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The Person & Ministry Of The Holy Spirit · HBCWestminster

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  Father in heaven, Lord, we pray that as we enter into this study tonight, God, first and foremost, that your truth might ring true in our hearts and our souls and our minds. God, that we would connect deeply with your truth. Father, that it would impact our lives, the actions that we take, the things that we do, and the things that we think. God, that we might understand more of how you are working in this world and at work in our own lives.
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  Lord, be with me as I try to teach you this subject. God, may you be honored and glorified through the things I say. I pray these things in your name. Amen. Some of you, it won't matter since you didn't do the homework, but before you did the homework, I was thinking about this today. When the topic of the Holy Spirit or the person of the Holy Spirit came up before you did this study,
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  What would have come up in your head? What would you have thought about if somebody asked you who the Holy Spirit is? If you could describe him. Maybe it was an it before you did this study.
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  Yeah, yeah. He's not a ghost. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
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  There's no wrong answers to this. I just want to hear where you guys were at, what you guys thought about the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, as some are referring. I'm not telling you yes or no. I just want to hear what you guys... We'll go through the lesson and we'll talk from the lesson, but I just want to hear what were your thoughts prior to doing this lesson, or if you haven't done the lesson, what were your thoughts on who He is?
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  Any other thoughts on it? I have to admit that the person of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit, is something that I honestly feel like I am just, in the last few years, God is opening my eyes more and more to the work that He is about and what He does and what He wants to do within me and just acknowledging.
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  His presence more and more. And so it's been an area of conviction for me personally just that I did not acknowledge Him and His work in my life as much and the power that He has as much as I should have. And so it's been a really neat time over these last few years as the Lord has really grabbed a hold of my perspective and understanding of Him.
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  The person and work of the Holy Spirit, we want to talk about, I'm not going to go over, we all kind of approach the lessons a little bit differently, but I'm not going to go over every detail tonight of the lesson with you guys. But there are some key pieces that I want to hit with you guys. One of the main things that I'm going to spend most of my time talking about and looking at Scripture in terms of the ministry.
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  of the Holy Spirit. But one of the key elements that we have to talk about is, is the Holy Spirit a person? Is he an it? Is he a power? Or is he a person? Does he have a person and personality? So if you guys go to your first part, the Holy Spirit is a person recognized as a person.
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  There are multiple times where he is referred to as a he, a him, and not an it. He is not referred to as an it. He is referenced as having power, but he is referenced in a personal way often. So attributes of personality, if you go under 1B.
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  the intellect, he possesses the ability to know and understand reality. If somebody wants to look up Romans 8.27, 1 Corinthians 2.10 and 11, then I'm going to look up 1 John 2.20. Alright, who has Romans? What did we learn about the Holy Spirit?
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  In Romans 8, verse 27. He has a mind. He has intellect. 1 Corinthians 2.10. Searches all things, even the depths. Go to verse 11 as well.
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  Comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. So the Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of God. He knows the thoughts of man. 1 John 2, verse 20 tells us, But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you have all knowledge. In order for us to receive knowledge from the Holy One or the Holy Spirit, He would have to have knowledge, a mind.
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  Intellect is part of a personality. Personhood. Emotion. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30. If you guys have done your study. What does Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 tell us about the Holy Spirit? Grieve. So we can grieve the Holy Spirit. He can have an emotion of grief. Right?
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  That is also, emotion is also something that is representative of a person or personality. 1 Corinthians 12, 7, and 11. And I'm going to go to Acts chapter 13. So I'm going to read 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 7. And then 11.
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  Okay, so what do those two verses tell us about the Holy Spirit? He has a will, right? He has a will, which is also part of being a person. Chapter 13 of Acts, verse 2, tells us, Acts 13, Now they were in the church, Antioch prophets and teaching, Barnabas Simeon, who was called,
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  What do we see the Holy Spirit do there? He speaks, right? The Holy Spirit speaks directly to these people.
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  And He has a specific ministry for them to accomplish. John 14, 26 says this. I'm going to go back to 25. These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you, but the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring...
