Holy Spirit - The Expositor

CHAPTER 7: THE HOLY SPIRIT AS BIBLE EXPOSITOR

I. THE HOLY SPIRIT MAKES THE THINGS OF GOD AND THE WORD OF GOD CLEAR TO US (1 CORINTHIANS 2:10).

A. The natural man cannot understand the things of God because he does not have the Holy Spirit to teach him (1 Corinthians 2:14).

B. The Spirit has revealed unto us the things God has prepared for us because we love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). These are things that God has for His people now, not heavenly things.

C. "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" We may deceive other people because only we know what is really in our hearts

(1 Corinthians 2:11). "Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." There are some aspects of God that man cannot understand and only the Spirit knows them.

D. Many people try to discover what the Bible is all about by approaching it with their human intellect. They cannot understand spiritual things without the Holy Spirit to open their minds (1 Corinthians 2:12-14), so it appears foolish to them.

II. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR TEACHER AND GUIDE IN SPIRITUAL THINGS.

A. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would be our teacher (John 14:26). When we sit down to read the Bible, we should always begin by asking the Holy Spirit to open our minds and hearts to receive and understand what we are reading (1 John 2:27).

B. The Word of God is our spiritual food and we cannot grow as Christians without it.

C. It is important that we read the Bible to plant the Scriptures in our minds for the Holy Spirit

to bring them to our remembrance when we need them (John 14:26, Psalm 119:11).

D. The Holy Spirit guides us into the truth of God and shows us the things that are going to

happen so that we are prepared (John 16:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:4).