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AWARE of The GODHEAD 3.31.1b
THE DISTINCT PERSONALITY
& DEITY
of GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.
‘Personal’ Actions of ‘A Person’
are Ascribed to The Holy Spirit.
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The Gift of
The PERSONAL HOLY SPIRIT
LIVING in EACH CHILD of GOD
is The Crowning Mercy of God
in Christ Jesus.
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THE IMPORTANCE of STUDYING
THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Great Importance of a Reverent
and Prayerful Study of this subject of
THE HOLY SPIRIT
should be apparent
to every real child of God.
The Repeated References
Made to the Spirit by Christ
in His Final Discourse
(John 14 to 16)
at once strongly suggests
The Great Importance of a Reverent
and Prayerful Study of this subject of
THE HOLY SPIRIT
John 14:16 & 17;
And I Will Pray the Father,
and He Will Give you Another Comforter,
that He May Live with you Forever;
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17 Even The Spirit of Truth;
Whom the World cannot receive,
because it sees Him not, neither knows Him;
but ye Know Him;
for He Lives with you and Will Be in you.
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John 15:25 & 26;
25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause. 26But when the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me;
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John 16:13 – 15;
when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, thatshall He speak; and He will show you things to come. 14He shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show itunto you. 15All things that the Father hath are Mine; therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.
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The particular work
which has been committed to Him
furnishes clear proof of it.
There is no spiritual good
communicated to anyone but by the Spirit;
whatever God in His Grace Works in us,
it is by The Spirit.
The only sin for which there is no forgiveness
is one committed against The Spirit.
How necessary is it then
that we should be well instructed
in the Scripture Doctrine concerning Him!
The great abuse there has been
in all ages
under the pretense of His Holy Name,
should prompt us to diligent study.
Finally, the awful ignorance
which now so widely prevails
upon the Spirit’s Office and Operations,
urges us to put forth our best efforts.
Yet as important as our subject is,
and prominent a place it has given to it
in Holy Writ,
it seems that it has always met
with a considerable amount of neglect
and perversion.
Thomas Goodwin
commenced his massive work on
The Work of the Holy Spirit
in Our Salvation (1660)
by affirming,
“There is a general omission
in the Saints of God,
in their not giving The Holy Spirit
that Glory that is due to His Person
and for His Great Work of Salvation in us,
insomuch that we have in our hearts
almost forgotten this Third Person.”
If that could be said
in the midst of the balmy days
of the Puritans,
what language would be required
to set forth the awful spiritual ignorance
and impotency
of this benighted 20th century!
( ALAN: AND NOW, 21st….. )
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In the Preface to his Lectures on
“The Person, Godhead,
and Ministry of the Holy Spirit”
(1817),
Robert Hawker wrote,
“I am the more prompted to this service,
from contemplating
the present awful day of the world.
Surely the ‘last days’ and the ‘perilous times,’
so expressly spoken of by The Spirit,
are come
(1 Timothy 4:1).
The flood gates of heresy are broken up,
and are pouring forth their deadly poison
in various streams through the land.
In a more daring and open manner
the denial of The Person, Godhead,
and Ministry of The Holy Spirit
is come forward and indicates
the tempest to follow.
In such a season it is needful to contend,
and that,
‘earnestly, for the Faith
Once Delivered to the Saints.’
Now in a more awakened manner
ought the people of God
to remember the Words of Jesus, and
‘to hear
what the Spirit Says to the churches.’”
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So again, in 1880,
George Smeaton wrote,
“We may safely affirm
that The Doctrine of The Spirit
is almost entirely ignored.”
And let us add,
Wherever little Honor is done to the Spirit,
there is grave cause
to suspect the genuineness
of any ‘profession’ of Christianity.
Against this, it may he replied,
Such charges as the above
no longer hold good.
Would to God they did not, but they do.
While it be true that
during the past two generations
much has been written
and spoken on The Person of The Spirit,
yet, for the most part,
it has been of a sadly inadequate
and erroneous character.
Much dross has been mingled with the gold.
A fearful amount of unscriptural nonsense
and fanaticism has marred the testimony.
Furthermore, it cannot be denied
that it is no longer generally recognized
that
Supernatural Agency
is Imperatively Required
in order for
The Redemptive Work of Christ
to Be Applied to sinners.
