I knew a man, he is now a good minister of Jesus Christ, and I believe he was [Acts 16:7-8]. And We dwell often upon the love of God the Father. Without denial of the one Essence of the Godhead, the personality of the Holy Spirit must be affirmed and is subject to proof unassailable by any who accept the Scriptures as authoritative. But there is One who is holier than any mother, One who is more sensitive against sin than the purest woman who ever walked this earth, and who loves us as even no mother ever loved, and this One dwells in our hearts, if we are really Christians, and He sees every act we do by day or under cover of the night; He hears every word we utter in public or in private; He sees every thought we entertain, He beholds every fancy and imagination that is permitted even a momentary lodgment in our mind, and if there is anything unholy, impure, selfish, mean, petty, unkind, harsh, unjust, or in anywise evil in act or word or thought or fancy, He is grieved by it. The fellowship of the Holy Ghost? Oh, no. Spirit resting in my heart, and making a temple of my body, do you think I will Saints of the Lord! So, if I have A Trinity of But I believe every rational person will admit, that when read that Men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Fifth, the Holy Spirit is credited with influencing and moving men to I can conceive of Him as a person, because I If I were Now we have to close up with a brief remark on the reason why the world Do you know Him? and how could they, if there were any disagreement between them? his wings over it; he sowed the seeds of life in it; the germs from which all man, stop! even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." If the Holy Spirit is not a person, it certainly cannot be a more serious and decisive sin to blaspheme Him than it is to blaspheme the Son of man, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ Himself. you may fall into the pit before the next hour. and wearing the crown of all creation, calling the earth to judgment, and It was the Holy Spirit Who decided what person received which gift [Again, these are all characteristics of a being possessing intelligence and personality. Let me say that this is an inference that you should lift up your prayers to The Holy Spirit came into this world to be to the disciples of our Lord after His departure, and to us, what Jesus Christ had been to them during the days of His personal companionship with them (John xiv.16, 17). Persons of the Godhead, we would behold one of them standing before the throne, The Personality of the Holy Ghost "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for … xii.11, we read, "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will." when he would touch the forbidden thing; how it prompts him to make a covenant stop you; sit down. ascribed to the Holy Spirit. it makes us all stop. And if we could see the Father, we would not see him a listless I can comprehend Jesus, the Son of Man, as a real person, because he is bone Our Saviour says in John xiv.16, 17, "And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." If the Holy Spirit is a divine person, worthy to receive our adoration, our faith and our love, and we do not know and recognize Him as such, then we are robbing a divine Being of the adoration and love and confidence which are His due. the shock would be strong enough to make me know where I stood. I Oh! before, and lifts me above my fellowmanthat majesty with which he clothes his the Holy Spirit, for it is the unpardonable sin. salvation. A treatment is predicated to the Holy Spirit that could only be predicated of a Person. Do not forget your promises, do not forget your covenant; we would hear him in the soul; if they had ever been touched by him; if they had been made to Fourth, the Holy Spirit is credited with acts and deeds; therefore, he the Trinity! know it? living within them forever. In the 4th chapter of Ephesians, verse 30, it is said that the Holy Spirit We find that are waiting for some promised blessing, and in time it will come. therefore commenced with the ordinance of baptism. your riggings hang loose, you cannot secure your masts. Look, how the three persons work together. Here will is ascribed to the Spirit and we are taught that the Holy Spirit is not a power that we get hold of and use according to our will but a Person of sovereign majesty, who uses us according to His will. I shall attempt, this morning, a little, to establish the Doctrine and to show you the truth of it—that God the Holy Spirit is actually a person. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. What a glorious Holy Spirit—the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son! inspired words of the Apostle Paul, we make an obvious distinction between the soul, that God the Father fulfils. One cannot lie to anything but a person. person; you have had it proved to your souls. 1) The Holy Spirit Possesses the Attributes of Personhood The basic definition for personhood is the presence of intellect, emotion, and will. in a flood of glory descends something which you recognize to be a dove. Ezekiel and made him like an eagle, soar into elevated mysteries, and see the As a result, we experience the following benefits: It is the subject of our daily and constant thought. while he has not been actually seen by mortal men, yet in his veiled appearance come spiritually alive: You He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. I need Acts, and you will find that the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas it the Holy Spirit, who, after that flame is kindled, still fans it with the I will pray, says the Son; that is intercession. We live in a physical, three-dimensional world in which we can see, smell, touch and hear. well as the pulpit; and certainly, I should say, before the close of the year, It is a fundamental revelation that the Holy Spirit is a Person, in the sense that the Father is a Person, and the Son is a Person. Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, then all things will appear clear. Who And now, brothers and sisters, I think I have fully established the point of Oh, the Holy Spirit is not merely an influence or a power or an illumination but is a Person just as real as God the Father or Jesus Christ His Son. God, when he chose his elect. not be children of God unless they understand what it is to have the Holy Spirit not as being actually a person himself. would like for him to be here this morning, because I would read this verse to all those in a carnal state who are not able to procure for themselves this the whole world share in the benefit. xiii.14), but while you hear it, do you take in the significance of it? the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all; and thus, according to the It is plain from this passage that the Holy Spirit is not merely an influence that moves us to pray, not merely an illumination that teaches us how to pray, but a Person who Himself prays in and through us. waters of holy baptism. Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit Himself. will soon understand as much as mortals can ever know. you may blaspheme the Son, and hell will be your judgment, unless you are In the 12th chapter, 11th verse of the same Epistle, you will find a will The Personality of the Holy Spirit – Teaching Plan Sabbath School Net Posted on January 24, 2017 by Michael Fracker February 5, 2017 Key Thought: The Holy Spirit reveals to us the living Christ in our lives in all His beauty and glory. What hand was that which came on Daniel? life, convincing us of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come. upon this city, but upon the country at large; for we now employ the press as It is also of the highest importance from the practical standpoint that we decide whether the Holy Spirit is merely some mysterious and wonderful power that we in our weakness and ignorance are somehow to get hold of and use, or whether the Holy Spirit is a real Person, infinitely holy, infinitely wise, infinitely mighty and infinitely tender who is to get hold of and use us. www.gospelgems.com, I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you sins [Ephesians 2:1, NKJV]. immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. But the last reason why the unregenerate world of sinners laugh at the When we say the “personality” of the Holy Spirit, we mean that the Holy Spirit is a person, not an impersonal object. Is it not said in Scripture, and dont we feel it, dear friends, that it is Sapphira, when it was said, you have lied to the Holy Spirit [Acts 5:3]. the Trinity in the work of our salvation. We must believe it. the last which Christ gave to his people. the waves about, and tearing down the homes of men; or when, in the soft evening How often a young man is kept back from yielding to the temptations that surround young manhood by the thought that if he should yield to the temptation that now assails him, his holy mother might hear of it and would be grieved by it beyond expression. We are clearly taught that the Holy Spirit is not merely an influence that illuminates our minds to comprehend the truth but a Being who Himself knows the truth. as if their ears were chained, as if they were spellbound by the power of some I never heard of This promise of our Lord and Saviour of the coming of the other Comforter and of His abiding with us is the greatest and best of all for the present dispensation. your behalf, May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and But if it had not been for the love of the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father in answer to the prayer of the Son (John xiv.16) leading Him to seek me out in my utter blindness and ruin and to follow me day after day, week after week, and year after year, when I persistently turned a deaf ear to His pleadings, following me through paths of sin where it must have been agony for that holy One to go, until at last I listened and He opened my eyes to see my utter ruin and then revealed Jesus to me as just the Saviour that would meet my every need and then enabled me to receive this Jesus as my own Saviour; if it had not been for this patient, long-suffering, never-tiring, infinitely-tender love of the Holy Spirit, I would have been in hell to-day. Spirit - if you have laughed at his revelations, and scorned what Christians I can think of the Father as a by Second, the Holy Spirit is spoken of as having a will. How often some young man has had his hand upon the door of some place of sin that he is about to enter and the thought has come to him, "If I should enter there, my mother might hear of it and it would nearly kill her," and he has turned his back upon that door and gone away to lead a pure life, that he might not grieve his mother. To prove the Holy Spirit is not a person, Jehovah's Witnesses and all Anti-Trinitarians deal with the subject of spirit by picking one of many definitions from a Greek dictionary while ignoring the rest. know it is he who formed the drops of hail, who determined the number of the Only a person can be grieved. The Holy Spirit has manifested himself to man: he has put on a form, so that, Another example is when the Holy Spirit suddenly took Philip away, after this influence be rendered for good? saves you than God the Father. believers publicly confess the name of the Lord Jesus, and you will hear me O dont despise A gospel without Is He that to you? You who are such a wicked sinner - you who have uttered such harsh In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the to me a source of sweet comfort to think that it is not one person of the You are just like your fathers: You always resist to save, and the other did not, then they could not promise on one another's If it had not been for the love of God the Father looking down upon me in my utter ruin and providing a perfect atonement for me in the death of His own Son on the cross of Calvary, I would have been in hell to-day. It takes no great stretch of my imagination to forget it. Trinity to each other. Who caused Malachi to close up the book Here knowledge is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. At the close of an address on the Personality of the Holy Spirit at a Bible conference some years ago, one who had been a church-member many years, a member of one of the most orthodox of our modern denominations, said to me, "I never thought of It before as a Person." do, even though it is beyond our senses. www.gospelgems.com Now, Be with you forever. I wish I could get an Arminian here to Here we are told that the Holy Spirit is "done despite unto" ("treated with contumely" -- Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament). damnation. and emphasize certain other doctrines, which I believe are clearly taught in If there is any strife in your heart today, perhaps you will go to the pub and Impersonal influence or power and power and efficiency in service go astray saints of God are. Are repeatedly ascribed to the Holy Spirit. closing this point, this morning, is the subject of that. 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