The Holy Spirit Sent to Us

Bill Bright

God is a Personal Spirit

  1. A Great Scholar Humbles Himself
  2. Energy Force or Personal Spirit?
  3. God Desires Fellowship with Us
  4. God Helps Us to Know Him
  5. God's Immeasurable Riches
  6. God's Presence
  7. God's Triune Personhood
  8. How We Appear to God
  9. Hungering After God
  10. Joy Before a Firing Squad
  11. Power and Peace
  12. The Holy Spirit is a Person
  13. The Holy Spirit Sent to Us
  14. The Lesson of Elijah
  15. The Still Small Voice of a Friend
  16. True Happiness
  17. True Significance

“It is actually best for you that I go away, because if I don't, the Counselor won't come. If I do go away, He will come because I will send Him to you” (John 16:7).

Jesus was fully God and fully human, Jesus lived among us and demonstrated through His life and teachings just how we are supposed to live. He was the Word of God made flesh. Then, on the cross where men crucified Him, He paid the penalty for our sins. He took on our punishment so that we might be spared to enjoy eternal life and an intimate relationship with Him. He rose from the dead as the "first fruit" of this new order, just as we, too, will rise again.

Then something incredible and marvelous happened. When Jesus returned to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, He made a way to remain among us as long as we live on this earth. He released the Holy Spirit to come and live inside each one of His followers. In that way, we have the mind and the spirit of God within us.

That is why Jesus told His disciples that it was better for them that He leave this world. They had only enjoyed His presence among them physically. Now and for all time, He is among us in the deepest and most powerful way, living within us. We have Jesus' counsel, comfort, and friendship with us wherever we go, and no one can ever take it away. The Bible tells us this is a preview, a foretaste, of the wonderful fellowship that lies ahead of us when we join Him in eternity.

Your View of God Really Matters ...

When did you first hear about the Holy Spirit? How has He made an impact on your life, or are you yet to discover Him and His power?

Because God is a personal Spirit,
I will seek intimate fellowship with Him.

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