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YouTube.com forward slash Denison Forum. Greetings. My name is Chris Elkins and I'm with the Denison Forum.

I'm here today with Dr. Jim Denison.

Talk about what does the Bible say about the Holy Spirit.

One of the most famous verses in the Bible as Jesus is promised to his disciples in Acts 1-8, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit

has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the

end of the earth. Now, Jim, what did Jesus mean when he said, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you?

What does the Bible really say about the power of the Holy Spirit?

Yeah, it's a very, very profound and very practical question, actually, Chris.

And one that not as many Christians are as familiar with as you would want them to be as you would think that they really need to be.

So probably the first thing we need to talk about is the person of the Spirit himself because so much misunderstanding about him. You can have a very long conversation, but the very short version is that the Holy Spirit is God, just as God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. They're all members of the Trinity. They're the three persons of the one God, the triune God.

The Holy Spirit is just as much God as God, the Father, or God the Son. The Holy Spirit is a He. He's not an

it. He's not an impersonal neuter pronoun. He is, he's not a ghost. He's not some ethereal spirit.

He is an actual person. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit

grieves and the Holy Spirit mourns. The Holy Spirit prays. The Holy Spirit speaks. The Holy Spirit acts.

He is a person in our lives. In terms of what he does for Christians, it starts at salvation.

When we ask Jesus to be our Savior and Lord, it's actually

the Holy Spirit who comes to live in us. First Corinthians 3 says that our bodies are now the temple

of the Holy Spirit. And then the Bible says that the Holy Spirit prays for us. He prays in us. He

leads us. He directs us. The Holy Spirit teaches us. Jesus said he'll teach us all things.

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