Sunday, August 23, 2015

The Holy Spirit speaks

"A group of only two verses, however explicit they may be, will strike many readers as insufficient. Therefore a larger group, though not really required, will contribute corroboration. Then too, the aim is not rigidly restricted to the proof of the Spirit's personality, but expands to a general view of what the New Testament has to say. As will become clear later on, we want to know, not merely that the Spirit is a person; we also want to know what sort of person he is. Now, one thing that two persons can do. which non-persons cannot, except in poetic fancy, is to talk to each other. The delirious Keats once addressed a Grecian urn, but the urn never replied. Contrariwise, the Holy Spirit speaks and is spoken to. Consider these verses. In each there is an example of the Spirit's speaking. No one verse exhausts the range of his conversation, but each is sufficient to show that he speaks." - Gordon H. Clark, The Holy Spirit, Pg. 17-18

(John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13, 14; Acts 13:2, 21:11; Romans 8:26, 27; Galatians 4:6; 1 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 2:7)

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