Who is the Holy Spirit?

“The Comforter”

Series: Who is the Holy Spirit?

Tonight we begin a series of sermons on the Person of the Holy Spirit!

This is something I am super excited about, and as we get into the messages, the goal is to teach you more about the Third Person of the Trinity of God. But also show you the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer.

Unfortunately, many believers misunderstand the person and role of the Holy Spirit. Some see

A Wyoming woman who lost her husband of 28 years to brain cancer last year was shocked to receive a special gift from him this Valentine's Day.

Shelly and Jim Golay of Casper, Wyoming, met at church in 1984. They had a "fairy tale romance" and even went to Disneyland in California for their honeymoon, Shelly Golay told ABC News today.

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Her husband was "very much a family man," Golay, 52, said, adding that they have two children, now 27 and 25.

The family has owned Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, an industrial and safety distribution company, since 2007.

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.Shelly and Jim Golay were married for 28 years before he died of brain cancer in June 2014.Courtesy Shelly Golay

"Jim was just an amazing man. Everybody that ever met him loved him. He was always just my rock. And the whole family's rock. And he just had this unwavering faith that was just inspiring. Always had a positive attitude," Golay added.

Jim was diagnosed with brain cancer on Easter 2012.

"Had a strength that was just contagious. He was tough as nails," Golay said. "When he went through his chemo, he didn't look like a chemo patient, didn't act like a chemo patient."

In February 2014, they learned the cancer was inoperable. Jim was given four months to live and he died in June 2014 at age 53.

"They usually give you 12 months to live and he lived 26 months," Golay said. "That was just a blessing."

Jim Golay allegedly arranged to have these Valentine's Day flowers sent to his wife after his death.Courtesy Shelly Golay

This Valentine's Day, eight months after Jim's death, Golay says she received flowers with a card that read, "Happy Valentine's Day Honey. Stay Strong! Yours Forever Love Jim."

"My first thought was my kids gave it to me," Golay said.

But when she asked her son and daughter, they both denied sending the gift.

Golay spoke with a co-worker, who suggested the flowers may have been from Jim. When Golay looked on the back of the card, she found her husband's cellphone number. "That was very emotional," she said. "I knew it was him."

"I went back to my son and said, 'You have to call the flower shop and confirm Dad sent these. I'm too emotional.' Sure enough, he had come in that last Valentine's Day and had said, 'Just send her flowers for the rest of her life.'"

Their daughter, Ashley Wisroth, was at the grocery store when she found out who the flowers were from, and "just started bawling," she told ABC News today.

"I was so excited to know he had done something so sweet. It was just like my dad to do something like that. At the same time, it was bittersweet, because we knew in order for him to set something like that up, he must have known at one point he wasn't going to make it."

Golay said the flowers "means to me that his love never ends."

"He set up such an amazing gift for me to receive that," Golay said. "That act of love to me is just true love in its purest form."

IN tonight’s passage, we are going to look at some of Jesus’ last words before He went to the cross with His disciples. And instead of just offering us flowers after His death. He sends Himself - the Holy Spirit to dwell in us!

John 14:15–26 KJV 1900

If ye love me, keep my commandments. 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 he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

1. The Holy Spirit is God

“another in verse 16 - another of the same kind.

the Holy Spirit is God just as Christ Jesus is God.

The Holy Spirit was in the start of Creation too

Genesis 1:1

Genesis 1:1–2 KJV 1900

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

2. The Holy Spirit is a Gift

God comes to dwell in you when you turn to Him in faith.

John 14:18 - “i do come to you.”

He came to them after the resurrection, the Person of the Spirit, and in the future.

Ephesians 1:13–14 KJV 1900

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

after we have heard the gospel, and believed the gospel. the holy spirit comes to live in us.

We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Transaction of salvation is finished. (John 17:4)

We are owned by God ( 2 Timothy 2:9)

We are secure in our salvation (Ephesians 4:30)

3. The Holy Spirit is the Comforter

“Comforter” - means “One standing alongside to help you.”

“The Spirit living within the disciples would take the place of the Saviour living beside the disciples.”

This word “comforter” is “standing by you”

The disciples were concerned that they were going to miss something.

Jesus reminds them that:

Spirit is with them

don’t have to be orphans

Spirit brings deeper relationship

obedience to the Word (v. 21)

love for the Word (v. 24)

learning the Word (v. 26)

“in verses 1-3, Jesus talked about the saint going to heaven to abide with the Father and Son, but here He talks about the Father and Son coming to abide with the saint.”