WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:03.060 Get out your Bible because everything that I'm 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:07.139 going to say today, I must substantiate with 00:00:07.139 --> 00:00:12.539 the Word of God. And we're going to talk about 00:00:12.539 --> 00:00:16.879 the person of the Holy Spirit. I am amazed at 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.460 how difficult it is for the average person to 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:25.300 think of the Holy Spirit as a person. How often 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:29.550 I have talked with those who... are members of 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:33.750 churches, even those who stand in the pulpit 00:00:33.750 --> 00:00:39.530 in clerical robe, who can scarcely conceive of 00:00:39.530 --> 00:00:46.090 the Holy Spirit being a definite person with 00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:52.750 a definite personality. But He is. The Holy Spirit 00:00:52.750 --> 00:00:59.140 is a person. I'll never forget. after I preached 00:00:59.140 --> 00:01:07.680 a message on God and that God is a person in 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.000 bodily form, how many, many of you folk who listen 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.780 to me every day over the radio wrote to me thanking 00:01:16.780 --> 00:01:21.459 me for having given the Scripture and for having 00:01:21.459 --> 00:01:25.760 proven from the Scripture that God is a person 00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:33.829 is in bodily form. So many expressed it like 00:01:33.829 --> 00:01:40.549 this. They thought of him as the very essence 00:01:40.549 --> 00:01:53.989 of all power. The great ruler. One who had unlimited 00:01:53.989 --> 00:02:01.340 power. the great creator, something very mystical, 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:12.780 and yet not a person in bodily form. And yet 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:16.259 the Word of God clearly teaches, and I shall 00:02:16.259 --> 00:02:20.520 just give you one instance in God's Word where 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:25.770 we have proof that God is... in bodily form. 00:02:27.030 --> 00:02:33.750 One day, you know, the Lord and Moses were having 00:02:33.750 --> 00:02:38.889 a heart -to -heart talk, and the Lord told Moses, 00:02:39.169 --> 00:02:44.810 very frankly, how much he thought of him. And 00:02:44.810 --> 00:02:51.090 he was in great favor with the Lord. So Moses 00:02:51.090 --> 00:02:56.909 said, All right. Our fellowship is so wonderful. 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:04.370 And if you really like me that much, let me just 00:03:04.370 --> 00:03:11.770 once see you. If I can just look into your face, 00:03:11.969 --> 00:03:15.270 just for an instance, it doesn't have to be long, 00:03:15.430 --> 00:03:23.639 I know exactly how Moses felt. Because many a 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:28.139 time I've just been human enough myself to have 00:03:28.139 --> 00:03:31.780 thought, Now, if just for a minute I could see 00:03:31.780 --> 00:03:35.620 my Lord, I could go through anything. If just 00:03:35.620 --> 00:03:39.759 for a second I could look upon His face. And 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:46.159 when Moses made this request, this is what God 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:51.699 said to him. Thou canst not see. See my face. 00:03:52.699 --> 00:04:00.080 For there shall no man see me and live. How often 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:08.259 I've read that. Think of the glory. Think of 00:04:08.259 --> 00:04:14.599 the power. Think of the righteousness. Our poor 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:19.410 little minds cannot... what the face of God must 00:04:19.410 --> 00:04:26.189 really be like. The full extent of his glory. 00:04:27.709 --> 00:04:32.449 No wonder in the book of Revelation, in talking 00:04:32.449 --> 00:04:35.250 about the city of the New Jerusalem, when it 00:04:35.250 --> 00:04:40.230 says there'll be no need for the moon or the 00:04:40.230 --> 00:04:45.589 sun because the glory of the Lord will light 00:04:45.589 --> 00:04:50.500 the entire place. Think of it. Thou canst not 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:57.699 see my face, for there shall no man see me and 00:04:57.699 --> 00:05:05.540 live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place 00:05:05.540 --> 00:05:11.699 by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock, and 00:05:11.699 --> 00:05:15.720 it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:20.240 by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rug. 00:05:20.579 --> 00:05:26.759 I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.860 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:40.339 see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:44.600 What are you going to do with this? There it 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:50.439 is. God himself speaking of his own hand. And 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.519 he wasn't figuratively speaking either. You'll 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.740 