Week since the end of class last time to get back up here and continue our study of the Holy Spirit. So let's have a quick prayer and then we'll get right back into it. Pray with me, please. Our great God and father in heaven, thank you so much for this day and for the way you have showered blessings upon us. We give you all glory and praise and credit for the good things in our lives, and though we don't know how exactly you're working in all ways, we believe that you are and we're grateful that you are.

I pray that you'd be with us tonight. Help us to understand correctly the work of the spirit. Help us to differentiate clearly what we know and what we don't know, but ultimately by faith leave those things in your hands. Help us to live as you've called to live and forgive us when we fall short of that, even as we enter into this study tonight, if there's something that separates any one of us and you, I pray that you would forgive us of those things, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Okay. So we're getting down to it on how many classes we have left, so I'm gonna have to answer some questions that I just can't find a place to put into my material. So I'm just gonna take a few minutes to answer these two questions. The first question. In our minds, have an image of God the father.

Same with Jesus, we have an image in our minds of what the Lord looks like. Raise your hand if that's true of you. You have an image of what God looks like, God the father, you have an image of what Jesus looks like. Okay. Most of us do.

What about the Holy Spirit? What does the Holy Spirit look like? What image should we have in our mind? There are also a couple of questions about the significance of a dove descending on Jesus at his baptism. So I'm gonna kinda throw those in the same bucket if you had one of those questions.

We know the spirit descended like a dove. As I looked into this and thought about this and meditated on it and compared the gospel accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke all have this idea of descending like a dove. In Matthew and Mark, it seems like in the manner of a dove. So the way a dove would descend, that's the way the spirit descended. Luke does say in bodily form like a dove.

So maybe he is taking the shape like a dove. I think more likely he's coming down in bodily form but he's coming down in the same way a bird would, right? Descending and landing presumably. Acts two talks about the spirit and gives us an image of the spirit. It talks of a great mighty wind and an earthquake and tongues of fire alighting or sitting.

What does a dove do? A dove alights, right, sits down on each one of them. Revelation describes the Holy Spirit as the seven spirits who are before his throne. The churches in the book of Revelation are described as seven lampstands, perhaps another image associated with fire. What sits on the end of a candle if you light it?

What sits there? A flame, we might call it a tongue of fire. Right? So I'll put the image on the screen behind me. And then in chapter four of Revelation, those seven spirits are called the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne in verse five.

So let me channel my inner Leon Manning for a moment. I see the Holy Spirit like this. A great rushing wind that shakes the very foundations goes before him, but behind the wind and the earthquake, descending quickly but smoothly and gracefully on wings like a dove is the fiery presence of the Holy Spirit. And if we were to look before the throne of God, illuminating the throne room with a blinding kaleidoscope of color is the fire like presence of the holy spirit. That's what I imagine, but I don't know.

Okay. Question number two. Why do we refer to the holy spirit as he if the Holy Spirit is a spirit? The answer to that is he chooses to personify himself, using primarily masculine pronouns. Occasionally neuter, never feminine prone.

So that word spirit, is a neuter word. So Greek is a gendered language like Spanish or Latin or some of these other languages, and so we think about masculine words, feminine words, and neuter words, that is words that are neither masculine nor feminine. And it is a neuter word, but we often see the text intentionally using masculine pronouns. So if it's a neuter word, we would expect the pronoun to be it, right? Neither not he, masculine, not she, feminine, but it, neuter, neither masculine or feminine.

But what we see in the bible, if you wanna turn to John chapter 14, we're gonna look at those verses, is that the neuter word, has a masculine pronoun he that goes with it. So look there at John 14 and verse 26. John fourteen twenty six, But the helper, the holy spirit whom the father will send in my name, he, masculine, will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Drop down to chapter 15 and verse 26. John fifteen twenty six, but when the helper comes whom I shall send to you from the father, the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father, he, masculine, will testify of me.

Drop down to chapter 16 and verse 13, we really could have just read this one, but bear with me. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak of his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. That's why we refer to the spirit as instead of an it because that's the way the Bible refers to the spirit. But it's interesting. We can actually get insight though it isn't a slam dunk on interpretation when we do see a neuter use of some words.

