Introduction - The Personality of the Spirit

But on Wednesday nights we began doctrinal studies Five years ago and the first study we did was the doctrine of the Bible what the Bible teaches about the Bible and then we took a three-year detour into the life of Christ and studied the gospels Didn't intend for that to go that long and tended a brief survey once we got into it This felt like we needed to camp there while so we we spent three years studying the life of Christ Then we got back to these doctrinal studies. We've studied the doctrine of God what the Bible teaches about God the doctrine of Christ what the Bible teaches about Christ and With this study that we begin tonight we want to finish the Trinity and we'll Do that by studying what the Bible teaches about the Holy Spirit now? I want to introduce this study tonight by stressing the importance of our study I Think every Christian that is serious about Pleasing God once of course to know what it means to have spiritual power wants to know what it means to develop Christ likeness and so Although Christians will differ Bible teachers will differ on the exact Ways in which that is accomplished all would agree that in some way that is a ministry of the Holy Spirit Regardless of how we may disagree on what the Holy Spirit does and how he Accomplishes spiritual power in our lives and Christ's likeness and so forth I think most everyone would recognize that this is a ministry of the Spirit of God So there's hardly any subject of greater importance to the Christian than the ministry of the Spirit of God and It's impossible to understand his ministry without Understand without understanding first of all his person who he is and so we're going to look at both in this study will spend most of our time on The ministry of the Spirit, but we're also going to talk a lot about the person of the Spirit and that's where we'll begin Who he is and then we'll talk about what he does? So with that introduction let me outline our study give you the outline of our study Which you have on your notes tonight? Let me just kind of walk you through that give you an idea of what we're going to be studying in this particular series of Studies on the Holy Spirit We'll begin by talking about the Spirit's personality and I think we'll get into that tonight Don't know if we'll finish that but we'll get into it at least and by personality We've done that also with God the Father and God the Son. I'm not talking about What kind of personality he has whether he's outgoing or reserved with that kind of thing? That's not the idea Really maybe a better term would be personhood the fact that the Holy Spirit is a person and not just an influence or a force or Power of God. He is a separate person in the Trinity So we'll we'll begin by talking about the Spirit's personality and then we'll move to the Spirit's deity The fact that the Holy Spirit is God just as much as the Father is God just as much as the Son is God the Holy Spirit is also God We'll talk about that and see how that is Showed us in the word of God Then we'll jump into the various various ministries of the Spirit first of all his ministry in creation The the Holy Spirit was very active in creation just as the Father and the Son were The Holy Spirit is given some specific References and responsibilities in the Bible will talk about those and then we'll talk about his ministry in relation to Scripture All Scripture is inspired of God breathed out by God and it's clear that it is the Holy Spirit that guided and led the writers of Scripture We'll talk about how he did that and then we'll begin with his Get into the the Spirit's ministry to unbelievers couple of ministries that are important understand there first of all his conviction In fact the Holy Spirit convicts people of sin and that's an imperative before anyone comes to Christ that Spirit's work of of conviction and then secondly his ministry of regeneration Which means that he actually imparts new life Regeneration means to be born again and we'll talk about the spirit role in that in in the life of an unsaved person and then we'll turn to the Spirit's ministry to believers and There are a number of those primarily for that we'll talk about the ceiling of the Spirit the indwelling of the Spirit the baptism of the Spirit and the filling of the Spirit now those last two are often confused a Lot of false teaching about especially the baptism of the Spirit and we're gonna just look at what the Scriptures actually say and and how it's described and so forth and see if we can come to a better understanding of those four ministries of the Spirit to believers and especially the distinctions the difference between ceiling indwelling baptism and filling Then we will look at some other ministries of the Spirit and and these will just briefly touch on They're important, but they don't have as much material in the Scriptures as as some of the others for instance the leading of the Spirit the Teaching of the Spirit the anointing of the Spirit the assuring of the Spirit and the praying of the Spirit those Five ministries are given much less attention although they're important There's not a lot of Scripture on those for instance the anointing of the Scripture or the anointing of the Spirit and New Testament It only has two verses and they're both in first John so we'll take a look at what that means that's another Seriously misunderstood ministry of the Spirit a lot of people think the anointing of the Spirit has to do with his power on us It really doesn't it doesn't have anything to do with that It's a totally different ministry and so we'll try to