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Third Person of the Godhead, February 15
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
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Corinthians 13:14
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We need to realize that the Holy Spirit ... is as much a person as
God is a person....
The Holy Spirit has a personality, else He could not bear witness to
our spirits and with our spirits that we are the children of God. He must
also be a divine person, else He could not search out the secrets which
lie hidden in the mind of God.
The Holy Spirit is a free, working, independent agency. The God
of heaven uses His Spirit as it pleases Him; and human minds, human
judgment, and human methods can no more set boundaries to its work-
ing, or prescribe the channel through which it shall operate, than they
can say to the wind, “I bid you to blow in a certain direction, and to
conduct yourself in such and such a manner.”
From the beginning God has been working by His Holy Spirit
through human instrumentalities for the accomplishment of His purpose
in behalf of the fallen race.... The same power that sustained the pa-
triarchs, that gave Caleb and Joshua faith and courage, and that made
the work of the apostolic church effective, has upheld God’s faithful
children in every succeeding age.
The Holy Spirit was the highest of all gifts that He [Jesus] could
solicit from His Father for the exaltation of His people. The Spirit was to
be given as a regenerating agent, and without this the sacrifice of Christ
would have been of no avail. The power of evil had been strengthening
for centuries, and the submission of men to this satanic captivity was
amazing. Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty
agency of the third person of the Godhead, who would come with no
modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power.
The Holy Spirit is an effective helper in restoring the image of God
in the human soul.
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