Rather do actions show
‘it is now widely held’
that ‘if unregenerate souls
are instructed in the letter of Scripture’
their own willpower
is sufficient to enable them to
“decide for Christ.”
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( ALAN says, THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED,
NO ONE HAS EVER ‘DECIDED FOR CHRIST’
by THEIR “OWN WILLPOWER”.
“You Will Not Come to Me”, Jesus Said.
“And you Will Not Come to Me,
that you might have Life.”
John 5:40
That is ‘The Will” of a Lost Soul.
That soul is DEAD to God
and has NO POWER.
Adam LOST The Spirit of God
and he passed his NATURE,
as a Sinner, onto ALL of MANKIND.
That is “an enormous secret”
to UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE,
“YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN”,
by….??
THE HOLY SPRIT of GOD.
Any IMAGINED ‘spark of divinity’
in a lost soul
is an
ETERNALLY FATAL
FIGMENT of THE IMAGINATION
USING A SIN-CURSED MIND.
So then it is not of him that wills,
So then it is not of him that wills,
“So then it is not of him that wills,
nor of him that runneth,
but of God that Shows Mercy.”
Romans 9:16.
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Matthew 11:27;
All Things Have Been Entrusted to Me
by My Father.
No one knows the Son
except the Father,
and no one knows the Father
except the Son
and those to whom
the Son Chooses to Reveal Him.
Ephesians 2:8;
Because it is by Grace
you Have Been Saved through Faith,
and this not from yourselves;
it is The Gift of God,
Psalm 110:3;
Your people Will be Willing
in The Day of Your Power, …
Isaiah 65:1;
I am sought of them
that asked not for Me;
I Am Found of them…
Philippians 2:13;
Because it is God which Works
in you both
To Will
and
To Do of His Good Pleasure.
James 1:18;
Of His Own Will
Begat he us with The Word of Truth,
that we should …
1 Peter 2:9,10;
But you are a Chosen Generation,
a Royal Priesthood, an Holy Nation, …
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Book 1—Chapter 31, by John Gill
THE DISTINCT PERSONALITY,
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1b. Personal Actions
are Ascribed to The Holy Spirit;
The Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit; The Spirit of God
is Said to be
A Reprover and Convincer of Individual sins.
The Holy Spirit; The Spirit of God is Said
to Reprove or Convince the World of sin,
Righteousness, and Judgment
John16:8;
“And when He is Come,
He Will Reprove the world of sin,
and of Righteousness, and of Judgment.
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The Holy Spirit that:
Convinces a sin-cursed soul of their mistakes,
and Brings them
to a Sense and Acknowledgment of their sin,
and to The Grace of Repentance for their sins,
must be a Person,
and not a mere name and character.
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The Holy Spirit; The Spirit of God
is Spoken of as a Teacher,
that Teaches All Things,
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THE HOLY SPIRIT
Teaches All Things
MEANS,
All Doctrines necessary to Salvation,
and All the Duties of Religion:
An human teacher is ‘a person’,
and much more
a DIVINE TEACHER is A PERSON,
John 14:26;
“But the Comforter,
which is The Holy Ghost,
Whom the Father Will Send in My Name,
He Will Teach you All Things,
and Bring All Things to your remembrance, whatsoever I Have Said to you.”
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1 John 2:27;
“But the Anointing
which you Have Received of Him
Lives in you,
and you do not need any man teach you:
but as The Same Anointing Teaches you
of All Things, and is Truth,
and is no lie,
and even as He Has Taught you,
you Will Live in Him.”
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THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD, WHO is GOD
AND is Promised as a Comforter,
in John 16:7;
“Nevertheless I Tell you The Truth;
It is Expedient for you that I Go Away:
because if I Do Not Go Away,
The Comforter Will Not Come to you;
but if I Depart,
I Will Send Him to you.”
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THE HOLY SPIRIT’S ANSWER
to BEING SENT by JESUS
as THE COMFORTER
was
by Shedding Abroad The Love of God
in the hearts of the Lord’s people;
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THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD, WHO is GOD
is a Comforter to God’s Children,
as Jesus Promised,
by Taking the Things of Christ,
and Showing them to them;
by Applying to God’s Children
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises;
by Declaring to God’s Children
The Pardon of God’s Children’s sins;
by Pronouncing the Sentence of Justification
in God’s Children consciences;
and by Being The Earnest and Seal
of God’s Children’s Future Happiness;
all which are
PERSONAL ACTIONS,
ACCOMPLISHED by GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
is One of the Three Witnesses in Heaven,
1 John 5:6 & 7;
“…This is the One
Who Came by water and blood,
Jesus Christ—
not by water alone,
but by water and blood.
