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Knowing the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God’s interaction with the world. But we first meet the Holy Spirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence. Christopher J. H. Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit through the pages of the Old Testament. We see the third person of the Trinity in the decrees of...

The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. (Job 33:4) But, as the Genesis story proceeds from this tender creation of human life in intimate relation to God, we come to the horror story of Genesis 3. We sinned. We rebelled. We disobeyed God, choosing to believe a lie, trust ourselves and reject the moral authority of our Creator. And the result was the sentence of death. Genesis 6:3 makes an interesting comment on the state of affairs that exists because of human sin,
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