never make me believe. Because the minute that 00:05:54.740 --> 00:05:57.459 you take your penknife and start cutting out 00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:00.560 and taking out of the scripture, you'll soon 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.259 find that you'll have nothing left but just two 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:08.480 covers. I believe the scripture even as the scripture 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:15.949 says that God said, I will... Put thee in the 00:06:15.949 --> 00:06:20.569 cleft of the rock. I will cover thee with my 00:06:20.569 --> 00:06:28.149 hand. I will take away my hand, and thou shalt 00:06:28.149 --> 00:06:36.649 see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. 00:06:36.850 --> 00:06:44.600 And it was even as the word of God said. What 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:48.100 are we going to do with that portion of the Word 00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:53.779 in Genesis when God said to the Son, to the Holy 00:06:53.779 --> 00:07:02.399 Spirit, let us make man in our own image and 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:09.839 after our likeness. You and I, products of His 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:15.060 creation, Are made in the image and likeness 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:20.040 of God. I believe with every atom of my being. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:29.180 That God has a body. That God has hands. God 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:38.079 has a face. He's not just. Something that is 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:44.829 mystical. unknown factor someplace. If that's 00:07:44.829 --> 00:07:49.790 all that I had to base my faith on, I certainly 00:07:49.790 --> 00:07:53.470 would not be giving my life as a living sacrifice 00:07:53.470 --> 00:07:58.410 for what I believe. And you know, I'll be very 00:07:58.410 --> 00:08:01.990 frank with you. I think the most wasted life 00:08:01.990 --> 00:08:05.430 in the world is the man who stands in the pulpit 00:08:05.430 --> 00:08:11.240 and has made preaching his profession And he 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:17.519 does not believe what's in the Bible. To me, 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.240 that's the most wasted life that I know anything 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:28.779 about. Barry is giving his life for something 00:08:28.779 --> 00:08:36.559 that he really doesn't believe. If he thinks 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:41.539 that portions of the word of God, or nothing 00:08:41.539 --> 00:08:45.399 more or less than a fable, I certainly wouldn't 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.240 be giving my life preaching fables. That's right, 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.639 let's be perfectly honest about this thing. If 00:08:54.639 --> 00:09:01.860 I felt the Bible was made up of fables, if it 00:09:01.860 --> 00:09:08.500 was not all that God said that it is, and if 00:09:08.500 --> 00:09:11.879 Jesus Christ is not all that he said that he 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:18.740 was, then, believe me, I would get out of the 00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:25.440 ministry. I would give my life for something 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:32.500 that I believed in with all of my heart. Now 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:37.659 we come to the person of the Holy Spirit. We 00:09:37.659 --> 00:09:43.259 know that God is a very definite person and in 00:09:43.259 --> 00:09:46.960 bodily form. We know that Jesus is a person, 00:09:47.019 --> 00:09:52.460 that he left this earth in bodily form. When 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:59.000 Jesus left this earth, he did not go away as 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:06.100 just a spirit. He went away in bodily form, feet, 00:10:08.129 --> 00:10:16.129 Hands, face, his body, ascend it, and he shall 00:10:16.129 --> 00:10:21.230 so return in like. Measure as you have seen him 00:10:21.230 --> 00:10:24.169 go away. That's what the angel of the Lord said. 00:10:25.970 --> 00:10:34.490 The Holy Spirit is a person with a very definite 00:10:34.490 --> 00:10:42.529 personality. And now we come to that which is 00:10:42.529 --> 00:10:44.629 going to be the center of our heart -to -heart 00:10:44.629 --> 00:10:50.250 talk today. The thing that is so hard for men 00:10:50.250 --> 00:10:57.509 and women to cope with. The Holy Spirit. As a 00:10:57.509 --> 00:11:03.950 person. Not just an attribute. Not just a great 00:11:03.950 --> 00:11:08.789 influence. Not something that is so mystical 00:11:08.789 --> 00:11:11.870 that we can have no understanding whatsoever 00:11:11.870 --> 00:11:17.990 of his work. There's a portion of God's word 00:11:17.990 --> 00:11:24.730 in the 14th chapter of John. And it's Jesus himself 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:30.649 speaking. And it's a great eye -opener regarding 00:11:30.649 --> 00:11:33.409 this third person of the Trinity. And remember, 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:40.259 These are the words of Jesus. I will pray the 00:11:40.259 --> 00:11:45.440 Father. He shall give you another comforter that 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.340 he may abide with you forever. And Jesus is talking 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:53.279 about the Holy Spirit. And watch the personal 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:57.580 pronouns through this entire chapter and every 00:11:57.580 --> 00:11:59.500 time that Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.279 Every time that he talked. of the Holy Ghost. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:10.639 He always referred to him as a person. Personal 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:16.600 pronoun was always used. Continue. Even the Spirit 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:23.480 of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:28.940 it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye 00:12:28.940 --> 00:12:33.230 know him. for he dwelleth with you and shall 00:12:33.230 --> 00:12:39.710 be in you. Now, this is what I want you to see 00:12:39.710 --> 00:12:45.710 because it's most important, very significant. 00:12:46.470 --> 00:12:50.889 And that is the fact that the unregenerated, 00:12:50.950 --> 00:12:57.929 the unconverted man or woman can have no knowledge 00:12:57.929 --> 00:13:01.799 or conception. Of the person of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:11.820 Because she has no eye for him. She has no interest 00:13:11.820 --> 00:13:18.240 in him. I read it again. This is God's word. 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:25.899 Whom the world cannot receive. Because it seeth 00:13:25.899 --> 00:13:36.179 him not. Tis no eye for him. None. Neither knoweth 00:13:36.179 --> 00:13:40.200 him. But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:46.259 and shall be in you. His indwelling is essential 00:13:46.259 --> 00:13:53.679 to a true knowledge of him. I repeat that. This 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.950 is important that you and I... Understand this. 00:13:57.090 --> 00:13:59.309 Because we're living in an hour, we're living 00:13:59.309 --> 00:14:03.649 in a time when so much emphasis is being put 00:14:03.649 --> 00:14:07.730 on the Holy Spirit, and He is giving of Himself, 00:14:08.110 --> 00:14:12.370 He is pouring out of Himself in these last days 00:14:12.370 --> 00:14:17.149 in a greater measure than ever before. We are 00:14:17.149 --> 00:14:20.350 seeing the manifestation of His power around 00:14:20.350 --> 00:14:25.070 the world. Thousands and... Thousands of people 00:14:25.070 --> 00:14:29.129 are becoming interested in the Holy Spirit who 00:14:29.129 --> 00:14:31.990 were never interested in this doctrine before. 00:14:32.629 --> 00:14:36.789 There are hundreds and hundreds of men who are 00:14:36.789 --> 00:14:40.950 standing in their pulpits, both Catholic priests 00:14:40.950 --> 00:14:44.789 and Protestant ministers, who are becoming so 00:14:44.789 --> 00:14:48.669 interested in the Holy Spirit because they are 00:14:48.669 --> 00:14:56.049 seeing the results of His power. You cannot get 00:14:56.049 --> 00:15:02.309 away from the fact that we are seeing miracles 00:15:02.309 --> 00:15:08.330 today as we've never seen miracles. We cannot 00:15:08.330 --> 00:15:11.669 close our eyes to the fact that there are literally 00:15:11.669 --> 00:15:13.950 hundreds and hundreds of people who are being 00:15:13.950 --> 00:15:19.049 filled with the Holy Ghost. We're living in a 00:15:19.049 --> 00:15:21.389 day when the things that happened in the early 00:15:21.389 --> 00:15:26.639 church are again happening in our midst. The 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.519 fruits and the gifts of the Spirit are again 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:36.039 being restored to the church. Time is running 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:39.700 out. The Holy Spirit is about to leave. We're 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:43.059 coming to the end of this dispensation. Even 00:15:43.059 --> 00:15:46.659 as Jesus left, one of these days the Holy Spirit 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:51.639 is going back again. And he knows his time is 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:57.179 short. He knows that very soon now, the church 00:15:57.179 --> 00:16:02.740 will be raptured. And literally, he's working 00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:06.600 overtime. And I do not mean to be sacrilegious 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.379 when I say it, but that's exactly what's happening. 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:14.059 And so, men and women are looking around and 00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:19.279 saying, something is happening. Men in our pulpits 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:27.379 are saying, what's happening? Looking about me, 00:16:27.539 --> 00:16:32.279 great changes are being made. And the answer 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.500 comes back. It's the moving of the Holy Spirit. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:44.720 And then they begin to take notice and begin. 