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  To your remembrance, all that I have said. If you read that verse and then you read 1 John, that 1 John chapter 2 verse 20, it makes sense, right? That the Holy One has come and given us all knowledge. Here, Christ is promising that the Holy Spirit is going to be our helper and he's going to teach us all things. Chapter 14 verse 16 tells us of John.
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  And I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever. Another helper to be with you forever. In the Greek on this, this word for helper is paraclete. Often in theological terms you'll hear the Holy Spirit referenced as our paraclete, our helper, the one who comes.
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  to help us, seal us, as we'll see later. But we see very clearly in these things the Holy Spirit showing us personality, having knowledge, having a will, being able to be grieved. The Holy Spirit possesses attributes of a person.
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  Emotion, will, decision making. The Holy Spirit can be responded to. The Bible teaches us the Holy Spirit can be responded to. Someone want to look up Acts chapter 19 verses 19 to 21. Chapter 10 verse 19 through 21, excuse me. Someone want to look up Acts chapter 7 verse 51. I'm going to look up Acts chapter 5 verse 3.
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  He's got Acts 10, verses 19-21. Go ahead, Danny. What did we learn there? What did we see there? Acts 10. Obeying. The Spirit can be obeyed. Acts 7, verse...
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  51. Go ahead. What do we see there? What can happen with the Holy Spirit there? He can be resisted. Acts chapter 5 verse 3 tells us, But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit?
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  And to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land. There we see that he can be lied to. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 29 shows us that he can be insulted. We read Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 where we see that he can be grieved. And Mark chapter 3 verse 28-29 he can be blasphemed. These are all things. Can you...
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  Can you obey a force? Can you obey a force? Can you lie to a force? Clarence. Does it matter if you lie to a force? Does it matter if you obey a force? Are you thinking about like the force of a car? Like getting hit by a car? Because that you have to obey whether you want to obey that force or not. Yes. I'm talking about like
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  People, sometimes the Holy Spirit can be likened to this kind of mystical, almost like magic, right? That he's the one who does these magical things and that it's really an it, not a him. It's an it, not a person. So what we're trying to look at here is the fact that these things are representative of a relationship.
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  something that can happen because of the personhood of the Holy Spirit rather than Him being simply a force. Going through, again, we're trying to establish that the Holy Spirit is a person. Let's go to Acts chapter 8, verse 29. Acts chapter 8, verse 29. Somebody want to read that?
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  And the Spirit said to Philip, go over. What do we see there? The Spirit doing again. He's speaking, right? The Spirit is speaking. John 14, verse 26. We saw when we read that that He is going to teach us things. He's going to teach us things. 1 Corinthians. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 12. 1 Corinthians 12.
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  Famous passage on spiritual gifts. Verse 11. Alright, in context, it's talking about spiritual gifts and that the spiritual gifts are going to be given. Who does it tell us that the spiritual gifts are given by? The Holy Spirit. He distributes the spiritual gifts. Who was it?
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  Pam, you said convicts, right? That was one of the things you said first of all. Let's go to John chapter 16. John chapter 16, verse 8. This is Christ talking about the Holy Spirit. Verse 8 says of the Holy Spirit, or the Helper, in the verse right above in verse 7, it says that the Helper will come down. Then verse 8, he says, and when he comes, he will convict the world.
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  concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. So he absolutely convicts, Pam. That is absolutely right. Another reference to write down in terms of the actions of the Holy Spirit would be John 15, 26. He testifies. Acts 16, 6-7. He guides and directs. These are things, again, these are acts
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  of the person of the Holy Spirit. He can be grieved. He can be resisted. He can be obeyed. He can be lied to. He can be insulted. He speaks. He teaches. He distributes. He gives gifts. He convicts. These are actions. These are things that a person does. I believe the Bible clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is.
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  In fact, a person. He is a person, part of the Godhead of the Trinity. So, if the Holy Spirit is a person, is he God? Go back to, if you guys can, lesson three. You guys have your books. Under number four, you're going to see, I believe, a list of attributes of deity. Do you guys have that? Under letter A? Section four, letter A?
