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Program Code: TDY190078A


00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people
00:12 I want to spend my life
00:18 Removing pain
00:24 Lord, let my words
00:30 Heal a heart that hurts
00:34 I want to spend my life
00:40 Mending broken people
00:46 I want to spend my life.
00:51 Mending broken people
01:09 Hello, and welcome once again to 3ABN Today.
01:13 This particular program is a biblical study.
01:16 It's going to be a three way study.
01:19 And let me quickly introduce our special guests
01:22 because there's no use keeping you guys a secret.
01:26 We have the brother's Day with us.
01:29 That's right. Ryan Day and Dakota Day.
01:32 Thank you so much for being minuteman.
01:35 We didn't know we're gonna be doing this
01:36 to the last second.
01:38 Yes.
01:39 But, Ryan, you are the Assistant
01:41 to the General Manager
01:42 of the Proclaim, not Proclaim...
01:43 The Praise Him Music Network.
01:45 Praise Him Music Network at 3ABN.
01:46 Right.
01:48 So I assist Tim Parton, who is our General Manager
01:52 of the new 3ABN Praise Him Music Network.
01:54 And I kind of
01:55 wear multiple hats here as well,
01:57 as we all do, as the Lord calls upon us.
01:59 We're here for Bible programs and music programs
02:02 and anything the Lord calls us to do.
02:03 Well, you know, you're very blessed.
02:05 The Lord has gifted Ryan.
02:08 He was an evangelist
02:09 for Amazing Facts for five years.
02:12 He's a great Bible teacher.
02:13 I'm sure you've seen him on the Sabbath School panel
02:16 and a wonderful singer.
02:18 So you are a well grounded person.
02:21 And we're not lifting you, we're lifting up the Lord.
02:23 To God be the glory.
02:25 Amen. Amen.
02:26 And then your younger brother, Dakota.
02:27 Dakota, you also are an Amazing Facts evangelist now
02:31 for three years?
02:32 Yeah, three years. Three years.
02:34 Yes.
02:35 And so you and your wife
02:37 are really on the road almost constantly.
02:39 Yeah, we do about eight to nine meetings a year,
02:42 proclaiming the everlasting gospel
02:43 of the Three Angels' Messages.
02:45 Yeah. Praise God.
02:46 Well, we're so glad that you were here visiting
02:48 and you can join us today.
02:50 You know, what we want to talk about today
02:54 is the personhood of the Holy Spirit.
02:57 In John 4:24, Jesus said,
03:01 "God is spirit and those who worship Him
03:05 must worship in spirit and in truth."
03:09 Well, when we start talking about the nature of God,
03:13 particularly the triune nature of God,
03:17 things...
03:18 We have to stick to scripture
03:20 because we are walking on holy ground, are we not?
03:24 Of course, absolutely.
03:25 Let me share something with you guys.
03:27 None of us were reared in the Adventist Church.
03:30 So we've got a similar background.
03:31 Right.
03:33 The reason I am a Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
03:36 is because I believe this church,
03:40 this movement teach us
03:41 more Bible truths than any other.
03:43 If I found someone who taught more,
03:45 I would join that church.
03:46 That's right. Amen.
03:48 But what I so admire is that the pioneers
03:51 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
03:53 came from all these different denominations.
03:57 They came in and they had their perspectives on scripture
04:00 and their interpretation.
04:02 But you know what they did,
04:04 they got together and they studied.
04:06 They laid it everything aside,
04:09 often their study was corrective.
04:11 I mean, you know, over the years, you see how...
04:14 As I studied out various things,
04:16 they had to let go of some of the things
04:18 they had believed.
04:20 And we believe as a church
04:24 that the Bible is infallible,
04:27 and that it alone
04:29 is how we should prove our doctrine.
04:32 Sola Scriptura, right?
04:34 That's right. Amen.
04:35 So let's look...
04:37 We wanted to look at
04:40 a couple of our fundamental beliefs.
04:42 Absolutely.
04:43 Because I think that gives us a good launching pad
04:47 for this program.
04:48 Our first fundamental belief
04:50 is that the holy scriptures are the authoritative,
04:54 infallible revelation of God's will
04:58 and the definitive revealer of doctrines.
05:01 In other words, everything we believe
05:04 is based only on Scripture.
05:07 And if you can't have, "Thus saith the Lord,"
05:11 doesn't matter who says it,
05:12 it's got to be based on Scripture.
05:15 Our second belief is in the Trinity,
05:18 that there is one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
05:23 a unity of three coeternal persons.
05:27 Right. So you know what that makes us?
05:29 Monotheistic Trinitarians. That's right. yeah.
05:32 Doesn't it? And...
05:34 Not a belief in three Gods but a belief in one God
05:37 that consist of three, as you just said,
05:40 coeternal persons.
05:41 Yes. So one being three persons.
05:44 And, you know, people...
05:45 I was trying to explain to a Muslim.
05:49 She kept saying, how can Father, Son and Spirit,
05:52 one plus one, plus one equals three.
05:54 How can you say that there's only one God?
05:57 Right.
05:58 And you know what the Lord gave me?
06:00 And it was just an epiphany.
06:02 We've been using the wrong equation.
06:05 It's not one plus one plus one, it's one times one,
06:10 times one, equals one.
06:14 One cube.
06:15 And you'll find that God's presence is in the cube.
06:20 When you look at the sanctuary...
06:23 What was the shape of the holy of holies?
06:25 That's right.
06:26 Perfect cube, 15 by 15, by 15.
06:29 When you look at what's the New Jerusalem,
06:32 the length, width, the height, perfect cube.
06:35 So God's presence is in the cube.
06:38 Let's look at...
06:41 Now let me ask you, is Trinity found in the Bible?
06:44 No.
06:45 The word Trinity is not found in the Bible,
06:47 but the concept is.
06:48 So I just want to touch on that for a moment
06:49 because again, there may be some viewers at home
06:51 that says, you know what, I don't like that word.
06:53 And that's a personal preference,
06:56 because we recognize that,
06:57 while the word Trinity is not found in Scripture.
07:01 Historically, the church applied that word
07:04 to describe the concept that we find in Scripture,
07:08 which is basically a Tri-unity, a unity of,
07:11 as we said, three persons.
07:14 And so while our God is one God,
07:17 our God consist of three unified individuals,
07:21 which is where you get the word Trinity, Tri-unity.
07:24 While I don't personally use the word Trinity all the time,
07:27 sometimes I'll use it to communicate
07:29 the concept of the unity
07:31 of these three coeternal persons.
