This week on Things Unseen, we're thinking about the person of the Holy Spirit.

And like everything else in the Christian life, we can't just sit down and say, I'm going

to think about the Holy Spirit.

We don't think up what we think.

In some ways it'd be more accurate to say that our thinking needs to come down to us.

I mean, the knowledge of the Holy Spirit needs to flow down into our minds, from the

mountain of Scripture and its teaching.

But where do we begin?

Well, we could take a leaf out of Juliandru's book and say, let's start at the very beginning.

It's a very good place to start.

And turn to Genesis 1 and then work our way forwards in Scripture.

That would certainly make for a great Bible study, but it would be a lengthy one and

fairly slow, especially if you're a new Christian.

So I often think the best place to start with teaching that's either new or even difficult

for us to take in or even accept, a good place to start as to ask this question.

What did the Lord Jesus believe and teach about this?

Especially if we find something difficult to accept, I think it really helps us to get

over the emotional hurdles we sometimes feel.

Because if Jesus believed something, then we want to believe it too if we're Christians.

And if it was important to Him, then it's important to us.

And if we're His disciples, we want to try to understand it and to believe it.

The Lord Jesus spoke to His disciples in a number of occasions about the Holy Spirit.

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