own, whether in study or by meditation. 

John 14:26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Now as a teacher the Holy Spirit is giving the understanding needed to prepare those of the Elect to rule with Christ.  This training is done thought everything that happens in life, it's all a lesson.  But we have all of these Scriptures preserved down through the centuries that reveal the words of the very Apostles, which are a priceless help in our learning.  This is the way that God designed it to be, people put down in a physical written form their very own thoughts and in this way we have their exact thoughts (in the original anyway) right now to study.  In this way God has provided the Scriptures to us and in this way we now can learn from Paul and the other Apostles themselves.  But it requires our participation, we must read and study what is provided.

2Ti 2:15  Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

So we see our reading and studying is good, because it requires not only the desire to know this truth, but our active participation.  Is this the way we "show ourself approved unto God,"  by putting forth the effort ourself and not just waiting on Him to zap it in our minds?  I think it requires a deligent effort every day of prayer, meditation and study... and living it of course.  When the Holy Spirit is indwelling it will guide you and in this way we "work out your own salvation."

Php 2:12  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
v. 13  for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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