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:49.779 begin to inquire regarding the Holy Spirit. But 00:16:49.779 --> 00:16:54.159 it's the hardest thing in the world for them 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:58.279 to recognize the fact that the Holy Spirit is 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:04.420 a person. It's the hardest thing in the world 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:11.220 for them to understand the deep truths regarding 00:17:11.220 --> 00:17:17.299 the person, the power of the Holy Spirit. because 00:17:17.299 --> 00:17:21.539 his indwelling is essential to a true knowledge 00:17:21.539 --> 00:17:25.720 of him, and you cannot have a true knowledge 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:31.059 of the Holy Spirit until, first of all, you've 00:17:31.059 --> 00:17:35.619 had a true knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Son 00:17:35.619 --> 00:17:42.019 of the Living God. You can't do it. It's impossible 00:17:42.019 --> 00:17:47.150 for... any man or woman to have a true knowledge 00:17:47.150 --> 00:17:51.130 of the Holy Spirit if they have not, first of 00:17:51.130 --> 00:17:58.470 all, had a true knowledge of Jesus Christ. Deity. 00:17:59.289 --> 00:18:02.309 Divinity. How in the world can a man standing 00:18:02.309 --> 00:18:07.430 in the pulpit conceive of the Holy Spirit as 00:18:07.430 --> 00:18:13.559 being a person if in his own heart and mind, 00:18:13.700 --> 00:18:20.460 he has not wholeheartedly accepted the virgin 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:27.440 birth of Jesus Christ. And it's just like that. 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:34.839 And you'd be amazed how many men standing in 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:40.670 our pulpits today do not wholeheartedly heartedly 00:18:40.670 --> 00:18:46.569 believe with every atom of their being that Jesus 00:18:46.569 --> 00:18:56.369 was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Oh sure, a 00:18:56.369 --> 00:19:03.569 wonderful example. A glorious example for all 00:19:03.569 --> 00:19:11.970 mankind. But to accept and believe that he was 00:19:11.970 --> 00:19:16.990 conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin 00:19:16.990 --> 00:19:23.789 Mary, God in the flesh, dwelling amongst us, 00:19:23.950 --> 00:19:33.710 absolute deity, absolute divinity, believing 00:19:33.710 --> 00:19:43.789 that Jesus is all that he said that he was, you'd 00:19:43.789 --> 00:19:53.849 be amazed how few really believe that with every 00:19:53.849 --> 00:19:58.990 atom of their being. That's a man's first step. 00:20:00.369 --> 00:20:05.920 There it is. Right there. And I'm... Until he 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:11.960 can accept that, until he'll believe that with 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.720 all of his heart, he has never been born again, 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:22.839 there's been no regeneration, then how in the 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:27.920 world can he go any further and have any spiritual 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:33.940 knowledge of the Holy Spirit? You can't. You 00:20:33.940 --> 00:20:41.130 just can't. His indwelling is essential to a 00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:45.049 true knowledge of him, and it's got to be like 00:20:45.049 --> 00:20:48.769 that. That's exactly what Jesus was talking about 00:20:48.769 --> 00:20:51.670 when he said, referring to the Holy Spirit, whom 00:20:51.670 --> 00:20:59.349 the world cannot receive, because it seeth him 00:20:59.349 --> 00:21:09.009 not, neither knoweth him. I'll tell you, when 00:21:09.009 --> 00:21:13.650 you get into the scripture, when you go into 00:21:13.650 --> 00:21:18.329 the deep things of the spirit, these things are 00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:24.829 only spiritually revealed. They're not things 00:21:24.829 --> 00:21:28.990 that you can get from a seminary. These are not 00:21:28.990 --> 00:21:32.849 things that you get out of a book. Spiritual 00:21:32.849 --> 00:21:36.089 things are different than anything else in the 00:21:36.089 --> 00:21:42.000 whole world. Oh, God forbid that we should ever 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:48.420 get to the place where religion is just a profession. 00:21:50.660 --> 00:21:54.559 God forbid if you're listening to me now and 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.960 you consider yourself a minister of the gospel, 00:21:58.119 --> 00:22:02.660 that all that it is to you is just a profession. 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.259 All that you can bring on Sunday morning is that 00:22:07.259 --> 00:22:13.089 which... You've gotten out of the book. If you 00:22:13.089 --> 00:22:18.849 can't give from God's Word and preach it under 00:22:18.849 --> 00:22:21.690 the anointing of the Holy Spirit, if you do not 00:22:21.690 --> 00:22:25.569 have a personal experience with the very Son 00:22:25.569 --> 00:22:29.369 of the Living God, then get yourself an experience. 00:22:30.210 --> 00:22:35.670 For you can never give to another more than you 00:22:35.670 --> 00:22:37.940 have received. Yourself.