a question; but before I do, I want you to understand that I am a Holy
Ghost woman." It made me shudder. It did not sound like it. But on the
other hand, if you think of the Holy Spirit in the Biblical way as a
Divine Person of infinite majesty, who comes to dwell in our hearts
and take possession of us and use us, it leads to self-renunciation,
self-abnegation, self-humiliation. I know of no thought that is more
calculated to put one in the dust and keep one in the dust than this
great Biblical truth of the Holy Ghost as a Divine Person coming to
take up His dwelling in our hearts, and to take possession of our lives
and to use us.
3. _The doctrine of the personality of the Holy Spirit is of the
highest importance from the standpoint of experience._ Thousands and
tens of thousands of Christian men and women can testify to an entire
transformation of their experience through coming to know the Holy
Spirit as a person. In fact, this address upon the Personality of the
Holy Spirit which, for substance, I have given in almost every city
in which I have ever held a series of meetings, is in some respects
apparently the most abstruse and technical subject that I ever
attempted to handle before a popular audience, and yet, notwithstanding
that fact, more men and women have come to me at the close of the
address and more have written to me, testifying of personal blessing
received, than of any other address which God has permitted me to give.
II. FOUR LINES OF PROOF OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
There are four separate and distinct lines of proof of the Personality
of the Holy Spirit.
1. The first line of proof of the Personality of the Holy Spirit is
that all the distinctive marks or characteristics of personality are
ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. What are the distinctive
characteristics of personality? Knowledge, feeling and will. Any being
who knows and feels and wills is a person. Oftentimes when you say
that the Holy Spirit is a person, people understand you to mean that
the Holy Spirit has hands and feet and fingers and toes and eyes and
ears and nose and mouth, and so on. But these are not the marks of
personality, these are the marks of corporeity. Any being who knows,
thinks and wills is a person whether he have a body or not. Now all
these characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in
the Bible.
(1) Turn in your Bibles to 1 Cor. 2:11. +"For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."+ _Here
knowledge is ascribed to the Holy Spirit._ The Holy Spirit in other
words, is not a mere illumination that comes to your mind and mine
whereby our minds are cleared and strengthened to see truth that they
would not otherwise discover. The Holy Spirit is a Person who Himself
knows the things of God and reveals to us what He Himself knows.
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