07:33 But, you know, there's many different words
07:35 that we used to describe our Christian walk
07:38 or our Christian terminology that's not found in the Bible.
07:41 For instance, millennium.
07:42 The word millennium is not found in Scripture,
07:44 but the concept of millennium is there.
07:46 Incarnation is not found in Scripture.
07:47 Incarnation is not found there.
07:49 And so many, many words,
07:51 but Trinity is not necessarily an evil word.
07:54 Some people associate it with Catholicism,
07:57 and the concept is definitely there.
07:59 So we use that word that term Trinity.
08:02 We're talking about a Tri-unity
08:04 of the three unified beings that make up our one God.
08:08 You know, and I want to point that out
08:10 since you mentioned about Catholicism.
08:11 Sure.
08:12 We do not believe the same as the Catholic Church teaches
08:17 an eternal generation of the Son and the Spirit,
08:22 that they are eternally emanating
08:24 from the Father.
08:25 We do not believe that,
08:26 we believe in three coequal persons
08:29 that have the same past,
08:32 not that the Father has generated
08:34 the Spirit or the Son.
08:37 And one of the reasons I think that we can trust this,
08:40 there are 58 triadic scriptures that talk about
08:44 the Father, Son and the Sprit.
08:46 So, you know, I recently, recently,
08:49 a couple of years ago, I did...
08:51 I've got a 300 page study on the Holy Spirit.
08:53 Oh, wow, better.
08:54 Because I think it's good to go back
08:56 and check out what you believe from now and then.
08:59 Sure. All right.
09:00 Let's look then
09:02 at fundamental belief number three
09:04 is about the Father, four is about the Son.
09:07 Would you please read, Ryan, Fundamental Belief Number 5?
09:11 Number 5.
09:12 So dealing with the Holy Spirit.
09:15 Fundamental Belief Number 5 says,
09:17 "God, the eternal spirit was active
09:20 with the Father and the Son in creation,
09:24 incarnation and redemption.
09:27 He is as much a person as the Father and the Son.
09:31 He inspired the writers of Scripture.
09:34 He filled Christ's life with power.
09:36 He draws and convicts human beings
09:38 and those who respond,
09:40 He renews and transforms into the image of God.
09:45 Sent by the Father
09:46 and the Son to be always with His children.
09:49 He extends spiritual gifts to the church, empowers it,
09:54 that is the church, to bear witness to Christ
09:57 and in harmony with the scriptures leads it,
10:01 that is the church, into all truth."
10:04 Amen and amen. Absolutely.
10:05 So when we look in the Greek,
10:07 the word for person is Prosopon.
10:11 And it is translated as person,
10:14 presence, face, countenance.
10:16 It is used to the Father, the Son and the Spirit.
10:20 And this is...
10:21 This simply means...
10:23 It doesn't mean that, you know,
10:25 sometimes when you say person, people think, well,
10:26 it's got to be human being.
10:28 No, it's a living entity who is endowed
10:32 with personal properties
10:34 of understanding will and emotion.
10:37 So we want to see then what the scriptures say
10:42 about the Holy Spirit.
10:44 Some people believe
10:46 He's just a mere emanating influence,
10:49 a power that's coming from God.
10:52 Some people believe
10:53 He is the person of Jesus Christ.
10:56 But let's look at what the scriptures say.
11:01 And one thing else I want to say is,
11:04 the Bible is not
11:06 a systematic theology textbook.
11:09 What it is,
11:11 is a progressive self-revelation of God.
11:14 So we find in the Old Testament,
11:17 the idea of the advent of Christ.
11:21 It is more fully developed in the New Testament.
11:25 We find in the Old Testament, the advent of the Holy Spirit,
11:28 which is more fully developed in the New Testament,
11:31 particularly Jesus in John Chapters 14 through 16.
11:37 Boy, that's rich study on the spirit,
11:40 as is the Book of Acts.
11:41 Absolutely.
11:43 So, Dakota, why don't we start with you
11:46 because what we first want to show is that
11:49 the Holy Spirit is a distinct person
11:54 from Jesus Christ.
11:55 Let's read John
11:57 14:16.
12:01 John 14:16. All right.
12:05 And I just want to point out
12:07 as he's preparing to get that scripture.
12:09 We're going to attempt to clarify
12:14 what the Bible says about this subject.
12:16 And I can't emphasize that enough.
12:18 But what we cannot do,
12:20 as we are counseled very clearly
12:22 is understand the nature of the Holy Spirit.
12:23 Amen.
12:25 It is a mystery in and of itself.
12:26 And there's so much complexity to the Godhead.
12:29 In fact, the Godhead is so complex.
12:31 It's about one of the most complex,
12:33 if not the most complex topic in all of Scripture,
12:35 trying to understand the nature of God
12:38 is beyond our understanding.
12:39 But what we can understand
12:41 is what is revealed to us through the Word of God.
12:43 And so that is the point of this study.
12:45 And I'm very glad to be a part of it,
12:47 because I believe God is not the author of confusion.
12:51 And He wants us to understand who He is,
12:53 but there are elements to His nature
12:55 that we simply don't fully understand.
12:57 It has not been revealed to us yet.
12:58 Incomprehensive. Absolutely.
13:00 I heard it once said,
13:01 if you can understand everything about God,
13:03 He wouldn't be God. There you go.
13:04 That's good. Amen.
13:05 That's a good one. It's good.
13:07 So John 14:16.
13:09 "And I will pray the Father,
13:11 and He shall give you another comforter,
13:13 that he may abide with you forever."
13:17 All right. So let's hit this in the Greek.
13:20 Yes. Okay.
13:21 Another comforter, another helper.
13:24 So in the original Greek here, if you were to go
13:27 and study it very in depth,
13:29 the words another helper
13:31 in the original Greek is allos Parakletos,
13:35 that's how we would pronounce it.
13:36 And it's interesting because
13:39 what the original actually communicates,
13:40 as I believe it's clearly communicated here
13:42 in the English.
13:44 I believe it was properly translated
13:45 that Christ is simply saying
13:47 and it's interesting in this one text,
13:48 you have three beings present.
13:51 You have the Father, notice,
13:53 Christ and I's, well, there's the Son
13:55 and I will pray to the Father.
13:57 So there's the second being, notice.
14:00 And He will give you another helper.
14:04 Now we know that Christ is also a comforter.
14:08 Christ is a helper.
14:09 The Messiah was the Paraclete.
14:11 Absolutely. He is a Parakletos.
