Is the Holy Spirit in our Teaching: Principles of the Holy Spirit in Teaching-Learning.

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Is the Holy Spirit in our Teaching Principles
of the Holy Spirit in Teaching-Learning.

• The often neglected person in the
  teaching-learning process is actually the most
  important. The Holy Spirit is the sovereign,
  most wise, and ultimate teacher of spiritual
  truth. He makes Gods truth relevant to the
  persons involved and enables application that
  causes life growth. Our teaching and learning
  efforts are in vain unless we cooperate with the
  Holy Spirit.
• C. Fred Dickason

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Principles for Holy Spirit TeachingSummary
Outline

• Recognize the Holy Spirit as a Person.
• Recall how the Holy Spirit teaches Believers.
• Remember the Holy Spirits responsibility in the
  teaching-learning process.
• Respect the Holy Spirits Results in Learners.
• E. Respond to the Holy Spirits requirements for
  Teachers Learners.

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I. Recognize the Holy Spirit as a Person

• The Holy Spirit is a Person
• He possesses intellect (1 Cor. 210-11)
• He possesses emotions (Eph. 430)
• He possesses will (1 Cor. 1211)
• His Works Affirm Personality
• Intelligent creator (Gen. 12)
• Giver of Personal Life (John 35)
• Teaches (1 John 220)
• Guides (Gal. 516-18)
• Speaks (Acts 1019 132)

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I. Recognize the Holy Spirit as a Person

• Pronouns that Refer to Persons are used of Him
  (John 1526 167, 13-15)
• He is the Object of our Personal Trust, whom we
  must Obey (Acts 109-21) or Disobey (Isa. 6310)
• He is Associated with the other Persons of the
  Trinity (Matt. 2819 2 Cor. 1314)
• The Holy Spirit meets all the definitions of
  a person!
• Therefore, our director resource in teaching
  and learning Gods truth is a genuine person and
  genuinely God. Without Him we can do nothing!

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• False Concepts on How the Holy Spirit Teaches
• The Total Teacher
• The Totalitarian Teacher
• The Tandem Teacher
• The Tethered Teacher
• Biblical Concept on How the Holy Spirit Teaches
• Principle of Personal Cooperation
• Principle of Personal Cultivation
• Principle of Interpersonal Communication

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Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Erroneous View 1 The Total View The Holy
  Spirit is the Only Teacher It is a Subjective
  Mystical View of the Teaching-Learning Process.
• This view teaches that He illumines each believer
  directly human teachers obstruct His work the
  Holy Spirit is the only teacher.
• This view ignores the revealed fact that the Holy
  Spirit uses human teachers Great Commission,
  Matt. 2819-20 the involvement of church leaders
  (Acts 542 1535 1811 2020 2831)the
  command to Timothy (2 Tim. 22) and the gift of
  teaching to believers (Rom. 126-7 1 Cor. 1228
  Eph. 411).
• This view limits education, either because it is
  not needed, or because it excludes information or
  stimulation by other teachers.
• This view can lead to an attitude of superiority
  infallibility because ones information comes
  directly from the Holy Spirit (fallible human
  understanding minimized).

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Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Erroneous View 2 The Totalitarian View The
  Holy Spirit takes over the individuals
  responsibility for personal study or development.
• This view teaches that human teachers need little
  or no training or even preparation because the
  results in ministry come directly from the
  Spirit.
• This imbalanced view results from a false view of
  the teacher. The teacher is more than a live
  book presenting truth. He is personally involved
  as example, expresser, and encourager for the
  truth (1 Tim. 412-16).
• The teacher is personally concerned and
  contributes to the life and welfare of others
  (Acts 2027-37 1 Tim. 51-3, 17-18).

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Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Erroneous View 3 The Tandem Teacher teaches
  that Holy Spirit adds His part after the human
  teacher has done his part.
• The view fails to recognize that God works in us
  through us to will to accomplish His good
  plan for our lives others (Phil. 212-13).
• As members of Christs Body, the church, we have
  spiritual gifts that are to be exercised in the
  power of the Spirit, including teacher (Rom.
  124-7). As Dr. Roy Zuck states
• When God is educating, the human teacher and
  the pupils are involved together in the
  teaching-learning process, and at the same time
  the Spirit is working within the teacher, on the
  Word of God, and within the pupils.

