Lesson 2, Activity 3

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Review Questions

These questions are designed to help you review important material covered in the lecture. You may record your answers in a personal journal.

  1. List the 6 days of creation and describe the work the Spirit accomplished each day.
  2. What is “providence”? Give some biblical examples of the Spirit’s providential work in nature.
  3. How does the Holy Spirit providentially work in humanity? Include references from Scripture to support your answer.
  4. The lesson discusses five common models theologians have used to categorize the Holy Spirit’s work of revelation. Identify and summarize each model, including the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of each.
  5. What does the Bible say about the Holy Spirit’s role as the source of revelation? List and describe three types of revelation that the Bible explicitly attributes to the Holy Spirit.
  6. Give some examples of the Holy Spirit’s work of promoting goodness, and explain how the Holy Spirit’s work of promoting goodness is an act of common grace. Use Scripture to support your answer.
  7. What are some ways that unbelievers benefit from the Holy Spirit’s work of promoting life?

Application Questions

Application questions are intended for group discussions; however, you may also use them for personal reflection.

  1. Genesis 1:2 uses the metaphor of a powerful bird caring for its young to describe the Spirit’s work in creation. How does this powerful metaphor affect your view of God’s love for you and the rest of his creation?
  2. How would you respond to someone who believes that God created the world and then left it alone to function on its own?
  3. Read Psalm 104. Write your own poem or song praising the Holy Spirit for his works of creation and providence.
  4. What counsel would you give to someone who believes that the Holy Spirit sometimes violates people’s wills or pushes them to do sinful things?
  5. Several passages in Scripture describe God as a potter and human beings as clay, and these all conclude that the potter has the right to make whatever he wants with his clay. Does this mean that we aren’t responsible for our actions? Explain your answer.
  6. The lesson discusses three traditional understandings of the Holy Spirit’s providential work in bringing people to faith in Christ. Which view do you think best represents the teachings of Scripture? Why?
  7. Give some examples from your own life of times when the Holy Spirit revealed God to you through: 1) the natural world, 2) illumination and inward leading, 3) Scripture, or 4) some other means. How might you use these examples as you teach or disciple others?
  8. How can we determine if our thoughts, emotions, visions, and interpretations of Scripture come from the Holy Spirit? Why is it important for us to distinguish between the inward leading and illumination that come from the Holy Spirit and the thoughts and feelings that just naturally come to us?
  9. Do you believe that the Holy Spirit still performs miracles in the world today? Why or why not?
  10. What evidence of the Holy Spirit’s common grace do you see in the world today? What do you think the world would be like without the Spirit’s work of promoting goodness and restraining evil?
  11. How does the Spirit’s ministry of common grace promote life? How might you use this understanding of the Spirit’s ministry to share the gospel with an unbeliever?
  12. What is the most significant thing you learned in this lesson?