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If you need life, to whom do you turn? You look to the Father because He is the giver of every good and perfect gift. You say,
"Benny, I thought we look to Jesus." No. The source is the Father.
But the giver of that source is Christ. And the power of the source is the Holy Spirit.

the "usual" order of THE TRINITY in Scripture. What is the primary work of the Father? He operates. And what about the Son? He administrates the operation of the Father. And the Holy Ghost manifests the administration of that operation.

I heard a chorus recently that said, 'Give me more of You!" And I thought, Why, that's unscriptural. You can't take a part of Him. He's a person. You can't break Him into little pieces, an arm this week and a leg the next. It's not, "Give me more of you." It's exactly the oppo-site. You should be crying out to the Spirit, "Please, take more of me." He doesn't surrender to you. No! You surrender to Him.

When the Holy Spirit comes into your life, he changes things. He changes your speech, your emotions, and your behavior. And he also helps you understand that he has incredible joy for everything in your life.

But today few people know what it means to "walk" in the Spirit. The root of the word means in unison with, one with, or connected to-even fellowship with. It's astounding, but people who have been raised in a "spirit-filled" church have asked me:
"Am I supposed to talk to the Spirit?"

There are 7 meanings to Communion:
1. Presence
2. Fellowship
3. Sharing Together
4. Participation With
5. Intimacy
6. Friendship
7. Comradeship (Commander)

Do you know that you have been saved from your sin? Well, how do you know it?

How do you know that you have passed from spiritual death unto life? You know it because the Spirit told you. You know it so strongly you'll die for it. Why? Because when the Holy Ghost speaks, He speaks right into your being-into your very blood and marrow.

Jehovah is the name of the triune being

The Holy Spirit is the one who communicates heaven into your heart. He is the voice of God to you.

How are you led by the Spirit? You become familiar with His voice.
You recognize it. You respond to it. And the more you fellowship with Him, the deeper the relationship becomes.

Every action of your life reflects what you fill your life with. If you fill your life with newspapers, you will speak news. If you watch soap operas, you will speak soap operas. But if you are filled with the Spirit and you absorb yourself in His presence, you will seek Jesus and glorify no one but Jesus.

learned. A person who knows the presence of the Holy Spirit will always glorify and magnify Jesus.
When you really know the Spirit, you will glorify Jesus Christ the Son of God because the Holy Spirit within you will glorify God the Son.

My friend, you will never know His power; you will never know His presence until you go and sit beside Him and say, "Wonderful Holy Spirit, tell me all about Jesus."

The Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He doesn't enter your room until you invite Him. He doesn't sit down until you ask Him. And He doesn't speak to you until you speak to Him.
How long will He wait? Until you speak to Him. It could be months even years. He will just wait and wait and wait.

When God the Father said, "Let there be light," God the Son came and performed it. Then, God the Holy Spirit brought the light.

To understand the job of the Holy Spirit we need to understand the work of the Father and the Son. God the Father is the one who gives the command. He has always been the one who saysiLet there be" From the beginning, it has been God who gives the orders.
On the other hand, it is God the Son who performs the commands of the Father.

You must realize that what makes a person is not the body.
Instead, the person is what comes out of the body. Emotions. Will.
Intellect. Feelings. These are just a few of the characteristics that make you a person and give you a personality.

You ask, "Who is the Holy Spirit?" I want you to know He is the most beautiful, most precious, loveliest person on the earth. God the Son is not on the earth. God the Father is not on the earth.
They are both in heaven this very second.

The point of 1 Cor. 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny. It is the language Jesus spoke, & we are called to speak it so that we can converse with him. It is the food they eat in God's new world, & we must acquire the taste for it here and now.

Forgiveness is a way of life, God's way of life, God's way to life; and if you close your heart to forgiveness, why, then you close your heart to forgiveness.

Glorify God in your body because one day God will glorify the body itself. What is to be true in the future must begin to be true in the present, or it will be called into question whether you are really on track in the first place.

You don't get to share God's life and escape without wounds. Look what happened to Jesus himself.

The Jesus who gives himself to us as food and drink is himself the beginning of God's new world. At communion we are like the children of Israel in the wilderness, tasting fruit plucked from the promised land. It is the future coming to meet us in the present.

What happens in the Eucharist is that through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, this future dimension is brought sharply into play. We break this bread to share in the body of Christ; we do it in remembrance of him; we become for a moment the disciples sitting around the table at the Last Supper.

Baptism; should be the foundational event for all serious Christian living, all dying to sin and coming alive with Christ.

Baptism; is one of the points, established by Jesus himself, where heaven and earth interlock, where new creation, resurrection life, appears within the midst of the old.