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い >> Dear friend, thank you
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for joining "It
Is Written Canada."
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We have been going
through a series studying
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the doctrine of the Trinity.
Is the Trinity true? Is it a
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biblical doctrine? To help me
discuss this further, once
again, I have joining me Dr.
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John Peckham. Dr. Peckham, thank
you for being here with "It Is
Written Canada" once again.
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>> Thank you, Chris. >> Now, Dr.
Peckham, we're going to jump
right into things here.
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Let's maybe take... We've had a
number of shows here where we've
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talked about a variety of
things. Maybe let's take a few
minutes just to summarize, in
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brief, everything we've talked
about up and to this point.
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And, to the viewer, if you've
missed any of the programs
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that we've been talking about,
you can go to our archives at
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www.youtube.com/iiwcanada.
But, Dr. Peckham,
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why don't we review a
little bit to solidify
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some of the principles
that we've talked about,
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to build on the
foundation as we jump into
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and delve into
this further? >> Yeah.
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We've seen so far that Scripture
teaches that there is one
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and only one God. >> Yes.
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>> And yet, God is
three distinct persons --
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the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. And we have seen that
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this plurality and unity is
clear in the Old Testament. Then
in the New Testament,
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it's clear that God is Father,
Son and Spirit. We saw on our
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last programs that Jesus is
fully divine, became human in
the plan of redemption without
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becoming any less than fully
divine, and then is elevated
again upon completion of the
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plan of redemption and remains
fully divine, and His Kingdom
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has no end. >> And so we've seen
all of this coming right out of
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the Scripture. >> That's right.
>> But where we're going to
start today is, you know,
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there is actually controversy.
Individuals actually have
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taught, are teaching, in
addition to the fact that there
have been some movies
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produced that talk about the
doctrine of the Trinity being
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something that's really actually
imposed upon the Scripture, and
there are even some that
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will go down the road of
conspiracy theory and say that
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Constantine put the Trinity
doctrine together and put it to
a vote, and then all of a sudden
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we have the doctrine of the
Trinity. >> Yes, yes, yes. >>
What do you say about that?
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>> Yeah, so there was a Council
of Nicaea in AD 325, and the
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main issue at that Council was
Arianism that we've spoken about
in a previous episode,
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that claimed that Jesus was
created by the Father, the Son
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was created by the Father, at
some distant time in the past.
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And it's true that some
Christians had adopted this
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misunderstanding, and the
Council was called to clarify
this, but some of the
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conspiracies that people might
hear out there make claims like,
"This was the result of a vote,"
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and it was not a result of a
vote. They weren't voting upon
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making Christ divine. It was
already clear that He was divine
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from earlier, in earlier
writings of Christians, even
outside of Scripture,
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that they believed Christ was
fully God before that, and as
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we've seen, there's already
sufficient evidence in the New
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Testament itself, which is the
primary witness, but it wasn't
the result of a close vote at
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all. It was a landslide. There's
only a handful of dissenting
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voices out of the leaders of the
Church that were called together
at the Council of Nicaea
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in AD 325. So the theory
that that was when Christ became
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divine or that it was some
result of political machinations
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is just false. Now, we can prove
that historically. Even if the
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biblical evidence... Even beyond
the biblical evidence that Jesus
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is God according to the Bible...
>> Yes. >> ...we have quotations
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from early Christian writers,
often called the early Church
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fathers, that testify that they
believed that Jesus was God and
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fully God. Now, I don't mention
these quotations in a way that
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is going to vest authority in
them as if they are Scripture or
inspired, but this is a
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historical testimony that
Christians already believed
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this. >> Sure. >> It wasn't the
result of some later vote or
later council. So one of these
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is from Ignatius of Antioch,
writing around 105 AD. That's
very, very early...
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>> Yes. >> ...and he writes,
"God himself was manifested
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in human form," and he's writing
about Jesus. I mean, that's a
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clear statement, extremely
early. >> And so we have this
historian, Irenaeus,
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writing...I'm sorry, Ignatius.
