Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 4127 The difference between the anointing of the Spirit and the filling of the Spirit is the difference between something the believer permanently has and something the believer must keep on receiving. The anointing is the Spirit himself, given to every believer at conversion as a settled endowment that abides, while the filling is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04030 When people ask about the Spirit’s work in the Old Testament compared with the New, they often assume the Holy Spirit was absent before Pentecost and only arrived when the church was born. That is not the case. The Spirit’s work runs from the first verses of Genesis to the last pages of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 4000 If you have spent any time in theological study, you have almost certainly encountered words ending in -logy: theology, Christology, eschatology. Pneumatology is one of these, and it refers specifically to the systematic study of the Holy Spirit. The word itself comes from the Greek pneuma (πνεῦμα), meaning breath, wind, or spirit, and…