sort all that out and see what the Scriptures Teach about that there's one other ministry of the Spirit that I am not yet sure we will tackle in this series and that is the Gifts of the Spirit because that is a huge topic That that we could do a whole study on I Taught a semester linked class at ABC on the gifts of the Spirit and and and spiritual gifts and so that's a whole different topic I'm not sure we'll try to tackle that because once you get into that it's hard to summarize it It's hard to just touch on it. You really need to get into it deeply to make it clear So we may or may not do that. We may save that for another study Then when we finish his ministry to believers we'll touch on some miscellaneous topics that are related to the Spirit Which people often ask about for instance his work in the Old Testament? His work is ministry in the Old Testament is different from the New Testament, but how? Maybe not in all the ways that you've typically thought So we'll we'll try to sort that out as well. How was his ministry in the Old Testament different from the New? And then we'll talk about the sin against the Holy Spirit what Jesus called the blasphemy against the Spirit The unpardonable sin we'll talk about what that is in Matthew 12 and see exactly what the Bible says about that and Then lastly his future ministry For instance what what his ministry will be in the in prophetic themes? What what will his ministry be in the tribulation time? What will his ministry be at other times in the future? Millennium and so forth Okay, so that that's kind of the the road map for this particular study Let me pause and see if you have any question about where we're headed before we jump in the car and start down the road Any question Okay All right, let's begin then with the personality of the spirit and I want to emphasize first of all the importance of this truth And again, we're talking about the personhood of the spirit that he is actually a person this truth is of fundamental importance to deny the personhood of the spirit is Is to deny the Trinity it's to move the spirit to a different level than the father and the son and that's often done Maybe not even with clear recognition But sometimes people do not see the Holy Spirit as a genuine person He is thought of more as a force or the power of God And we we have to see we must see that That we're gonna be studying one and considering one and hoping to get to know one better Who is just as much a person as the father is and the son is So he is one we can enjoy fellowship with he is one we can listen to we can love we can obey We can relate to as a person not just an influence or a power He is a person Okay, so that's what we're gonna seek to establish in this particular Study tonight and maybe if we don't get through tonight will finish it up next week Okay, any question then about the personality of the spirit as far as just the importance of that what we're what we're talking about here what Yeah, well the Trinity is just and it's you're right. It's not in the Bible, but neither is the word Bible So, you know, it's not that doesn't mean it's any less true or any less a real representation of what the Bible teaches The word Trinity is basically just a word that that theologians came up with to describe the fact that That God is one, but he manifests himself in three separate persons You know the father son and Holy Spirit the three are called the Trinity I think when we studied the Trinity we talked about really the the The more accurate term would be the tri unity of God to combine the two both unity and Trinity I can't remember where the word originated. I know it's it has a long history, but I don't know exactly who the first person was that That used that term would be interesting to study that out. Yeah Okay, good question any others Okay, we're gonna Seek to show the personhood or personality of the spirit in three different ways from the Scriptures first of all We know that the Holy Spirit of the person because he possesses the attributes of a person He has the qualities or the characteristics of a person now When we studied the person of God in particular person of the father we spent a good bit of time on this We're not gonna do that tonight. We're just gonna focus on three summary aspects of personhood Intellective motion and will so let's look at the fact first of all that the Holy Spirit has intellect He has a mind He thinks and that is an indication of of personhood look with me at Romans chapter 8 Romans chapter 8 we'll look at these verses fairly Quickly and just show how they refer to these different topics that we're studying Romans chapter 8 verse 27 And he who searches our hearts, but let's read verse 26 because two go together In the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness We do not know what we ought to pray for but the spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans and He who searches our hearts that would be the father he who searches our hearts knows The mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God So the Holy Spirit has a mind and the father knows the mind of the spirit now Let's flip that over in the next passage in first Corinthians 2 We find that the Holy Spirit knows the mind of the father 2 And again, you would expect that if you understand the inner workings of the Trinity it I mean at least as much as we can understand that What the Bible teaches they are equal and so each would know the mind of the other fully first Corinthians 2 verse 10 These are the things God has revealed to us by his spirit the spirit searches all things Even the deep things of