So turn to Romans chapter eight for a second. Romans chapter eight. Now again, Romans chapter eight, way back in our first class, first and second classes, we talked about how spirit is used just of the Holy Spirit, but it's used of all these other different things in the Bible. And the context has to determine whether it's talking about the Holy Spirit or our spirit or a disposition or the spirit of God or the spirit of Christ, all these things we've talked about. Romans eight is the perfect place to talk about that because all of these things are present, but how do we know whether it's talking about the Holy Spirit or one of these other uses of spirit?

Well, it's interesting. Look there in Romans chapter eight and verse 11. But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit. What's the next word everybody has? Who?

That's a choice by the translators to personify this. That word can just as easily be translated that dwells in you. So if it's who dwells in you, what does that imply? That it's talking about what? Who?

It's talking about who? The Holy Spirit, right? But if we say that dwells in you, well, maybe it's talking about the Holy Spirit, but it opens up the possibility, well, it's not talking about the Holy Spirit, it's talking about the spirit of God, that spirit that is in God, not the Holy Spirit himself. Drop down to verse 15, same thing. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption.

Now, in our little exercise we went through that and said, this is a disposition, so this idea of adoption, But my translation, New King James says, by whom, but that could just as easily be translated by which we cry out, Abba Father, and I think that would be the better translation. Now, it doesn't matter a whole lot, but it matters quite a bit in verse 26. Hopefully, we'll get to this tonight, if not, we'll talk about it next week. Look there in verse 26. Likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

Which spirit? Well, it's For we do not know what we should pray as we ought, but the spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now I'm not gonna dig into that and give you my thoughts, the conclusion I've come to on that. But if it is the spirit himself, what does that imply? What spirit are we talking about here?

The Holy Spirit. But that word is actually neutered. The spirit itself. So that opens up the possibility that this spirit here isn't talking about the holy spirit, instead it's talking about our spirit. Now, we're not gonna dig into that yet.

I just wanted to kinda bring that up since we were talking about it here with question number two. Alright. So that took longer than I wanted, but now those questions are answered. So let's think about oh, I gave you a little hint there. Let's think about the Holy Spirit and pick back up on this idea of how the Holy Spirit is working.

When when I was in church bible bowl at Camp Tennessee for many many years, I came up with different ways the kids and their bible knowledge that I thought would be fun. And one of the ways that we came up to test the kids that I thought would fun and exciting that they absolutely hated, was a game called This or That, where they had to determine whether this was something said in the bible or something said by someone else. And so for example, did Yoda or King David say this? And so you get to this is very low stakes. You get to participate in this game tonight and then I promise we're going somewhere with this.

So if you think Yoda said this, hold up a one right here. If you think King David said this, hold up a two right here. Everybody hold up a thumb so that I know that you're with me on this. Okay? Alright.

So Yoda one, David two. Turn from your rage, do not lose your temper, it only leads to harm. Yoda or King David? Yoda or King David? That is King David.

Very good, King David. Alright. What about one? In a dark place we find ourselves and a little more knowledge lights our way. Yoda number one, King David number two.

Or as I see one face, that one is actually Yoda. Yoda said that one. So number one. Okay? Another one that we did, Lamentations, Taylor Swift lyrics.

She cries herself to sleep at night, tears soak her pillow. If you think this is the book of Lamentations, give me a one. If you think this is a Taylor Swift lyric, give me a two. Book of Lamentations or Taylor Swift, that is actually the book of Lamentations in the message translation. And that's why they got so mad at me, they're like, that's not even a real bible verse.

Well, okay. Alright. What about this one? Your knives and swords and weapons that you use against me. Lamentations or Taylor Swift?

Lamentations or Taylor Swift? That is Taylor Swift. Okay. How about this one? Hand off for King Solomon.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us. Number one, Gandalf. Number two, King Solomon. And if you wanna know a hint, Wade is doing this over here. Is indeed Gandalf who said that.

Let's see if Wade is good at this one. A merry heart makes for cheerful countenance. That's King Solomon. Okay. You see how the works.