And it is The Spirit Who Testifies to this,
because the Spirit is The Truth.
7 Because there are Three that Testify:”
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It is THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Who Particularly Testifies of Jesus Christ,
as THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Testifies of JESUS’ Deity,
THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Testifies of JESUS’ Sonship,
THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Testifies of JESUS’ Offices
and
THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Testifies of JESUS’ Grace,
John 15:26;
“But when the Comforter is Come,
Whom I Will Send to you from the Father,
even The Spirit of Truth,
which Proceeds from the Father,
He Will Testify of Me:”
And THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
Bears Witness to the Spirits of Saints,
that they are the children of God,
Romans 8:16;
“The Spirit Himself
Bears Witness with our Spirit,
that we are the children of God:”
which a mere name and character
could not do; but a Person COULD;
THAT ‘PERSON’
WHO DOES These Things
is The THIRD PERSON
of The TRIUNE GODHEAD,
GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT
is Represented not only as
a Spirit of Grace and Supplication,
and an Helper
of the infirmities of the Saints in Prayer,
but GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT
ALSO is Represented
as Making Intercession for the Saints,
according to The Will of God
Zechariah 12:10;
“And I Will Pour on the house of David,
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
The Spirit of Grace and of Supplications:
and they will look upon Me
Whom they have pierced,
and they Will mourn for Him,
as one mourneth for his only son,
and will be in bitterness for Him,
as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
Romans 8:26 & 27;
“Likewise the Spirit also
Helps our infirmities:
because we do not know
what we should pray for as we ought:
but The Spirit Himself
Makes Intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered….
“And He that Searches the hearts
Knows what is The Mind of the Spirit,
because He Makes
Intercession for the Saints According to The Will of God.”
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Now, just as
The Advocacy and Intercession
of Jesus Christ,
Prove Jesus Christ to be a Person,
and
that Jesus Christ
is a Distinct Divine Person from the Father,
with Whom, God the Father,
Jesus Christ Intercedes;
So the Intercession Performed
by The Holy Spirit,
Equally Proves
The Holy Spirit’s Personality,
even
The Holy Spirit’s Distinct Personality:
to which may be added, that
The Holy Spirit
is the Giver of Gifts to men,
whereby they are Qualified
for the Work of the Ministry,
1 Corithians 12:8-11;
8 “Because to one is Given,
by the Spirit,
the Word of Wisdom;
to another, the Word of Knowledge
by The Same Spirit;
9 “To another, Faith
by The Same Spirit;
to another, the Gifts of Healing
by The Same Spirit;
10 “To another, the Working of Miracles*;
to another, Prophecy;
to another, Discerning of Spirits;
to another, Various Kinds of Tongues;
to another, The Interpretation of Tongues.
11 “But all these Work
that One and The Very Same
{Self-Same} Spirit,
Dividing to every man personally
as He Will.”
*Alan’s Note:
THE HOLY SPIRIT
and THE WORD of GOD
CAN DO ANYTHING
( not sinful, of course)
That is a Christians Job,
to Pray, Believe, Have Faith
and WORK THE WORD.
In the Days of the new Testament,
Jesus Was Able to Perform Miracles.
That Gift and Other “Miraculous Gifts”
were COMMUNICATED to THE APOSTLES,
including Paul who was bitten
by a poisonous snake
and just shook it off.
That Gift and Other “Miraculous Gifts”
were ALSO COMMUNICATED to THE SEVENTY.
THAT IS IT.
THERE WERE
and ARE NO MORE INDIVIDUALS
with “Miraculous Gifts”.
The Bible used those “Miraculous Gifts”,
to Testify and Demonstrate
THE POWER and AUTHORITY of GOD.
Once The Bible was COMPLETE,
THE BIBLE Testifies and Demonstrates
THE POWER and AUTHORITY of GOD.
That is why THERE ARE
NO “Miraculous Gifts”, today.