God for who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them in the same way No one knows the thoughts of God except the spirit of God So the spirit of God knows the mind of the father the Holy Spirit knows the mind He knows everything that is in the mind of the father the mind the father knows everything in the mind of the Holy Spirit They share the same nature and so they share the same information. They both know all things they both are omniscient as we will see when we look at the deity of the Holy Spirit So the Holy Spirit knows all the truth that the father knows and He reveals it to others and I just want to pause long enough to say this in first Corinthians 2 And we taught this when we were going through the doctrine of the Bible I believe first Corinthians 2 is talking about the Holy Spirit revealing truth to the apostles who then recorded it We don't have the time to go through verse by verse, but if you go through that very carefully That's what you'll see Paul begins to talk about we he's been talking about you and and I all through the book First Corinthians up to this point and then he starts talking about we do this and we and he's talking about the the apostles who wrote the scripture and God has revealed these things that no eye has seen no ears heard no human mind is conceived the things that God has prepared for those 11 these are the things he says in verse 10 God has revealed to us the apostles by the spirit so The Holy Spirit takes the very mind of God knows every thought of God reveals what God wants recorded in his word to those who wrote it and they wrote it under the direction of the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit has a mind God the father knows perfectly his mind and the Holy Spirit knows perfectly God's mind as well You know if someone is going to teach something You have to know the subject before you can communicate it to others Obviously there many of us teachers who try very hard to disprove that but if you're going to be a teacher you've got to know your subject before you communicate it The Holy Spirit knows Everything that God the father knows and so when he reveals The writers of scripture what they wrote down He's accurate he knows the subject matter before he teaches it reveals it to others So it's clear in the Bible he has mind he has intellect one of the the qualities of personhood Any question about that particular characteristic? You don't know a subject until you can teach it. That's a good comment Yeah Certainly when you prepare to communicate something you end up learning it much better than if you just read it or hear it if you have to digest it in order to be able to communicate it that You learn it better for sure good point Okay All right, not only does the Holy Spirit have intellect he also has emotion Look at Ephesians chapter four and verse 30 You've heard this verse I'm sure many many times But maybe you didn't think of it in terms of what it says about the Holy Spirit You know what it says about us and sin but maybe you've never thought about what it says about the Holy Spirit Verse 30 says and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed For the day of redemption obviously we'll come back to this verse when we talk about the ceiling of the Spirit too But notice the first part of the verse says do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God the Holy Spirit has feelings You can make him sad you can grieve him you can Bring sorrow to his heart Okay, so just as the father is grieved and the son was grieved in his ministries We know the Holy Spirit can be grieved as well and And the only way he can be grieved only reason he can be grieved is Because he has feelings of love for us and those feelings of love for us are described in James chapter four And verse five the other verse we have there on your outline Where do you think scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the Spirit? He has caused to dwell in us now the last part of that verse is a bit I Won't say unclear in the Greek it can be it can be translated several different ways depending on the word order and so forth and many translations translated the last part of the verse That the Spirit he calls to dwell in us Longs jealously and I think that's probably the best way to look at it So it is the Holy Spirit that he has caused to dwell in us that longs jealously That actually I think the King James uses the word covets or In these one of those two words the idea is that the Holy Spirit has such a Passionate love for us that he desires our obedience he desires that we Be controlled by him and when our legions go elsewhere He's grieved by that that troubles him that saddens him because of that intense love that Desires what is best for us God's best for us. So Holy Spirit has emotion Okay, any comment question there All right, the Holy Spirit thirdly has this third characteristic of a person and that is that he has a will First Corinthians chapter two and Verse 11 is one of those passages that Excuse me first Corinthians 12 and Verse 11 is one of the passages on the spiritual gifts and After describing some of the gifts He says in verse 11 all these are the work of one and the same spirit and he distributes them to each one Just as he determines just as he wills just as he decides So the the Holy Spirit decides what spiritual gift you're given and the whole passage Reinforces that even back in verse four there are different kinds of gifts, but the same spirit distributes them Different kinds of service, but the same Lord different kinds of working, but in all of them and everyone it is the same God