The Eighth Point Of The Apostles’ Creed States: I Believe In The Holy Ghost He is a person Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as He In John 16:8 when He comes… Well, He has come John 16:12-15 12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all 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.14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. For The Church To Be Ignorant Of His Person And His Mission Creates An Ineffective World Ministry That Preceeds The Return Of Jesus Christ. It Is Time Now For The Person Of The Holy Spirit To Be Understood In A Greater Way By The Church Today. Many Have Taught On The Gifts Of The Spirit And The Fruit Of The Spirit But There Is A Void When It Comes To An Understanding Of The Person Of The Holy Spirit. The Study Of Deity Is The Highest Theme Of Human Study.The Study Of The Third Person Of The Trinity Has Had The Least Attention Of The Three.No Truth Is So Necessary To Be Taught, And No Truth Has Suffered Such Persecution. He Is Just As Much A Person As Jesus, Just As Much A Person As The Father.But He Has Been So Resisted And So Silenced In The Believers Life By The Religious Hierarchy.Studying The Highest Order Of Deity; Father, Son And Holy Spirit Is A Tall Order.When We Receive A New Dimension Of Truth We Receive A New Dimension Of Power.To Study The Deity Is To Study The Highest Order, And Can Only Be Illuminated To Us By The Holy Spirit. Trying to analyze and define Father God, trying to explain the full story of incarnation, how the Son of the Most High God came here to save us,and how one day, in Heaven, we will meet, face to face Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, is not a work of the flesh, it is a work led by and empowered by the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit Has Done All This By Revealing Truth And We Have These Truths And Promises In The Bible.But We Must Study Him And Know Him.We Must Know His Personality, His Attributes, His Nature, His Character And Ways. The Holy Spirit Is Not A Hypothetical Philosophy. The Holy Spirit Is Not An Impersonal Force. We Must See Him As A Person. We Must Know Who He Is, What He Is And What He Will Do For You. We Must Have A Personal Confrontation With Him. What Has Happened To You, Have You Had A Personal Confrontation? In Other Words, Have You Ever Met The Holy Spirit On A Personal Basis, Spirit To Spirit, And Did That Encounter End With Him Indwelling You? John 14:15-18 15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. The Sole Source Of Information Is The Bible On The Third Person Of The Trinity, The Holy Spirit. This Planet Is Under The Authority Of God And Can Be Divided Into 3 Dispensations (DISPENSATION: The method according to which God carries out His purposes towards men.} At creation we see the Dispensation of the Father. His Dispensation created man, man sinned, the plan to redeem man began, the law was given. The next Dispensation was that of the son Jesus Christ who came to pay the debt of sin and redeem fallen man from sin. On the day when Jesus was taken up to Heaven, this is what He said to his disciples: Acts 1:7-11 7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." When Jesus was on this planet he told his disciples in Acts 1:8…. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." The Holy Spirit Is The Director Of This Present Dispensation Of Grace. We Must Know Him. He Is Not Just Doctrine. This Is The Final Dispensation Of Man’s Legal Rule Of This Planet. The Next Dispensation Is 1000 Years Of Kingdom Rule By Jesus Christ When He Returns. But This Age Is The Time When Man By The Power Of The Holy Spirit Within Is Ruling This Planet. The Upper Room Was The Incubator Of The Christian Church. We Are The Children Of The Dispensation Of The Holy Spirit And We Need To Know Him More As The End Of This Dispensation Grows Closer. We May Know More About The Dispensations That Were Before Us Or That Are Coming But Are Ignorant Of Our Own. The work of the Holy Spirit is so vast. Not only did Jesus say He would remind us of everything He had said but that He would show us things to come. It could be the gifts of the spirit may not be fully used until we know the giver more. We may not know the fruit of the spirit like we should until we know the giver of the fruit. Paul said he didn’t know Jesus in the flesh, he knew him in the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. There is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible. ie. How tall he was, the color of his hair, etc. the descriptions dealt with expressions and spiritual manifestations Isaiah described Him prophetically this way… Isaiah 53:1-5 Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? 2 Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him. 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains — he hath carried them, And we — we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.5 And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace [is] on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. Daniel Describes The Lord Like This…Daniel 7:9 9 "As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze. Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. You see we are spirit beings housed in a physical body. When too much emphasis is placed on the body and soul the spirit of man is ignored or overlooked. Philippians 3:2-3 2 Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh. What we must watch out for is this, there are those who many will attempt to know and befriend simply based on an outward appearance. There are many believers who may not stand out physically but who are highly esteemed in the Spirit. This Is A Study Of The Holy Spirit And His Personality. Who He Is, What He Does And What Effect He Has On Our Lives. Comments are closed.
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AuthorPastor Dave White is Senior Pastor of WOLCC, founded in April of 1995. Archives
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