Not since the early church has there been such
excitement regarding the third person of the
Trinity. Oh, I believe there was great excitement
after the Holy Spirit came. Jesus said he would
come. Jesus said, if I go away. the holy spirit
will come unto you i will send him unto you and
when he came in that upper room when the hundred
and twenty were filled with the holy spirit there
began an excitement as those precious folks never
dreamed was possible Oh, the excitement in that
early church. And I can see them as they go out
and say, Have ye received the Holy Spirit? The
Holy Spirit? We never dreamed that there was
a person like the Holy Spirit. Have you received
the Holy Spirit? Why, no one has ever told us
about the Holy Spirit. The excitement. The early
Christians would go to their neighbors. would
go to their friends, would stop up on the street.
Have you heard of this wonderful person, this
glorious power that's being manifested in our
midst? Have you received the Holy Spirit? I repeat,
there has never been greater excitement regarding
the mighty third person of the Trinity. Never.
since he is coming in the upper room. And today,
as we're seeing the wonderful manifestation of
the Holy Spirit, today is literally hundreds
and hundreds are being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Today is pouring out of himself upon all flesh.
There is an expectancy, an excitement, that the
church has never known since its beginning. And
how often recently I've heard folk talk about
this wonderful new thing. It's new to them. It
may be new to you. Because you, too, have never
been taught regarding this wonderful third person
of Trinity. But remember something. He is not
a new person, recently having come upon the horizon.
He has been in existence since God the Father,
since Jesus Christ the Son. This experience is
only new to you. Now, what we need is some good
old -fashioned... Teaching from the Word of God
regarding this wonderful person. Regarding his
personality. Regarding his activities. That is
the one thing that has been so lacking in our
churches. The teaching regarding this third person
of Trinity. Somehow, whenever it has come to
the things of the Holy Spirit, the manifestations
of the Spirit. The average minister has stayed
clear of it. Often when you've asked your pastor
regarding this third person of the Trinity, he
has probably answered you that it is a mystery
and cannot be understood. Yet, when you read
the Bible, you'll see that There are three persons
in the Trinity. Jesus himself made that very,
very clear. Each having a distinct personality.
A personality separate and apart from the other
two. The personality of Jesus is separate from
the personality of God the Father. The personality
of the Holy Spirit is separate from that of the
Father or the Son. They're all three distinct
persons. Everything that I'm going to say regarding
this teaching of the Holy Spirit, I will give
you scripture for. Therefore, get out your Bible.
Don't get it secondhand. Our authority is the
Word of God. And you and I need to get back again
to the Bible. We're reading and studying everything
else under God's heaven except the word of God.
God's word is absolute authority. Therefore,
turn, if you will, please, to the 14th chapter
of John. Jesus himself is speaking of the Holy
Spirit. And I will pray the Father. Already,
we have two persons. Jesus said, I will pray
the Father. We have Jesus Christ the Son, a person
separate and apart from the Father. I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another comforter.
that he may abide with you forever. Therefore,
we see the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. He's spoken
of here as the Comforter. And may I stop just
a minute? That word Comforter means Strengthener.
He is our glorious Strengthener. the Holy Spirit,
a personality separate and apart from the Father.
But also remember, he never works separate and
apart from the Father, but works in conjunction
with the Father and with Jesus Christ the Son.
Three persons, each with a distinct personality,
working in conjunction one with the other, but
each with a very definite work. Perhaps I can
make this a little clearer to you, and I want
to make it just as clear to you as possible,
because this is being so misunderstood. I am
amazed when some of the questions come in, in
the mail. In spite of everything that I've tried
to do to teach you, everything that I've tried
to say to you, there's still those, and I guess
after all, only the Holy Spirit himself can teach
you these things. And I'd give anything in the
world if right now I could take every one of
you who have had such wrong teaching and just
turn you upside down and just shake you real
hard and shake. All preconceived ideas and notions.
Out of your mind. Turn your right side up. And
let the Holy Spirit be your teacher. So that
you get your theology straight. And when you
get it from him. And when you get it directly
from the word of God. You can be dead sure. That
you will have your theology straight. It isn't
something that you read. from out of a book,
someone else having been the author. It isn't
that you take it secondhand from someone else
who knows less about it than perhaps you do.
Go directly to the true source. And we need to
get back again to the Bible. There is only one
throne in heaven. now just one seated upon that
throne is god almighty and i always like to think
of him as being the big boss god almighty and
remember he is exactly that he will continue
to be God Almighty forever and ever and ever.
Time will never change that. Men will never change
that. Nothing will ever change the fact that
He's dear. God Almighty. Remember when Moses
said, Who shall I say sent me? And he said, tell
them. The great I am that I am has sent thee.
The beginning to the end. The great creator.
The one who has all power. The one all powerful.
And he will for... ever remain. God Almighty.
This very moment, he is seated upon his throne.
