Everything You Need to Know (about God) You Can Learn in Sunday School Series

The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. These three make up the Holy Trinity. The first two of these are very easy to understand and when explained to children and adults there usually are very little questions. The third, The Holy Spirit, can baffle the minds of believers of any age. Hopefully, today I can explain it in a way that will at least help you understand who the Holy Spirit is and how your relationship with all three in the Holy Trinity is important to your walk in your faith. This explanation is not a deep theological explanation but one at a very high overview so that you can at least start to wrap your mind around the Holy Spirit.

Let’s start with the first two parts of the Holy Trinity:

The Father- God, our Heavenly Father

The Son- God’s Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior- the only way we can reach the Father

Now we are going to try to understand the Holy Spirit. The easiest way to start is we must understand the Good News of Jesus and why we have the Holy Spirit.

When I was teaching the lesson a few weeks ago we started by talking about what “the church” means. The children started out by answering with obvious explanations about the physical church building itself. Then we started talking through why we even have a “church” building in the first place. When did the first “church” start? What had to happen to start the belief in Christ and start the “Christian church” where followers gathered together?

Then we discussed how the “church” is not a place but it is the group of people who believe in Jesus Christ as their savior. The “church” was created as a way for us to learn about, praise and worship Jesus, as well hold each other accountable.

Children (and adults) that have been raised in church take our religion for granted. We don’t even consider how differently our lives would be and what a world without Christianity would be like. It shapes so many different aspects of our daily world. Children are alarmed when we remind them we would not have Christmas or Easter if Jesus was an ordinary man. We would not have church, Sunday school, VBS, Youth Group and the list goes on and on.

The Good News:

The reason we need to learn, praise and worship Jesus is because He was the Son of God (born of a virgin birth from Mary), He was crucified on the cross, died for our sins and rose from the grave on the third day. The payment for sin is death. The only way we can escape the payment of sin was for Jesus to pay for our sins. He was the perfect lamb that paid for our sins so that we do not have to.

He also was on earth for another 40 days until His “ascension” into heaven. When He left, He told the disciples that He would not leave them alone and that He would send the Holy Spirit to help them. The Holy Spirit would live in believers.

If you believe the Good News and invite Jesus into your heart the Holy Spirit resides in you too!

The Holy Spirit:

“for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭12‬:‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/luk.12.12.NIV

He Teaches Us

“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—”
‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭16‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.14.16.NIV

He Helps Us

“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.”
‭‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.16.13.NIV

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭26‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.8.26.NIV

He Makes Us Strong (when we are weak)

“And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.8.27.NIV

He Connects us to the Father (can help us pray when we don’t know what to say)

““When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭26‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.15.26.NIV

He Tells Us Things About Jesus- (helps us to understand the Bible and God)

These are just some of the ways the Holy Spirit assists those of us who have invited Jesus Christ into our hearts. Scripture mentions the Holy Spirit from Genesis until Revelations.

Another way that I have explained the Holy Spirit to children is when we have the Holy Spirit we can listen for this voice to steer us in the right way.

Have you ever seen a cartoon where the character is battling with a big decision and on one should they have an angel directing them on the right path and the devil directing them on the wrong path? It seems funny as part of the cartoon but I like to think of the Holy Spirit in this way. He is there to teach us, help us, make us strong, connect us to the Father when we pray and can help us understand the Bible and what we need to know about God the Father and Jesus.

I hope this helps you understand the Holy Spirit more than you did or to share it with someone who could use some help understanding.

Have a Blessed Day!

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** I am not theologically trained. This is just my explanation at a very basic level and hoping to make relatable for children and adults to understand to grow their relationship with God. The literature from my Sunday School class is from D6 – Elementary Teaching Guide through D6 Family Ministry – I have made all attempts to not reference their materials directly but they are great lessons and this is what I use in my class. I try to take as much from my own learnings from the Holy Bible in addition to the lessons for this blog. **