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NASB | 2 Timothy 1:14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 1:14 Guard [with greatest care] and keep unchanged, the treasure [that precious truth] which has been entrusted to you [that is, the good news about salvation through personal faith in Christ Jesus], through [the help of] the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. |
Subject: Evidence of holy spirit in a Christian? |
Bible Note: Hello again, Brother Ray. Once again I apologize for my lack of capitalization. I had promised to do it for you sake. Rest assured that I do not consider the Holy Spirit a thing. In making reference to his presence I did not think I was using neuter gender. But if it pleases you better, I do recognize His presence. I certainly appreciate the fact that He is a Person. It is only a person, I think, who can indicate their presence and give assurance by speaking and explaining things and by being grieved. I could be wrong about that. Maybe things can do them. But I do believe the Scriptures hold that we recognize the Holy Spirit in our lives as He does these things. I also believe that it is because of His work in me that I understand these things. However, I am afraid I do not detect the difficulty with the different renderings of 1 Corinthians 2:10. To my mind there is no difference between "revealed them through His Spirit" as you indicated is in the NKJV, and “revealed these things through His spirit." It seems clear that “them” refers to “these things”, and that both refer to the things that God has prepared for those who love him. It is interesting for me to note that “the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Co 2:9) are actually “the deep things of God” (verse 10). According to Psalm 92:5 , God’s thoughts are very deep. As the man with the metal detector finds the treasures buried deep while others pass on by, so the child of God finds the hidden treasures in the word while the natural man cannot. It is because the believer possesses the Holy Spirit. I think that those of us who have Him understand these things. |