The Holy Spirit
Speaker Notes
Ephesians 1:13b-14
13b When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
2 Corinthians 1:20-22
20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Schweizer, Eduard. “Spirit of power : uniformity and diversity of the concept of the Holy Spirit in the NT.” Interpretation, 6 no 3 July, 1952, p 259-278:
With this the notion of "power” passes over into that of the "norm.” Expressed in the indicative, the Spirit is the power, above all the superhuman, divine power which is totally foreign to man, which bestows upon him the new life in faith in the work of God in his behalf. Expressed in the imperative, the Spirit is no less than the norm according to which this man will henceforth shape his life. In the indicative it is to be announced to him : you live not at all by your own power, but by the power of God. In the imperative it is to be told him: now really live in the power of God and no more by your own abilities and capabilities. If the Spirit, therefore, is the power which unites men with the saving act of God, indeed reveals it to him, then he is likewise also the norm upon which the believer orientates himself. Thus, however, with Paul, just as all imperatives rest upon and take their life from indicative statements, so with him, as with the entire community both before and after him, is the Spirit above all a power foreign to man, bestowed upon him from without—and only as such, then, also the norm of his life: “If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit also let us walk” (Gal. 5:25).
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David Thorp was the Director of Catholics Come Home for the Archdiocese of Boston