>> This is Ignatius, yes. >>
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This is Ignatius, and this is
Ignatius of Antioch, writing
clearly, and so... and you said
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something that I really want
our viewer to understand because
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this has been popularized, and
I'm not going to mention the
book, very popularized
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in a best-selling novel...
>> Yes. >> ...but a novel
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that included in it historical
facts, but one of the twistings
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of that novel is that somehow,
at the Council of Nicaea, they
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voted the divinity of Christ. >>
Right. >> First of all, let's be
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clear. You can't vote something
that is already true. >> Right.
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>> Jesus is, Jesus was, Jesus
always has been divine long
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before any vote was taken place.
>> Yes. That's right. >> The
vote was actually a vote
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to settle a dispute that was
happening in the Church. >> Yes.
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Yes. >> But what we see, though,
is that long before that,
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Ignatius, writing in 105, says,
"Hey, Jesus became human. God
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became human." Are there any
other historical references to
help us see that this is
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not some later development
imposed upon the Bible? >> Yes.
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There are many others, and I'm
just going to mention a handful.
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Many come long before 325, which
is when the Council of Nicaea
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took place. >> Okay. >> So
that first one was already 105.
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These conspiracy theories and
novels and other things, they
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have some historical details,
but many other claims are just
completely unhistorical
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and are falsified very easily.
So Justin Martyr is another
early Christian writing
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around AD 160, and he says, "The
Father of the universe has a
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Son, and he is even God." And
this is an expression by which
they meant fully God.
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>> Yes. >> You know, sometimes
they used the expression very
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God... >> Yes. >> ...but they
don't mean God in an extreme
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sense. They mean fully, right?
>> Yes. >> He's not any less
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than God. Another is Irenaeus
writing around AD 180. He says,
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"He is God, for the name
Emmanuel indicates this," and
he's right. The name Emmanuel,
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in the New Testament, just
means, "God with us." >> Yeah.
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>> It's just a Hebrew term.
Emmanuel means, "God with us,"
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literally. >> Yes. >> Another is
Tertullian, who writes around AD
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200, and he just says,
"Christ, our God." >> Hmm.
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>> This is explicit testimony.
Origen, in AD 225, he says, "No
one should be offended
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that the savior is also God." In
AD 304, still over 2 decades for
the Council of Nicaea,
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Cyprian writes, "Jesus
Christ, our Lord and God."
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And Lactantius, in the same
year, 304 AD, writes, "We
believe him to be God."
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So long before the Council of
Nicaea and leading up to it,
there is testimony among
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Christians, leading Christians,
that they already knew that
Christ was and is God,
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and they knew that from the
testimony of the apostles, which
is in the New Testament.
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>> So here's where we have
arrived. No argument, the Father
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is God. >> Mm-hmm. >> The Bible
is abundantly clear, the Son,
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the second person, is God. >>
Mm-hmm. >> And so, while, let's
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tackle what I shall maybe say is
a little bit of the elephant in
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the room, and that is the Holy
Spirit. What about the Holy
Spirit? What's the deal
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with the Holy Spirit? So
many people, so many teachers,
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speaking of the Holy Spirit as
a divine essence, a feeling, the
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conscience. What is the Holy
Spirit? >> Yeah. Well, for that
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answer, let's go directly to the
Gospel of John. >> Okay. >>
Because Jesus introduces
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the Holy Spirit to his apostles.
It's not...The Spirit is spoken
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of in the Bible before that, as
we will see, and it's not as if
the Spirit came into existence
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at that time or received some
new status at that particular
time, but he introduces the
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Spirit in the book of John,
beginning in chapter 14. >>
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Okay. >> And, in fact, if you
read John 14-16, I have to say,
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it's hard for me to know how I
could read those chapters
without understanding
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at least the basic concept
of the Trinity... >> Yes.
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>> ...because it's just all
the way through these chapters.
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But John 14, beginning
in verse 16, and Jesus says,
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"And I will pray the Father,
that He will give you another
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helper, that He may abide with
you forever. The Spirit of
Truth, whom the world cannot
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receive because it neither sees
Him nor knows Him, but you know
Him, for He dwells with you
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and will be in you." And then
verse 18, "I will not leave you
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orphans. I will come to you." In
other words, Jesus says, He's
going to go away, right?
