Turn with me, please, to Romans the 8th chapter.

And let's continue in some things we began some weeks ago, talking about the witness of the Spirit.

We've talked about the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit,

talked a little bit about the person of the Holy Spirit.

What we're dealing with is one of the biggest things that distinguish

religious folks from people who really know him and walk with him.

Do you believe God is real?

He is.

And his spirit, whom he has sent to indwell us and to be our guide and our teacher is real.

In 14, 16 of John, Jesus said, I'll pray the Father, he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever.

While Jesus was with the disciples, he was their comforter, and he's leaving.

And they're upset because he told them he's leaving.

But he's encouraging them that they're not going to be

alone and we're not going to be alone. We're going to have a confeder. Even the spirit of truth

whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but you know him,

for he dwells with you and shall be in you believers

have the spirit the world does not have and this is not fantasy this is not imaginary

this is very real and god is a God who reveals himself.

He's also a God who hides himself.

He does not reveal himself to people who don't believe in him.

You know, he talked about this in John John to where he told the disciples that if anybody

loves him, they will keep his words and he will come to them and manifest himself to

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