Study Guide 8, Sunday March 6th 2011

This week welooked at a somewhat obscure passage from Exodus this week, which actually had a lot to showus in regard to why we need God’s Spirit on the one hand and what God’s empowering Spirit accomplishes on the other. We learned that we need God’s Spirit in order to obey his commands. Just like Bezalel and Oholiab needed God’s Spirit in order to obey his commands, we need the Spirit totransform our lives and empower us to proclaim the Gospel. We also learned that the Spirit of God empowers us in order to glorify Him. Just like Bezalel and Oholiab were given God’s Spirit in order to make God look beautiful and reflect his holiness and wonder into the wilderness, we too are given God’s empowering Spirit in order to bring him glory here on earth. In short, the Spirit empowers us to fulfill his commands and to bring him glory.

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