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Matter is one mode of being; spirit is another mode of being as authentic as matter.
But the Holy Spirit has will and intelligence and feeling and knowledge and sympathy and ability to love and see and think and hear and speak and desire the same as any person has.
Many of us have grown up on the theology that accepts the Holy Spirit as a Person, and even as a divine Person, but for some reason it never did us any good. We are as empty as ever, we are as joyless as ever, we are as far from peace as ever, we are as weak as ever.
What will we find Him to be like? He will be exactly like Jesus. You have read your New Testament, and you know what Jesus is like, and the Holy Spirit is exactly like Jesus, for Jesus was God and the Spirit is God, and the Father is exactly like the Son; and you can know what Jesus is like by knowing what the Father is like, and you can know what the Spirit is like by knowing what Jesus is like.
(Acts 2:33)—the shedding forth was like a mighty down-coming of water. The expectations were more than met—not fully met, but more than met. God always gives us an overplus.
Only the Holy Ghost can do that.
The Holy Spirit came to carry the evidence of Christianity from the books of apologetics into
the human heart, and that is exactly ...
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God took religion from the realm of the external and made it internal.
proof lies in an invisible, unseen but powerful energy that visits the human soul when the gospel is preached—the Holy Ghost!”
the essence of Jesus imparted to believers.
before you can be filled with the Spirit you must desire to be filled.
Are you sure that you want your
personality to be taken over by One who will not tolerate the self sins?
Self-love, self-confidence, self-righteousness, self-admiration, self-aggrandizement and self-pity are under the interdiction of God Almighty, and He cannot send His mighty Spirit to possess the heart where these things are.
the Spirit was given when Jesus was glorified.
if you dedicate yourself to the glory of Jesus, the Holy Ghost will become the aggressor and will seek to know you and raise you and illumine you and fill you and bless you.
Honoring Jesus Christ is doing the things which Jesus told you to do, trusting Him as your All, following Him as your Shepherd, and obeying Him fully.
Your thoughts pretty much decide the mood and weather and climate inside your heart, and God considers your thoughts as part of you.
