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BEREAN STUDIES ON THE ATONEMENT

THE TEXT-BOOK USED FOR THIS COURSE IS SCRIPTURE STUDIES, SERIES V (E)*

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*Five years ago DAWN-STUDIES, VOL. V., was reset, and unfortunately the type was not exactly same size as before; and hence page for page they differ. The references given in these Berean Studies apply to the present edition, a copy of which postpaid will cost you but 30c. But keep your old edition, for unfortunately the new Bible Helps refer to its pages.

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Questions on Study V.—The Holy Spirit

MARCH 7

(37) If it be agreed that the Bible teaches that “God is a spirit” and that he is holy, hence a holy Spirit, what distinctions should we properly observe as between this expression and the other one—God’s holy Spirit? P. 188.

(38) Who besides the Creator must by his arrangement have the holy Spirit if they would have his approval? P. 188, par. 1.

(39) If Satan is a spirit being, has he also a spirit or disposition? and his associates, the demons? P. 188, par. 1.

(40) What do we know of battlings between these two classes of spirit beings—the “holy” and the “unclean”? Where is the battle-ground and when did the contest begin? P. 189.

(41) Which contestant gains the victory and why? Explain the entire subject. Pp. 190, 191.

(42) Why the apparent weakness of the right spirit and those under its sway? Will it always be thus? What say the Scriptures. P. 192.

MARCH 14

(43) Does the same principle apply in the individual as well as to the Church? How is this matter generally understood? P. 193, par. 1,2.

(44) What is the right spirit which should be renewed in us? What kind of a consecration secures the begetting of the holy Spirit? Pp. 194, 195.

(45) What is it to be spiritually minded? And does this condition lack perfection and why? P. 195.

(46) What is the thought behind the word “holy”? P. 196, par. 1.

(47) What shall we think of the “spirit of fear” and the “spirit of error”? and how should we get rid of these? P. 196, par. 3; P. 197, par. 1.

(48) What do we know of the “spirit of faith”? “the spirit of Truth”? “the spirit of holiness”? Pp. 197, 198, 199.

(49) Are all mankind dual beings? That is to say, can all be spoken of as having an old mind and a new mind or man? If not, why not? Give the proofs of the answer. P. 199, par. 2.

MARCH 21

(50) What does the Apostle Paul say regarding the conflict between the flesh and the spirit in those who have been spirit-begotten? P. 200.

(51) How are the spirit-begotten children of God taught of God through the spirit? Give illustrations. P. 201.

(52) How may the spirit-begotten ones know things which the natural man cannot appreciate and why? P. 202.

(53) Why is the holy Spirit styled the comforter? Give illustrations of the operation of the holy Spirit. P. 203.

(54) Does anything connected with the Scriptural use of the term holy Spirit, either directly or indirectly, imply another God or that a number of Gods is necessary to the work being done or to be done? P. 204, par. 1.

(55) Does the fact that the personal pronoun he is used in referring to the holy Spirit imply personality? Explain the matter. P. 204, par. 2.

MARCH 28

(56) Through what agency does God supply the holy Spirit, the holy disposition? And why is it called the spirit of the Truth? P. 204, par. 3.

(57) What thought is connected with the expression, “Be ye filled with the spirit”? And is the filling instantaneous or how is it? P. 205, par. 1.

(58) If “filled” with the spirit is a further filling possible? and why? and how? P. 205, par. 1.

(59) Is knowledge essential to the filling with the spirit? Does knowledge always result in a filling with the spirit? What rules operate in this matter?

(60) Is the “Spirit of the Truth” one of the “gifts” of the Spirit? Is it one of the “fruits of the spirit”? P. 205, par. 3.

(61) Show how these matters are illustrated by the Vine. P. 206.

(62) Explain the difference between the “fruits” and the “gifts” of the holy Spirit? P. 206, par. 2.

(63) Enumerate some of the “gifts of the Spirit” and some of the “fruits of the Spirit.” Show why and how these matters are as they are. P. 208.

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— February 1, 1909 —