14:13 But here in the original Greek,
14:15 allos Parakletos is simply communicating
14:18 that we're not talking about the one comforter
14:20 that is already present.
14:21 He's saying, He's going to send you
14:23 a completely separate distinct person,
14:27 another Parakletos to come and lead us and guide us
14:31 and abide with us, as the Scripture says,
14:33 here forever.
14:35 And you know, in Greek, there's two words for another.
14:40 There's Heteros and Allos.
14:43 Heteros means...
14:45 Let me give you an example.
14:47 If I have a bowl of fruit and you've eaten an apple,
14:49 and then I pick up this bowl of fruit
14:52 that has grapes and oranges
14:53 and things that you want another piece of fruit.
14:55 And you say, I'll have another but
14:57 you pick an orange
14:58 or it's another in the same category.
15:02 But allos Parakletos, allos in the Greek means
15:07 one that is exactly alike.
15:12 So it's like a clone if you will.
15:14 Right.
15:15 So when Jesus said,
15:17 I will send allos Parakletos...
15:20 Sure.
15:22 I'll pray the Father had Him send allos.
15:24 He's saying, I'm gonna send...
15:27 I and the Father will send one who is just like Me.
15:30 Sure.
15:31 One who is identical to Me.
15:34 But we see that He's definitely...
15:38 As you said,
15:39 Jesus was the Paraclete in heaven,
15:41 now He's our advocate
15:45 in heaven.
15:47 He was Paraclete on earth, advocate in heaven.
15:49 You know what,
15:50 this fourth verse also points out here.
15:52 It says that He may abide with you forever.
15:54 And that refers to the Holy Spirit as a He.
15:57 Jesus was speaking of Himself
15:59 or the Father being that comforter that would come,
16:03 than why would He reference it as another He.
16:06 And so I think it's very important
16:08 to point that out and understand that.
16:09 Absolutely.
16:10 And what is the word Parakletos mean?
16:13 It means helper or comforter.
16:15 Comforter, helper, counselor, advocate.
16:19 It is a person.
16:20 The word Parakletos
16:22 is only assigned to a person.
16:26 And when you think about that,
16:28 we're going to get to a scripture that Paul...
16:32 King James Version scripture in a moment
16:35 that many people use.
16:37 But Jesus always in speaking of the Holy Spirit,
16:41 He used the emphatic personal pronoun
16:46 "He" always.
16:48 Now let me ask you.
16:50 Do you think our Savior would use language
16:55 that would mislead His apostles?
16:58 Exactly.
16:59 You know, I quoted earlier,
17:01 referenced a scripture in 1 Corinthians Chapter 14,
17:04 where it says,
17:06 God is not the author of confusion.
17:07 Yes.
17:09 And I believe that, that goes as far as
17:10 to communicate that God is not a God of confusion.
17:14 He doesn't want us to be confused about who He is,
17:17 while His nature is mysterious.
17:19 And there's so many elements of that,
17:21 that we don't fully understand as far as who God is
17:24 and what God is consisted of.
17:26 I think God wants us to understand that.
17:28 And to me, Shelley, and I just want to add this,
17:30 not trying to be facetious or sarcastic.
17:32 But if I were to read this
17:34 just simply having no prior information
17:38 or understanding of scripture at all,
17:39 or what others believe,
17:41 or what other types of interpretation is applied
17:43 to these particular text, because you can take any text
17:46 and twist it, as Peter would say that
17:48 people were doing to Paul's writings to twist it
17:51 to their own destruction.
17:52 But if you were to just simply take this
17:54 for what it says and not try to apply some deep,
17:57 personal, theological, spiritual, symbolic meaning,
18:01 it literally communicates right there in the text,
18:04 three distinct persons.
18:07 And so when I read this text here
18:09 and I read what Christ says, and I will pray to the Father,
18:11 you know, I had to pause for a moment,
18:13 just to mention, Dakota and I came
18:15 before we were Adventists years ago.
18:17 We came out of
18:19 the Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal movement.
18:22 And there are wonderful people, loving people in that movement.
18:25 But while we were in that movement,
18:27 and I was raised up in that, we were taught
18:29 another completely different,
18:32 very interesting twisted version of the Godhead.
18:35 It was more of a, what would be properly called
18:37 an immortalist perspective of God which is,
18:41 there's one central, again monotheistic being,
18:44 you know, monotheism, one being
18:46 and this one being is playing different roles
18:49 in different dispensations of times.
18:50 For instance, Christ is the Father,
18:52 Christ is the Son, Christ is the Holy Spirit.
18:56 And so there's so many different varieties
18:57 and versions of this of looking at this topic
19:00 where people misinterpret or add to
19:03 or take away from
19:04 what the scripture is actually saying.
19:06 And I think
19:07 it's vitally important that we...
19:09 In this instance, especially in John 14,
19:12 the context of this passage, nowhere in here, does it...
19:16 Is there any type of symbolic, prophetic, you know,
19:19 symbolism that is being communicated here.
19:22 The Christ is coming straight out and saying,
19:24 "Look, I'm gonna pray to the Father.
19:26 And when I'm gone, He's gonna send you
19:28 another Parakletos.
19:30 He's gonna send you another comforter,
19:32 distinctly from Himself, distinctly from the Father."
19:35 Amen. Very clear.
19:36 We have to be clear too that,
19:38 you know, we have to understand
19:40 what a verse is saying or what it's not saying.
19:41 Right.
19:43 So many people read into a verse,
19:45 their own understanding or their own presuppositions
19:47 or where they may be,
19:48 or what they may have been raised into.
19:50 And Jesus did not say...
19:53 And I'm gonna pray to the Father
19:54 and I will come to you again.
19:56 That's right. Right?
19:57 And so we have to be careful not to read into the text.
19:59 Amen. Amen.
20:01 Well, and the fact that, you know,
20:02 we wouldn't dare accuse Christ of using something
20:07 that employing language that would mislead
20:11 His apostles and His disciples.
20:13 He said, I am sending you another allos Parakletos.
20:18 One, who is just like Me.
20:20 Why was that important that Jesus sent the Holy Spirit?
20:23 And we're going to see,
20:25 it was Christ and the Father that are...
20:29 The scripture says, who sent the spirit.
20:31 But why did Jesus know
20:33 He needed to send another?
20:37 Well, I think it's always...
20:39 I think it's always important to understand it
20:41 from the perspective of the,
20:45 the very aspect of scripture communicates to us
20:49 that the Father and the Son are in heaven.
