Personality of the Holy Spirit
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 16 viewsNotes
Transcript
The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal power but a real person with his own personality.
The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal power but a real person with his own personality.
Personality of Holy Spirit
Personality of Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is involved in personal relationships
The Holy Spirit is involved in personal relationships
He is in relationship with the Father and the Son
He is in relationship with the Father and the Son
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
He is in relationship with Christians
He is in relationship with Christians
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
The Spirit can be treated in personal ways
The Spirit can be treated in personal ways
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Personal characteristics of the Holy Spirit
Personal characteristics of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit is wise
The Spirit is wise
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
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.
And 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.
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
The Spirit can experience emotion and pain
The Spirit can experience emotion and pain
Yet they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
So he turned and became their enemy
and he himself fought against them.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Grammatical indications of the Holy Spirit’s personhood
Grammatical indications of the Holy Spirit’s personhood
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
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.
“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.
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Examples of the Holy Spirit’s actions
Examples of the Holy Spirit’s actions
He teaches:
He teaches:
for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
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.
He speaks:
He speaks:
“The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.
The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for you.
The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
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.
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
The Holy Spirit’s own personality is seen by the gifts he gives and the attitudes he promotes
The Holy Spirit’s own personality is seen by the gifts he gives and the attitudes he promotes
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.