I have been waiting a long time to do this particular study and basically in my schedule

I had like a week where I could study sort of anything I wanted I wasn't going to be

teaching the mark series and I wanted to get into the doctrine of the Holy Spirit like

the actual theology of the Holy Spirit proving who the Holy Spirit is according to Scripture

and responding to challenges.

So we're going to talk about whether the Holy Spirit is personal, whether the Holy Spirit

is God and more than that our relationship with the Spirit which is deep, wonderful and

a huge blessing waiting for us to pay attention to believe it or not the Holy Spirit is in

my opinion I think a lot of people would agree the most ignored person of the Trinity the

least discussed and when you as a Christian are challenged to say defend the deity of

Christ or something like that like you can do that a lot better probably then you can

defend the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

So we're getting into this in detail right because he is ignored false teachers tend

to focus on the Holy Spirit like Jehovah's Witnesses say the Holy Spirit is merely an

active force is not personal is not God is just God's sort of active force they actually

translate their bad new world translation to adjust or change who the Holy Spirit is they

will say things like the Holy Spirit is not masculine like in the Greek Holy Spirit that

phrase is not masculine it's neuter and so they suggest that this means that the the

Spirit is non-personal and again we're ill equipped to respond so it's good to do the

work to reestablish basic Christian theology simple Christian theology and to go through

the process of digging into the scriptures and asking is that really a good proof text does

that scripture really demonstrate the thing that I want it to demonstrate can I really

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