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    Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit
    Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit
    Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit
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    Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit

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    In this lesson we discuss this remarkable change, made possible by the transforming power of God's Spirit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9781105229367
    Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit
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    United Church of God

    The mission of the United Church of God is to proclaim to the world the little-understood gospel taught by Jesus Christ—the good news of the coming Kingdom of God—and to prepare a people for that Kingdom. This message not only offers great hope for all of humanity, but encompasses the purpose of human existence—why we are here and where our world is headed.

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      Bible Study Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Holy Spirit - United Church of God

      Spirit.

      What is the Holy Spirit?

      The biblical account of ancient Israel describes a people abundantly familiar with God's Word—more than any other people in history. Yet, with few exceptions, the Israelites failed to steadfastly live by their Creator's instructions. Though God gave them knowledge of His ways, He did not, while they lived, give them the inner strength they needed to consistently control their fleshly nature. Yet He promised that the time would come when that spiritual power would be made available not only to them but to the people of all nations through the gift of His Spirit.

      Their experience helps us understand that humans are incomplete without God's Spirit. As the apostle Paul explains: ... No one knows the things of God except [through] the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:11, emphasis added throughout). He adds, ... The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (verse 14).

      This spiritual discernment is accessible only from God as a gift through His Spirit. God makes His Spirit available to those who genuinely repent and have their old selves symbolically buried with Christ in the watery grave of baptism. Jesus has promised the body of believers converted in this manner that the Holy Spirit will guide [them] into all truth (John 16:13).

      To comprehend how God's Spirit can transform us, we must understand what that spirit is. We begin by considering what God is. Jesus explained that God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24). Spirit aptly describes the very essence of God, just as love describes the essence of His character (1 John 4:8, 16).

      An angel, informing Mary that she would give birth to Jesus as the Messiah, describes the Holy Spirit as the power of the Highest (Luke 1:35). Jesus told His apostles, ... You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you ... (Acts 1:8). Paul explains, ... God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). Paul and others performed mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God (Romans 15:19).

      The Scriptures portray the Spirit of God as the manifestation of His divine power within His creation, especially in His called and converted people—the saints. Through the power of the Highest (Luke 1:35) He can instill attributes of His divine nature and character in us. These divine, spiritual attributes transform our weak human nature to the extent that we become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). By positive choice we then have to be willing to walk obediently in newness of life—to use God's Spirit to overcome our own weak, fleshly nature.

      The words translated Holy Spirit convey the concept of power. In the original Greek the phrase for Holy Spirit is hagios pneuma, meaning literally "holy wind." Pneuma can also mean breath, as in "the breath [pneuma] of life" (Revelation 11:11; compare Genesis 7:15). As breath is essential for physical life, so is God's Spirit essential for eternal life. And, just as wind is an invisible but powerful force in our physical environment, so the Holy Spirit is an invisible, powerful force in our spiritual development.

      The Holman Bible Dictionary summarizes the comparison of God's Spirit to wind and breath in the Old Testament: In one sense the Spirit of God is depicted as a mighty wind, [with] Hebrew using the same word ruach for wind, breath, and spirit. During the time of the Exodus, God deployed this wind to part the sea, thus enabling the Israelites to pass through safely and elude Pharaoh and his army (Ex 14:21) ... Of the eighty-seven times that the Spirit is described as wind, thirty-seven describe the wind as the agent of God, mostly baneful, and ever strong and intense. This property of the Spirit clearly reflects the power of God (Multimedia Version software, Holy Spirit).

      One of Paul's prayers was that God would give to [us] the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him ... that [we] may know what is the hope of His calling ... and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand ... (Ephesians

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