Amen
We're there in Acts chapter number five and last week
We started a series on the subject of the Holy Spirit
And we are going through a Sunday night series called by my spirit
And if you remember last week where we're gonna be just could be going through some very practical
just
lessons about the Holy Spirit and and educational lessons about the Holy Spirit and
I hope you're just ready to learn and take notes and learn about the Holy Spirit
I just want to remind you that last week we began with a sermon entitled the person of the Holy Spirit
and we went through Scripture and showed how the Holy Spirit is not just power or energy or
Some sort of a force but that he's actually a person. He's a third person of
the Trinity
Tonight we're going to kind of continue that
introduction introductory type
Message and I want to speak to you tonight on the subject of the Holy Spirit as God and
The reason for that is because in the same way that we often fail to think of the Holy Spirit as a person
we've kind of been conditioned maybe by the
Pentecostals and charismatic to kind of think of the Holy Spirit as some sort of a mystical force
It's just kind of out there and he's he's kind of just everywhere
And we don't really think of him as an individual as a person that has
Emotions that has intellect that communicates in the same way. We often don't think of the Holy Spirit as God now
If you ask somebody hey, do you believe the Holy Spirit is God if they're if they believe in the Trinity?
They would probably say yes
But we often don't think of the Holy Spirit as God and I think the reason for that is because we often think of the
Holy Spirit in the same sense as our spirit and there's definitely a picture there of
How man is made up of three components, but I want you to understand that
sometimes we think of the Holy Spirit in the sense that we'll think of a human being having a
Part that is a body and a part that is a soul and having a spirit and we'll think well the Holy Spirit is just
The Spirit of God and and I understand that that's what he what he's called and that's a title
There's many titles out there for the Holy Spirit, but we'll think well
He's just the Spirit of God or he's just the Spirit of Christ
But what you need to understand and what we talked about last week is that he's a person in his own, right?
The the Trinity does not consist of three parts that make up God
But it is three persons that are one God they exist as God and in that sense
We need to understand that the Holy Spirit is God in his own, right?
He's God
Completely, he's he is God. He's not just a part of God
He's not just a component of God, but he is God and I realize that theologically as Baptist we would say
Yeah, the Holy Spirit is God
But I believe that often we fail to think of the Holy Spirit as a person and we fail to think of the Holy
Spirit as God so what I'd like to do tonight is just kind of go through Scripture
We're gonna look at a lot of different references and just show you from the scripture
Just some proofs in regards to the Holy Spirit being God now with their next chapter 5
And this is a famous story of Ananias and Sapphira
I've preached sermons out of this story before and I'm not gonna develop the story
I'm not preaching on that but I want you to notice just what the Bible says here about the Holy Spirit notice verse 1
It says but a certain man named Ananias with
Sapphira his wife sold a possession and kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it and
Brought a certain part and laid it at the Apostles feet
So we got Ananias and Sapphira they sold property and they are giving this as an offering
This is like their vision offering they're giving an offering but they're going around telling everybody. Hey, we sold our land
We're giving all of the money to the church, but they're only giving part of the money
They're actually just lying about it. And here's the thing. There's nothing wrong with them
They could have kept back and if you read it in its context Peter talked about you could have kept back
You don't have to give any of it
You could have done whatever you wanted with it
But you didn't have but you shouldn't have lied and acted like you gave more than you actually did
This is what the story is about notice verse 3
But Peter said and Ananias why had Satan filled thine heart and I want you to notice this phrase to lie
to the Holy Ghost and
To keep back part of the price of the land
So Peter is looking at Ananias and saying you're not lying to me. You're not lying to man
You're not lying to our congregation
You're lying to the Holy Ghost when you kept back part of the price of land notice verse 4
Whilst it remained was it not thine own he's telling him look it was your land. It was your money
You could have done what you wanted with it whilst it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold
Was it not in thine own power?
He said look nobody forced you to do anything you had the authority the power to do what you wanted
He says why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart notice what he says
That thou has not lied unto man
But unto God and I want you to notice that in verse 4 at the end of verse 4
He says you haven't lied to men you've lied to God but in verse 3 he says you've lied
He said Satan has filled at filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and here
We see that Peter is referring to the Holy Ghost you're lying to the Holy Ghost, but then he says well
You're lying to God you say why is that because the Holy Ghost is gone, and and that's just a proof text there
And honestly we could close. You know say amen close the Bible pray and and and be done. We're not going to
But but that proves to you that in Scripture. He's referred to as the Holy Ghost
He's referred to as the Holy Spirit, but he's referred to as God
Why because the Holy Spirit is not only a person, but he is God in his own right
So what I want to do tonight is I want to go through and show you the attributes of God or some of the attributes
of God and show you how the Holy Spirit has the exact same attributes and also I
Want to show you an action of God?
