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Study Section 3: The Holy Spirit is involved in Trinitarian activities

3.1 Connect

We really cannot fully grasp with entirety the relationship between the persons of the Trinity.
God is infinitely more complex than our minds can understand. His ways are not our ways, and
His thoughts are so far above our thoughts. It’s like comparing your mind to the brain of an ant.
Sometimes, we must tell God we just don’t fully understand who He is but thank Him for what
He has revealed of Himself to us. We do know He is a God of infinite love and grace. He
certainly has demonstrated that to us on the Cross.

God is deeply involved in our lives. He provided salvation and now is in the process of making us more like
Christ. The Holy Spirit is actively a part of all these processes. We need to understand that the Holy Spirit is
deeply involved in manifesting God to us. Let’s see how….

3.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to list the ways the Holy Spirit is involved in Trinitarian activities.

2. The student should be able to list the ways the Holy Spirit is involved in Trinitarian relationships
with the Father and Son.

3. The student should be able to explain how the Holy Spirit is eternally with and proceeding from
the Father and the Son.

3.3 The Holy Spirit is involved in Trinitarian activities

Salvation

2 Cor. 1:21-22 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,
set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what
is to come.

Gal. 4:6 Because we sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,
Father.”

Titus 3:4-7 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of
righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and
renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so
that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the
hope of eternal life.

1 Peter 1:1-2 To God’s elect, …who have been chosen according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the

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