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He's going to be crucified. He's
going to resurrect. He's going
to ascend to Heaven,
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and He says, "The
Father is going to send you a
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comforter"... >> Yes. >>
..."another one like myself." It
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says helper in this translation.
Many say comforter. "One like
myself that is going
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to take my place among you."
>> Yes. >> No one could do that,
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except one that was God,
right? >> Yes. >> If I said,
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"Okay, well, Jesus is leaving,
but I'm going to send you John
or Chris or anyone else"...
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>> Right. >> ...this is
not going to do the job.
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>> Yes. >> But He
gives them the Holy Spirit
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who can continue with divine
power as they go out to fulfill
the Great Commission.
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>> Now, it's very interesting
because in that context, Jesus
himself actually tells
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His disciples, "It's to your
advantage that I go." >> That's
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right. That's right. >> Now,
how could that be advantageous?
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They're walking and talking
with Jesus. He's right there
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in their very presence...
>> Yes, yes. >> ...and so, Dr.
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Peckham, we're talking about
this. The Comforter is going to
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be sent. How is it advantageous
to the disciples who are in the
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personal presence of Jesus?
>> Yes. >> How is it possible
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that Jesus would say, "It's to
your advantage that I go"? >>
And this goes right back
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to the Great Commission, which,
by the way, we've also seen as
one of the evidences
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of the Trinity itself. >>
Yes. >> They're there to make
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disciples and baptize them in
the name of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus, in his incarnate state,
could not go with each one of
them where they were going
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at the same time, limited
by human physicality. >> Yes.
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>> But the Holy Spirit, who can
be everywhere at once, could go
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wherever they go with them as
they spread the gospel to the
entire world. >> And let's kind
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of dwell there for just a moment
in case somebody missed that
because you can slide over that
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and not understand what we just
said. The technical term for
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that, I believe, is
omnipresence. >> That's right.
>> So is omnipresence, then,
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a divine characteristic of
the Holy Spirit? >> Yes, it is.
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If the Holy Spirit is
omnipresent, this itself will
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actually manifest His divinity,
and there are many other places
that also manifest that the
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Holy Spirit is divine, right?
And these are our two questions,
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let's remember. "Is the Holy
Spirit fully God?" and that's
the question we're going to
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answer with a few texts now,
and also, "Is the Holy Spirit a
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person?" right? So some people
say, "Well, the Holy Spirit is
God, but just not really a
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person, just a force of
God or something else." >> Yes.
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>> We'll come to that in a
moment, but first, is the Holy
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Spirit actually divine? And the
Bible does teach this. Let's go
to the book of Acts.
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>> Okay. >> We're going
to start in Acts, chapter 1,
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where we see Jesus Himself again
testifying about this Spirit
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who was to come upon them in
power that is on the apostles.
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Acts chapter 1,
beginning in verse 4. >> Okay.
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>> And it says, "And being
assembled together with them, he
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commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem." >> Mm-hmm. >>
This is Jesus commanding,
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"'but to wait for the promise of
the Father, which, he said, you
have heard from me.
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For John truly baptized with
water, but you shall be baptized
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with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now.' Therefore,
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when they had come together,
they asked him, saying, Lord,
will you at this time
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restore the kingdom of Israel?
And he said to them, it is not
for you to know times
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or seasons which the Father has
put in his own authority, but
you shall receive power
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when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you, and you shall be
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witnesses to me in Jerusalem and
in all of Judea and Samaria and
to the end of the earth."
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So here, again, you have
the Spirit who is to come
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to give them power for the sake
of evangelizing the world... >>
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Yes. >> ...which is what the
Holy Spirit could do, being able
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to be with them everywhere in a
way that Jesus, in His incarnate
state, was not. >> And I think
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it's important. We're going to
talk about the Holy Spirit as a
person, and while it may not be
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explicit here, it is implicit.
There is a conversation about
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the Father and the things in His
authority, "but you shall
receive power when the Holy
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Spirit has come." >> Yes. Yes.
That's right. >> And so it is
being talked about by Jesus,
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another person of the
Godhead... >> Yes, that's right.
