BIBLE-HOLY SPIRIT
The Spirit inspired the Word
and therefore He goes where the Word goes.
The more of God’s Word you know and love, the more of God’s Spirit you
will experience.
Desiring God, 1996, p. 127, Used by Permission, www.desiringGod.org.
In an authentic spiritual
experience, emotion, feelings, and the senses often become intense,
transcending the normal. These may include
strong feelings of remorse over sin, a mighty sense of trust that surpasses the
pain of a traumatic situation, an overpowering peace in the midst of trouble,
the overwhelming sense of joy related to confidence and hope in God, intense
sorrow over the lost, the exhilarating praise in understanding the glory of
God, or a heightened zeal for ministry.
Spiritual experience by definition is an internal awareness that
involves strong emotion in response to the truth of God’s Word, amplified by
the Holy Spirit and applied by Him to us personally.
Charismatic Chaos, Zondervan, 1992, p. 26.
The Holy Spirit is the Word,
and the Word is, therefore, living truth.
C.H. Spurgeon
Spiritual Warfare in a Believer’s Life, Sermon Matthew 4:4.
You must not exhort your
congregation to do whatever the Bible requires of them as though they could
fulfill those requirements on their own, but only as a consequence of the
saving power of the cross and the indwelling, sanctifying power and presence of
Christ in the Person of the Holy Spirit
Preaching with a Purpose, Zondervan, 1982, p. 147.
Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight
All Word and no Spirit, we dry up; all Spirit and no Word, we blow up; both
Word and Spirit, we grow up.
I Believe in the Church,
Eerdmans, 1979. www.eerdmans.com.