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the Holy Spirit. And I pray that this series

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shall be one of the greatest inspirations of

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your life. I pray that before I will have finished

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this series of messages on the mighty third person,

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the Trinity, that the inspiration, the truths

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that I shall bring to you shall Not only make

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the Holy Spirit very real to your heart, but

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that Jesus himself shall be more real to you

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than he's ever been before, and that you will

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appreciate your salvation more than you have

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ever appreciated your new birth experience. You

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know, theoretically. Thousands worship the Holy

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Spirit every Lord's Day. Every Sunday, literally

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tens of thousands of professing Christians worship

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the Holy Spirit when they repeat the doxology

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in their place of worship. And yet, Would you

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believe it if I told you that very few of the

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thousands who repeat the doxology, worshipping

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the Holy Spirit, actually, literally believe

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in the person and in the personality of the mighty

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third person of the Trinity? Oh, theoretically.

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They believe in him. But actually, when one speaks

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of a person and of the power of the Holy Spirit,

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they do not accept him literally. Neither do

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they accept his power literally. Watch something.

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I can prove to you that the Holy Spirit is as

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definitely a person as God the Father is a person,

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as Jesus Christ the Son is a person. There are

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distinctive marks of personality, and those marks

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are knowledge, feeling, and will. Not necessarily

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a physical body. Now the Holy Spirit has these

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three distinctive marks of personality. The Bible

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clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit has knowledge.

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He has feeling. He has will. No person has seen

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the body of the Holy Spirit. But no person has

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seen God Almighty. And yet we accept God as a

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person. May I pause just a minute and make something

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else very clear to your heart. You will be you

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forever and forever. I will be me forever. And

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yet there will come a time when my body will

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be separated from my soul and my spirit. And

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yet it does not change the fact that I will continue

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to be a person and that you will continue to

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be a person. I can prove to you from the Word

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of God that there was a time, even during the

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earthly ministry of Jesus, when His Spirit was

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separated from His body. For on the cross, when

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Jesus dismissed His own Spirit, spirit left the

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body. The body was placed in the tomb, but no

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tomb ever held the personality or the spirit

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of Jesus. And yet he remained the son of the

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living God, even though his spirit was separated

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from his body. You see so often, you and I get

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the idea, that one cannot be a person, that there

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cannot be a definite personality, except one

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sees the hands, the feet, the physical body of

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a person. But that is not true. The Holy Spirit

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is a definite person with a definite personality,

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just as truly as there is a person of Jesus Christ,

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the Son. Now, let's go a little deeper. And I

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pray that the Holy Spirit shall become your teacher,

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for unless he reveals these things to your heart

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and to your mind, you will have no understanding

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of these deep truths whatsoever. For that which

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is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which

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is born of the spirit is spirit, and these things

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are only spiritually revealed. That's what Jesus

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meant when he said, Fresh and blood hath not

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revealed this unto thee, but my Father which

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is in heaven. Let us take the work of the Holy

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Spirit. The Holy Spirit has existed from... All

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eternity. Now, when you and I speak of eternity

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in the past, I cannot tell you how long that

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is, how far back. I do not know. No human being

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knows. But one thing I can assure you, that way

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back there, in the past, way before the very

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foundations of the world, there has existed a

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past eternity. And in exactly the same sense,

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way out there in the future, there is a future

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eternity forever and forever and forever. And

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you and I will be a part of that future eternity.

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But going back to past eternity, God the Father

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has always existed. Jesus Christ the Son has

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always existed. The Holy Spirit has been in existence

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with them. There is something that's very marvelous.

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Good being perfect knowledge, knowing all things,

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had perfect knowledge of the fall of man, even

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before man was created. Read it. It's there in

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the first chapter of Ephesians. And having perfect

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knowledge of that which was to happen in the

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future. Knowing that man would fall, God made

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plans for the redemption of man. Knowing that

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the law would have to be justified. And yet,

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only one could suffice. Only one could satisfy

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the law. Only one could bring perfect justice.

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It had to be a thinless blood. You know something?

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How often you and I quote John 3 .16. It's marvelous.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only

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begotten son. But do you want to know something?

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God could not have given his son. for man's redemption,

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unless the Son had first of all offered Himself.

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And in the ninth chapter of Hebrews, the fourteenth

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verse, there is something that is almost startling.

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I shall give it to you. How much more shall the

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blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit

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offered himself without spot to God. Oh, I'm

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telling you, this is marvelous. Pause just a

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moment, and I pray the Holy Spirit shall make

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this real to your heart. Methinks the three were

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sitting at the great conference table. The mighty

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God of the universe. God Almighty, and with him

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at the great conference table, way back there

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in past eternity, was his son. And with him,

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the third person of Trinity, the Holy Ghost,

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making plan for man's redemption. At that great

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conference table. Jesus turned to the Holy Spirit

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and said, I'll call. I'll take the place of fallen

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man. Through me, through my perfection, man shall

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receive redemption. And he turned to the Holy

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Spirit and through the Holy Spirit, The scripture

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says, through the eternal spirit, he offered

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himself without spot. Absolute perfection. He

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offered himself through the spirit to God the

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Father. And then, for the very first time, was

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the Father able to give to the world His only

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begotten son for he could not have given Jesus

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until first of all Jesus had offered himself

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and he offered himself through the mighty third

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person the Trinity and from there on the Holy

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Spirit played a most important part in man's

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salvation The Holy Spirit played as important

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a part in man's salvation as Jesus played, as

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important a part as God the Father played. You

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say, Ms. Cooman, how can you say that? I'll go

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a step further. God the Father could not have

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carried out his plans for redemption without

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the aid and the cooperation of the Holy Spirit.

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Why? I shall give you scripture for everything.

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In Luke, the first chapter, one of the most important

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phases of man's redemption, it's there. Oh, sure,

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and I give it to you. And the angel said unto

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her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor

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with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in

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thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call

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his name Jesus. He shall be great. and shall

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be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord

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God shall give unto him the throne of his father

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David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob

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forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no

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end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall

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this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel

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answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost. shall

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come upon thee, and the power of the highest

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shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy

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thing which shall be born of thee shall be called

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the Son of God. Jesus was conceived by the Holy

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Spirit in the womb. of Mary. Now then, there's

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something else I want to prove to you, and that

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is that at no time does the Father ever work

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separate and apart from the Son. Neither does

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the Holy Spirit ever work separate and apart

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from either the Son or the Father. the holy spirit

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was present with the father at the time that

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jesus was baptized turn if you will please to

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the third chapter of matthew and jesus when he

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was baptized went up straightway out of the water

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and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he

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saw the spirit of god watch it always the spirit

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of god is the holy spirit the third person the

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trinity and he saw the spirit of god descending

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like a dove and lighting upon him, and lo, a

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voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved

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Son, in whom I am well pleased. At the baptism

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of Jesus, we have not only God the Father, who

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spoke audibly and said, This is my beloved Son,

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in whom I am well pleased. But there was also

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the person of the Holy Spirit. The Scripture

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does not say that he is a dove. The Scripture

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says, Spirit of God descending like a dove and

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lighting upon him. I pray that he shall make

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the word real to your hearts. Amen.