Episode 24 - The Holy Spirit - Pt 4

Conitnued discussion of the work, ministry, and role of the Holy Spirit 1. Discloses the Parent/child relationship we have with God/Jesus 2. The Holy Spirit as our Intercessor       __________________________________________________________________________________ Tim    00:00:07    Hello, and welcome to the unveiling with your hosts, IJ, Mark, and Tim three guys discussing the one true gospel. We hope you enjoy today's discussion. Let's dive right in. Hello and welcome. Or welcome back to the unveiling with your hosts. Hij Mark and Tim three guys just discussing the one true gospel. Well, we are still in the middle of our holy spirit series. This will be the fourth episode in this series, and we've got a couple new topics to bring up tonight. And I think I'm gonna go ahead and Mark, I think I'm gonna let you start off tonight with the holy spirit introduces us to, or teaches us about the parent child relationship that we have once we're saved with our heavenly father.  Mark    00:00:55    Yeah, I think that's, uh, thanks, Tim and AJAI Uh, I think that's such an important role of his and our life this year. I've had a theme in my life. Some of you probably know that just from listening to the podcast, those who have, and just how important the gift that God gave us of reasoning of being able to think I've mentioned it many times. And as you're reading scripture, if you just watch, watch how many words that the apostles use, uh, that are words for thinking reasoning, pondering, reflecting on meditating, uh, contemplating as we use that gift, it brings us understanding. And through that understanding is where our transformation comes. It's where joy comes from and our deep knowledge of the father, our son, and holy spirit. Um, it's where love comes from. It's just, it's just such a revolutionary thing to understand. In fact, God's given us his spirit for that reason.  Mark    00:01:54    He tells us, uh, so that we would freely understand everything he's given us. And one of the things he wants us to and are all the things Christ has done for us on the cross. It's a lack of knowledge of these that I think really differentiates believers. It's why the people that are still trying to live under the law are afraid to trust in the grace and love of God alone and rely on Christ completely it's cuz they don't understand as AJ's put it. Everything that happens to us at the moment of our salvation. It's not that we're saved to neutral and God just took our sins away. It's he's made us new creations. Christ himself has come to inhabit. He's made us the righteousness of God. He's taken us out from under that old system of doing it ourselves of trying harder and just putting our focus on Christ, contemplating him and being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory as our understanding of who he is and who we are a good pastor, a friend of mine once said this.  Mark    00:03:08    He said it's of utmost important that every believer understands their identity in Christ, but he said, it's just as equally important. They understand who Christ is in them. And, and so we're gonna start the discussion now on just the holy Spirit's role of teaching us, you know, and you I'm gonna start with who we were before we come, came to Christ and then just show the high state to which Christ is he's purchased for us. And he's called us too. And he calls us now, this is what God calls us. And we need to choose to believe who God thinks we are not who we think we are, who our broken past, tell us we are who other, maybe well-meaning Christians tell us we are, but what does God say about us and is spirits the wanna reveals that? And one, one of the key things, well, I'll just say before we came to Christ, we were slaves.  Mark    00:04:08    Scripture tells us over and over again that we are slaves. We are held under the law and we are slaves to sin as well. Because w...