The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit

• Part 1
• Being Behavior

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Who is the Holy Spirit?

• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Gods Radar Beam
• One of Many Manifestations of God
• Manifestation How God Appears or Operates
  in the World
• Part of God Himself
• Which View Is Scripturally Correct?

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The Godhead
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The Godhead

• The Father
• The Son
• The Holy Spirit
• Distinct Separate Spiritual Beings
• Existing Together as Deity the One God
• United in Purpose and Will

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The Scriptures Prove

• The Holy Spirit is a Living Spiritual Being not
  an idea, a thing, or just a part of the Father.
• The Holy Spirit has intelligence, feelings, and
  behavior consistent with a sentient, rational
  being.

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Sentient Being

• Conscious, aware
• Having senses
• Able to experience by feeling perception

Rational Being Thinking Being

• Perception and Cognition
• Comprehension, understanding, memory
• Reason, judgment, decision, action

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Bible Proofs In This Lesson

• The Holy Spirit has
• Traits of
• Emotions of
• Behaves (acts) like
• a Sentient Being

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Also In This Lesson

• The Holy Spirit can be Sinned Against
• The Holy Spirit has the - power of God
• Showing clearly that the Holy Spirit is God

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Some Preliminaries

• Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit?
• Holy Spirit!
• Person or Higher Being?
• Higher Being!

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The Holy SpiritPart 1 - Being Behavior

• Traits of
• The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit has the traits of a rational
being

• He has awareness or a mind (Romans 827)
• He has understanding and knowledge (1
  Corinthians 211)
• He demonstrates intent will
• (1 Corinthians 1211)

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Romans 826-27

• Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.
  For 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.
• Now He who searches the hearts knows what the
  mind of the Spirit is, because He makes
  intercession for the saints according to the will
  of God.

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1 Corinthians 29-11

• 9 But as it is written Eye has not seen, nor ear
  heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The
  things which God has prepared for those who love
  Him."
• 10 But God has revealed them to us through His
  Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
  the deep things of God.
• 11 For what man knows the things of a man except
  the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no
  one knows the things of God except the Spirit of
  God.

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1 Corinthians 1211

• 1 Cor. 12 is the great chapter on spiritual
  gifts. After providing a list of such gifts, Paul
  says
• But one and the same Spirit works all these
  things, distributing to each one individually as
  He wills.

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The Holy Spirit of God

• A Will of His own
• Understanding Knowledge of His own
• A Mind of His own
• The TRAITS of
• a Living, Thinking, Rational BEING!!

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The Holy SpiritPart 1 - Being Behavior

• Emotions
• of
• The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit has the emotions of a rational
being

• He feels love and affection (Romans 1530)
• He can feel sorrow and grief
• (Isaiah 6310, Ephesians 430)
• He can cry out (Galatians 46)

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Romans 1530-31

• Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus
  Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that
  you strive together with me in prayers to God for
  me,
• that I may be delivered from those in Judea who
  do not believe, and that my service for Jerusalem
  may be acceptable to the saints

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Ephesians 429-30

• Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth,
  but what is good for necessary edification, that
  it may impart grace to the hearers.
• And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom
  you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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Isaiah 6310

• Isaiah, speaking of the sins of Israel, says
• But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit
  So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
  And He fought against them.

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Galatians 46-7

• And because you are sons, God has sent forth the
  Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,
  "Abba, Father!"
• Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son,
  and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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Rational Emotions

• Love and affection for us
• Sorrow and grief over us
• Cries out for us
• A Living, Feeling, Rational BEING!!

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The Holy SpiritPart 1 - Being Behavior

• Behavior
• of
• The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit behaves like a sentient being

• He can speak - (1 Timothy 41 Matthew 1020
  Acts 24, 829, 1019
• Hebrews 1015-16)
• He can teach (John 1426)
• He testifies (bears witness) - (John 1526)
• He guides, hears, and declares
• (John 1612-13)
• He lead the apostles in the early church
• (Acts 829, 166-7)

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The Holy Spirit Speaks Acts 8

• 26 - Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
  saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the
  road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
  This is desert.
• 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of
  Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under
  Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had
  charge of all her treasury, and had come to
  Jerusalem to worship,
• 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he
  was reading Isaiah the prophet.
• 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and
  overtake this chariot."

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The Holy Spirit Speaks Acts 10

• After Peters vision on the rooftop before the
  conversion of Cornelius -
• 19 While Peter thought about the vision, the
  Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are
  seeking you.
• 20 Arise therefore, go down and go with them,
  doubting nothing for I have sent them."

