Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. When was the last time you were in awe of God? The Creator of the Universe, the one who spoke the stars into existence, and holds all things together. And yet, how often do we reduce him to something we can explain or control?

In this week's episode, Francis Chan invites us to reconsider our understanding of the Holy Spirit,

not as a force to try and harness, but as a person to embrace.

Well, this morning I had set aside to teach just some basic truths about the Holy Spirit.

I wanted to make sure we were all on the same page and we understood the basic theology

behind the Holy Spirit and who he is.

And so I got out a bunch of notes and I'm studying through my notes, notes that I've taught here,

notes that I've taught at Bible studies, Bible college, whatever.

I've gone through it before.

And as I'm reading through, going, okay, which ones do I put in?

Which things do I not teach?

It just hit me for the first time.

It was so weird.

It hit me where I thought, wait a second, do I realize what I'm about to do here?

And I thought, this is insane.

I don't know if this thought has ever entered your mind, but I've been teaching for years,

and this was the first time where I thought to myself, wait a second, I'm a human being

on this tiny planet called Earth amidst this huge universe.

Here I am this little human being, and I am going to come to church

and explain God to you just just dwell on that for a second and I just thought about the arrogance in that, and how arrogantly I've taught about him

in the past, as though, hey, I understand God, me, little, I've existed for a few years.

I've been in existence just a few years as a human being on this tiny, tiny little planet,

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