One thing that God does or did that makes him God and and I want to be able to show you how the Holy Spirit
Did the same thing now?
When we're talking about attributes of God, we're talking about the characteristics that make God God
There are certain things that make God God when it comes to his
attributes in regards to his power and I want to kind of give that to you and show that to you and
There's gonna be maybe some new material maybe words
You haven't heard a lot in the past, but go with me to the book of Psalms Psalm 139
If you open your Bible just right at the center
You'll more than likely fall in the book of Psalms Psalm 139 and let's begin by this and if you're writing down some notes
I'd encourage you to write down some notes
Let's begin with this what how can we prove or how do we know that the Holy Spirit is not just part of God
But that he is God in his own right that he is completely God that he is God
He's not just part of God. He's not just the Spirit of God, but he is God number one God the Holy Spirit is
omniscient when we talk about the attributes of God
What makes God God the reason that you're not God and that I'm not God is because God has some
attributes that make him different than the rest of us one of those is a fact that God is
omniscient now
Maybe you've not heard that word before and let me kind of give you a little bit of the etymology
And break that down for you the word omni. It's a Latin word. It means all or
everything the word
science when we say
omniscient or
omniscience the the two words that come together to make that word is
Omni
Science the word science means knowledge it means and often we refer to
Science and we're talking about a field of study a field of knowledge
But the word the word of science itself means knowledge when we talk about God being omniscient or God having
omniscience we are referring to the fact that God is all
Knowing the difference between you and God the reason that no matter what the Mormons say you'll never become God
No, no matter what the evolutionists say you'll never evolve into God
No matter what any false religion says the difference between you and myself and God is that God is omniscient
God is all knowing let's look at some verses you're there in Psalm 139
Look at verse 1 Psalm 139 in verse 1 says this to the chief
Musician a psalm of David and there's lots of verses we could go to prove these points for sake of time
I'm just going to show you some highlights. We're not going to go through every single one the Bible says this Oh Lord
Thou has searched me now when you see the word Lord there the capital L capital O capital R capital D
That's Jehovah God alright. That's we're referring to God in his completeness
He says Oh Lord thou has searched me and known me
I want you to notice the emphasis and saw at the beginning of Psalm 139 the psalmist says that God has
known me notice verse 2 thou knowest the emphasis is on what God knows his
Omniscience thou know is my down sitting and mine uprising
Here's what he's saying you know when I sit down, and you know when I get up thou
Understand this talking about his omniscience my thoughts are far off
See God knows your thoughts the reason you're not God
And I'm not God is because I can't look at an individual and know their thoughts
But here we're told thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising thou understand
It's my thoughts are far off by the way
This is an approved that Jesus was God because of the fact that Jesus was able to know the thoughts of man
Even while walking on this earth remember when they brought down the the man
On the bed when they when they made the hole in the in the roof when he was preaching in the house
They brought down the man, and he healed them and the Pharisees were saying in their heart
Can can can this man forgive sins and Jesus knew what they were saying and he answered their question?