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John 1426

• "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
  Father will send in My name, He will teach you
  all things, and bring to your remembrance all
  things that I said to you.

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John 1526

• But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to
  you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who
  proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

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John 1612-14

• 12 "I still have many things to say to you, but
  you cannot bear them now.
• 13 "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has
  come, He will guide you into all truth for He
  will not speak on His own authority, but whatever
  He hears He will speak and He will tell you
  things to come.
• 14 "He will glorify Me, for He will take of what
  is Mine and declare it to you.

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Acts 166-7

• Pauls 2nd Missionary Journey -
• 6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the
  region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the
  Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.
• 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go
  into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit
  them.
• Clear, directive intervention!

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The Holy Spirits Actions

• Speaks
• Teaches Testifies
• Guides, Hears, Declares
• Guides Leads directs the way of disciples
• Conclusive evidence of the mind will of the
  Holy Spirit a rational Being!

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Other Behaviors

• He intercedes with God for Gods children
  (Romans 826-27)
• He can strive with mankind (Genesis 63)
• He searches all things (1 Corinthians
  210)
• He has fellowship with Christians
  (Philippians 21-2, 2 Corinthians 1314)
• He comforts the servants of the Lord
  (Acts 931, cf. 1Thessalonians 418)

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The Holy SpiritPart 1 - Being Behavior

• Sins
• against
• The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit can beSinned Against

• Man can blaspheme the Holy Spirit
  (Matthew 1231-32, Mark 328-30) Note blasphemy
  is a sin committed against Deity only.
• Man can lie to the Holy Spirit (Acts 53)
• Man can resist the Holy Spirit (Acts 751)
• Man can insult (despise) the Holy Spirit
• (Hebrews 1029)

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Mens Lies - Acts 53-4

• Ananias Sapphira -
• 3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled
  your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep
  back part of the price of the land for yourself?
• 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And
  after it was sold, was it not in your own
  control? Why have you conceived this thing in
  your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

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Mens Resistance Acts 751b - 53

• Stephens Defense -
• 51You always resist the Holy Spirit as your
  fathers did, so do you.
• 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not
  persecute? And they killed those who foretold the
  coming of the Just One, of whom you now have
  become the betrayers and murderers,
• 53 who have received the law by the direction of
  angels and have not kept it."

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Mens Disdain - Hebrews 1028-30

• 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies
  without mercy on the testimony of two or three
  witnesses.
• 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
  will he be thought worthy who has trampled the
  Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
  covenant by which he was sanctified a common
  thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
• 30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine,
  I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The
  LORD will judge His people."

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Sins Against the Spirit

• Blasphemy
• Lying to the Spirit
• Resisting the power of the Spirit
• Insulting or Disrespecting the Spirit
• When we sin, we sin against God!

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The Holy SpiritPart 1 - Being Behavior

• Powers
• of
• The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Spirit has and shares the Power of Deity
(God)

• The Holy Spirit was present and active in
  creation
• (Genesis 11-3, Job 2613, 334)
• He is all-knowing (omniscient)
• (1 Corinthians 211)
• He exists everywhere (omnipresent) (Psalm
  1397-10)
• He is all-powerful (omnipotent)
• (Job 2613, 334 Genesis 12)

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Creation Genesis 11-3

• 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and
  the earth.
• 2 The earth was without form, and void and
  darkness was on the face of the deep. And the
  Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
  waters.
• 3 Then God said, "Let there be light" and there
  was light.

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All knowing 1 Corinthians 211

• For what man knows the things of a man except
  the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no
  one knows the things of God except the Spirit of
  God.
• If God knows all things, and if the Holy Spirit
  knows what God does, then the Holy Spirit knows
  all things.

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Exists Everywhere Psalm 139

• 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I
  flee from Your presence?
• 8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there If I
  make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
• 9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell
  in the uttermost parts of the sea,
• 10 Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your
  right hand shall hold me.

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All-Powerful Job 2613

• By His Spirit He adorned the heavens
• And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face
  of the waters Gen. 12

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Other Powers the Holy Spirit Shares with God

• He regenerates through baptism-
• (John 35)
• He was active in the resurrection of Jesus
  (Romans 811)
• He was active in miracles
• (Matthew 1228, 1 Corinthians 124-11)
• Jesus was begotten by the Holy Spirit (Matthew
  120) but He is called the Son of God
  (Luke 135)

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Conclusion the Holy Spirit

• Has the traits, emotions, and behavior of a
  living, reasoning Being
• Can be sinned against by mankind
• Possesses the powers of God
• The Holy Spirit is a living spiritual Being who
  is part of Deity the Godhead!