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  Lesson 3, section 4, letter A. Eternality, omnipotence, sovereignty, omniscience, omnipresence are some distinct attributes listed there about who God is. God the Father, who our God is. The Holy Spirit possesses all of these things.
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  is also listed some unique things about the Holy Spirit. Go to, let's go back to Acts, chapter 5, famous passage of Ananias and Sapphira. And we, you know, we read the part where, you know, verse 3, where it says that they lied to the Holy Spirit, right? Then at verse 4, it follows that up. It says, while it remained unsold,
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  Did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man, but to God. Alright, so if we look at that in connection with verse 3, would verse 3 say that they had done, they had lied to who? The Holy Spirit. Verse 4 tells us they had lied to God. So,
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  Chapter 5 of Acts establishes pretty clearly for us the Holy Spirit. Lying to the Holy Spirit is the same as lying to God, right? He is part of the deity. And as we go through this, you're going to see deeper and deeper connections between the Trinity, culminating in what I believe is incredible pictures in several scriptures where we see all three of the Trinity involved.
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  in our salvation. Divine titles. We're going to look at some divine titles. 1 John 5, verse 6. Someone want to look that up? 1 John 5, verse 6. And I'm going to go over to Romans 8. 1 John 5, verse 6.
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  Spirit is the truth. Alright, what do we see about the Spirit there? He is the Spirit of truth. That is a unique title given to Him. Romans 8 chapter 2 tells us Romans 8 chapter 2 tells us for the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. The Spirit of life the Spirit of life is a unique title given
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  To him. Jesus in John chapter 14. Verse 6. Is called the truth and the life. But the spirit is called. Spirit of life. John chapter 7. Let's go over there. John chapter 7. Verses 38. And 39. John chapter 7. Verses 38 and 39. Says whoever believes in me. As the scripture has said.
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  Out of his heart will flow the rivers of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive. For as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. The Spirit is equated to living water in John chapter 7. Jesus is called the living bread. The Father is called the living Father.
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  This is a unique title to the Spirit, that He is living water. Spirit of glory. Let's go to 1 Peter. And this is a verse where we're going to see the Trinity represented as well. But 1 Peter chapter 4. 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 14. 1 Peter 4 verse 14 tells us this. If you are insulted for the name of Christ,
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  You are blessed because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon us. What do we see there? We see Christ named. We see the Spirit named. And we see God named. All in one verse. That is the Trinity spoken of. But the Spirit there is referenced. The title given to him is that he's the Spirit of glory. Jesus is called the Lord of glory. And the Father is called the Father of glory.
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  But the Spirit is the Spirit of glory. These are unique titles given to Him. This is unique to Him. The Holy Spirit is God. He possesses those lists of attributes that we looked at from Lesson 3. We see that He has very unique titles given to Him as a separate part of the Trinity.
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  And let's look at, as we think about this, as we've established that there is God, there is Jesus, the God-man, and now we look at the Holy Spirit, this thing called the Trinity, which I'm sure some of you guys know never actually happens to be mentioned in the Bible. However, like verses in 1 Peter, we see the three represented in that.
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  In that verse, verse 14, we see Christ, the Spirit, and God spoken of. So what gives? How do we figure this thing out? There's three things mentioned here. We've looked at God. We've looked at Jesus. We've looked at the Holy Spirit. How do we kind of understand this? I want you guys to go over to Deuteronomy. This is when I was in college.
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  My professor taught us, showed us this verse, and we looked at the Greek of this. It's an amazing thing. Because here in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 words. Sorry.
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  Deuteronomy 6-4. Deuteronomy 6-4. Deuteronomy 6-4. Deuteronomy is a really cool book. If you've never read through Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy is a really cool book. I have to be careful because when we were going through Galatians one time, I challenged everybody to read through Leviticus in connection with Galatians because the two of them fit really beautifully together. And so then I had to read.
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  Leviticus again, which isn't exactly always what I think. So I'd encourage you to, but I'm not going to at this particular, I'm not there for my Bible reading yet, but Deuteronomy is a really awesome book. I would encourage you guys to read through it carefully if you ever have a chance. So Deuteronomy 6.4, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. The words used in here go from plural to singular.