Why because look only God can understand my thoughts are far off with that phrase a far off means
Not only do you know my thoughts you know my thoughts before I even think my thoughts
But before I even think it a far-off you already know what I'm going to think livers three now
Compasses my path and my lying down thou art acquainted again
emphasizing the knowledge the the understanding and art
Acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue
But lo o Lord thou knowest it all together
He says you know when I lay down you know when I get up you know my thoughts
You know everything that comes out of my mouth. You know it. There's not a word in my tongue, but oh, but Lord
Oh Lord thou knowest it all together. Why because God is um
Mission God knows he's all-knowing he knows everything he knows everything you think he knows everything you say he knows everywhere you go
He knows every time you're you're sleeping yours. You're sitting down your whatever. He's not Santa Claus. It's God
Okay, God knows when you're sleeping. God knows when you're awake. God knows when you're bad. God knows when you're good
God knows everything about you. You're there in someone 39 flip over to Psalm 147
Psalm 147 and by the way
That's why the teaching of Santa Claus is so blasphemous because it takes the attributes of God, and it gives it to a man
Psalm 147 in verse 5
Psalm 147 in verse 5 says this great is our Lord and
Of great power
We're gonna talk about his power his attributes notice his
Understanding is infinite. What does that mean it means there is no end to his understanding there is it's infinite
He knows everything he has all know so here's what I want your sin. God is omniscient the Bible's very clear about that
We just looked at a few passages
We could look at many more, but the Bible teaches very clearly that God is omniscient and God knows everything
Everything keep your place there in Psalms. We're gonna come back to it, but go to 1st Corinthians chapter 2 in the New Testament
1st Corinthians chapter 2 we were just in Acts
So if you kept your place in Acts, you're just gonna go past Romans
Into the book of 1st Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter number 2 got Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1st
Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter 2 and look at verse number 10
We say well God is God is
Omniscient yes, but you know the Bible also teaches that the Holy Spirit is omniscient
1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 10 notice what the Bible says 1st Corinthians 2 10 says this but God
hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit he's talking about the hidden things of God that there are some things that we don't that that natural man cannot understand
spiritual things but natural man when he gets saved has a
Spiritual side to them and has the Holy Spirit of God living inside of them
And he says that God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. You say well
Why is that notice for the spirit notice the capital Esther? That's the Holy Spirit of God for the spirit
Searches all things. Yea the deep things of God. Here's what the Bible is saying the spirit has access to all
That God has access to he searches all things. Yea the deep things of God now
We just read verses that said that God's understanding is infinite
Well, you know what if God's understanding is infinite the spirit searches all those infinite things
What is the Bible telling us? The Bible is telling us that the Holy Spirit knows everything. He's omniscient
He searches all things. Yea the deep things of God verse 11 for what man knoweth the things of a man
Save the spirit of man, which is in him
And again, this is a verse here proving the deity of the Holy Ghost or the fact that the Holy Ghost is God because he's
Saying this that a man only
understands the things of a man
Because a man has the spirit of man within him the reason you and I
Understand each other the reason I can understand you and not just through communication
But just understand what you're thinking
I can see you maybe weeping or crying and understand that you're
Mourning and and I can I can see you happy and joyful and understand that you are
Rejoicing the reason that we can understand each other is because we both have the same spirit because we have a human spirit
He says look for what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man
I'm here to tell you your dog doesn't understand you now. Look you can love your dog
We just got a real nice-looking dog and we love our dog and we're happy for our dog
But you know what at the end of the day. It's a dog
And it doesn't have a spirit doesn't have a human spirit it doesn't understand me it doesn't
You know and I don't understand it, you know, I mean sometimes we got this dog and we're like what in the world
Are you doing? Why are you doing that?
You know, why are you licking that or why are you eating that and look we got we have a great dog
We have an awesome dog and we're really happy with the dog we got but you're not the end dates a dog
And you know worse come to worse
I mean, you know if it came to it that I
That dog would eat me if it needed to and I'd probably eat him or her if I needed to you know, whatever and
Maybe I got that from the Philippines. I'm not sure but
The point is this that it's a dog. It's not a human. There's no human spirit there now understand this
It says but God has revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searches all things
Yea, the deep things of God for what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man, which is in him
That's the context notice even so he says in the same way
The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God
Here's what he's saying
The only reason you can understand anything from God is because you've got the Holy Spirit in you why because the Holy Spirit is God
Your spirit can't understand the Spirit of God your natural flesh can't understand the things of God
The only reason you can understand anything of God is because you have God
In you the Holy Spirit of God who's God in his own right go to Isaiah chapter 40 in the Old Testament
you start there at the book of Psalms and
And you move forward keep your place there in Psalms, but you're gonna pass Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah
Isaiah chapter 40
And
Look at verse number 13
In Isaiah 40 13 we have these these questions, but they are rhetorical questions all right
They're not meant to actually be answered the the the answer is obvious
Which is why they are given notice what he says in Isaiah chapter 40 in verse 13. He says who have
Directed the Spirit of the Lord
Here's what he's saying who has ever had to give the Spirit of the Lord directions
The Holy Spirit has never had to stop and ask directions to anybody about anything
Anyway, he's never been lost
He's never needed someone to guide him. He said who has directed the Spirit of the Lord or
Being his counselor hath taught him. Here's what he's saying no one ever needed to counsel the Holy Spirit
Nobody ever needed to teach the Holy Spirit the the the Spirit didn't need a counselor. He didn't need a teacher
He didn't need a director. You say why because the Holy Spirit of God is all knowing he's
Omniscient he searcheth all things yea the deep things of God, and we see that you say well
God is omniscient yes, but the Holy Spirit is omniscient as well. You say well. Why is that because the Holy Spirit is God?