Here's what I want us to do. Is this the holy spirit or the word of God that's being referred to in these verses? So if it's the holy spirit, give me a one. If it's the word of god, give me a two. Okay?

Holy spirit one, word of god two. Is the holy spirit or the word of god able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart? Now, obviously both can do that. Is this verse talking about the holy spirit or the word of God specifically? Holy spirit, word of God.

I'm gonna need 20% participation before I click the slide. That's, the word of God, Hebrews chapter four and verse 12. Holy Spirit or the word of God continues to work in you who believe. Now obviously, both do that. But is that talking about the Holy Spirit, one, or the word of God, two?

That's talking about the word of God. Now you listen to both of those, both of those sound like the holy spirit, right? And I would suggest they are the holy spirit. But the scripture says, this is what the word of God is doing, working in you. And I would suggest the Holy Spirit is working in you by the word of God to accomplish these things.

Now, last time, we kinda ended up here, well, we talked about this, in fact this is our third time to talk about this. We think about Hebrews chapter three and four. Turn over there with me if you would just a second. Hebrews chapter three and verse four. We won't go through this activity and exercise since we've already been through it once, but we see that's that Psalm 95 is quoted three different times in these two chapters.

Titus and Philemon, Hebrews. Okay. It's quoted in chapter three seven through 11 and it's the Holy Spirit says this, in chapter four three and four, God, presumably God the father says this, and in Hebrews four and verse seven, David says this. Now, how can all three of those be true? Because these are the thoughts of God the father communicated by the Holy Spirit to David and then David wrote those down so that we receive them and hear them, apply them even as the Hebrew writer does here.

But all of that gets us to what we see in Hebrews chapter four and verses 11 through 13. Read with me. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest. That's what this quote is all about. Lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience for the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and there is no creature hidden from his sight.

But all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. And so we see the Hebrew writer is using the word of God and God himself almost interchangeably in this verse. This is what the word of God accomplished, but who is really accomplishing it? It's God. It's the Holy Spirit who is accomplishing this through the word.

So here's the pattern. There is revelation from the Holy Spirit that is spoken and or written down by the one whom is who is, inspired and then it is heard by someone who then applies it to themselves. That's the pattern. Let's give some other examples of this. Let's look in Revelation.

Turn to Revelation chapter two for just a second. Revelation chapter two. So John was instructed to see the things and to write them down in chapter one. And so, to the seven churches of Asia, he is writing these things and this is what he's told in verse one of chapter two. To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, these things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.

This is what Jesus says. You write it down. Then we drop down to verse seven. He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

So John wrote down and then sent a letter with what the spirit said to the churches and what were those in the churches supposed to do? I'm asking. Hear. He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. Now, is that talking about the physical device that we have here?

Our ear. Ears to hear is really a metaphor. Right? For what? If you have a mind and a heart to understand what God is telling you can listen and understand and apply what the spirit is saying to the churches.

So, here's our pattern again. What was the spirit's work in these verses? Absolutely. Revelation. The spirit revealed.

What was John's work in these verses? Write it down and send it out. What was the work of the churches in these verses? To hear and understand. And I think maybe we see this again, the same same pattern again and again and again in scripture.

Let me just give you one other example. Turn to John chapter six. John chapter six. Excuse me, that should be John chapter 16. John chapter 16.

I looked at this at John six, that's not right. Okay. John 16 and verse eight. Jesus says, it's to your advantage if I go away because I'm gonna send the helper and the helper is whom? The Holy Spirit.

Verse eight, and when he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. So conviction is what the Holy Spirit is gonna do when he is sent. Read verses thirteen and fourteen, However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, will not speak of his own authority, we just read all of that just a second ago. Okay? Now we go to Acts chapter two.

The Holy Spirit is sent, the helper does come, the apostles receive this Holy Spirit. In verse six of chapter two, they heard them speak in their own language because they're speaking in tongues. They say in verse eight, how is it that we hear each one in our own language in which we were born? Verse 11, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful words of God. Verse 14, but Peter standing up with the 11 raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words.

Verse 22, men of Israel hear these words. We drop down to verse 36. Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ. Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart. What's another word for cut to the heart?