20:51 Okay, let's just start there for a moment.
20:53 The Son tells us to pray to the Father,
20:56 our Father who art in heaven.
20:58 And so, while God is omnipresent,
21:01 while the Father is omnipresent,
21:03 and the Son is omnipresent,
21:04 they're omnipresent through the Holy Spirit.
21:07 And so Christ was with them in person at that time
21:10 as a very physical, literal comforter.
21:13 But once His physical being was going to go back to heaven,
21:17 and then the Father is very physical being.
21:19 Of course, in all of His glory is in heaven.
21:23 The only way that He could manifest Himself
21:26 and that we would be comfort, you know, not comfortless,
21:29 would be to send His leading, guiding spirit to be with us.
21:33 And so in that case, I would say that,
21:35 that we have to understand that while God...
21:39 The entirety of God, you know, Father, Son,
21:41 and Holy Spirit is omnipresent.
21:43 The scripture does very much communicate
21:45 that it is through the Holy Spirit
21:46 that God is omnipresent.
21:48 Amen.
21:49 And it also, you know, the Holy Spirit
21:53 came to take Christ's place on earth.
21:55 Did He not to complete the work?
21:57 Because Jesus is still ministering in heaven
22:01 but He could not be here.
22:02 And that's why He told them,
22:04 "Hey, it's better for you that I go."
22:06 Because the Holy Spirit has worked with God's believers
22:09 throughout scripture.
22:11 He was one who was alongside of them.
22:15 But now, just as Christ,
22:19 God was incarnated...
22:21 Now the Holy Spirit's incarnated,
22:23 he lives in us, right?
22:25 And Christ was a very physical representation
22:28 and manifestation
22:30 of the perfect sinless moral character of God.
22:33 Amen.
22:35 And so while the disciples and the people
22:36 were able to very physically,
22:39 visually see the beautiful loving character of God
22:42 on display in the very physical form.
22:45 When Christ went away,
22:46 how was that beautiful character of God
22:49 going to be manifest to His people?
22:51 Through the Holy Spirit. Amen.
22:52 Okay, let's continue with verse 17.
22:54 You want to pick up 17 and 18?
22:56 Absolutely.
22:57 So we're still in John 14:17-18.
23:00 The Bible says, in this again, this is Jesus speaking.
23:03 "He says the spirit of truth,"
23:05 again referring to the Holy Spirit,
23:08 "whom the world cannot receive
23:09 because it neither sees Him, nor knows Him,
23:13 but you know Him, for He dwells with you,
23:17 and will be in you."
23:19 And He says, "I will not leave you orphans,
23:21 I will come to you."
23:23 All right. So, as you've already said...
23:27 I mean, I think this is where
23:29 people get a little confused as to
23:31 whether or not the Holy Spirit is Christ,
23:34 when He says, I will come to you.
23:35 I believe we're going to see throughout scripture
23:39 that the presence, the Father and the Son
23:42 live in our hearts by faith
23:45 through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
23:48 When the spirit dwells in us,
23:50 then we know
23:52 that the Father and the Son dwell in us.
23:54 And, you know, we'd look at
23:56 Ephesians Chapter 3 for that.
23:59 I love this scripture.
24:01 Paul says in Ephesians 3:16.
24:04 He's praying that God would grant you, the Ephesians.
24:08 "According to the riches
24:10 of His glory to be strengthened with might,
24:13 through His Spirit in the inner man."
24:17 And He's talking about strengthened
24:19 with that dynamite power
24:21 through the Holy Spirit living in us.
24:25 And for what purpose?
24:26 That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
24:29 Yes. Yes.
24:31 So when this Holy Spirit is in you,
24:34 because the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
24:39 are the exact same essence...
24:42 Yes, and character, yeah.
24:43 And character, in nature,
24:45 all of their attributes then one times, one times
24:49 one equals one.
24:51 That's right. And they are indivisible.
24:53 One divided by one, divided by one, equals one.
24:57 You mentioned this particular text here
24:59 that I just read.
25:00 And we read that particular portion
25:02 where it says,
25:03 I will send you the spirit of truth.
25:04 And then at the end of that particular verse, in 18,
25:06 He says, I will come to you.
25:08 And this is where a lot of people misinterpret
25:10 and apply their own personal knowledge
25:12 and saying, see,
25:14 the Christ is telling them in code
25:16 that I'm gonna send you another comforter,
25:18 I'm going to send you the spirit.
25:20 Hint, Hint, I'm gonna come to you.
25:22 But, you know, it's interesting
25:23 that we have to understand that
25:25 because, I found this quote here,
25:26 and this is a good quote to kind of understand
25:28 what this is saying here.
25:30 This comes from Manuscript Releases,
25:31 volume 20, page 324.
25:32 Very short, very sweet, but very clear.
25:35 It is said here, "The Holy Spirit
25:37 is the comforter in Christ's name.
25:41 He personifies Christ, yet is a distinct personality."
25:45 Amen.
25:47 And so while the Holy Spirit is a distinct third person
25:51 with the same character and personality
25:53 as the Father and the Son,
25:54 He is a representative of Christ.
25:56 So Christ essentially is coming to us
25:59 in the form of the spirit, when the Holy Spirit shows up,
26:03 because as we're gonna read in just a few moments
26:05 over in John Chapter 16,
26:07 He says, "He will show you and reveal to you
26:09 all that is from Me and by Me."
26:10 Amen.
26:12 And so while He is a distinct third individual person,
26:15 He is Christ personified in character and in spirit,
26:18 so that we might be able to manifest
26:20 within ourselves as we receive the Holy Spirit,
26:23 that of the very moral loving character of Jesus.
26:26 So when you think about Hebrews 1:3,
26:28 it talks about Christ being the outraying,
26:31 the effluence of the Father,
26:35 the same with the Holy Spirit.
26:36 Absolutely.
26:37 So, you know, in verse 23, if we go on down here,
26:40 Jesus says that,
26:42 "If anyone loves Me and keeps My word,
26:45 My father and I will come to them
26:47 and will make a home with him."
26:49 So we're looking at three coequal,
26:53 coeternal persons that are one being.
26:56 Let me give you an example of what I just said
26:59 that you could twist another scripture
27:00 to make it sound something that it doesn't.
27:02 For instance, what I just read here
27:04 in John 14:17-18,
27:07 where Christ says here,
27:09 "I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you
27:11 speaking in the form of the spirit."
27:12 And so people take that scripture, as I said,
27:14 and they will apply and say, see,
27:16 that is the Spirit of Christ.