Because the Holy Spirit is God in his own, right?
Because the Holy Spirit is God and as Bible even Christians
We need to begin to think of the Holy Spirit not just as some sort of vague force out there and the force be with
You or whatever
We need to be able to think of the Holy Spirit as a person the third person of the Godhead
But his deity he is God, and he is God in his own right so we see that God the Holy Spirit is omniscient
Let me give you the second one you're there in in
Isaiah go back to if you kept your place in Psalms right after Psalms
You got the book of Proverbs, and let me give you a second attribute not not only is God the Holy Spirit
omniscient
But I'd like you to notice tonight that God the Holy Spirit is omni present
Now again the word omni meaning all
The word present means being with one or others or in the specified or understood place
The word present means that you are there that you are in the place that we are talking about when we say that God is
Omni present what we are saying is that God is everywhere at once
He is in all places all at the same time
He's omni present are you there in Proverbs 15 look at verse number three. Let me give you a proof
That God is omni present Proverbs chapter 15 in verse 3
Proverbs chapter 15 in verse 3 says this the eyes of the Lord
Alright, we're talking about Jehovah God the eyes of the Lord notice are in every place
Beholding the evil and
The good you say how can the eyes of the Lord be everywhere because God is everywhere
Because God is omni present because God is present everywhere at once and what makes God different than you and I
It's not only that he's all-knowing
But that he is all present that he is everywhere all at the same time well
Here's what's interesting the Bible tells us the Holy Spirit is omni present go back to Psalm 139
We saw the first part of one of Psalm 139
But let's look a little bit down in the same Psalm Psalm 139 look at verse 7
So we're just learning about the Holy Spirit as God
The Holy Spirit of God or God the Holy Spirit this sometimes when we refer to the Trinity we refer to God the Father
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit why because the Holy Spirit is God we saw that God is omni present
The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good Psalm 139 in verse 7 says this wither
the mean the word means
To what place or to which place or to where he says wither shall I go from my spirit?
So the Psalm is the same to what place will I go?
to which place will I go from my spirit to get away from my spirit or
Wither is as to what place shall I flee from my presence?
He said how can I get away from your spirit?
How can I get away from your presence verse 8 if I ascend up into heaven thou art there if I make my bed in?
Hell behold thou art there and by the way hell is not separation from God
Because if I make my bed in hell behold our there
If I take the wings of the morning because God is everywhere if I take the wings of the morning
And dwell in the uttermost part of the sea even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold
Me here. We are told that the Holy Spirit that the spirit
He says wither shall I go from my spirit or wither shall I briefly from my presence the Holy Spirit is omniscient
the Holy Spirit is omni present the Holy Spirit is
knows all things and the Holy Spirit is
Everywhere at once you say well, I thought God was on my president
Yes, but the Holy Spirit's omnipresent you say well, why is that because the Holy Spirit is God?
The Holy Spirit shares the attributes of God because the Holy Spirit is God
He's completely gone in his own, right?
