We've been reflecting this week on the podcast on who the Holy Spirit is.

Not just what he does, his work in our lives, but who he is who works in our lives.

His identity is the one who comes to end well as when we come to faith in the Lord Jesus.

Yesterday we were thinking about Jesus' well-known words to His disciples in John 14, 17,

telling them that they had seen and known the Spirit, but the Spirit they had seen on Jesus

was now going to end well them. And I was suggesting that Jesus' words there are not about the

difference between an Old Testament believer and a New Testament believer as such,

but the difference between seeing the Spirit in Jesus and then experiencing the very same

Spirit of Jesus in our own lives. I think it's wonderful to think about that because it helps us

on the one hand to appreciate our Savior all the more and it certainly helps us to appreciate

the Spirit all the more. When we think that the Spirit who is, as the older writers used to say,

the bond of love between the Father and the Son actually comes to end well every single believer.

I want to draw attention to this a little because it's the reason the Spirit is called the Spirit

of Christ. So here are some interesting texts. Look 134 to 35. Mary said to the angel,

how will this be this virgin conception and the angel answered her, the Holy Spirit will come

upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you and the child to be born will be called

holy. And Matthew chapter 1 verse 20, Joseph, son of David, don't fear to take Mary as your wife

for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. So from the very moment of Jesus'

conception, the Holy Spirit was engaged in his life. And then later in Luke chapter 2 when he

tells us that Jesus increased in wisdom and in favor with God, he's actually reminding us that

this was what was said about the Messiah in the Old Testament in Isaiah 11 verse 2. He would be

full of the Spirit and therefore full of wisdom. And then of course at Jesus' baptism the Spirit

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