Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

So, this is the next to the last message in the series, Divinely Human. And then next week, just let you know, I'm having a young lady who's just getting started in the ministry named Joyce Meyer.

I just want to give the young people a chance, you know, preached all over the world, obviously, largest television ministry probably in the world.

And just unbelievable Bible teachers. She will be at the South Lake campus next weekend. All three services doing a different message each service.

And she's doing, she's coming twice a year here and twice a year to Lakewood Church with Pastor Joel Osteen. And then she uses it to pull it on her television program. And yet we get to hear Joyce Meyer.

And then we'll put all three messages online. So, but if you maybe attend even another campus, but you'd like to come, let me just let you know the nine o'clock service at South Lake would be the best.

Because four o'clock is pretty full. 11 o'clock is pretty full. So the 9 a.m. would be the best one if you'd like to see her live next weekend. Then the next weekend's Easter.

We always start our Easter services on Friday evening. And it's not a good Friday service. It's an Easter service so that we have more room and more services for people to come.

And I want you to do something if you've never done it or if you do it every year and that's invite someone.

Studies show that people are more likely to come to church on Easter than in the other time of the year that would not normally come.

So invite someone to come to Easter. I'll be finishing the divinely human series and that week it will be Jesus.

And we're partly divine, but he was fully divine and fully human. And I'm going to explain that and why that's important to us.

All right, that he was fully human and fully divine. So that'll be Easter. Okay. So that's the next two weeks. So this week is the Holy Spirit.

Obviously, the Holy Spirit is fully divine. Obviously. Okay. He's not partly human at all. Okay. Fully divine. But how can you make? I feel like God has just taken us in this series on a progression, a journey of showing great men and women of God in the Bible and showing their human side and giving us hope that God could use us to do so.

Something divine and touch someone's lives. Okay. Someone's life. So now the series starts moving toward practically. How can you do it? So this will be the most practical two weeks ago. I did Nick Ademis and obviously that's how you go from being you're your born human and then you're born again.

You're born again, divine and on this earth, we are partakers of the divine nature is what second Peter one forces. That's what we're building the series on.

But how when you're faced with the decision, can you make a divine decision instead of a human decision? And that is to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Most people, now I shouldn't say most, many, many people have been taught to fear the Holy Spirit. There are many religions, I should say, that don't even see him as a person. They refer to him as it.

We need it. If you're referring to the power of the Holy Spirit, you can use the pronoun it. But if you're referring to him, you need to use the pronoun him because the Bible never refers to him as an it. Here's the reason why. If you don't see him as a person, you won't develop a personal relationship with him.

Personal comes from the word person. You don't have a personal relationship with a chair. You just said on it, but you have a personal relationship with a person.

But if you don't see the Holy Spirit as a person, then you won't develop a personal relationship. God is one, three persons in one, the father, son and the Holy Spirit.

So we're going to talk about the baptism in the Holy Spirit, or with the Holy Spirit. You can use either preposition you won't do.

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