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Thanks for all the Feedback
To all the people who took the time to fill out the questionnaire on the Holy Spirit, "Thank you!" I really appreciate your answers and have found them very useful.
Please pray for me as I finish work on the chapter about the Holy Spirit in the next few days. And for anyone who posed questions, I can almost certainly promise that my chapter won't be able to answer them all! At best it will be a very elementary primer on the person and work of the Spirit. But I do hope God will use it to encourage others. I know my work on the chapter has filled me with a fresh appreciation for the Spirit's work in the lives of believers.
In his book Salvation Belongs to the Lord, John Frame writes that, "the Spirit does everything for us that we need in our life with God. The atoning work of Jesus occurred in the past, objectively, definitively. The work of the Spirit is present, ongoing, often subjective....the main emphasis of the Bible in the Spirit's work is that he gives us what we need for our present, continuing walk with God."
And I love this quote by J. I. Packer in Keep in Step with the Spirit that talks about the Spirit's work in glorifying Jesus: "The Spirit's message to us is never, 'Look at me; listen to me; come to me; get to know me," but always, 'Look at him, and see his glory; listen to him, and hear his word; go to him, and have life; get to know him, and taste his gift of joy and peace.'"
I pray the Spirit will do more and more of this Jesus-exalting work in your life and mine in the days to come.
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Comments (2)
Hey Josh,
I noticed that you wrote the forward for the upcoming book from Kevin DeYoung about knowing God's will. I'm assuming that you still believe in the more overtly supernatural ways in which God still leads such as with dreams, visions, the gifts of the Spirit?
Posted by Lee | March 3, 2009 10:48 PM
Your Welcome. I can't wait to read your new book!!!
Posted by Michelle | March 13, 2009 4:22 PM