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>> ...as a separate person, not
just a force or essence of God
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when we discuss the Holy Spirit.
>> Yes. It makes the most sense
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to read all of these texts when
you understand the Holy Spirit
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as a person, but we see some
explicit texts that show that
the Holy Spirit has
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characteristics that it would
only make sense to attribute to
a person. Before we go there,
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let's see, explicitly, the
divinity of the Spirit in Acts
chapter 5. >> Very good.
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>> Acts chapter 5 is this story
that some may be familiar with,
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as the story of Ananias and
Sapphira. >> Yes. >> And in the
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story, Ananias and Sapphira
had made a pledge to give their
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possessions over to the Church
for the support of the ministry.
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>> Mm-hmm. >> Later, they decide
to only give some of what they
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had pledged but pretend they
were still giving what they
originally had pledged.
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>> Yes. Mm-hmm. >>
And this is what happens,
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in this context, in Acts 5:3.
Peter says, "Ananias, why has
Satan filled your heart
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to lie to the Holy Spirit and
keep back part of the price of
the land for yourself?
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While it remained, was it not
your own? And after it was sold,
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was it not in your own control?
Why have you conceived this
thing in your heart?
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You have not lied to men, but
to God." So in parallel, Ananias
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lied to the Holy Spirit, and in
verse 4, it says he lied to God,
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which shows you that the Holy
Spirit is... >> God. >> ...God.
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By the way, again, you can't
really lie to a force. >> That's
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right. >> Right? I can't
lie to the camera in the studio.
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>> Right. That's
right. That's right.
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So once again, we are seeing
these divine attributes of the
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Holy Spirit. What are some of
the other divine attributes that
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we can find? >> Another one is
in Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 9.
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>> All right. We'll go to
Hebrews chapter 9 to further
understand some of these divine
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attributes. >> Hebrews 9:14. >>
Okay. >> And Hebrews 9:14 picks
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up in the middle of a sentence,
so I'll start with verse 13.
"For if the blood of bulls
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and goats and the ashes of a
heifer sprinkling the unclean
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sanctifies for the purifying of
the flesh, how much more shall
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the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered
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himself without spot to God,
cleanse your conscience from
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dead works to serve the living
God?" So here it's talking about
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Christ's sacrifice being the
much better efficacious
sacrifice than any other
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sacrifice. >> Yes. >> But it's
offered... In that context, it
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refers to the eternal Spirit.
"Through the eternal Spirit, he
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offered himself," which tells us
the Spirit is eternal. >> Yes.
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>> But no one is eternal except
for God because everything else
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has been created by God, so this
is a divine attribute. Another
is the knowledge of God
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that is expressed in places
like 1 Corinthians 2. >> Okay.
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>> Go to 1 Corinthians 2,
beginning in chapter 10, 1
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Corinthians 2, beginning in
verse 10. >> All right. >> And
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it says, "But God has revealed
these things to us through His
Spirit: for the Spirit searches
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all things, yes, the deep things
of God." So the Spirit has
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divine knowledge. In fact,
all things -- has omniscience.
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He knows all things. He knows
all the things of God because He
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is God. We already saw in John
14:16 that He is sent as another
comforter, another helper,
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to take Jesus' place among them.
Only a divine person could do
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that. >> And I think it's
important, if we can just pause
there for a minute, that word
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there, for comforter or helper,
is the New Testament Greek word
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parakletos... >> Yes. >>
...which, later on, in 1 John
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2:1, actually refers to when it
speaks of Jesus as advocate...
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>> Yes. >> ...it's
that same exact word.
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>> Yes. >> So we've
already established it.
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Jesus is divine, and now
the Holy Spirit is demonstrating
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some of those exact
attributes... >> Right. >> ...to
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demonstrate His divinity.
>> That's right. >> What other
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texts? I think you were going to
go to the book of Luke? >> Luke
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1. >> Okay, so we go back to
the Gospels. We go to Luke 1:35.
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>> Yes, and here we see about
the power of the Spirit, which
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we already saw a little bit in
Acts 1. Luke 1:35, and this is
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in the context of Mary and the
birth being announced to her.