If someone Had The “Miraculous Gift”
of “HEALING”, for example,
they better head down
to Saint Jude Children’s Hospital.
For Starters.
The Bible Said they were ‘done away;,
thus I do not know
of ANY evidence they exist
and I do not believe
there is ANY Evidence they exist,
because they can’t.
There is A BIBLE
and THE HOLY SPIRIT.
TAKE THEM to SAINT JUDES
if someone Has The “Miraculous Gift”
of “HEALING”.
Some fantasize
that they see their name
in the word, ‘them’,
used in the later portion of Mark 16.
The word, ‘them’
is used multiple times in that chapter,
always referring to ‘them’, The Disciples,
who had had ‘unbelief’.
When Jesus Said. in Mark 16:17 & 18;
17 “And these signs
Will Follow them that Believe:”
HE WAS TALKING to “THEM”.
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Back in Mark 16:14;
“Afterward He Appeared to The Eleven…”
THAT’S “THEM”.
“… as they sat eating {at food {meat}},
and Upbraided them with their unbelief
and hardness of heart,
because they believed not them
who had seen Him after He Was Risen.”
JESUS SCOLDED THEM
for “THEIR UNBELIEF”.
Now, what about “THEM”,
who Now BELIEVE??
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When Jesus Said. in Mark 16:17 & 18;
17a “And these signs
Will Follow them that Believe:”
HE WAS TALKING to “THEM”.
THE ELEVEN.
“Mark 16:17b;
“In My name Will they”
( THE ELEVEN/ and later, THE SEVENTY)
“Cast Out Demons {devils};”
they Will speak with new tongues;”
( THE ELEVEN/ and later, THE SEVENTY)
18 “They Will take up serpents;”
( THE ELEVEN/ and later, THE SEVENTY)
and if they drink any deadly thing,
it will not hurt them;
( THE ELEVEN/ and later, THE SEVENTY).
they Will lay hands on the sick,
and they Will Recover.
( THE ELEVEN/ and later, THE SEVENTY).
I haven’t seen
anybody else’s name there
that Jesus Bestowed with ANY
“Miraculous Gift” of “HEALING”.
If ANYBODY HAS IT,
IT’S TIME to STEP UP:
at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
http://www.google.com/search?q=SAINT+JUDES+CHILDRENS+HOSPITAL
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The Holy Spirit is The Supernatural Power
that Calls preachers
to the Work of the Ministry,
and
The Holy Spirit
Appoints and Sets them
as overseers of particular churches,
to Feed them
with Knowledge and Understanding,
Acts 13:2;
2 “As they ministered to the Lord,
and fasted,
The Holy Spirit Said,
Separate Me Barnabas and Saul
for The Work to Which
I Have Called them.”
Acts 20:28;
28 “Take heed, therefore,
to yourselves, and to all the Flock,
over which The Holy Spirit
Hath Made you Overseers,
to Feed the church of God,
which He Has Purchased
with His Own Blood.”
and, to observe no more,
The Holy Spirit is often Described
as an Inhabitant in the Saints.
The Holy Spirit Lives in the bodies,
OF THE SAINTS, GOD’S CHILDREN
and in their souls,
and The Holy Spirit
Will Always Live in them,
until The Holy Spirit
has Brought them up
for that Self-Same Event,
Eternal Glory and Happiness;
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Now to Live with any person,
or in any place, is ‘a personal action’,
and describes ‘a person’.
In this case, Living with a person,
or in any place,
Describes THE PERSONAL ACTIONS,
of THE THIRD DIVINE PERSON
of THE ETERNAL TRIUNE GODHEAD,
GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT.
John 14:16, 17;
16 And I will pray the Father,
and He shall give you another Comforter,
that He may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth;
Whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth Him not,
neither knoweth Him;
but ye know Him;
for He dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you.”
1 Corithians 3:16, 6:19;
16 Know ye not
that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?
19 What?
Know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit
Who is in you,
Whom ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
Romans 8:9, 11;
9 But ye are not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit,
if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you.
Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ,
he is none of His.
11 But if the Spirit of Him
that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you,
He that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also give life
to {quicken} your mortal bodies
by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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Adapted from
A BODY OF DOCTRINAL DIVINITY
Book 1—Chapter 31, by John Gill
THE DISTINCT PERSONALITY,
AND DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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