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Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Erroneous View 4 The Tethered Teacher
  teaches that the Holy Spirit is regarded as
  unnecessary to religious teaching (humanistic
  philosophy of teaching)
• This view teaches that with the proper materials,
  equipment, personnel, program, creative
  well-meaning teachers can operate efficiently on
  natural grounds without the aid of the Holy
  Spirit.
• This view fails to comprehend the biblical
  estimate of mans finiteness fallenness, has
  its only resource in sinful flesh (1 Cor. 214
  31-3).
• This view elevates mans creativity methods
  over Gods fails to realize that only the
  Spirit can accomplish the spiritual goals of
  Christian education.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Biblical Principles by which the Holy Spirit
  Operates in the Teaching Role
• 1 The Principle of Personal Cooperation.
• 2 The Principle of Personal Cultivation.
• 3 The Principle of Interpersonal
  Communication.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Biblical Principles by which the Holy Spirit
  Operates in the Teaching Role
• 1 The Principle of Personal Cooperation
• Though salvation is a gift totally received
  by Gods grace without any human effort (Eph.
  28-9), growth in spiritual maturity requires the
  God-assigned cooperative effort of the believer
  every command addressed to the human will is
  evidence of this truth. For example, we are told
  to grow in grace (2 Pet. 318), to diligently add
  virtues (2 Pet. 15-8), to teach others (2 Tim.
  22), to be diligent in not neglecting our
  spiritual gifts (1 Tim. 414-16).
• The Scripture does say very plainly that I am
  to do certain things that are a vital part of the
  process of sanctification.But even in verses
  where the Spirit is mentioned as being involved
  in carrying out the exhortation, the individual
  is also included as a necessary part of the
  process. Charles C. Ryrie, Balancing the
  Christian Life (Chicago Moody, 1969), 64-65.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Biblical Principles by which the Holy Spirit
  Operates in the Teaching Role
• 1 The Principle of Personal Cooperation
• The Holy Spirit seeks to teach through human
  channels or instruments. Human teachers should
  seek to be under the full employment of the
  Spirit, as clean and capable instruments.in the
  final sense, it is not they who teach, but the
  Holy Spirit. As instruments of the divine
  Teacher, they teach what the Spirit of God has
  revealed in His Word.
• Roy B. Zuck, Spiritual Power in Your
  Teaching (Chicago Moody Press, 1972), 59-65.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• The Holy Spirit enables the teacher learner to
  communicate interact with Gods truth for
  personal corporate growth
• 1 The Principle of Personal Cooperation
• A. Personal Cooperation is required of the
  teacher
• 1 Timothy 413 give attention to reading,
  to exhortation, to doctrine.
• 2 Timothy 22 And the things that you
  have heard from mecommit these to faithful men
  who will be able to teach others also.
• Titus 19 holding fast the faithful word as
  he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound
  doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who
  contradict.
• B. Personal Cooperation is required of the
  learner
• Matthew 724 Therefore whoever hears these
  sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him
  to a wise man who built his house on the rock
• Hebrew 512 For though by this time you
  ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach
  you again the first principles of the oracles of
  God
• James 125 ...and is not a forgetful hearer
  but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed
  in what he does.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• Having made each believer a new creature in
  Christ (Eph. 424), the Holy Spirit seeks to
  cultivate life, character, and dynamic for
  conduct (Gal. 516-23) through accurate knowledge
  and right application of the Scripture (see chart
  on spiritual life).
• 2 The Principle of Personal Cultivation
• A. The goal in sanctification for which we
  strive is personal maturity
• Rom. 121-2
• 2 Cor. 317-18
• 2 Tim. 316-17
• Colossians 31-4
• B. Every Person will be evaluated for His
  faithfulness when Christ rewards His
  servants
• 1 Cor. 313
• 2 Cor. 510
• Galatians 64-6.

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II. Recall How the Holy Spirit Teaches

• The Spirit operates.
• 3 The Principle of Personal Cultivation
• A. The goal in sanctification for which we
  strive is personal maturity
• Rom. 121-2
• 2 Cor. 317-18
• 2 Tim. 316-17
• Colossians 31-4
• B. Every Person will be evaluated for His
  faithfulness when Christ rewards His
  servants
• 1 Cor. 313
• 2 Cor. 510
• Galatians 64-6.

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The Holy Spirit in Teaching Learning?

• Recognize that His goal is personal development
  and maturity the representation of Jesus
  Christ.
• Allow His personal cultivation of your lives as
  teachers.
• Depend on Him as the only one who can make
  teachers effective.
• Allow Him to facilitate interpersonal
  communication.
• Seek to cultivate your spiritual gifts and
  ministry under His supervision.
• Promote reverence response to His inspired
  Scripture.