Luke 1:35, "And the angel
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answered and said to her, the
Holy Spirit will come upon you,
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and the power of the highest
will overshadow you: therefore
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also, that holy one who is to be
born will be called the Son of
God." So the Holy Spirit is
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going to come, and the power of
God will come upon her, right?
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This Holy Spirit has the power
of God. This is, again, a divine
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attribute. We also know that He
shares the name of God because,
again, as we've already
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mentioned, disciples are to be
made and baptized in the name of
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the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. We also saw the Holy
Spirit at the baptism of
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Jesus... >> Yes. >>
...descending as a dove as Jesus
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was baptized, and the Father
says, "This is My beloved Son
and whom I am well-pleased."
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If that wasn't enough, though,
there's a number of other
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passages, and I'm just going
to take you to Acts... >> Okay.
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>> ...another book written by
Luke. We're going to go to Acts
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28. >> Okay, Acts chapter 28.
>> Acts chapter 28. Now, in some
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translations of the Bible,
sometimes you see words that are
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in all caps, like the New
American Standard version does
it. Some others do that as well.
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When you see that in your Bible,
that is typically to show you
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that the quotation is from the
Old Testament... >> Okay. >>
...and that's what is
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happening here in verses 25-27.
In verse 25 of Acts 28, it says,
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"So when they did not agree
among themselves, they departed
after Paul had said one word.
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The Holy Spirit spoke rightly
through Isaiah the prophet to
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our Father saying, Go to the
people and say, Hearing you will
hear and shall not understand,"
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and it goes on from there, but
the key for us here is that they
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quote... Paul says the Holy
Spirit spoke through Isaiah. >>
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Mm-hmm. >> But that quotation is
from Isaiah 6, and if we were to
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look up Isaiah 6, Isaiah 6 would
say, the Lord or Yahweh said,
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which means that the Holy Spirit
is Yahweh, or, put differently,
the words attributed to Yahweh
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in the Old Testament are
attributed to the Holy Spirit
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in the New Testament. The same
thing takes place in Hebrews
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3:7-9, which is a quotation
from Psalm 95. >> Okay. >> Once
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again, they say the Holy Spirit
spoke, and in the Old Testament
reference, Psalm 95:7,
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it says, "The Lord spoke,"
which is the technical term, the
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personal name of God, Yahweh.
So if Yahweh said something, and
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later I say, "The Holy Spirit
said," it's because they are the
same. The Holy Spirit is Yahweh.
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The Holy Spirit is fully God.
>> That is very clear. So now we
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understand, and let's just
summarize that there so we are
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clear. >> Mm-hmm. >> The Holy
Spirit is fully divine, and we
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see that through the attributes
that the Holy Spirit has. >>
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Yes. >> We just saw that
the Holy Spirit is referred to
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in the New Testament in the same
context that Yahweh is referred
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to in the Old Testament.
>> Yes. >> We see that people
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are baptized in the name of the
Holy Spirit, the Father, Son and
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Holy Spirit. What other items,
just as we summarize and get
that clear, and then
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we're going to talk about "Is
Holy Spirit a person?" What
other items, again,
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just to clarify, demonstrate
the divinity of the Holy Spirit?
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>> Yeah. Beyond those
things attributed to him,
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it's just the direct statement
we saw in Acts 5:4, that Ananias
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had lied to the Holy Spirit in
verse 3, and in verse 4 it says
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he's lied to God. So it's
explicitly declared that the
Holy Spirit is God by the
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parallel of those two verses. So
He is fully divine. >> Now, we
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are going to... We only have 5
minutes left, Dr. Peckham, so
what we're going to do is,
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we're going to ask the question,
"Is the Holy Spirit a person?"
Now, we are already going to say
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at the beginning of this, we're
not going to fully answer that.
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>> Sure. >> In our
next show, we'll pick up...