27:17 So it must be Christ coming in the spirit form,
27:20 but it's not a third distinct person
27:21 from the Father and the Son.
27:23 Well, we can apply the same method
27:25 if we go to the scripture where Christ says
27:26 in response to Thomas's doubting,
27:28 where He says to him, "When you see Me,
27:31 you have seen the Father."
27:33 As when I was in the Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal Church,
27:35 that was one of the text that they would use to say, see,
27:38 Jesus is the Father because He said,
27:40 when you see Him, you see the Father.
27:42 But even I've run into many people,
27:44 even those who don't believe that
27:45 the Holy Spirit is a third distinct person,
27:47 they still believe that the Father and the Son
27:49 are two distinct persons.
27:51 So you can take scriptures and read too much into them
27:54 and apply something
27:55 that's actually not being said there.
27:57 We know that when Christ was saying,
27:59 when you see Me, you have seen the Father.
28:01 He's saying, you know,
28:02 the Father cannot be revealed to you
28:04 because if He was here and very present,
28:06 you would just disintegrate.
28:08 But I am the Father's character,
28:11 I am the Father's moral essence,
28:14 personified right here in the physical presence,
28:16 but yet He was a distinct
28:18 different person than the Father.
28:19 Amen. Absolutely.
28:21 I think a lot of the confusion too that
28:22 comes with a subject of the Holy Spirit,
28:24 or even the Godhead in general is,
28:26 people focus and they make their main focus
28:31 on the numerical sense of it where the scripture says,
28:33 "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one."
28:36 And they think that, that one is only speaking
28:38 in a numerical sense
28:39 but as we've been talking about,
28:41 is speaking of the sense of unity and agreement.
28:42 Right.
28:43 In the Hebrew the word is echad,
28:45 which is compound unity. Right. Yeah.
28:48 So like, you know, you had the example
28:49 where it says that,
28:51 when a man and a woman are married,
28:52 they become one flesh.
28:54 It doesn't mean that
28:55 we're one flesh in the literal sense,
28:58 in the numerical sense, but in agreement and in unity.
29:00 Amen. Right.
29:01 Amen. Great point.
29:03 Thank you for bringing that in, Dakota.
29:05 All right. So let's look then at...
29:14 Let me say this.
29:15 Scripture unequivocally teaches
29:18 that the Holy Spirit is as much a conscious,
29:23 intelligent person as the Father and the Son,
29:27 because all of the elements
29:29 that constitute personality
29:32 are attributed to Him.
29:33 Sure, sure.
29:35 So we want you to turn in your Bibles
29:37 to 1 Corinthians Chapter 2.
29:40 And let's see that the Holy Spirit
29:43 is endowed with wisdom,
29:45 understanding and will.
29:47 Who wants to take 1 Corinthians 2: 10-11?
29:51 I'll take that one. Okay.
29:54 This is an exciting study because I came...
29:58 Again, as I said, I came from
30:01 a twisted understanding of God.
30:03 And over the years God has had to
30:04 straighten my understanding out from a biblical perspective.
30:08 And so, there's a lot of different views
30:09 of this out there.
30:11 And I just want to make a quick appeal
30:12 that you allow the Bible to speak to you,
30:14 allow the scriptures to speak to you directly
30:16 and not some preconceived ideas
30:19 or understanding that
30:20 someone else is sharing with you
30:21 because that's how confusion comes in.
30:23 And people begin to adopt confusing ideas
30:25 based on what others are saying,
30:27 rather than what the scripture is saying.
30:29 Amen. All right.
30:31 1 Corinthians 2:10-11 says,
30:33 "But God hath revealed them
30:36 unto us by his Spirit,
30:37 for the Spirit searcheth all things,
30:39 yea, the deep things of God.
30:41 For what man knoweth the things of a man,
30:44 save the spirit of man which is in him?
30:47 Even so the things of God knoweth no man,
30:49 but the Spirit of God."
30:53 Interesting.
30:54 So now let's break this one down
30:57 because many people will say,
31:02 "Well, this is the energy or the spirit..."
31:07 An impersonal force. An impersonal force.
31:09 Yeah. But let's look at this.
31:11 When it says the spirit searches,
31:14 searches is an act of understanding.
31:16 Right. Absolutely. All right.
31:18 Then he goes down here and he says,
31:19 what man knows the things, except the spirit of the man.
31:22 Now this is self-consciousness
31:24 that resides in a man or a woman.
31:26 Sure.
31:27 But when you get down to the next sentence, says,
31:31 even so no one knows the things of God
31:33 except the Spirit of God.
31:34 This is a totally different construction in the Greek.
31:39 It is not a mere self-consciousness of God.
31:43 Right.
31:45 This is the personal,
31:46 Holy Spirit in relation to the Father.
31:50 And John 4:24, Jesus said,
31:53 "God is spirit."
31:55 That's right.
31:56 So when people say,
31:58 well, the spirit is just a power.
32:00 Well, wait a minute.
32:02 Does the spirit have a spirit?
32:04 You know, I mean...
32:05 If God is spirit...
32:07 Christ was spirit before He became...
32:09 when He was incarnated. That's right.
32:11 So here we see that we do have wisdom
32:16 and understanding in this act of searching.
32:19 So let's flip it over to 1 Corinthians 12.
32:23 Why don't you take that, Ryan?
32:24 Sure. 1 Corinthians 12.
32:27 And this is gonna be verse 11.
32:29 It says, "But one and the same Spirit
32:31 works all these things, distributing to each one
32:35 individually as He wills."
32:38 And so this is talking about
32:41 how the spirit
32:42 endows the very concept of a will,
32:44 that we have the leading guiding power
32:48 of the spirit
32:49 who works in all these things to give us
32:51 and distribute these individual wonderful spiritual gifts
32:54 that we receive as believing Christians.
32:58 And so it's interesting here that,
33:00 that Paul's language...
33:02 Of course it would be meaningless
33:03 if the spirit is only in an influencing energy.
33:06 There's a personality here.
33:08 There's a personhood to this that,
33:10 that there's a choice being made,
33:12 that I'm gonna give divine...
33:13 I'm prerogative, yeah.
33:15 A divine prerogative, a divine choice.
33:16 Yeah.
33:17 An agenda to say, "Okay, I'm gonna give this person
33:20 this specific gift because that's what
33:21 they're gonna do for the kingdom.
33:22 I'm gonna give this person a specific gift
33:24 because they're gonna bless the kingdom and amplify
33:27 and advance the kingdom in this way."
