Last week we looked at the nature and person of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is not merely a power or a depersonalized force.  The Holy Spirit is a person.  The Holy Spirit is the 3rd person in the Godhead.  Acts 13:2 records the Holy Ghost speaking as a person to the disciples, saying to them, “separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them”.  

The Holy Spirit is the perfecter of every divine activity.  The Father wills, the Son executes, and the Spirit fulfills.  If you look in the book of Revelation chapter 22 John saw a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.  Thats the Trinity.  Thats the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Jesus speaking of the Holy Spirit says out of the bellies of those who believe in him will flow rivers of living water.  Jesus says in Johns gospel that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father.  Revelation 22 is describing the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father, through the Son, to fulfill the Fathers desire to deify all of creation.  

On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh, fulfilling God’s desire to make a home in mankind.  The Holy Spirit established the church on the day of Pentecost, baptizing the disciples in the body of Christ’s death and resurrection. Those who believed became pillars of God’s temple, being made members of Christs body, of his flesh and his bone.  The Holy Spirit resides in the earth, drawing all people to the Father through the Son. Those who believe in Jesus are sealed in the Spirit and become the temple of the Living God.  

The Spirit moves as the Spirit wills, bringing forth gifts within the body of Christ to edify, exhort, and comfort us through the revelation of Jesus.  While the ministry of the Holy Spirit involves spiritual gifts, these gifts primarily serve to draw people into communion with the Son, and through the Son, communion with the Father. 

Jhn 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me: 

Jhn 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

The Holy Spirit doesn’t speak of Himself; instead, He testifies of Jesus.  On the day of Pentecost, when the people were baptized by the Holy Spirit, they prophesied about Christ.  When the Spirit descended upon Jesus in the Jordan River, He was testifying of Jesus. The Spirit wasn’t speaking of Himself; rather, He was conveying what He heard from the Father. The Father declared, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” The Spirit heard the Father’s words and testified that Jesus is the Son of God with power.  In John 16, Jesus says, “All things the Father has are mine. When the Spirit comes, He will take what is mine and will show it to you.” The Holy Spirit enters the earth, rehearsing in our midst, that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.  

The Holy Spirit shows us what is to come through the revelation of Jesus Christ.  The Holy Spirit can reveal anything he chooses to reveal, but when Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit showing us things to come, he’s referring to the Spirit of Prophecy.  He’s referring to the things that were revealed in him.  Jesus says, “No longer do I call you servants, for the servants dont know what their Lord is doing.  But I call you friends for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known unto you.”  The Spirit reveals what the Father is doing through the Son.  It’s the Holy Spirit that caught John up in the revelation of Jesus Christ.  It’s the Holy Spirit that showed John the things that were to come through Christ.  The Holy Spirit showed John what we will be and what creation will be. The Spirit testifies of the Son, declaring that we will find our conclusion in Jesus and what is witnessed in his resurrection.  

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father to convince us we are the children of God.  The Spirit bears witness to our spirits that the Father has gathered our humanity into his bosom through the Son.  The Father who begat mankind from the beginning wanted to beget humanity again free from death and corruption through His incorruptible seed, His eternal Son Christ Jesus.  The Father gave us His Son.  He prepared a body for the Son so that the Son who comes from His bosom can assume our humanity in His person, and through his flesh our humanity can be Fathered by the Trinity, by the Father, through the incarnation of the Son, in the Spirit. 

We’re begotten again by the Father through the humanity of the Son.  We’re begotten from the flesh of Jesus just as Eve came out of the flesh of Adam.  We’re flesh of Jesus’ flesh and bone of his bone, just as Adam says Eve is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone.  Jesus was put to sleep like the 1st man Adam …. Jesus was put to death in the flesh.  He was groaning in travail on the cross as a woman travails in childbirth, begetting us again free from death, so we can be alive to the divine nature through his flesh and blood.  

John says what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God.  John is echoing Pauls words when Paul says we’ve been given the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  The Spirit shows us our humanity has been fully known by the Father, through the divinity of the Son.  We cry, Abba, Father because the Spirit shows us He has fathered our flesh through the Son.  The Spirit perfects the love of God in our hearts, showing us the Father has poured His divinity into our humanity, swallowing our mortality, that which afflicts us, through the body He prepared for the Son.  

1Jn 2:27  But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. 

The him the Holy Spirit teaches us to abide in is Jesus.  The Holy Spirit comes to help us abide in Jesus.  Jesus is not a thought.  He’s not an aberration.  Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.  He’s the Word of Life that’s been from the beginning, manifest in the flesh.  Ephesians 5:30 says we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bone.  We don’t exist in a vacuum, we exist in the body of Christ.  We live and move and have our being within his flesh. We exist in his flesh.  Our humanity is born of him and his divinity.  The Spirit helps us to abide in Jesus by helping us abide in his flesh.  

The Holy Spirit is the Helper.  Helping us discern the Lord’s body.  Thats the primary ministry of the Holy Spirit to the church.  The Spirit shows us we are flesh of God’s flesh and bone of God’s bone.  The Spirit shows us our humanity has come forth from the humanity of God.  The Spirit brings to light the revelation of Jesus Christ; the revelation of God manifest in the flesh, showing us we are members of God’s own body.  The Spirit shows us the one who made us, came forth from the Father and cleaved to us through his own flesh; so we can be one flesh with the divine nature through him. 

Jesus says abide in me and I will abide in you.  In its proper context Jesus is saying abide in my flesh and my divinity will pour into your humanity.  The Spirit is a river of living water flowing from our belly, taking the fulness of deity that dwells in Jesus bodily, and ministering it to our humanity, nourishing us with the divine nature, animating our mortal bodies with His grace.  

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 

The infirmities Paul mentions here is talking about the afflictions we experience because of these mortal bodies.  The Holy Spirit intercedes, helping us with the weakness that comes from these mortal bodies, reminding us that our humanity has been begotten again by the Father, through the flesh of the Son.  

Romans 8:3 says sin is condemned in the flesh of Christ.  We’re alive to God and dead to sin through the flesh of the Son.  Our communion with sin is severed in the flesh of Jesus and we have communion with the divine nature through the flesh of Jesus.  It’s in the body of Jesus we see the sin and the death that comes against our humanity swallowed by His divinity.  The Holy Spirit shows us we are members of Christs own body, teaching us that the flesh of the Son of God, the divine man, is our habitation.  The Spirit enlightens the eyes of our understanding, showing us we are members of Gods own flesh.  We don’t see any sin or corruption or decay in his flesh.  We see the fulness of deity in his flesh, and the Spirit shows us we are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone.  We see all the peril and the sword and the famine and the shipwreck and the corruption and tribulation that comes against us overcome in the flesh of Jesus, and and the Spirit teaches us we are one flesh with him.  Jesus says I will not leave you comfortless … I will send another to you even the Comforter; the Spirit of Truth.  He will come and dwell in you, continuously reminding you that your flesh of Gods flesh and bone of his bone; that your humanity has been begotten again free from death by the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.