Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, March 14.

How much do you know about the Holy Spirit?

If you're not sure, then you're probably missing a key part of your Christian life.

Let's keep listening for help in getting to know the work and ministry of the third person of the Trinity.

If I should give you a piece of paper a day and say,

well, you write down on this piece of paper everything you know about the Holy Spirit.

I wonder how many of you rather could fill a whole page?

Half a page?

Third of a page? I mean what you really and truly know about the Holy Spirit.

Well, the Bible says a great deal about the importance of the Holy Spirit in your life and my life as believers.

And so I want us to look at that very idea today.

And I want you to turn if you will to Acts chapter 1.

And let's look for just a moment at what is happening here.

Jesus has shown himself for about 40 days to his followers and now he's about ready to ascend.

And listen to what he says.

And gathering them together he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised which he said you heard from me.

For John baptized with water but you should be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

And so when they had come together they were asking him saying, Lord, is it at this time you restoring the kingdom to Israel?

He said to them, it is not for you to know the times or epics which the Father has fixed by his own authority.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witness as both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest parts of the earth.

And after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of our sight.

And as they were gazing in tentland of the sky while he was departing behold two men in white clothing stood before them.

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