They were convicted of the things that were said and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? So, the holy spirit inspired Peter and the other apostles. Peter spoke these words and the people heard and believed and obeyed what was spoken. We talked about this, last time. The primary role of the Holy Spirit in the first century is to reveal the truth, confirm that truth with signs, miracles, and wonders.

In Acts chapter one and verse eight, Jesus says it this way, you're gonna receive power and you're gonna be my witnesses through this Holy Spirit that is given to you. But as we talked about last time, now that truth is completed. Now, I think this is where we were passing each other in our discussion last time when we talked about the spirit working and that work being completed, and then we said, isn't he working when I understand, when I receive the truth that is found in God's word and I understand it? Well, I think what we're confusing is this idea of working with us doing what? Well, we go back here and we see our pattern with us hearing.

Is hearing just something that's intellectual? No. What is hearing in a biblical sense? It is understanding. Is it just understanding?

No. Then what is it? Yeah. It's producing something in us. It's not just an intellectual exercise.

It can't be just an intellectual exercise. We hear and understand and are moved by the things we read and we're compelled to respond to it. Now the holy spirit's working, if I get back over here, the holy spirit's working is completed, but our response to that is ongoing. And that shouldn't surprise us because God has long worked in such a way where there were big events and works for a period of time that were finished or fulfilled but then continued to have fruits and benefits. God has worked this way throughout the ages.

Let me give you just three examples of that. The spirit working, that's completed. Our hearing is ongoing. What about the creation? How long did God take to create the world?

Six days? Oh, man. Y'all are y'all are sharp, right? And then what did he do on the seventh day? He rested, right?

Is he still working in creation? Yes, is but that work of creating is completed. Now, he interceded with the flood, right, that's kind of a big thing that he did. He continues to uphold the world by the word of his power, but this was a big work and he completed that work and though there is some other things going on, that work is completed, but the fruits and benefits of that work will continue on. Let's think about it this way, Moses and the prophets.

Did God work through the Moses and the prophets? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Revealed the law, revealed all of the interpretation of the law through the prophets and commentary of what was going on at that time. What happened from the book of Malachi to the coming of Jesus?

Well, we call it four hundred years of biblical silence, that's because we don't have any revelation from God during that time. He completed that work, it was for a time, but in those four hundred years, did Moses and the prophets impact anything? Yeah, they impacted everything. Do Moses and the prophets continue to bear fruit even in our lives today? Absolutely.

Think about this one. What about the incarnation? What was the big work? Jesus came to do what? Seek and save the lost?

To die on a cross? In fact, what is the last thing Jesus says on the cross? It is finished. That is the biggest event. That is the biggest work.

And he rose and he ascended and he sent the holy spirit. I know there's continual work going on, but the incarnation finished. Does that continue to bear fruit in our lives today? Yes, but how? By the way, we respond to it.

Not because Jesus is continuing to be incarnated, he's not here on this earth. And so we see this pattern. Can you think of any examples, physical examples with that same kind of thing? Where somebody does a big work and though their working is concluded, their working is finished, it continues to bear fruit and have an impact going forward. Think of any examples of that?

Oh man. Yeah, 09/11. I wouldn't think it in quite such negative terms, but that I was talking to the girls the other day about pre 09:11 stuff. And like, the social trust that we had. Who's been who went to an airport before 09:11?

Like, how different is it? Yeah. That that event, that happening continues to bear fruit in our lives even though that ended twenty five years ago. Right? What about what about this?

Jesse is not here tonight so I can say this. Although, he's retired now, you can congratulate him on that. What about a highway? Maybe it takes forever to be completed, but then it is and what? Well, we continue to drive on it back and forth back and forth back and forth.

What about a meal? And what do you have at the end of a meal? Not everybody eats everything, what? You have and it continues to have an impact, continues to bear fruit, for some people longer than others. My grandmother used to take it out and, you know, get the mold off top of it and nuke it and microwave and it could bear fruit for a long long time.

Right? Continues to have an impact going forward. Maybe this is a good analogy because I think it fits in a biblical sense. What about planting a tree? Well, the work of planting, there's smaller work that might take place.

