THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD�S WORD

							A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH


THE HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK
   OF ILLUMINATION
     1 COR 2:6-3:2
         ALBERT EINSTEIN
“The word ‘God’ is for me nothing
more than the expression and
product of human weaknesses,
the Bible a collection of honorable
but still primitive legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish.”
               Letter to Eric Gutkind, 1954
1 COR 2:14 (KJV)

But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
JOH 16:13

But when he, the Spirit of
truth, comes, he will guide you
into all truth. He will not speak
on his own; he will speak only
what he hears, and he will tell
you what is yet to come.
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S WORD


            GOD


                  REVELATION


           AUTHORS
      REVELATION

The knowledge that God
discloses to man which man
otherwise would not know.
ACT 28:25

They disagreed among
themselves and began to leave
after Paul had made this final
statement: "The Holy Spirit
spoke the truth to your
forefathers when he said
through Isaiah the prophet:
MAT 22:43

He said to them, "How is it
then that David, speaking by
the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For
he says,
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                 INSPIRATION

  AUTHORS           BIBLE
        INSPIRATION

Concerns the resultant product,
the Bible. The Holy Spirit
superintended human authors so
that using their own individual
personalities, they composed and
recorded without error, God’s
revelation to man in the word of
the original authographs.
2 TIM 3:16 (KJV)

All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
2 PET 1:21

For prophecy never had its
origin in the will of man, but
men spoke from God as they
were carried along by the Holy
Spirit.
 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S WORD


               BIBLE

ILLUMINATION


   BELIEVERS
       ILLUMINATION

The ministry of the Holy Spirit
which helps the believer
understand how the truth of
the Bible applies to faith and
practice.
1 COR 2:10

but God has revealed it to us
by his Spirit. The Spirit
searches all things, even the
deep things of God.
 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S WORD


                 BIBLE

ILLUMINATION


   BELIEVERS


INTERPRETATION
     INTERPRETATION

Method of understanding the
meaning of language. It is a
human activity with regards to
any literature.
2 TIM 2:15 (KJV)

Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of
truth.
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           BIBLE


                    CONVICTION

                    UNBELIEVERS
        CONVICTION

The ministry of the Holy Spirit
which convinces the
unbeliever of the truthfulness
of God’s word.
JOHN 16:8

When he comes, he will
convict the world of guilt in
regard to sin and
righteousness and judgment:
  GOD                    THE HOLY SPIRIT
                         AND GOD’S WORD
    REVELATION

          INSPIRATION
AUTHORS                  BIBLE


          ILLUMINATION           CONVICTION


            BELIEVERS            UNBELIEVERS
  REQUIREMENT
FOR ILLUMINATION
  1 COR 2:6-8, 14
1 COR 2:6

We do, however, speak a
message of wisdom among the
mature, but not the wisdom of
this age or of the rulers of this
age, who are coming to
nothing.
1 COR 2:7

No, we speak of God's secret
wisdom, a wisdom that has
been hidden and that God
destined for our glory before
time began.
1 COR 2:8

None of the rulers of this age
understood it, for if they had,
they would not have crucified
the Lord of glory.
EPH 4:17

So I tell you this, and insist on
it in the Lord, that you must no
longer live as the Gentiles do,
in the futility of their thinking.
EPH 4:18

They are darkened in their
understanding and separated
from the life of God because of
the ignorance that is in them
due to the hardening of their
hearts.
2 COR 4:3

And even if our gospel is
veiled, it is veiled to those who
are perishing.
2 COR 4:4

The god of this age has
blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they
cannot see the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God.
1 COR 2:14

The man without the Spirit
does not accept the things that
come from the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him,
and he cannot understand
them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
THE BLIND MEN & THE ELEPHANT
  RESOURCE
FOR ILLUMINATION
   1 COR 2:9-11
1 COR 2:9

However, as it is written: "No
eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for
those who love him"--
1 COR 2:10

but God has revealed it to us
by his Spirit. The Spirit
searches all things, even the
deep things of God.
1 COR 2:11

For who among men knows
the thoughts of a man except
the man's spirit within him? In
the same way no one knows
the thoughts of God except the
Spirit of God.
  RECIPIENTS
OF ILLUMINATION
  1 COR 2:12-13
1 COR 2:12

We have not received the spirit
of the world but the Spirit who
is from God, that we may
understand what God has
freely given us.
1 COR 2:13

This is what we speak, not in
words taught us by human
wisdom but in words taught by
the Spirit, expressing spiritual
truths in spiritual words.
    RESULTS
OF ILLUMINATION
  1 COR 2:6-16
1 COR 2:14

The man without the Spirit
does not accept the things that
come from the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him,
and he cannot understand
them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
1 COR 2:15

The spiritual man makes
judgments about all things, but
he himself is not subject to
any man's judgment:
1 COR 2:16

"For who has known the mind
of the Lord that he may
instruct him?" But we have the
mind of Christ.
A LAMP UNTO MY FEET

  REQUIREMENT

  RESOURCE

  RECIPIENTS

  RESULTS
1 COR 2:9

However, as it is written: "No
eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for
those who love him"--
 A LAMP UNTO MY FEET

   GOD HELPS THOSE WHO
LOVE HIM UNDERSTAND THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS WORD
  IN THEIR LIVES THROUGH
 THE ILLUMINATION OF THE
        HOLY SPIRIT