The
Personality Of The Holy Spirit
The
Holy Spirit has a Personality, and I want to share Him with you.
Let’s
take for instance, what makes a man a person?
Is
it his physical body? I think not. I’m sure you have been to a funeral and have
seen a body lying in a casket. Are you looking at a person? No! You are looking
at a dead body. What makes a person is not the body. Instead, the person is
what comes out of the body. Emotions, will, intellect, feelings—these are just
a few of the characteristics that make you a person and give you a personality.
Beyond
salvation, beyond being baptized in water, beyond the infilling of The Spirit,
The "Third Person Of The Trinity" is waiting for you to meet Him
personally. He yearns for a lifelong relationship.
For
instance; if you had dialed my telephone number two years ago and we got
acquainted by phone and if we had continued our conversations but had never
met, what would you really know about me?
You
would know the sound of my voice as it comes through the phone. But, you
wouldn’t recognize me if you saw me on the street.
But
then, the day comes when we meet face to face. All of a sudden you reach out to
shake my hand. You see what I look like, the color of my hair and eyes, what
kind of clothes I wear. Perhaps we go out for a meal, and you learn whether I
like coffee or tea.
You
learn volumes about people when you meet them in person.
Who is The
Holy Spirit?
I
want you to know He is the most beautiful, most precious, loveliest Person on
the earth.
GOD’s
WORD is Spirit and Life. His WORD is Truth.
The
Holy Spirit is this Spirit and He is The Spirit Of Truth.
The
Bible was written by The Holy Spirit. He used men from all walks of life, but
every one of them was led by The Spirit.
The
Holy Spirit is REAL!
The
Holy Spirit is not only real, but He has a personality.
But
exactly Who is The Holy Spirit?
THE
HOLY SPIRIT is The Spirit Of GOD THE FATHER and The Spirit Of GOD THE SON.
He
is The POWER of The GodHead, The POWER of The Trinity.
Who is on
the earth presently?
GOD
The Holy Spirit. For GOD The Father came to do His work through The Son Who was
resurrected, and ascended into Heaven.
GOD
The Son is not on the earth. GOD The Father is not on the earth. They are both
in Heaven this very second.
When
GOD The Son departed, GOD The Holy Spirit came, and He is still here with GOD’s
people doing His work.
Think
about it. When GOD The Son left, He would not even take John and Peter with
Him. He said, “Little children, I shall be with you
a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, where I am
going, you cannot come…” (John 13:33).
Today,
The Holy Spirit is resident in the sons of GOD on the earth.
But
when GOD The Holy Spirit leaves this world, which will happen very soon, He’s
going to take the redeemed of The LORD with Him to meet The LORD in the air.
What is His
job?
The
task of The Spirit is to bring into fruition the perfect Will of The Father and
The perfect work of The Son.
To
understand the task of The Holy Spirit we need to understand the work of The
Father and The Son.
GOD
The Father is The One Who gives The Command, He has always been The One Who
says,
“Let there be…”
“Let Us make…”
On
the other hand, it is GOD The Son Who performs the Commands of The Father. When
GOD The Father said,
“Let there be light”
GOD
The Son came and performed it. Then, GOD The Holy Spirit brought the light.
Let
me illustrate it this way. If I asked you, “please turn on the light,” three
forces would be involved:
First,
I would be the one who gave the command.
Second,
you would be the one who walks to the switch and flip it. In other words, you
are the performer of the command.
But
finally, who brings on the light?
It
is not me, and neither is it you.
It
is the power—the electricity that produces light.
The
Holy Spirit is The POWER Of GOD. He is The POWER of The Father and of The Son.
He is The One Who brings into action the performance of The Son. Yet He is a
Person. He has emotions, which are expressed in a way unique among The Trinity.
You cannot be in touch with The Father and The Son without The Holy Spirit (Ephesians
2:18).
The
Holy Spirit says, “I am The One Who fellowships with you”.
The Grace of The Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the
Communion of The Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
2 Cor. 13:14 KJV
May the Grace of The Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and
the
Fellowship of The Holy Spirit be with you all.
NIV
The
Holy Spirit is The One Who communes, Who fellowships with me. He is present to
help me pray to The Father and to The Son.
The
Holy Spirit is The only Teacher of the Bible.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which The Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with
spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of The Spirit Of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
1 Cor 2:13-14 KJV
The
Words of The Holy Spirit expresses spiritual Truths in spiritual Words. They
are spiritually discerned. And these Words, He teaches us.
When
you make The Holy Spirit your Teacher, He makes The Word of Scripture come
alive to you in living colors.
When
you give Him full access to your life, your prayer life changes completely. You
become familiar with His Voice. You recognize it. You respond to it. And the
more you fellowship with Him, the deeper the relationship becomes.
The
Holy Spirit is gentle yet powerful.
He
stays close to those who love Him.
A
person who knows the Presence of The Holy Spirit will always glorify and
magnify Jesus. Every action of your life reflects what you fill your life with.
If you fill your life with newspapers, you will speak news. If you watch soap
operas, you will speak soap operas. But, if you are filled with The Spirit and
you absorb yourself in His Presence, you will seek Jesus and glorify no one but
Jesus.
If
God The Father and God The Son demonstrated their Love for The Holy Spirit, how
can we do less?
GOD
Loved Him so much that He chastised the children of Israel for their
disobedience:
But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit: therefore He was
turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.
Isa. 63:10 KJV