Go to Revelation chapter 19 last book in the New Testament should be fairly easy to find
Revelation chapter 19
We talked about the fact that
God the Holy Spirit is omniscient
And we talked about the fact that God the Holy Spirit is omni present
Let me give you a third one
God the Holy Spirit
God the Holy Spirit is omnipotent
Again the word omni meaning all
Potent is in reference to power or strain
When we say that God the Holy Spirit when we say that God is omnipotent and God is omnipotent
What we mean by that is that God is all powerful that God has all power
That God is all
Able to do all things you're there in Revelation 19
look at verse 6
Revelation 19 and verse 6 as this and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and
as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thundering saying
Hallelujah notice what it says for the Lord God
omnipotent
Rainer I like to use that verse cuz sometimes people sometimes I'll use these words
Omnipotent are my brother feels that oh you got to use Bible words, and I think myself well you obviously haven't read the Bible
Because the Bible says tells us that the Lord God is omnipotent in second Thessalonians. It says that he's
Potent and it uses that word and that that terminology and again meaning that he is all-powerful
He's it says the Lord God omnipotent
Reigneth go to Matthew chapter 19 first book in the New Testament going from the last book in New Testament to the first book in New
Testament Matthew 19 and
Look at verse number 26
Matthew chapter 19 in verse 26 you say well. What do we mean by the fact that he's omnipotent? Here's what we mean
Matthew 19 in verse 26
The Bible says this
Matthew 19 26, but Jesus beheld them and said unto them
notice what he says
with men this is
impossible why because man is not
omnipotent
The strength and power of man is limited
There are some things that are impossible for you and for myself to do Jesus says with men
This is impossible, but with God all things are possible
why because he is omnipotent because
God is all-knowing
Because God is all present, but God is all
Powerful, this is why we often read in the Old Testament is anything too hard for the Lord and again a rhetorical question
Why because nothing is too hard for the Lord he's omnipotent now
Go to Zechariah chapter number four if you start at the end you're there in Matthew if you start at the end of the Old
Testament the last book of the Old Testament Malachi right before Malachi you have the book of Zechariah Zechariah chapter 4
This is actually where we get the name for the series by my spirit
We get it in this verse Zechariah chapter 4. I want you to notice the context
Zechariah chapter 4 in verse 6 says this
Then he answered and spake unto me saying Zechariah chapter 4 verse 6
This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying not by might
Nor by power
Notice he's saying you're not going to do it by your strength
You're not going to do it by your ability. You're not going to do it by your power
He says but here's the difference by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts
Here's what he's saying what you can't do in your strength my spirit can do you say?
Why is that because with men this is impossible?
But with God all things are possible and what the Bible is teaching us here is that yes, God the Holy Spirit is
Omnipotent but God is omnipotent, but the Bible also teaches that the Holy Spirit is omnipotent the Holy Spirit is
Has the power he says you can't do by your might you can't do it by your power
But it can be done by my spirit, so here's what we've seen we've seen that God the Holy Spirit is omniscient
He's omnipresent. He is omnipotent go to Isaiah chapter number 40
Isaiah chapter number 40
Isaiah chapter 40 in verse number 28 notice what the Bible says
It says has thou not known
Has thou not heard
There is no searching of his understanding. Why is there no searching of his understanding because he's omniscient
He knows everything
But I want you to notice that this verse says has thou not known has thou not heard
I want you to notice this phrase that the
Everlasting God the Lord the creator that he goes on to talk about him
But he's called the everlasting God because here is another attribute of God not only is he omniscient
I'm not present omnipotent
But another attribute of God that makes God God and makes you and I not God is this that God is eternal
He's everlasting
He is the I am the word
I am that phrase means that he's a self existing one meaning that no one created him. He was not created
He was never given life. He has always existed. He is eternal. He is the
Everlasting God because he's eternal
Well, here's what's interesting
Bible tells us the Holy Spirit is eternal. Keep your place there in Isaiah 40. We're gonna come right back to it
so just keep your place right there, but go to
Hebrews chapter 9 towards the end of the
New Testament you've got if you start at the end revelation and you head back you got Jude 3rd 2nd and 1st John 2nd 1st
Peter James and
Hebrews
Excuse me Hebrews chapter
Number 9
Hebrews chapter number 9
And look at verse number 14
And we're kind we're jumping in the midst in the middle of a
Paragraph a context here and I don't want to spend time developing that I just want you to notice this this this title
Hebrews 9 14 says how much more shall the blood of Christ?
Who through I just want you to notice this phrase the eternal spirit and again capital S
They're talking about the Holy Spirit
The eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God in Isaiah
We saw that God is the everlasting God in Hebrews
We saw that the spirit is the eternal spirit the word eternal everlasting
They mean the same thing just two different ways of saying the same thing everlasting is in the positive meaning it'll last forever
Eternal is in the negative see meaning it won't end but they mean the same thing
Lasting forever and not ending means the same thing
God is everlasting and the Holy Spirit is eternal the difference between you and God is that?
