Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Well, we're continuing in this series called I Am Who I Am.

We're exploring different facets of the portrait of God throughout the Scriptures.

We've looked at Yahweh and the Hebrew Scriptures, Jesus and the New Testament and how they go

together very, very closely.

And now we're looking at kind of the third leg of the stool in the portrait of God, of

God as Spirit, with the Spirit of God.

This has been the longest actually part of this series because I find that it's the most

intangible, literally, God's Spirit, intangible, it's the most intangible part of us to experience

and get our minds around.

And so also I found, just personally, and in the lives of people that I know, how to relate

to God's Spirit is one of the most kind of misunderstood or under-under-under-consept

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