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>> Yes. >> ...but let's
start in asking that question
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and beginning to establish
"Is, in fact, the Holy Spirit a
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person?" >> Yes. The best way to
answer that question is to ask
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how the Holy Spirit is described
in the New Testament, and we
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will see a number of texts
-- I'll show you at least one on
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this program -- that shows that
the Holy Spirit either does
things or can have things done
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to Him that only make sense
if the Holy Spirit is a person,
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okay? So maybe there's
two texts for now. >> Sure.
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>> If we go to Romans 8,
Romans 8:26-27... >> Okay.
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>> ...Romans 8:26-27, you have
this, and it's in the context
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of the Spirit helping us in
our weaknesses. Actually, yeah,
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start at 8:26. "Likewise, the
Spirit also helps in our
weaknesses, for we do not know
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what we should pray for as
we ought: but the Spirit himself
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makes intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be
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uttered. Now, he who searches
the hearts knows what the mind
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of the Spirit is because he
makes intercession for the
saints according to the will of
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God." No one but a person could
make intercession for us. >>
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Yes. >> No one but a person
could translate our prayers that
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we don't even know how to say
as we ought. >> That's right. >>
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This is a personal
characteristic. Another one is
found in Ephesians 4,
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Ephesians 4:30. Ephesians 4:30,
and it says, "And do not grieve
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the Holy Spirit of God, by whom
you were sealed for the day of
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redemption." Now, how could you
grieve anyone but a person?
Later, we'll see that in John 3
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there's a metaphor used of
the Spirit, the wind, because
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there's actually a Greek term
that underlies both the word
spirit and wind, and Jesus uses
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a play on words, and some people
think, "Oh, well, the Spirit is
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just a force," but you can't
grieve a force. >> No. >> You
can't grieve the wind.
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>> No. >> You can only grieve
a person. That's a personal
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characteristic. There are many
others. >> Absolutely, and we
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are going to pick up with those
others in our next program, and
so, as we close off this
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program, and in the last minute
or so that we have, Dr. Peckham,
maybe bring some summary,
00:24:39.67\00:24:45.05
bring this program to closure
bringing some hope to the
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viewer, to the listener,
of the Holy Spirit. >> Yeah.
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That text in Romans 8 is so near
and dear to my heart because
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many people think, "How can I be
in communion with the living and
00:24:56.86\00:25:00.30
holy God?" Right? "I'm not
worthy. I don't even know how to
speak to Him," and the Bible
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tells us God, in the person of
the Holy Spirit, meets us where
00:25:03.40\00:25:06.97
we are, and we don't even know
the right words to say, but He
00:25:06.97\00:25:11.47
intercedes for us, so that even
when we don't say the right
words, God understands because
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we have an advocate with the
Father, who is Jesus, and we
have another like Him, our
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Comforter, the Holy Spirit, who
is putting us in connection with
God. Wherever we go, wherever we
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are, He is with us as the
presence of God with us, and
that is good news, indeed.
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>> And that is good news. It
reminds me of that text, one of
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my favorite texts in the
entirety of Scripture, Joshua
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1:9. >> Mm-hmm. >> Joshua,
seemingly facing the impossible
task of now leading
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the children of Israel after
Moses had died. In Joshua 1:9,
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we have this promise that is
laid out before us. "Have I not
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commanded you? Be strong and of
good courage. Do not be afraid
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nor be dismayed, for the Lord
your God is with you wherever
you go." Let's pray as we end
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today's program. Heavenly
Father, we are so thankful for
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the gift of the Holy Spirit,
that no matter where we go, no
matter where we are,
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no matter what we do, You are
there with us, and, Lord, I pray
00:26:17.11\00:26:24.31
that as we attempt to understand
Your divine personage, Your
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divine attributes, that we would
be drawn nearer to You, come
into relationship with You,
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and that, Lord, we would make
a decision to follow You all the
00:26:39.93\00:26:43.57
days of our life. We pray this
in Jesus' name. Amen. >> Amen.
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>> Dear friend, so often we talk
about Jesus and His love for us
00:26:48.57\00:26:53.51
as the Messiah and as the
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00:26:53.51\00:26:59.01
about the power of the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit is fully
divine. The Holy Spirit is a
00:26:59.01\00:27:06.65
person, and the Holy Spirit has
been sent to be your helper, to
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by bread alone, but by every
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