At his right hand, serving in a different capacity
entirely, is Jesus Christ, the Son. And Jesus
Christ holds a position of great high priest,
our mediator. your mediator, my mediator, the
mediator between man and an absolute holy and
powerful God into whose presence no man can come.
Know that. except he comes through Jesus Christ,
his son. That's the reason Jesus is in position
of mediator, of great high priest. The greatest
bequest that was ever given to man was given
by Jesus before he went away. He said, I'm going
away now, but I'm going to leave you. That means
you. That means me. His name to use. I have a
hearing before the throne of God. You have a
hearing before the throne of God. And I do not
believe that our poor little puny minds have
the ability to conceive power of the absolute
perfection of God Almighty. You and I cannot
analyze God. It is impossible for us as created
beings to have the capacity to analyze God. You
can't do it. I know we've come to the day when
we're trying to analyze everything. We've even
got to the place where we try to bring God down
to man's level. We do that about everything.
We can accept anything unless we can analyze
it. But there's one person and one power you
can never analyze, and that's the power and the
person of Almighty God. He wouldn't be God if
we could analyze Him. He wouldn't be God Almighty.
If he were on the level with man. And if man
was on the level with God. Watch it. There is
a third person. With a very definite personality.
And that person is the Holy Spirit. And Jesus
said, I will pray the Father. I'll ask the Father.
and he will give you another comforter, that
he may abide with you forever, even the Spirit
of truth. Jesus here, in speaking of the Holy
Spirit, calls him the Spirit of truth. There
is no falseness in the Holy Spirit, none whatsoever.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth. and the
life and he the spirit of truth is the revealer
of real truth whom the world cannot receive why
because it seeth him not neither knoweth him
but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and
shall be in you now just what does this mean
in the 17th verses of the 14th chapter of john
that the world can neither receive nor know him
what does it mean because she has no eye for
him she has no interest in him the world doesn't
have any interest in the holy spirit With all
this wonderful excitement that literally thousands
are experiencing. In knowing, in becoming acquainted
with, in being filled with, in experiencing the
power of the third person of the Trinity, the
Holy Spirit. Yet, the world has no eye for him.
She has no interest in him. In fact, the world
just sort of smiles and says, those people have
gone off the deep end. They've flipped their
top. They've gone off their rocker. But that's
exactly what they said about those early Christians
in the early church. Just exactly. And yet, the
greatest experience of your life outside of having
been born again is the wonderful experience in
the things of the Spirit. This wonderful experience
of being filled with the Holy Spirit. He is with
you if you've ever been born again. If you have
had that wonderful experience of having been
born again, you came in contact with this wonderful
third person of Trinity. Like a gentleman in
calling me the other day. And he was a Jewish
gentleman. And he said, Ms. Coleman, why is it
that when... Whenever I think about Jesus and
this wonderful experience that I have had with
him, I cry. And he said, I'm not emotional. And
it isn't something that's emotional. But this
wonderful light that has come within me. This
glorious experience that I have had in coming
face to face with the true Messiah. spiritual
experience. Even when I think about it, I weep.
And I've never done before in my life. I am not
an emotional person. It's coming in contact with
one who is very tender. The tenderness of the
Holy Spirit. Oh, if only you and I could realize,
and you must get very well acquainted with this
personality. Sure, you've been filled with the
Spirit. You've come in contact with the Spirit.
But do you really know the person of the Holy
Spirit? So then... And a little later in our
heart -to -heart talks, I'm going to show you
that he's easily grieved. That's the reason,
in the word of God, he's likened unto the gentlest
of all birds. A dove. So easily grieved. He is
with you. You may never have been filled with
the Holy Spirit, but you have been born again.
And if you're listening to me, and you've been
born again, you have come in contact with the
Holy Spirit. And He is with you now. He is the
only one who can convict an individual of sin.
That's why the greatest tragedy that ever happened
to the organized church was when they began to
close their minds, their pulpits, their doors
to this mighty third person of trinity. Oh, in
the early church, he was so well received. They
opened their arms to him. They were expecting
him. He was welcomed because they had just been
in contact with Jesus and Jesus said he was coming
and he came. They received him with great expectancy.
But you know human nature. Jesus knew human nature.
Always, whenever there's the presence of the
Holy Spirit, there will be the manifestation
of the supernatural. Always. I repeat it. Wherever
you find the Holy Spirit, there will always be
the supernatural. Whenever you find the manifestations
of the Holy Spirit, it will always be the supernatural.
And man being what man is and knowing human nature
as we do. Soon there were those in the early
church who said, let us not have so much demonstration.
Let us just be a little more reserved. And slowly
but surely, the Holy Spirit was... pushed aside,
and after generations, was almost completely
pushed out. Today, he is pouring out of himself
upon all flesh, for we're about to see the great
catching up, the rapture of the church. The Holy
Spirit is about to leave. and the church is going
out in great glory and all the fruits and the
gifts of the spirit are being returned again
to his church and again there is the greatest
excitement regarding the holy spirit as great
as when he first came to the early church. God
bless you.