Illuminating the Bible: Recent Episodes
Illuminating the Bible
After crossing the Red Sea, Moses led the Israelites in the wilderness and their first desert challenge is a great picture of the cross of Christ transforming the bitterness of life into sweetness.
As we grow in our understanding of the closeness and unity of our connection with the Holy Spirit, we become more aware of Him in our inner beings. We sense His leading more frequently because we are more attuned to His presence in our lives. An outpouring of the Spirit was promised in the Old Testament and we now live our lives as New Testament believers under that outpouring. Every believer is marked on the inside with the seal of... Read More Read More
God knows exactly the level of our confidence in Him. He won’t lead a child of God into situations that He knows are beyond them. However, our view of ourselves might be considerably different! All we need to do is to keep trusting and to keep following. We were never meant to figure out our own way through life but rather to go through life following the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Very often we respond to the Holy Spirit’s... Read More Read More
The way in which God dealt with the Israelites as a people group is a type of how He deals with us as individuals under the new covenant. The Lord set His Holy Spirit among the Israelites as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Under the new covenant, He has set His Spirit within us individually in our inner beings. Just as the pillar of cloud and fire was a guide and gave... Read More Read More
How do we connect with the Holy Spirit to know His leading, prompting and guidance? We need to quieten our hearts and minds to be in a position to focus. We need to remember that we are dependent on Him for His guidance – we don’t conjure it up out of thin air. We need to develop an awareness of His presence in our inner beings and learn to connect with Him and receive from Him. This can be summed... Read More Read More
Learning to recognise the inner witness of the Holy Spirit is a key part of our growth as children of God. Jesus highlighted the Holy Spirit’s role as His disciples’ teacher, guide and one who would make things known to them. Paul the apostle tells us to live our daily lives “in the Spirit” and to set our minds on the things of the Spirit. Our flesh nature will always oppose the Spirit and feeding our minds with biblical truth... Read More Read More
Extraordinary as it may be, it is a scriptural truth that every born again believer alive today has the very Spirit of God living inside them. In Eden, God breathed His own life into Adam to create the original spiritual connection between God and man. Infamously, that connection was lost as a result of the Fall but all was not lost for God promised that one day He would put His Spirit within people’s hearts. The New Testament makes it... Read More Read More