33:29 So there's an intelligence there.
33:31 And some non-personal force
33:34 or essence or power cannot do that.
33:38 There's a divine intelligence
33:39 and personhood behind this work.
33:41 Amen.
33:42 And we know, if we turn to Acts 13:2.
33:45 I'll let you take that one, Dakota.
33:47 That the Holy Spirit,
33:49 He not only distributed the gifts
33:52 according to His will,
33:54 but He chose church leaders
33:57 and He exercised His authority there.
34:00 Acts 13:2.
34:03 "As they ministered to the Lord,
34:05 and fasted, the Holy Ghost said,
34:07 Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work
34:10 whereunto I have called them."
34:13 The Holy Spirit said.
34:16 We've got... That's right.
34:17 I've got so many scriptures on that.
34:18 You know, somebody telling me, "Well, He doesn't speak."
34:22 And I said, really, I've got so many scriptures
34:25 that talks about the Holy Spirit speaking.
34:28 But He's exercising again, a divine prerogative.
34:31 Sure.
34:33 The Holy Spirit is acting as Christ agent,
34:36 as God's agent here.
34:38 He is ministering to the church,
34:42 choosing the leaders and where they will go.
34:45 So let's look at Acts 15:28.
34:49 Okay, Acts 15:28.
34:50 "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us,
34:54 to lay upon you no greater burden
34:56 than these necessary things."
34:59 And so we see that there again...
35:01 There's a divine intelligence, a personal intelligence
35:04 that is leading to make church decisions here.
35:07 So the spirit, that intelligent spirit,
35:10 a person who is leading these individuals,
35:12 working through the church
35:14 to make good spiritual decisions
35:16 for the church.
35:17 Amen. Absolutely.
35:19 And we see it again in Acts 16.
35:20 This is...
35:22 Why don't you take that one, Ryan?
35:24 I mean, Dakota, Acts 16:6-7.
35:27 We're seeing the Holy Spirit is...
35:30 He decides as He wills.
35:32 He distributes the gifts.
35:34 He chooses church leaders.
35:36 He's leading in church decisions.
35:39 But He also led in the direction
35:41 of the preaching of the gospel.
35:43 Acts 16:6.
35:45 Acts 16:6-7. Yes.
35:48 "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia
35:50 and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden
35:53 of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
35:57 after they were come to..."
35:58 How do you pronounce that?
36:00 Mysia. Mysia.
36:01 Mysia. Mysia?
36:02 Okay, Mysia or however you say that.
36:04 "They assayed to go into Bithynia,
36:08 but the Spirit rather suffered them not."
36:10 Right.
36:12 New King James Version says, "Spirit did not permit them."
36:15 So they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit.
36:18 There's a time and place for everything, right?
36:20 Right. Absolutely.
36:21 But here we see the spirit saying not now,
36:25 don't go, I'm not allowing you to go.
36:27 Right. Does that sound like a person?
36:30 Absolutely.
36:32 Only a person could give that
36:33 type of leadership and guidance.
36:35 Okay. Yeah.
36:36 Why don't you hit the idea of how the Holy Spirit
36:39 is endowed with emotion?
36:40 Well, we serve an emotional God.
36:42 Yes.
36:44 And while we know that, that can be a gift
36:47 and it is certainly a gift I think that God
36:49 has bestowed upon us
36:50 to be able to express the emotion.
36:53 We know that sometimes
36:55 the enemy will play upon our emotions.
36:57 And so we have to safeguard and had to be careful.
36:59 But I like to remind people that we serve a God of emotion.
37:01 Amen.
37:03 He created emotion. He wants...
37:04 We are emotional beings.
37:06 We were created in His image.
37:07 And so He is an emotional God.
37:09 The Father is an emotional being.
37:11 Jesus expressed His emotions many times in scriptures
37:14 as He was working with
37:17 and working among the people of God.
37:20 And here we find
37:22 that the Holy Spirit is no different.
37:23 We're gonna go to Romans 15:30.
37:26 Again, this is Romans 15:30.
37:29 And we see here that the spirit loves,
37:32 that the spirit shows emotions of love.
37:34 It says, "Now I beg you brethren
37:36 through the Lord Jesus Christ,
37:38 and," notice there's a distinction here,
37:40 "through the love of the spirit,
37:43 that you strive together with Me
37:44 in prayers to God for Me."
37:47 Love, while love identifies who God is.
37:50 Love can also...
37:52 We can have emotions of love.
37:53 And so we see that the Holy Spirit
37:55 here is also expressing an emotion of love.
37:58 And then what...
37:59 I mean, God is love,
38:01 so we expect that the Holy Spirit
38:03 to be the spirit of love.
38:05 But what about the emotions of...
38:08 Can we grieve the Father?
38:10 Oh, of course. Absolutely. Sure.
38:12 Ephesians 4:30 says that actually.
38:14 It says that...
38:16 Why don't you read that?
38:18 "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
38:20 whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption."
38:24 And we need to make...
38:25 We need to be careful that
38:27 we do not grieve the spirit of God
38:28 and continuing to rebel
38:30 against the will of God in our life.
38:31 We can do that.
38:33 We can actually bring much sorrow and agony,
38:35 even anguish to God.
38:36 So can a force be grieved?
38:39 An impersonal force. An impersonal force.
38:40 An impersonal force cannot be grieved.
38:43 Right. Only a person can be grieved.
38:45 Do you know?
38:46 And then in Greek it's actually cease grieving
38:49 the Holy Spirit.
38:51 By whom, and that is literal, that it's not by which,
38:55 by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
38:59 You know, and we've emphasized this,
39:01 the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,
39:03 while there are three distinct different persons,
39:05 they are one and the same in goal,
39:07 agenda, purpose and as we're seeing
39:09 their emotions in essence.
39:11 And so it's interesting...
39:12 In the life of Christ, do we see Christ being grieved?
39:17 You know, the Bible tell...
39:18 You know, within this,
39:19 I'll think of the story that perhaps
39:21 the shortest scripture in all the Bible.
39:22 As he was weeping over the fact that,
39:25 that He saw the pain and the hurt in Mary and Martha
39:27 when they lost Lazarus.
39:28 Yes.
39:29 I can imagine Christ weeping over Jerusalem
39:32 with emotion as he was saying, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
39:36 how long I have, you know,
39:37 wanted to gather you as a hen gathers her
39:40 hens under her wings or chicks under her wings,
39:42 but you were not willing.
