tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23239189.post-29927346249528689132007-10-18T12:54:00.000-04:002007-10-18T13:05:21.805-04:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_687ksRzL6AM/RxeSOrhKQXI/AAAAAAAAABE/PVi242DO_N4/s1600-h/miracle_pentecost.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_687ksRzL6AM/RxeSOrhKQXI/AAAAAAAAABE/PVi242DO_N4/s320/miracle_pentecost.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122723882054861170" /></a><br />The Holy Spirit empowers the believer in his battle with the “flesh.” One of the ways the Spirit empowers the believer is by imparting spiritual truth and wisdom. “The Holy Spirit is the great Interpreter (John 16:13). Without Him all our efforts at fully understanding His Word are doomed to failure.” The Holy Spirit teaches the believer from the Word of God by illuminating the Scriptures. For example, 1 John 2:20 explains that believers will know the truth when they hear it because they “have an anointing from the Holy One.” According to 1 Corinthians 2:6-13, the Holy Spirit reveals “the depths of God” and enables the believer (“he who is spiritual”) to appraise all things (2:15). The result is that the believer is able to know the truth or will God as revealed in the Scriptures. Some have added “guidance in decision making” to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, but there does not appear to be any biblical evidence of that kind of guidance apart from the work of revealing and making plain the Word of God. The obvious question then is whether impulses and feelings come from the Holy Spirit independent of His use of the Word of God. There appears no such biblical evidence. The one exception is Acts 16:6-10 where the Holy Spirit intervened directly in the travel plans of the Apostle Paul. However, since the Acts 16 event was during the apostolic period (i.e. before the canon was closed), it cannot be cited as support for the normal manner in which the Holy Spirit illumines the mind or ministers to believers in the current time.orthopodeohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00405199926908054562noreply@blogger.com