ROM # 44 The Holy Spirit and His work Rom 8 :26-27

Berean Sovereign Grace Church

1. The Holy Spirit is God and as such is involved in the work of salvation.2. His work is not what reconciles a sinner to God. That was the work of God the Son, who was made surety and substitute, thus righteousness and holiness.3. However, the Holy Spirit comes in the wake of the accomplished redemption to indwell as many were ordained to eternal life.4. He comes in the wake of their justification to bring testimony of that fact in faith and repentance through the gospel.5. It is He who indwells the believer, in other words, He mediates the presence of the Godhead in the redeemed.6. As such He gives help, even comfort to the believer due to their weakness-a matter that I will explain.7. The redeemed are still weak by reason of sin. And that weakness also manifests through their ignorance of how to pray according to God's will.8. The Holy Spirit as God knows the will of God and thus intercedes, that is, approaches God on the behalf of the saints with groans and prayers that are in accordance with God will. This and more.