He is eternal
We get eternal
You understand what I'm saying? He is
life and he is
eternal life everlasting life
You and I get everlasting life. And here's what that means. That means you said well, well, we're everlasting, too
Don't we have everlasting life? The difference is this is that you had a moment that you were created
You had a moment that you came into existence and when you got saved you received
Everlasting life eternal life at that moment and the moment you believed and you called upon the Lord to save you from that moment
Forward you will you have everlasting life forever
It'll never end. Hey, there's it's infinite. It'll never end the difference between you and God
God good night the difference between B and God someone's gonna use that in a clip. I'm sure is
this
That we get everlasting life and from the moment we get it he that believeth on the Sun hath
Everlasting life the difference between you and God and me and God is that he has everlasting life going this way and that way
He is eternal we get eternal he ha he is
Everlasting life. He is life. Remember Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life. He doesn't have life
He is life. He is the source of life you and I get life but one of the attributes of God is that he's eternal
Well, one of the attributes of the Spirit is that he's the eternal spirit you say why because the Spirit is God
because the Holy Spirit is God and
I understand you say well your preachers acquired I get that but in our minds you and I need to begin to think of the
Holy Spirit not just as some sort of just mist out there
But he is a person
Who is God?
He is a person who is God and he's God in his own right. He's God completely. He is omniscient
He is omnipresent. He is omnipotent. He is eternal. Let me give you
one more
Go back to Isaiah chapter 40 Isaiah chapter number 40
And there was a there was something I wanted to I think I forgot to add to my notes here
Let me see if I can find it real quickly
Isaiah Isaiah chapter number 40
Okay, let me let me do this so so so far what we talked about is we talked about the attributes of God
And we looked at some of the attributes of God. He's omniscient. He's omnipresent. He's omnipotent. He's eternal
Those are characteristics of God that make God God the Holy Spirit has all the same attributes. He's omniscient. He's omnipotent
He's omnipresent. He's eternal. He's the eternal spirit. You say why is that because he is God now
Let me just give you a couple of actions. There are some actions that make God God
There are some things that God does or God did that you and I cannot do
Let me just give you a couple of those. All right, the first one is this God is the Creator
Are you there by are you back in Isaiah 40?
Look at verse 28 Isaiah chapter 40 in verse 28
Isaiah chapter 40 in verse 28 says this has thou not known
Has thou not heard that the everlasting God we just talked about that the Lord
notice the creator of the
Ends of the earth. Okay. God is the creator
fainted not
Neither is weary why because he's omnipotent there is no searching of his understanding why because he's omniscient
But one thing that makes God God is a fact that he is the creator go to Psalm
100
Psalm 100
And I realized that we are looking at a lot of passages and this is very much like a Bible study
But notice Psalm 100
And
Look at verse
number 3 Psalm 100 in verse 3 if you're there in Isaiah just want to head backwards pass on Solomon into Ecclesiastes Proverbs
Psalm Psalm 100 in verse 3 notice what the Bible says
Know ye not that the Lord notice notice this verse he is God
It is he that has made us and not we ourselves
Today the world wants to teach that we you know we God didn't make us
We just made ourselves
You know we evolved and evolved and evolved and evolved no the Bible says the Lord
He is God it is he that have made us and not we ourselves
We are his people and the sheep of his pastures the Bible is very clear that God is the one who?
Created the universe God is the creator of the ends of the earth
But go to job 33 if you're there in Psalms just you're gonna go back one book into the book of job job chapter 33
Job 33 in verse 4 why don't you notice what the Bible says job 33 in verse 4
Says this
job 33 in verse 4 says the Spirit of
God
Have made me this is what job said the Spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the
Almighty hath given me life you say well. I thought God was a creator
Well job said the Spirit created him
Job said the Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty had given me life you say why and again and I
Don't want to turn this into a sermon about the Trinity, but God there's one God that exists in three persons
There's one God that exists not in three parts
The the members of the Godhead do not come together to become one God
The Holy Spirit is not one-third of God the Lord Jesus Christ is not one-third of God
God the Father is not one-third of God and they come together
like
To make up one God no there is one God that exists all at the same time in three persons
You say well. I thought God was the Creator. Yeah, well the Holy Spirit the Creator guess what Jesus creator, too
That's why in Genesis chapter 1 God is speaking in the plural when he says let us make man in our image
Why cuz there's three?