39:43 We see, and we're actually told
39:45 in the Spirit of Prophecy,
39:47 that when He was rebuking the Pharisees,
39:48 He did it with tears in His eyes.
39:51 And so as Christ expresses emotion
39:53 and the Holy Spirit is to reveal
39:55 now the manifestation of Christ will and Christ...
40:00 Christ's very, very intelligence
40:02 and His moral character.
40:03 You could imagine that as a person,
40:05 the Holy Spirit can be grieved and show emotion.
40:08 Amen. Absolutely.
40:09 So the spirit loves? Absolutely.
40:13 The spirit can be grieved
40:14 and the lay person can be grieved.
40:16 The spirit can be insulted. Let me read Hebrews 10:29.
40:20 But this always, this one gets you.
40:24 Hebrews 10:29.
40:25 "Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
40:28 will he be thought worthy,
40:30 who has trampled the Son of God under foot,
40:33 counted the blood of the covenant,
40:36 by which he was sanctified a common thing
40:39 and insulted the spirit."
40:43 The capital S, Holy Spirit of grace.
40:48 So only a person
40:52 can be insulted.
40:54 Yeah.
40:56 You can't insult a wind or an air, or a fire or...
41:01 In all these things
41:02 you will find in Scripture by the way
41:03 that this Holy Spirit is compared to.
41:05 The Holy Spirit is compared to wind.
41:07 The Holy Spirit is compared to fire.
41:09 The Holy Spirit is compared to rain.
41:11 The Holy Spirit is compared to a dove.
41:14 And so all of these things are elements
41:17 that it's being compared to, but it's,
41:20 the Holy Spirit is not wind,
41:21 the Holy Spirit is not fire, it is not a dove.
41:24 It is not... These are describing...
41:26 It's a mode of operation. Absolutely.
41:28 Like Jesus, I am divine. Right.
41:30 I am the gate. I am the door. Yeah.
41:33 So it is just a mode of operation
41:38 and that is critical.
41:39 Absolutely.
41:40 So we can, you can offend a dove
41:43 and per se.
41:44 Can offend the wind or a fire or element like that.
41:47 But yet a person you can
41:49 and that's what we're emphasizing here.
41:50 Okay. All right.
41:52 Acts 5:3.
41:54 Dakota, you want to take that one?
41:56 Sure. Yeah.
41:57 Obviously this is a really big one.
42:00 The story of Ananias and Sapphira, yeah.
42:02 Acts 5:3, "But Peter said, Ananias,
42:05 why hath Satan filled thine heart
42:07 to lie to the Holy Ghost,
42:10 and to keep back part of the price of the land?
42:13 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own?
42:16 and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?
42:20 why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
42:23 thou hast not lied unto men," then He clarifies,
42:26 "but unto God."
42:27 And so the Holy Spirit is called God here.
42:30 We know it's part of the Godhead.
42:31 And when you lie to God,
42:34 you're ultimately lying to the Holy Spirit as well,
42:36 which, as we've clarified...
42:37 You lie to the Holy Spirit, you lie to God.
42:38 You cannot lie to an impersonal force.
42:40 Right. Amen.
42:41 Amen. Absolutely.
42:43 And then...
42:44 Can anyone
42:47 but God be blasphemed?
42:50 Well, we know that
42:52 according to Matthew Chapter 12,
42:55 God can be blasphemed.
42:57 But, of course, we know that,
42:58 that great scary occurrence
43:02 that can happen in one's life,
43:06 blaspheming the Holy Spirit is going far
43:09 and beyond something that Christ even said,
43:11 He couldn't forgive you for it.
43:12 And I just want to emphasize that,
43:15 that...
43:17 And I'm sure we're gonna read this again.
43:18 Mark 3:28.
43:20 Okay, yeah, let's read. Let's read it, Mark 3:28.
43:21 Yes. So Mark 3:28-30.
43:25 It says, "Assuredly, I say to you,
43:27 all sins will be forgiven the sons of men,
43:29 and whatever blasphemies they may utter.
43:33 But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
43:35 never has forgiveness,
43:37 but is subject to eternal condemnation.
43:40 But they said, he has an unclean spirit."
43:43 And so...
43:44 You know, again in Matthew
43:45 He also emphasizes the fact that you can, you can,
43:48 you know, blaspheme and speak badly
43:50 against the Son of Man, even himself Christ.
43:52 And this is what's amazing to me.
43:54 And again, it shows to me even more clear,
43:58 straightforward proof that the Holy Spirit
44:02 is a third distinct person from Christ
44:05 because He just states in that scripture.
44:07 You can say... You can say bad things to me.
44:11 You can put Me down as the Son of Man,
44:13 as the Son of God.
44:15 But if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit,
44:17 you've went far and beyond,
44:18 you've crossed that line of demarcation,
44:20 you've passed the point of no return.
44:23 And so it's interesting that if Christ,
44:25 if the Spirit of God,
44:27 the Holy Spirit is indeed Christ Himself,
44:31 then, that to me,
44:32 that would be confusion for Christ to say,
44:34 "Oh, you can say all these things about me.
44:36 And you know, you can lie to Me
44:38 and you can put Me down
44:39 but when you blaspheme the Holy Spirit,
44:42 I can't forgive you for that."
44:43 Well, then essentially you would be doing that to Him,
44:46 and that's confusion.
44:47 And so we know that he's, Christ is essentially saying,
44:50 you know, My power, the power of My spirit,
44:56 it's a time, you're living in a judgment time period.
44:58 Well, you cannot afford to reject the leading power
45:01 of the Holy Spirit.
45:03 And if you do, you can set yourself up
45:05 for blasphemy.
45:07 Completely rejecting the living,
45:09 leading guiding power of gospel.
45:10 And only God can be blasphemed. Absolutely.
45:12 You know, I think that part of the problem,
45:14 of course, you know, Jesus said,
45:15 I and the Father are one.
45:17 Paul says that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ,
45:21 the Spirit of the Father.
45:23 Sure. So this is where people forget.
45:27 They are three persons, one being,
45:31 one times one, times one.
45:34 They have the same attributes, they have the same purpose.
45:37 They're the same essence.
45:39 Now, hard time,
45:40 we're not gonna get to all of this.
45:42 But let me just...
45:43 Let me hit something real quickly.
45:45 The Holy Spirit is endowed with speech and mind
45:49 and you can look in Acts.
45:52 All throughout Acts it's talking about
45:54 what the Holy Spirit says.
45:56 The Holy Spirit speaks to Philip.
45:58 He's speaking.
