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Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh
Sunday, February 18, 2024
UNDERSTANDING THE HOLY SPIRIT
“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?”
Hebrews 10:29
Main Text: Main Text: Ephesians 4:30
The Holy Spirit is key for a successful Christian walk, Billy Graham said “The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us”. The Holy Spirt is more than just a mist, or a feeling or a spirit, He is a person and desires a relationship with mankind. To many people, the Holy Spirit is an enigma. Some see Him as an impersonal force or influence, some deny His very existence, and others are not certain who or what the Holy Spirit is. However, the Bible is very clear on this matter; the Holy Spirit is a person, the Third Person of the Holy Trinity.
By “person,” we mean one who has their own identity or individuality as a rational being. They are conscious of their own existence. When we say that the Holy Spirit is a person some assume that He has eyes, feet, and hands. But these are not the marks of a person. The marks of a genuine person are knowledge, feeling, and will. The Holy Spirit has emotions, and He desires a relationship with you!
Although no human being can understand the mind of God, the Bible says that Holy Spirit is able to do this. The Holy Spirit thinks, searches, and uses reason. These things imply personality. In fact, the word translated, “search” is the same one used by Jesus in John 5:39 where He said the following to the religious leaders. The word has the idea to, “examine or investigate.” Since the Spirit is said to “search all things” this implies personality. He searches the deep things of God and reveals them to believers.
Prayer:
Dear Holy Spirit, I choose to relate with you every day of my life I love you, take me into deeper relationships with God!
Further Reading:
2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
John 14:26 “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.”
Read through the bible in 1 year: Leviticus 6:1-7:27 Mark 3:7-30 Psalm 37:1-11 Proverbs 10:3-4
Read through the bible in 2 years: Lam 4 & Ps 42