at work Now to each one the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good so it's the Holy Spirit who determines what spiritual gifts or gift you're given and That's according to his pleasure his will just as he Determine so he has a will he can make decisions and that will Is seen in the example of the leading of the Apostle Paul in Acts chapter 16 Acts 16 verses 6 through 11 and This particular incident is probably the major reason why we are in this room tonight Acts 16 verse 6 Paul his command companions traveled throughout the region of fregea and Galatia having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia if you go to one of your maps in the back of your Bible you'll find on this missionary journey Paul was going through What present is present they turkey Asia Minor in that day and he was wanting to turn east and Go to the east and the Holy Spirit would not let him do that and And how did that happen? Well look at look at number seven when they came to the border of my see Are they in tried to enter Bethinia? He went a little further north and tried to go east again Into Bethinia, but the spirit of Jesus would not allow them to So they passed by my see and went down to Troas which is on the coast and and they're just kind of hanging out there Figuring out what the Holy Spirit wants them to do verse 9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia Standing and begging him come over to Macedonia and help us after Paul had seen the vision We got ready at once to lead from Macedonia concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them Rather than turning east and how far east would he have gone? We don't know he went west And he went into Greece Macedonia is a northern part of Greece from there He would go to southern Greece and then later to Rome and the gospel would spread west and eventually would come Across the Atlantic to us if Paul had not been led by the spirit in that way you and I might be Worshiping false gods we might be pagans. We may have never gotten the gospel so That's an amazing thing and that's not to Suggest that we're any better than anyone else in the world. We deserve it. They don't it's obvious God's plans for the whole world to hear But it's just that God directed Paul Westward and that was direction was given by the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit led him determined decided which way Paul would go So the Holy Spirit has will he makes decisions he does what he pleases So he has intellect emotion and will those three primary characteristics of Person who would indicate that he is a person. He's not just a force and influence the power of God God's spirit is not just something that emanates from God and is his power the Holy Spirit is a separate person From God the Father Okay Any question about those three Attributes of a person or qualities of a person All right, let's take a look at the next way to prove that the Holy Spirit is a person He performs the actions of a person Now rather than turn to all these passages I'm gonna put them on the screen for you. I'm not gonna do it Tim's gonna do it I've given that so she's put it in PowerPoint now it's in Tim's hands But we're just gonna look at these quickly because If take too long to try to turn to them all and we're just gonna mention them briefly These are all actions that indicate that he is a Person not just some kind of influence. First of all he teaches John 1426 but the advocate the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and Will remind you of everything I have said to you again speaking to the disciples in the upper room the apostles I think again reminding them what he will do in Revealing truth to them so that they can write it in the scripture so the Holy Spirit teaches secondly He testifies John 1526 When the advocate comes whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father He will testify about me. So he he testifies he talks about gives witness to Christ So that's an action of an actual person thirdly he guides Romans 814 for those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God So the Spirit of God leads he guides another action of a person fourthly he convinces or Convicts you might say John 16 verses 7 and 8 very truly I tell you it is for your good that I'm going away Unless I go away Jesus is speaking here unless I go away the advocate will not come to you But if I go I will send him to you when he comes he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment Prove the world to be in the wrong the idea is Convinceing giving a convincing argument Conviction that that people are in sin Fifthly he restrains Genesis 6.3 then the Lord said my spirit will not contend Or the Hebrew word can also mean restrain hold back With humans forever for they are mortal their days will be 120 years This is God speaking to Noah When the earth had become so corrupt that he had determined to judge it with the flood and he says my spirit will not contend with Restrain work with people For an unlimited period of time I'm gonna give him 120 years and that was the ministry of Moses in preaching Noah in preaching to Those who were living before the flood So he restrains or contends with six. They he commands Acts 829 the spirit told Philip go to that chariot and stay near it Remember the story of Philip and the Ethiopian government official The Holy Spirit gave directions gave command. Okay. This is what you're supposed to do An action of a person Number seven he performs miracles Acts 839 after Philip was done giving the gospel to that government official this happens when they came up out of the water The spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away and the unique did not see him again But went on his way rejoicing so the Holy Spirit Whisked him out of that area took him away suddenly a miraculous work 8 he calls to special service The Holy Spirit calls people to special service Acts 13 to While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting the Holy Spirit said set apart from me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I've called them So he called the Holy Spirit called them to the special missionary Ministry that they would undertake and then following on the heels of that number nine. He sends forth for special service then in verse 4 the two of them Barnabas and Saul went on their way by the Holy Spirit Went down to Solution and sailed from their disciples So the Holy Spirit called them set them apart and then he sent them out and then lastly he intercedes We saw this verse earlier Romans 826 in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness We do not know what we ought to pray for but the spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans Through groans which cannot be uttered cannot be put into words The Holy Spirit intercedes for us he actually prays for us and that actually we'll look at that later and kind of flesh that out But that's one of the greatest most comforting and encouraging Ministries of the spirit to us. There's not a lot said about it in the Scriptures But it is an amazing comfort to know that when I don't know what to pray for When I don't even know what to say the Holy Spirit takes my heart the burdens of my heart the thoughts of my heart and puts them into words and translates them to the Father so that the Father can understand them Okay, these 10 actions then are not performed by some impersonal force An impersonal force does not teach and command and lead and all of these things This is a personal being this is a person just like us in the sense of being a person So these actions that only persons do are indicative of the fact that the Holy Spirit is a real person Okay, so the Holy Spirit is a person because we know because he possesses the attributes of a person because he performs the actions of a person Before we look at the last one then what questions or comments do you have? John it is extremely encouraging isn't it? To know that the Holy Spirit is not just some kind of force wind Influence he's a real person with us at all times. So we are never alone. Are we never alone? Okay, if you embarrass yourself just don't embarrass me We have more interaction with the Holy Spirit sitting here today Yeah, John is asking is it fair to say that we actually have more interaction with the Holy Spirit than we do the Father or Christ and I think I think there's the case can be made yes that we do in the sense that He is present with us at all times now We know in a sense the Father and the Son are two according to John 14 but But in a special sense. I mean even Jesus said it's necessary for you that I go away so I can send the Holy Spirit He will be with you forever. He'll be with you always and As far as our daily living the power of the Spirit of God to live for Christ the fact that he's leading us prompting us praying for us all of these things very Close ministry to us. Yes Yeah Yeah, I think the Holy Spirit uses our conscience. That's an interesting study by the way the Holy Spirit may use our conscience Which is a part of our natural makeup of being human as a conscience. It's part of our immaterial part You know, we have a material part our body then we have an immaterial part composed of many functions Soul spirit intellect emotion will conscience is one of those So everybody has a conscience, but the conscience can be damaged by Number one wrong information so that you you don't Really determine what's right and wrong adequately on your own or by sin it can be hardened But the Holy Spirit will use the conscience to convict us if we're open to listening to him But if you harden your conscience by sin or you feed it wrong information Then your conscience is going to get out of whack. It's not going to tell you the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do But I think the the conscience is part of what the Holy Spirit uses as we're sensitive to him. Yeah Okay Good good questions any others All right, let's look at this last one then which is really a very interesting one Personal pronouns are used of the Holy Spirit you say well Okay, big deal. What is that what is that about personal pronouns use the Holy Spirit? Okay, I wanted this little English lesson. Well, here's something very interesting about The the name for spirit the word the Greek word for spirit and we got to go back to the original language a little bit here to make this point The Greek word obviously the New Testament is written in the Greek language The Greek word for spirit is the word you see on your screen Numa it means both spirit and wind So do you see a lot of our English words come from Greek words you see where the the idea of pneumatic drill pneumonia All of them have to do with air breathing so wind breath Spirit the the Greek word is Numa now that word in Greek is a neuter noun in in Greek nouns have gender unlike English Nouns have gender they can be masculine feminine or neuter, you know I took some French in high school. I don't remember much of it, but I do remember that in French nouns also have gender But it's only feminine or masculine remember La is masculine law is feminine remember that of course you do But Greek is the same way except Greek is even more precise You can have masculine feminine