Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

will find Him and find joy in the process. Augustine insists further that the search for God is continual process. After establishing the value of studying God, Augustine then discusses what is known of God’s Trinitarian nature through reason and The Holy Scripture. After establishing why believers should seek God, Augustine summarizes what he has already discussed in previous book about the Trinity. In book one, he asserts…

Pentecostalism is not a church in itself, but it is a movement that includes many different churches incorporating the gifts of the Holy Spirit as a normal part of the “Full Gospel”. The Pentacostal movement began around 1901, a time when church officials declared that the church had gotten way from the bible being understood in a literal sense and started believing the Word of God to be taken in a figurative sense, instead. Freeonlinebible.org states that upon its emerging in the early…

of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is this model that I have also drawn a favorable understanding of as well. While the Cessationsit model may be my view, there are many brothers and sisters in Christ who hold to a more “charismatic view of the work of the Holy Spirit. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson, author and Reformed theologian, has authored…

sleeping in death” (Sacramentum Caritatis Paragraph 14). The Church is connected to the Eucharist because Christ is the Eucharist. This means that the Church can “make” the Eucharist because he gave himself on the Cross for us. The Church continues the gift of Christ’s Sacrifice by “making” the Eucharist and maintaining its…

The Authentic Scripture In my understanding of the scripture, and its original form of the manuscripts, this is known as the inspired and infallible word of God. The Scripture is the product of the Holy Spirit divinely inspiring chosen men to write God’s desired message (2 Tim. 3:16-17 ESV). The bible holds the inspired words of God; it is consequently without error completely. The Scripture should only be used as an authentic source of God’s authority in all aspects of one’s life. The word…

If we are not preaching Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father; our preaching is not Christian. Some churches and people for whatever reason attempt to eliminate Christ’s presence from their preaching. It is Christ who told us, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” Jesus is in time what God the Father is in eternity. Our preaching is not authentic when we don’t exalt and lift up the name of Jesus in our preaching. We have forgotten that Christ is the one who bleed and died for our…

The Holy Spirit is the third person stated in the Triune God. He is in eternal relationship with the Father and The Son. 2 Corinthians 3:17 says, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” In the freedom of the spirit, we are transformed and enabled to reflect the image of God. The Holy Spirit began His life giving work in genesis when He “hovers over the shadows of the deep.” The Spirit gives us new life in the present and in the future promise of everlasting life. The Holy Spirit 's…

sin and filled with love by the Holy Spirit who is given, through faith, to the fully consecrated believer.” We use the term entire sanctification because we believe that sanctification begins at salvation when God cleanses our heart from sin. Entire sanctification occurs when a person surrenders every part of their lives and will to God to do with as He pleases. Second we would believe that sanctification was covered in Christ’s death as was salvation and it is a gift that we must accept,…

Chapters seven, eight, and nine focus primarily on the importance of the Holy Trinity. Fellowship is always essentially encouraged within the walls of the church; however, many industrial churches miss the necessary fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Snyder explicitly expresses the importance of Koinonia, which means Christian fellowship or communion with God. Without true fellowship with the Holy Spirit, the church itself is not spirit filled. Communication is a key element…

Of the many words exemplified in the Bible, one word that is constantly being interpreted is “Wisdom.” The origins of Wisdom in the Bible stem from the old testament. As the books of the Bible progress, the word Wisdom takes on many different shapes. Like many words and concepts in the Old Testament (OT), the New testament uses context to provide a clearer explanation of what those terms mean. This paper will incorporate biblical references as well as scholarly commentary to define, identify…