God the Holy Spirit, Mentor's Guide, MG14

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G O D T H E H O L Y S P I R I T

The Old Testament story of Jonah captures some of this meaning of being someone who belongs to God. The following poem has always captured for me this sense of the Spirit’s work in Jonah’s life and in our own.

Ministry Insight Once you have said yes to the lordship of Christ the Holy Spirit will no longer ask for permission to interfere in your life. One of the great joys of being a Christian is that you no longer get left alone. Just as with our natural parents, God our Father no longer leaves us to not need permission to intervene in our lives. Most of us know what it is like to have parents that looked out for us, that guided us, and that disciplined us, whether we wanted them to or not. Adoption into God’s family creates that same intimate relationship with our heavenly Father. do whatever we want. Parents do

The Great Intruder

It is exasperating to be called so persistently when the last thing we want to do is get up and go but God elects to keep on haunting like some holy ghost.

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~ Thomas John Carlisle. You! Jonah! Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1968.

5. Adoption places a person in line for an inheritance from God .

a. Matt. 25.34

b. As members of God’s family we are inheriting the Kingdom of God (Matt. 25.34; Col. 1.12-13; Eph. 1.13-14;1 Pet. 1.3-4).

c. Key verse: Col. 1.12-13