46:00 And then he bears witness Jesus said.
46:03 He teaches us the truth.
46:06 But what I want to get to,
46:08 because this is the scripture
46:10 that people will sometimes use
46:13 is Romans 8:26.
46:16 Yes. Would you...
46:18 You've got the King James Version.
46:19 Let's start with you Dakota.
46:21 Read Romans 8:26 from the King James Version.
46:26 Romans 8:26.
46:29 One of the most, probably misunderstood text,
46:32 misapplied text for sure in all of the scripture.
46:35 All right.
46:36 It says, "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities,
46:40 for we know not what we should pray
46:42 for as we ought,
46:43 but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
46:47 with groanings which cannot be uttered."
46:49 The spirit itself.
46:52 Why does the Greek...
46:54 Why does Paul say the spirit itself,
46:57 if he is a person?
47:00 If the Holy Spirit is a person,
47:02 why would Paul say the spirit itself?
47:06 In the Greek the word for spirit is Pneuma.
47:10 It is neuter gender.
47:12 And that means it is not male, it is not female.
47:16 This is perfectly appropriate to say
47:18 the spirit itself as far as
47:21 following grammatical rules.
47:25 But it would be equally...
47:27 When Jesus said in John 4:24,
47:31 "God is spirit and you must worship Him
47:33 in spirit and truth."
47:35 It would be just equally as grammatically correct
47:39 to say God is spirit.
47:41 You must worship it in spirit and truth,
47:45 because it is neuter gender.
47:47 But the interesting thing, I believe,
47:50 Christ intercession to the Father proves
47:54 that He is a different entity from the Father
47:57 and the Holy Spirit's intercession
48:01 proves His distinct personhood.
48:04 And I just want to point out
48:06 that when Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit,
48:11 anytime Jesus spoke against the rule
48:15 of Greek grammar,
48:16 He always used
48:19 the emphatic personal pronoun,
48:22 He. Yeah.
48:23 I think we can look to our Lord and see that.
48:25 Absolutely. Absolutely.
48:27 And, you know, this is something that
48:29 a lot of people were all here,
48:31 I prefer New King James to King James
48:34 because I get tripped up under these and thou's,
48:37 it just throws me off.
48:39 But sometimes people say,
48:41 "Yeah, but look, they changed itself.
48:44 In the New King James it says, this Spirit Himself,
48:49 as all of the rest of the translations
48:53 refer to Him in a personal manner
48:55 because Christ always did.
48:57 But it's, I think that is...
49:01 I think we're on dangerous ground,
49:03 when we call the Holy Spirit it.
49:06 I agree.
49:08 You know, I believe that
49:09 we are...
49:12 grieving Him in the fact that
49:15 we are not recognizing Him as God.
49:18 Right. Absolutely.
49:19 What do you think?
49:21 Well, I think, absolutely,
49:22 I think it sets us up for exactly
49:24 what we were just talking about,
49:25 in the rejection of the Holy Spirit
49:26 and committing the one,
49:28 the one act or the one existence
49:31 or the state of which we reject the Holy Spirit
49:34 and commit blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
49:37 When we don't apply a personality,
49:40 a person to that
49:43 distinct individual of the Holy Spirit,
49:46 then we set ourselves up to apply more emphasis
49:49 to the Father and the Son.
49:51 And we reject the leading guiding power
49:54 of the Holy Spirit.
49:57 And I think that puts us in a direction
49:58 and sets us up for a dangerous,
50:00 fearful looking forward to judgment in rejecting
50:04 the very person that Christ said,
50:06 I'm sending to be a comfort to you.
50:08 I'm sending to lead and to guide you
50:10 and to teach you all things
50:12 and to remind you of all things.
50:13 And I just, I know
50:15 we have just a couple of minutes
50:16 before our break here,
50:18 but I just want to add here very quickly.
50:19 You know, I, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
50:22 inside the Seventh-day Adventist Church,
50:24 there are many different views on a lot of different subjects.
50:28 But there is a strong movement within the Adventist Church
50:31 of those who are Seventh-day Adventist Christians,
50:33 but they are anti-Trinitarians.
50:35 And on this particular point, I'm sure people,
50:37 they are gonna watch this program
50:39 and they're gonna just pick us apart
50:41 because of the interpretation that they get personally
50:44 from the particular text that they see one way
50:46 very different from us.
50:48 But I think it's important that we understand
50:50 as I was finding some of these that,
50:52 you know, they try to manipulate
50:53 the text as well as the Spirit of Prophecy
50:55 to say something that it doesn't.
50:57 But I just want to make this very clear.
51:00 Manuscripts Releases volume 14,
51:01 as well as Acts of the Apostles page 52,
51:04 powerful texts, you got to read this
51:05 because this is powerful.
51:07 She says here, this is Ellen White,
51:09 whom I believe had the gift of prophecy,
51:11 whom I believe was strongly influenced by the Holy Spirit.
51:13 She says, "It is not essential for you to know
51:16 and be able to define just what the Holy Spirit is."
51:20 Christ tells us that
51:21 the Holy Spirit is the comforter,
51:23 and the comforter is the Holy Ghost.
51:25 On this point, she goes on to say,
51:27 "Silence is golden."
51:28 And she's referring to the nature,
51:30 that you can't understand the Holy Spirit.
51:32 We can only understand in as much as
51:33 what the scripture reveals to us.
51:35 And we have to stick to that.
51:36 Yeah. Yeah.
51:38 And, you know, this is...
51:39 We're just out of time.
51:40 But the scripture shows us that
51:43 the Holy Spirit possesses
51:45 all the attributes particular to God.
51:48 I mean, He has, He's holy, obviously,
51:51 eminently holy as His name suggest.
51:53 He's eternal.
51:54 Hebrews 9:14 talks about the eternal spirit.
51:58 He's all knowing, Jesus said in John 14: 26,
52:02 that He will teach you all things.
52:04 He's omnipresent.
52:06 In Psalms He says,
52:08 "Where can I go to be away from your spirit?"
52:10 He's omnipotent.
52:12 He is the one who actually was the one,
52:15 who, if you will affected the incarnation of Jesus,
52:20 and miraculously formed the incarnate Christ.
52:23 So when we see this,
52:26 we see that the Holy Spirit is God.
52:31 And again, it is not God the Father,
52:34 God, the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
52:37 It is God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
52:41 One times, one times one equals one.
52:44 Amen.
52:45 Well, we've got to take a quick break,
52:46 but we're going to be back with a final thought.


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