NCC 37

Question 37 How does the Holy Spirit help us?

The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us spiritual gifts and the desire to obey God; and he enables us to pray and to understand God’s Word.

Last week we started talking about the Holy Spirit.

Who he is and what he does.

Pre-conversion and moment of conversion....what are things he does?

Baptizes - 1 Cor 12:13

Regenerates Titus 3:4-5

Indwells - John 14:17 1 Cor 6:19-20 (not just the Spirit, but Christ (Col 1:27) and the Father (1 John 4:15)

Seal - Eph 1

John 14:16–17 ESV

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 14:25–26 ESV

25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 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 that I have said to you.

John 15:26 ESV

26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 16:7–14 ESV

7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. 12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

illumination…1 Cor 2:10-13

1 Corinthians 2:10–13 ESV

10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Convicts -John 16:8-11

John 16:8–11 ESV

8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Convicts

Comforts

Guides

Gifts

Enables

The Holy Spirit is truly and eternally God yet is distinct from the Father and Son (Luke 3:21-22; Acts 5:3-4). He is a person—not a force; he was active in creation and convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment (Gen 1:2; John 14:16-17, 26, 15:26, 16:7-15). He is the supernatural agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption, and leading them into all truth (John 14:17, 16:13; 1 Cor 12:12-14; Eph 1:13, 4:30; Titus 3:5). It is the privilege and duty of all believers to be filled with and walk by the Spirit, who gives gifts to the Church according to his will through which the Church serves one another and the world (1 Cor 12:4-11; Gal 5:16; Eph 5:18).