Yeah, pruning and watering and those sorts of things. That initial planting, that initial work happened and then the tree continues to grow and bear fruit in the future. And maybe we think about the Holy Spirit giving the word of God over a brief period of time. And if you wanna think about the Holy Spirit preserving that word or other things that the Holy Spirit might do, but this pattern is something that we see over and over and over. A big event that God does in his working, but that continues to bear fruit in our lives as we respond to that work.

And so as we were discussing those things, I know this, right? That the holy spirit worked in a big way. He was working to give the word of God. And then we respond by hearing that word and it making an impact on us. Now, that's the pattern, but that's not the only connection between the spirit working and the word of God accomplishing some of that work.

But I'll I'll open it up. Thoughts or questions there? Mark. Yes. Did Jesus intercede for us on the cross or does Jesus intercede for us?

Both. Yeah. So that's a big event Mhmm. That occurred and stopped. But I think we're using intercede in two different ways.

They're both intercession. Right? But Jesus primarily interceded through the cross for what? For salvation, to bring about our salvation. Jesus can still intercede in that way, but he interceded on the cross with that big event to bring about the opportunity for our salvation.

The primary way that Jesus intercedes now would be through what? Prayer. Right? So just just to clarify. Okay.

You wanna give him the mic so that this can be recorded. His original question was, did Jesus intercede or does Jesus intercede? Is that right? Yes. Okay.

So my answer was yes, both. But we see in slightly different ways. Go ahead. I'm inclined to wonder. Me too.

How is the holy spirit currently occupying his or its time? Well, it's his. Right now. Occupying his what? Time.

His time? T I m e? T I m e, whether that exists or not. Whether time exists or not? Yeah.

Well, time does exist because God created it, but God is outside of time. Correct. Both of those are correct. Right. What's the Holy Spirit doing right now?

What is the Holy Spirit up to? What's what's he up to right now? Whatever the Holy Spirit chooses to be up to right now, he's up to. What's Jesus up to right now? What's God up to right now?

God is working providentially in our lives in whatever way he chooses to. I assume that the holy spirit is involved in that. I know that Jesus is involved in that because he's the intercessor for our prayers to take them to the father and he promises to answer according to his will. The inner workings of how that works would be in my I'm not sure box. I don't know box.

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna say it's on me for my misunderstanding, not on you for your explanation. That's very generous. But I got the impression that you were implying that God, Jesus, Holy Spirit did something, and then everything after those events is how we responded. I didn't hear you talk about, they keep doing stuff. Yeah.

So if that's what I communicated, that's not what I intended to communicate. What I am communicating is we often see God work in a big way and he continues to work but not in that same way. Agreed? So he worked in creation. Is he still working in the creation?

Through him we live and move and have our very being, he upholds it by his word, he interjected himself at the flood, but is he working in the same way he did in those six days at the beginning? Yes or no? No. Those are different ways. Those are different manners of working.

I just I didn't want to get the impression that the Holy Spirit revealed himself in the word and everything else is up to us in how we interpret or receive the word. Because if I conclude that he is still working, then he is still working outside of whether or not we receive it. He's working. I believe that the holy spirit is working, but working to do what? I don't know.

What How do we see the holy spirit working in the testament as it relates to bringing people to salvation? Giving I'll answer. Giving them opportunities to hear the word. Would you agree with that? Yes.

And that didn't stop when the word was written, would say. Those opportunities are currently being Sure. Given. Sure. And that would be what we call providence.

The working of God, right? But providence is something that happens around us and for us. It is not something that happens to us or in us. How do you know? Because how do I know?

Because that's consistently what I see in the New Testament. I don't see a single example of the Holy Spirit interceding directly on the heart of someone apart from the of God to bring them to salvation. I don't see a single example of that. I see. I agree I agree 100% with that.

You know, you make up some story or maybe you read of some story about the woman and her child crossing at a crosswalk, they're about to walk in front of a bus and Uh-huh. Something flies in front of them diverts your attention. Was that God's providence? Perhaps. Perhaps it was.

Do I know? No, because it wasn't revealed to me. I don't either. But do I believe God is working And if that were my wife and child, would I go follow my feet and thank God and praise God that that was avoided and whatever he did in that, thank him for that? Absolutely, I would.

