All this week on the podcast, we've been thinking about the person of the Holy Spirit.

Not so much about what he does, his work, although we've been thinking about that, but about

who he is, his person.

And I hope we've begun to see that just as we get to know the Father through the revelation of the Lord Jesus, remember he said

he who has seen me has seen the Father, the same is true of the Holy Spirit who's been given

to us. And so our main focus has been getting to know and love the Holy Spirit

through his relationship to the Lord Jesus, because He is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But, you know, he's also the Spirit of the Father.

Remember how Jesus told his disciples that when they were persecuted or even brought to trial,

the Spirit of the Father would help them to speak.

And Jesus explained this also more fully in his final teaching session with the disciples

before his crucifixion. He said,

He would ask the Father and he would give the Holy Spirit to the disciples, because he is indeed

the Spirit of the Father. And later on in John 15, verse 26, he says that the Holy Spirit he sends will be the Spirit who comes to them from the Father.

So who sends the Holy Spirit to us, the Father or the Son?

Well yes. But yes what? Father or Son Well, it's both, isn't it? Not one or the other,

but both together. The Spirit, says Jesus, proceeds from the Father. He goes out from the Father.

What Jesus means there is there has always been this wonderful relationship between the Father

and the Spirit in all eternity.

And now the Spirit who has gone out from the Father, perhaps it means gone out in love

towards His Son. That Spirit the Father will send to disciples.

It's mysterious.

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