When you think of the Holy Spirit, how do you picture Him? One of the difficulties of studying the Holy Spirit is the problem of building a concrete, physical picture of Him. Of course, we're trying to do the impossible. In a very real sense, the spiritual cannot be pictured. However, the Spirit, His purposes, and work can be compared to other things more understandable to us, and this is what God has done through the writers of Scripture.
In the first part of this study we looked at several symbols of the Holy Spirit: the dove, fire, oil and the cloud. In this second half we will continue to look at other symbols.
All of us experience temptation, and with each temptation comes a host of questions. Why does God allow us to be tempted? Does temptation have some purpose in our lives? Is being tempted a sin?
Satan was completely defeated and stripped of all ultimate power at the cross. Today he can only make guerilla warfare that needs us to come against him in Jesus’ name and power. In natural warfare one of the biggest problems is half-won victories in the spirit. Likewise, one of the biggest problems in spiritual warfare is that we frequently stop fighting long before the battle is truly over.
In this section of the story we will continue to look at the Israelites’ conquest of the Promised Land; their failures as well as their successes.