That exists one God that exists in three so the Holy Spirit is not part of God
He's not inside of God like he's the Spirit of God the same way that you and I have a spirit no
No, he's gone in his own right
He's omniscient. He's omnipotent
He he's eternal and he is the Creator
Job said the Spirit of God had made me and the breath of the Almighty had given me life go to job 26
Look at verse 13
job 26 in verse number 13
Job 26 in verse 13
Job 26 in verse 13 says this by
his
Spirit he hath garnished the word garnish means to provide supplies for
He hath garnished the heavens his hand hath
Formed the crooked serpent. Why why does job say this he says this because God is
The Creator the Spirit is the Creator why because the Holy Spirit is God
It's God the purse the Holy Spirit is a person, but the Holy Spirit is God as well
Let me give you one more go to first Peter
first Peter
Chapter number one. I'll give you this last one and we'll be done
first Peter chapter number one if you kept your place in Hebrews, you're just gonna go past Hebrews
Past the book of James into first Peter first Peter chapter number one and you know what actually let me do this get to first
Peter and then get to
Get to first Timothy you find the T books there and they're all clustered together
Excuse me second Timothy second Timothy chapter 3
Let me just give you this one real quick because I gave you some attributes right
What are the attributes God is omniscient the Holy Spirit is omniscient God is omnipresent
The Holy Spirit is omnipresent. God is omnipotent. The Holy Spirit is omnipotent. God is eternal
The Holy Spirit is eternal then I want to give you a couple of actions
God is the creator. The Holy Spirit is the creator why because it's one God they exist as one God
2nd Timothy chapter 3 look at verse 16
God
Gives us scripture
2nd Timothy chapter 4, excuse me chapter 3 and verse 16 all scripture is given by
Inspiration of God the word inspiration there means God breathed God spoke it
It came out of his mouth all scriptures given by inspiration of God and it's profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and
Righteousness that the man of God may be perfect truly furnished unto all good works
So God gives us scripture right and we see that all throughout the Bible
There's many verses you can look at go to first Peter chapter number one and look at verse number
21
First Peter chapter 1 and verse 21 says this because we just saw that the Holy Spirit that that God
He spoke
His word all scriptures given by inspiration of God
He gave it he he breathed it out of his mouth
He spoke it out of his mouth in 1st Peter 1 21. We're told this for the prophecy
Came not an old time by the will of man
Hey, this book was not written by the world. No man sat down and said let me write down in the Bible
Let me tell you something man would not write the Bible
All right, man would write positive only thinking books
man would write books that tell you you're inherently good and and
Everything is fine. And you're lovely and you're wonderful man. Man would write books like your best life now
All right, man would not write the Bible
the Bible says for the prophecy came out an old time by the will of man, but
Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
Say well all scriptures given by inspiration of God here. We're told is given by the Holy Ghost. Well, what's the deal?
Well, the Holy Ghost is God
He he gives us the word. He gives us scripture. He created the job said that the Spirit of God has made me
He says the Spirit he has garnished the heavens
My was is that God create why because the Holy Spirit is God and you're and and for some reason we don't have a problem
We think well God the Father is God
We understand that and we don't even have a problem as by believing Christians with understanding that the Lord Jesus Christ is God
But sometimes you talk to people and you say well the Holy Spirit, he's God
Just like God the Father just like God the Son. He's God in his own right. We're like, I don't know about that
well, I'm here to tell you the Holy Spirit is God and the Holy Spirit is a person and
There is a person
living inside of you
Who wants to help you
Who wants to guide you?
Who wants to empower you?
Who wants to fill you and it's not mystical. It's not
It's not magical
It's God
Who indwells you it is the Holy Spirit of God and it is God
The Holy Spirit, so we're just going we're just going just step by step systematically going through this doctrine of the Holy Spirit
And we're just learning. What are we learning? The Holy Spirit is a person not a force not mystical. He's got emotion
He's got intellect. He communicates. He's got a will
He's a person but he's also the third person of the Godhead not part of God
But completely God in his own right. That's why I heard tonight. What a prayer Heavenly Father. Thank you Lord for your work
Thank you for the Bible
Thank you for allowing us to be able to study the Bible and look at scriptures and and compare them and learn Lord
I pray that you would just help us to have a a
Thorough understanding of the third person of the Godhead the Holy Spirit
Lord help us to have a good understanding of of who the third person of the Godhead is and and and what what you've given
Them to us for and I just pray you'd help us as we just continue week by week
Just kind of adding a little more of this
Foundational doctrine of the Holy Spirit help us to learn and understand and Lord. We love you. We thank you in Jesus name we pray
Amen