feminine or neuter masculine is Ha feminine is hey and neuter is taught those are the three articles in Greek well if you have it If you have a neuter noun which Spirit Numa is then any time you put a pronoun with that Like the spirit is it going to be he does this she does this or it does this Well, it's a neuter noun so the pronoun is always supposed to agree with the gender of the noun in Greek and so the the pronoun should always be neuter Technically grammatically to make it correct when you have the word Numa you've got to use To be grammatically correct you've got to use a neuter pronoun with that and sometimes the writers of scripture do that Now I'm going to show you the next couple of verses in the King James because the King James actually preserves the original Greek better in this case Romans 18 two verses are 16 and 26 the spirit notice itself Barat witness with our spirit that we are the children of God likewise the spirit also help with our Inferenities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit itself Make up the intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered you see the word itself Mentioned twice with the spirit the reason for that is Ta Numa itself the pronoun referring back to it has to be neuter in order to be grammatically correct Okay, so That would be the grammatically correct way to refer to the Holy Spirit as an it now because That is confusing in English and makes it sound like the Holy Spirit is just some kind of influence or force or impersonal being Most of the modern translations have changed that to himself you'll notice earlier when we read out of the NIV It changed it to himself and the reason for that is Theologically correct because the Holy Spirit is a person but the actual Greek text here uses the proper pronoun itself But now wait a second if you go back to John's gospel In the original Greek and it's reflected in the King James John breaks the rules of grammar and uses a masculine pronoun but when the Comforter is calm whom I will send unto you from the Father you're in John 1526 Even the Spirit of truth which proceeded from the Father he Shall testify of me John broke the rules of grammar To be grammatically correct he should have said it shall testify of me Because Numa is a Newter noun if it requires a neuter pronoun But John broke the rules of grammar to make clear that the Holy Spirit is a person So when the Spirit of truth the Comforter comes He shall testify of me and he does it a couple more times chapter 16 verses 7 and 8 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth that is expedient view that I go away for if I do not go if I go not away The Comforter will not come to you, but if I depart I will send him Not it. I will send him unto you and when he is come he will Reprove the world of sin of righteousness and judgment three times he breaks the rules of grammar But for a good reason to show that the Holy Spirit is not some kind of nebulous form When influence power is a person and then he does it again later on in chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 How be it when he the Spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself But whatever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you good things to come he will glorify me for He shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you see Every one of those times he broke a grammatical rule But it was appropriate in this case because the Holy Spirit is not an it Now Paul and Romans kept the grammar use the word itself and King James translators accurately reflected that the original Greek The difficulty in modern understanding of English is it confuses and that's why a lot of people speak of the Holy Spirit is it Because of what they've seen in Romans 8 and the Holy Spirit is not an it. He's a person is a person The very fact that John would break the rules of grammar proves to us that the Holy Spirit is a person The Holy Spirit is not just an influence the power of God in some vague way the Holy Spirit is a real person Not just a force that comes out from God and Here's what I'd like to close with the Holy Spirit is a person who is present with us at all times You can enjoy fellowship with him you can obey him you can love him you can commune with him a person has come to be with you at all times a person Not just an influence a real person so you are never alone and the Holy Spirit wants you to be sensitive to his presence and His power in your life So that he can do all that God intends for him to do for you It's a blessed blessed privilege that we have as God's children Okay, so the Holy Spirit is a person He's a person because of Possessing the attributes of a person. He's a person because he performs the actions of a person and he's a person Even in the way he's spoken of grammatically in the New Testament Personal pronouns are used of him All right comments questions before we Close it up for tonight All right Okay, next week then we'll look at the deity of the Holy Spirit the fact that he's not only a person, but he is also God fully God just like the father and the son are let's pray Father, thank you for the blessed comforter the advocate the one who is with us at all times Who stays with us Every second of our lives Once we become believers in Christ Thank you father for the fact that We are never alone for that reason And He carries on a continual ministry to us prompting us convicting us encouraging us praying for us Guiding us. Thank you father for the ministry of the spirit to us that Real person that you've sent to abide with us forever We pray and thank you in our Savior's name amen