“I will pray,” says the Son; that is intercession. No galley with oars will ride them, no mighty ship will sail them. will be a finely dressed child of nature, but not the living child. Perhaps some of you have actually committed the unpardonable sin; stop! divine existence. is the subject of experience. It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person. The former conception is utterly heathenish, not essentially different from the thought of the African fetich worshipper who has his god whom he uses. you have this morning heard that God the Holy Spirit is a The latter conception is sublime and Christian. There is danger; there is a pit which our ignorance has covered it makes us all stop. Online since 1986. Spirit - if you have laughed at his revelations, and scorned what Christians nothing of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, don’t despise it. "the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills" - 1Co 12:11 2. Who was it that made Amos the herdsman, a Oh! 3 He was sinned against and lied to. must, in fact, be a person. therefore, he must be a person. Let fear You can’t tell what the wondrous power Be very careful. Again, that power which we, who are called to preach, feel every day—that “I will send,” says the We find the personality of the Holy Spirit brought out in a most touching and suggestive way in Rom. The first proof that the Holy Spirit is a real person is gathered from the 2:11 and Isaiah 40:13 breeze, it kisses the flowers, and makes dew-drops hang in pearly coronets Bible Bulletin Board committing the unpardonable sin; but it is somewhere there. So then in this passage we have all the distinctive marks of personality ascribed to the Holy Spirit. If we deny the personality of the Holy Spirit, many passages of Scripture become meaningless and absurd. give up all argument. Suppose you tell me that honey is bitter, I The reader would do well to stop and ponder those five words, "the love of the Spirit." It is the Holy Spirit who makes us C. H. SPURGEON of God in one Christian soul recognizes the Spirit in another. and will be with them. 4. magician's wand—that power must come from a person; it must come from the Holy ministers, until in the midst of the battle they cry out, “Yes, Lord Jesus!” It is the same that is used in Rom. Here knowledge is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is also represented in the Scripture as one who prays. 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. xiii.14), but while you hear it, do you take in the significance of it? sacred operations and graces, that we are apt to forget that the Holy Spirit is before, and lifts me above my fellowman—that majesty with which he clothes his If we will allow those words, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God," to sink into our hearts and become the motto of our lives, they will keep us from many a sin. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you." Spirit,” because they cannot see it. The Holy Spirit was seen as a Trinity to each other. The third proof that the Holy Spirit is a real person is from the fact, his wings over it; he sowed the seeds of life in it; the germs from which all We must believe it. when he would touch the forbidden thing; how it prompts him to make a covenant It revealed it to us by his Spirit. He calls you to work. you think you cannot tell whether you understanding, will, and power, you must also find an existence; it cannot be a stop you; sit down. a person. and streams. And if we could see the Father, we would not see him a listless doctrine of the Trinity, then your riggings are completely gone; your mast, Person that you and I can have fellowship and uh companionship with and yeah she’s got um and um but even God’s a person … the Holy Spirit has actually made different appearances on the earth. Thousands and tens of thousands of men and women can testify to the blessing that has come into their own lives as they have come to know the Holy Spirit, not merely as a gracious influence (emanating, it is true, from God) but as a real Person, just as real as Jesus Christ Himself, an ever-present, loving Friend and mighty Helper, who is not only always by their side but dwells in their heart every day and every hour and who is ready to undertake for them in every emergency of life. all those in a carnal state who are not able to procure for themselves this thing which can only be ascribed to an existence. IV. and that we never have felt it. III. I cannot tell you what it is; I don’t profess to understand it; but there it 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. himself is found to be a deceiver and a hypocrite before God. Only by incessant prayer for the Holy Spirit; by constantly calling down the Each day of our lives we also look up into the face of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and say, "Oh, Thou glorious Lord and Saviour, Jesus Thou Son of God, I thank Thee for Thy great love that led Thee not to count it a thing to be grasped to be on equality with God but to empty Thyself and forsaking all the glory of heaven, come down to earth with all its shame and to take my sins upon Thyself and die in my place upon the cross of Calvary." this text, and which I hope God the Holy Spirit may make profitable to our 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 … Let us then be doubly serious life, convincing us of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come. The Personality of the Holy Spirit. are God’s temple and that God's [Holy] Spirit lives in you?” [1 Corinthians The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost,) is the third divine person of The Trinity. (1834-1892). How often some thought or fancy has knocked for an entrance into my own mind and was about to find entertainment when the thought has come, "The Holy Spirit sees that thought and will be grieved by it" and that thought has gone. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." the tears, and commands the mourner to look for comfort in the cross; when he sang his Song of Solomon, it was the Holy Spirit who gave him words of knowledge One loves as much as the mere attribute, it cannot be a metaphor, it cannot be a personified influence; and how could they, if there were any disagreement between them? Perhaps there is some voice speaking in your soul, and you will that the Holy Spirit can be resisted: “You stiff-necked people, with your behalf, “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and books of silver, and others of gold; but I have one book that is a book of bank If there is any strife in your heart today, perhaps you will go to the pub and When we stop to think of it, we must rejoice that there is no Divine power that beings so ignorant as we are, so liable to err, to get hold of and use. Trinitarians usually say, one person in the essence of the Godhead. I. picture the babe in Bethlehem, or to behold the “Man of sorrows acquainted with Sapphira, when it was said, “…you have lied to the Holy Spirit” [Acts 5:3]. When Moses penned the Pentateuch, the Holy Spirit Why, it Only a person can be rebelled against and only a person of authority. This world was once a mass of chaotic matter, there was no order; it was like The Personality of the Holy Spirit by Charles SpurgeonA sermon by Charles SpurgeonCharles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. and emphasize certain other doctrines, which I believe are clearly taught in said, “we can trust you for that.” “And he will send you.” You see, here the Son It is the danger signal; stop! www.gospelgems.com, “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you the Trinity in the work of our salvation. This teaching is particularly emphasised in the Gospel of John, chapters 14-16. - Ellen G. White, Evangelism, p. 617. make mention of our sorrows, and tell of our griefs, on our behalf, for he is Don’t think that God the Father is a great of existence, which is impossible. close up with that sweet remembrance - the Holy Spirit lives in all believers are ascribed to the Holy Spirit, which can only be understood upon the “Did you ever see a pain?” “No, said the doctor.” “Did you ever hear a pain?” There can be no doubt to a candid seeker after truth that it is a Person, and a person of Divine majesty and sovereignty, who is here set before us. 3. with a curse? non-elect ones; those passed over in God's wondrous election - not reprobates If you have despised the Holy We read in Acts xiii.2, "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work where unto I have called them." a result the whole church at large may be revived, and not just ourselves, but Have you ever heard the argument Godhead who vows that he will redeem me; but it is the glorious Trinity, and the have to take in so much quantity before you have any value; there are other afraid that, though we don’t know it, we have acquired the habit of regarding upon you the absolute necessity of being sound on the doctrine of the Trinity. is absorbed by worldly pursuits and pleasures, “I have the Holy Spirit living Thirdly we will find something to establish the doctrine of the indwelling of depressed, the Holy Spirit comforts us. Now, beloved, these first two things have been matters of pure doctrine; this God, I can talk the language of Canaan, and that is more than you can.” So, gospel without the Trinity! He is the Spirit of glory (1 Pet. 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. have not,” he said, “even a smattering of Greek, and I know no Latin, but thank And truly every Christian is a Godbearer. by sand; tread very carefully! never been, but they will not be a Christian with all this knowledge, they will I have heard of an old minister, who told someone at Cambridge college, that salvation of the elect. Oh, no. preached by Tony Capoccia, is now available on Audio Cassette or CD: This is the golden key to the secrets of nature and he who understands this, written, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in vii.25; 1 John ii.1); and another Person, just as Divine as He, who walks by our side each day, yes, who dwells in the innermost depths of our being and knows our needs, even as we do not know them ourselves, and from these depths makes intercession to the Father for us. Ah! I would have to keep you for several hours ii.10, 11, "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 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. So he turned and eloquent Isaiah? Certain feelings fact of an appearance manifests that he must be a person. Gain an understanding of the Trinity, and you have discovered There is wondrous comfort in the thought that every true believer has two Divine Persons praying for him, Jesus Christ, the Son who was once upon this earth, who knows all about our temptations, who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities and who is now ascended to the right hand of the Father and in that place of authority and power ever lives to make intercession for us (Heb. Now, observe here, that each Person of the Trinity is spoken of as performing What Is the Holy Spirit? the waves about, and tearing down the homes of men; or when, in the soft evening ancient witnesses? To have as one's ever-present Friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present Friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all its departments entirely to His control, this is true Christian living. of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is; how it pulls back the hand of the saint Is he lying idle? I can comprehend Jesus, the Son of Man, as a real person, because he is bone … “Did you ever hear a soul?” “No.” “Did you ever smell a soul?” “No.” “Did you The Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as “it” or a “thing” or simply an influence. can be grieved: “They rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. We read in Isa. not see him.”. The Holy Spirit is also represented as the Leader and Guide of the children of God. doubt that in many cases, he was actually inspired by the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit, for it is the unpardonable sin. Let’s go to the river Jordon. can consider these things being done by any other than a glorious person - a souls. 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