Created in the Image of God: The Holy Spirit, the Sons of God and the Bride of Christ

In this episode of Created in the Image of God on Radio Cape Pulpit, host Sylvia Colville continues the Behold the Bride series (Episode 19), studying the Holy Spirit as God's presence on the earth. She recaps the previous week's questions — what the point of the Holy Spirit is and why we and Jesus need Him — and the first step: the power of the Holy Spirit, by which Jesus, the apostles and we ourselves are empowered to be witnesses and transformed into God's image. This week she moves to step two: the sons of God who are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14, 8:19), explaining that we must yield to the Spirit's direction, decrease so He can increase, and follow Jesus as our example — filled with the Spirit, led into the wilderness, returning in the power of the Spirit, and reading Isaiah in the synagogue: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me." She shows that Jesus did nothing of Himself but only what He saw the Father do (John 5:19–20), and that He withdrew to solitary places to pray (Mark 1:35, Luke 5:16, Matthew 14:23) — as we must, to receive strength, direction and equipping. She then begins step three: the relationship between the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ and Spirit-led sons of God, turning to John 20:19–22 where Jesus breathes on the disciples, "Receive the Holy Spirit" — the new birth — and explains the difference between the Spirit dwelling within us and the baptism of the Spirit empowering us for the kingdom. She teaches that we pray directly to the Father in Jesus' name (John 16:23), that God is spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and truth (John 4:24), that we must be born again (John 3:5–7), and that the Spirit gives life through His words (John 6:63). Using Revelation 3:20 — Jesus standing at the door and knocking — she invites listeners to come hungry to the Word, dine with the Bread of Life, receive the Rhema that renews the mind, and be changed from glory to glory. She closes with a call to throw off the grave clothes of the old life and put on Christ.