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  So the Lord our God, that is a plural statement. And then it goes to a singular, the Lord is one. So this verse establishes for us, sets a stage for us that there are the truths that we see, especially revealed in the New Testament as we see the Holy Spirit and Christ come.
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  that there are three persons of the Godhead, but one God. There is only one God. Isaiah 43.10 Isaiah 43.10 How big these books are. I need a bigger stand. I can't turn the pages. Isaiah 43.10 says, You were my witnesses, declares the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know
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  And believe me and understand that I am He before me. No God was formed, nor shall there be any after me. There is only one God. 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians. Isaiah 43.10. You can just write down the references, Mike. It's okay. Isaiah 43.10 was the one we just looked at. Alright. No problem, brother.
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  That's why you've got a pencil and blank sides on your thing so you can write those down. Isaiah 43.10 was that. And we're going to go to 1 Corinthians chapter 8. 1 Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 4. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no God but one. There is only one God.
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  Existing in three persons. God does refer to himself in the plural as us and our. Genesis 1.26, you guys know that verse. Let us make man in our image. Right? Genesis 1.26 says that. Deuteronomy 6.4, the one I just said earlier. The Lord our God. That's a plural statement. The Lord is one. Singular.
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  The Father is God. Christ is God. And the Holy Spirit is God. We have verses that make those statements. The Father is God. John 6, 27. 1 Corinthians 8, 6. And Psalms. Psalm. My professor would kill me right now. Psalms. It's like Revelations. It's not Revelations. It's one. Singular. Revelation. Well, Psalms is the book of Psalms. Psalm is one book of Psalms.
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  Alright, Psalm 68.5 is another one. The Father is God. Christ is God. Titus 2.13. John 1.1. 1.14. We memorized these a couple lessons ago. And John 8.58. There are many more verses, but these are some that you guys can jot down for these. Christ is God. The Father is God. The Holy Spirit is God. Acts.
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  chapter 5, verses 3-4. And they, there are three, the three are distinct from each other. Let's go to Galatians, chapter 4, verses 4-6. Galatians, chapter 4, verses 4-6. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, okay, two separate, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those
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  who were under the law, so that they might receive adoption as sons. Okay, so God the Father, God the Son, separate there. 1 Peter chapter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 2, 1 Peter 1, verse 2, According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience,
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  to Jesus Christ for the sprinkling with His blood. So what do we see there? God the Father, God the Spirit, and Jesus Christ. All separate listed in there. The Godhead in salvation, actually. 2 Corinthians. Hop back over. 2 Corinthians 1. 2 Corinthians 1, verse 21-22.
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  2 Corinthians 1, 21-22 says this, And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us and who has also put His seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. There's all three listed again separately and all involved in our salvation.
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  Titus chapter 3. I don't know about you, but in my Bible, Titus is two pages. So it's easy to skip over. Titus, right after 2 Timothy, and next to that really large book, Philemon. Titus chapter 3, verses 4 through 6 say this, But when the goodness of the loving kindness of God, our Savior, appeared, He saved us, not because of works,
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  but by done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing and regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ, our savior. Again, Titus chapter three, verses four through six. It's a list of God, the father, God, the spirit and God, the son, all involved.
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  In our salvation. And all separate. So God the Father is God. Christ is God. And the Holy Spirit is God. And they are all intricately involved. In our salvation. Holy Spirit is a person. Holy Spirit is God. But he has. There are different functions. Within the Trinity. God the Father.
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  From whom all revelation proceeds, the one who foreknew our salvation and demonstrated his love by giving his Son, then God the Son, the incarnate God, who gave himself as a sacrifice for our sin, and he now intercedes and mediates for us, and God the Spirit, who indwells the believer and works to sanctify and convict, as Pam said, of sin. The work of the Holy Spirit.
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  the functions of the Godhead, of the Trinity, the work of the Holy Spirit, the revealing of and really the vast understanding that we have of the Holy Spirit is certainly in the New Testament, but the Holy Spirit was obviously from eternity past, pre-existent as God, and the Bible tells us was actually involved in creation.
