In Sunday School I have been learning about the Holy Spirit. In my bible study I am learning about the Kingdom of God. There is some much rich theology that I have gleaned from these past few weeks. I want to share it with you.

Jesus being man could not raise himself from the dead, thus the Spirit did. Christ fully submitted himself to the consequences of our sin- death. Just as a dead man cannot raise himself, neither could Christ. He can fully relate to us pertaining to the consequences of death that we feel so acutely. We have a God who knows death. We have a God who knows temptation. Just as we struggle with temptation and death, so did Christ. The Holy Spirit aided Christ and the Holy Spirit aids us in both these things. 

You are a completed action in Christ. If God has already predestined you, He has already glorified you and you are a completed action in heaven. 

The three parts of the Trinity are constantly working together and pointing to each other. The Holy Spirit will not lead outside of where Christ has already lead. Christ used the scriptures that the Father gave to the prophets. Thus they testify of the truth that they bring. 

You, who knows and spends time with Christ, still struggle to understand and fellowship with Him. Akin to the disciples. They spent personal/physical time with Christ and still had to have parables broken down for them. How much more we should pray for the Holy Spirit to intercede in the hearts of those who don't believe in Christ. Have grace.

If you have the Holy Spirit, you cannot blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. Just as Satan cannot cast out Satan, the Holy Spirit will not work against himself. God cannot cast out God. This is one of the awesome ways we have surety of our salvation. (Mark 3&4)

It is not my responsibility to grow the seed, but it is mine to sow it. God has called me to sow.

Just hearing does not necessarily bring understanding. The Holy Spirit makes the soil good. Good soil will continue to produce growth. It does take time, but it will bear fruit. (Mark 4)

Ephesians 3:14-19

English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶ that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Acts 17:28

English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁸ for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;