So what if it wasn't a feather blowing in the wind but it was a human being doing something to divert that woman's attention? Are we saying that God can only providentially work with inanimate objects or could He potentially work on someone to serve as providence in someone else's life? I think that he could. How he would do that? He wouldn't violate that person's free will.

I know that. I agree with that too. That's why this is so perplexing to me. Because we always retain our free will. I'm inclined to believe if we don't have free will then God doesn't exist.

I don't think that two things are compatible. Well, would agree with that based on what I know of God in the scriptures. Now, how God goes about doing that? It's not revealed to me. Yes?

Well, so even in that scenario, God is not working on the one who is saved. He is working on the person interjected in that. And we do see that in scripture. Holy Spirit took Philip to the Ethiopian eunuch. He took Paul to Macedonia?

Yes. He worked in Philip through Philip, but he did not change the eunuch's heart. Philip wasn't the one being saved. And in that scenario, the woman and child are the one being saved. He's not working on them.

He's working on the person put in there. And I would take that a step further. Even though he was working on No. He changed his location, right? Now how God might change my location to be the one to save the woman and the child, that is that is whittling on his end of the stick, right?

So what? Free will? Without violating your free will? He did it. He did it.

Scripture says it. I believe that he does. How he does it, I do not know. But that's still not something in us. It's something for us and around us that's taking place.

It's definitely something acting upon him. What acts upon us now? I mean, I don't think he's got his feet kicked up just enjoying Well, and I hope I've made clear through the whole study that the implication a lot of times is quenching the spirit, right? The spirit has the right to work however he wills, but I'm trying to stay within the bounds of how I know he's working and leave the rest in the I don't know box, I'm gonna leave that in hands of God because he knows better than I. Wade?

I think we need to be careful. I know I agree with that. I know with you know, me and Lauren have talked a little bit about, you know, that very question of, you know, we see all these big works in the Bible in the Old Testament and the New Testament. You know, this question is about where is God today and how is he working? And I think I think we yearn to see that.

We yearn to see that and, you know, and have proof of that. I think we need to be careful that because we're seeking that, we don't say with certainty what is and what isn't God is doing in certain situations. Yeah. And I think it can go so far as, and we see this all the time where people come to a sincere understanding that we find is incorrect and we discover that is incorrect but we are sincere before. We don't wanna think those feelings of those emotional feelings of inspiration towards something as being confirmation from the holy spirit because then we could, in that way, take the lord's name in vain and say, this conclusion I've come to because I felt this way means god has approved of that view.

And if it's not supported by scripture and we don't see that from the word of God, we can't override that with the feeling we feel or think is from the holy spirit. And that comes back to something we already talked about. Do we see anywhere in the bible God is working through a feeling that we know of, where God is working through a feeling in order to move people in a certain direction? I don't think so. I think the only gray area would be where the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, for example.

But before that, you see where Pharaoh hardened his heart multiple times before it says, hardened his heart, which is like God given him over to that disposition and letting him have that free will is essentially how I think that is read. Very good. I think that's excellent. We're gonna have to have like three more quarters on this. Alright.

So here's a list that I want you to consider. I'll have to give it to you on a handout to think about, but we think about the spirit and the word. I have zero minutes left. Gives life, spirit the word. Yes.

Explicitly yes in the same passage, John six. Gives hope, spirit of the word. Yes. Explicitly yes in the same passage, Romans 15. Sanctifies.

Yes. Explicitly, yes. The spirit, Romans 15. The word, Ephesians five, cleanses, yes, explicitly yes, spirit and the word, first Corinthians six, Ephesians five.

Comforts, saves, teaches, gives new birth and dwells in us, Explicitly, yes. This is where I wanna pick up next time because I'm literally out of time. Romans chapter eight verses 10 through 11. What we see there in that passage, one of a couple of different examples where we see God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit all dwelling in us. We see the word dwelling in us as well, Colossae three and verse 16.

How does that take place? That's where we'll have to start up next time. We're gonna get to intercession next time and cover as much else as we can. The rest we'll we'll just have to get to when we can. Alright.

Thank you for your good attention.