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  Psalm. If you want to look up Psalm 104. Someone want to look up Psalm 104 verses 29 to 30. Yep. Alright. There it tells us that He sends forth the Spirit.
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  and He is part of the creation. The Holy Spirit was active and part of the virgin birth. Luke chapter 1, Luke 1.35 tells us, Luke 1.35, And the angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the child to be born will be called Holy.
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  the Son of God. The Holy Spirit was active in Christ's birth. Looking back on what we've covered, the fact that the Holy Spirit is a person, the Holy Spirit is God, and that these are three distinct persons, what is the importance? Why would this be something that is covered in Fundamentals of the Faith? Why would we talk about these things? Why would we talk about the fact that He is a person?
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  that He is God. Yes, Jill. I think we talk about it because He is God the Father. He is the Son who came here, who lived our lives, died for us. And the Holy Ghost is something we can pray and have the Holy Ghost within us helping us. And that's how I see it. When I pray, I ask that the Holy Ghost will be with me and help me with these decisions.
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  Now, I don't know if that's correct, but it seems to me through reading all this that the Holy Ghost is with us. Absolutely. Yeah, and I would say, I would absolutely agree with you that if I can take your statement a little bit further, that part of the importance of understanding this, does God want us to know Him? Yes. Okay.
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  What two things did God give us in order for us to know Him? His Word and the Spirit, right? Absolutely. And Christ made the pathway, right? But the way that we know Him is through the revealing, right? As Christ said, He's going to reveal all truth to us. This is truth. What you said, Jill, is absolutely true, is absolutely right. We want to study this because we want to know God and the Holy Spirit.
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  is said to be the way that God is going to reveal truth to us. He's going to illuminate to us God's truth that we would not know otherwise if we did not have Him living in us. Which leads us into the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The ministry of the Holy Spirit, His involvement in salvation. Man, if...
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  Those verses, Galatians, I didn't, you just didn't write these down. Galatians chapter 4, verses 4 through 6. 1 Peter 1-2. 2 Corinthians 1-21-22. And then, man, Titus. Titus chapter 3. Titus is one of my favorite books in the Bible. I don't know why. I love Titus. Love the book. But Titus chapter 3, verses 4 through 6.
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  Especially that passage in Titus is an absolutely beautiful picture of how the Holy Spirit is intrinsically and inescapably involved in our salvation. He is part of the regeneration of the believer, Titus tells us. When we looked at John,
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  where he tells us that he convicts us of sin. Titus, I just referenced. Let's look at Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. Another beautiful passage in Scripture is Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 verse 9 says, You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells.
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  in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. What does it tell us about the Spirit there in chapter 8, verse 9? You have to have the Spirit. The Spirit dwells in the believer. If we start it off, Holy Spirit is a person. Holy Spirit is God. Right? Holy Spirit is...
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  Inescapably and personally involved in our salvation, that person dwells, the Spirit dwells in each one of us. God dwells in the believer, you guys. That is amazing. Amazing. When we take a step back, when we look at this,
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  These verses talking about who he is, establishing the fact that he's a person, that we can know him, that he's involved, that he's God. These are all important, but they should then build and carry immense weight and gratitude for the truth of a verse like verse 9 of Romans chapter 8. That that same person, the person who was involved in creation, creating this entire world,
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  dwells in the believer. That's crazy. I mean, that is some God-sized stuff right there. The Holy Spirit makes the universe, is part of knitting you and I together in our mother's wombs, and then comes and rests and lives in us. If I could answer personally why I believe it's necessary to study some of these things,
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  particularly about the deity of the Holy Spirit, it's because it brings that weight, that gratitude, that immense feeling of love and appreciation for the fact that God has given us the Spirit to dwell within us. A couple other verses that talk about that is 1 Corinthians 3, verse 16. 1 Corinthians 3, verse 16. 619 of 1 Corinthians.
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  And 2 Corinthians 6.16. Something, this is going to be a really, really brief tackling of this because of time, but something I want to talk about. We, as Christians, often talk about being filled, right? We want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. That's something, you know, we want to walk in the Spirit. We want to be filled with the Spirit.
