This is Amy Hall, and I am here today with Greg Kokel.

We welcome you to hashtag S-T-R-ask.

And we're going to start today with a question from Christopher.

Okay.

Aside from the use of a male pronoun by translators, what evidence in Scripture identifies the Holy Spirit as a person as opposed to the transforming power of God?

Well, there's a number of things I could think of just right off the top of my head.

So you have Acts 4, 5, right in there somewhere where Ananiasis, Sapphira are struck in.

Five.

Yeah.

And Peter says to them, you have not, why are you deceiving the Holy Spirit? You have not lied to men but to God. Something to that effect. Now, you can't deceive a power, a mere force, okay? Also, the spirit is a, the comforter. And I guess if some if you're if you're really stressed out

and someone gives you a back rub the back rub is comforting but it is the person who's giving you

the back rub that is the comforter okay and um I just, it's, it's also an advocate for us. It says in Romans

8 that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. So the act of intercession

or praying is, is an act of an individual, not a force? And you can go through

all kinds of passages where it talks about the spirit, the spirit convicts of sin and righteousness

and judgment. That's what John 15 or 16. And the act of convicting is a personal action. So what I suggest for

people to do when they have questions like this, it's actually quite simple. Get your concordance out.

And if you're if you're a serious Christian and you do not have a real concordance, not just the one in the back of your Bible, that's helpful, but it's very modest.

Get a real concordance and have a concordance that's geared to your translation.

So Strong's concordance is a great concordance.

It's been around for a long time, and it's scared

to the King James.

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