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  What does it mean? What do we mean when we say that we need to be filled with the Spirit or we need to walk in the Spirit? What is that we're talking about? Yes, Jill. God is with me. I feel like the Holy Spirit is with me.
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  Does that make sense? Yep, yep. Here's what I want to try and get us to, just for time, because we're six minutes away from the end here. The word filled can make it feel like the Holy Spirit is almost like a thermometer, right? The amount of Him that we have goes up and down. God indwells us in the Spirit fully, completely, all the time. He's there, okay?
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  The Bible tells us that. When it talks about being filled, we are baptized by the Spirit at salvation. Being filled with the Spirit means walking in the Spirit. I want to give you guys some verses to look up in connection with this thought. Write these down. Romans chapter 12, verse 1 through 2. Romans 8, 26.
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  to 28, Colossians 3.10, and 1 Peter, again, 1 Peter 1.14 through 16. Colossians 3.10. And then, after you read all of those, this is extra homework, okay? Read the first 16 verses of chapter 4 of Ephesians. 16. 16 verses.
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  of chapter 4 of Ephesians. 1 Peter 1, 14-16. Yep, Ephesians 4, verses 1-16. Read that in light of those other four passages. If you guys know Romans chapter 12, if you've ever memorized that, it says, I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living,
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  as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what the will of God is, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Renewal of the mind. You're going to see a theme through this, through these verses. When we use the word filled with the Spirit,
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  It is a dying to old self and living out walking in the spirit, walking in the Christian life, walking by the power of the spirit, allowing him to direct our steps rather than our carnal, sinful nature. We are once for all filled.
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  at salvation our daily and moment by moment surrender and thus our enjoyment of that feeling will go up and down one of the things we have to be careful of is that we can feel like we're that somehow again that there's this barometer of um the amount of the spirit we have in us if god dwells in us god it says the fullness of god dwells and uh
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  in the Bible. It is there. Our lives, our surrender to that will affect how much we enjoy that filling. As we think about application, I want to ask a question. Could we be saved apart from the Trinity? Could we be saved apart from the Trinity? Absolutely not. Those passages,
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  that I gave you guys show us that all three of the Trinity are inescapably involved in our salvation. Our sin, our offense, is against God. We cannot undo the offense. Only God could satisfy the offense. However, God cannot be sin. Thus He sent His Son, the God-Man.
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  To take and become sin. Right? Because He has humanity. He can become sin for us. And through His death and resurrection. He conquers the power of sin. And that's great. Right? So God is making a way. Right? God the Father cannot be part of sin. He sends the Son as a man. He becomes man. He conquers sin and death. Goes back as part of that conquering. To be with.
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  God, I don't know about you guys, but if my willpower was going to be part of this equation, I'd be failing. And so God knows that, and He does what? He sends the Holy Spirit to seal us, to walk with us. There is no way. If God is perfect, He knows all things.
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  then what He decided to do for our salvation was the only way. It was the perfect way. And it is the only way that we can be sealed unto the day that He comes. I'd encourage you to go back and read those sections I gave you guys in connection with being filled. I want that to encourage you guys. It's easy for us sometimes to feel,
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  that our sins somehow, it does separate, but it separates on our side. God is always in the same place. And I just want to encourage you guys with that. And then just, man, read through the fact, think through, as you guys look at this, think through the fact that the God of creation, the God who is part of creation,
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  Part of your personal creation dwells in you and desires to commune with you, walk with you, and have a relationship. And part of that is spending time in His Word. Let's pray. Father in Heaven, God, we are astonished. Lord, we are in awe.
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  God, when I think about the God of the universe, the spirit that is so involved from eternity past in your design, your plan, your creation of this world and of me and of everybody in this room, God, that you sent him to seal us as a deposit, guaranteeing
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  Our salvation, Lord, that comes through your son's sacrifice. God, we are in awe of your work. We are in awe of who you are. Thank you for loving us, knowing us enough that you knew we needed a helper. We needed someone to walk through this life with us. Thank you for what you have given us, Lord. May we never ever take for granted that we have
• 57:58
  Your Spirit living inside of us. God, thank You for tonight. In Your name, Amen.