The Depersonalization of the Holy Spirit

Hey, if we haven't met, my name is Cole.

I'm going pastor here. What what originally I was going

to do is I was going to preach a sermon that kind of cooperated

with Luke Stone's excellent sermon last week about how the

Holy Spirit testifies and brings our identity to mind.

It was an excellent sermon. If you haven't listened to it,

make sure you go back and listen to that on Spotify.

But instead of going that route, which I originally planned to

do, this morning is going to be a little bit more of a

standalone sermon. Because as I was prepping and

thinking and praying, I was constantly haunted this week by

my own shortcomings and failures of life with the Holy Spirit.

And I don't think I'm alone in this struggle with the Holy

Spirit. And I wonder if you have this

same struggle too. So I'm going to preach on that.

So if you're able, let's stand for the reading of God's Word.

What we do at Frontier is we preach expository sermons.

What that means is that 90% of the time we spend our time in a

singular text where we explain that text over the course of 40

or 45 minutes. We look at the the literary

context, we look at the historical context, and then we

bring it to its Christological context.

And that's 90% of what we do. This morning I'm going to preach

a little bit different. It's called topical preaching.

Instead of focusing on one singular text, we're going to

look at 4 texts. I'm going to draw one unified

observation of those four texts, and then I'm going to preach on

that observation. What's the observation?

You'll be able to tell. Listen to what I listen to what

I emphasize, and you'll know where I'm going with this.

John chapter 14. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,

John 14 · chapter mention

whom the Father will send in my name, He, everybody say He.

He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance

all that I have said to you. John 15 But when the Helper

comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of

truth, who proceeds from the Father, He, everybody say He, He

will bear witness about me. John 16 When the Spirit of truth

comes, He, everybody say He. When the Spirit of truth comes,

He will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on

his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he

will declare to you the things that are to come.

Romans chapter 8. Paul says likewise.

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The Spirit helps us in our own weakness, for we do not even

know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself.

Everybody say himself, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us

with groanings too deep for words.

He, he, he himself pray with me. Heavenly Father, I pray that you

would move us this morning, that we wouldn't just talk about your

Holy Spirit or pontificate or hypothesize about your Holy

Spirit, but that we would be people who experience your Holy

Spirit. Lord, would that be true of us?

We're not here to just learn some new things, Lord.

We're not here to just hang out with some people who are

affable. We're here because we want to

meet with you and your Holy Spirit is your personal presence

with your people. And so, Lord, would you fill us

freshly with your Holy Spirit. We would not walk away thinking,

oh, that was a nice message or I would have said some things

differently than him. But instead, I pray that we

would walk away thinking. I heard from God this morning.

I met with God this morning. Oh, that that would be true

about us this morning. All God's people prayed.

Amen. You can have a seat.

All right, I'm going to zoom in on one observation that I think

you notice across those four different biblical texts.

The Holy Spirit was referred to in those four texts with

personal pronouns. He, he, he, and himself.

Those are all personal pronouns. And that observation, that

simple observation, is going to form the direction for the rest

of the sermon. Francis Chan famously wrote a

book called The Forgotten God a couple years ago.

Anybody read that? It was a good book.

I recommend it. What Chan does is he he exhorts

people in that book that the Holy Spirit tends to be the

person of the Trinity that we forget is God.

It's a it's a good book. I recommend it.

But what I'm going to do this morning is I'm going to preach

like the opposite end of that. So Chan focused on the Holy

Spirit as the forgotten God. What I want to do this morning

is because often times we understand the Holy Spirit as

God or as divine or as Yahweh, but sometimes we have the

tendency to reduce the Holy Spirit to a concept or an

impersonal force like gravity. And so rather than preaching on

the fraught and God, my theme this morning is going to be the

forgotten person, particularly our temptation to depersonalize

the Holy Spirit into nothing more than gravity or an

objective truth. So here's here's the big

question. I'm going to hammer you with

this all morning long. The big question is you may know

the Holy Spirit as a concept. You may know the Holy Spirit as

a doctrine. You may know the Holy Spirit as

an idea, but do you know the Holy Spirit as a person?

It's my big question for you this morning.

Do you know the Spirit as a person?

This is not a coal observation, right?

This is a, this is every denomination that's biblical.

Is my mic off? It turned off.

Did I say something that bothered you back there, Carl?

Yeah, I'm off. I don't know.

It's on. So I'm just going to preach

loud. You like that?

No needed that encouragement, bro.

I was going to feed off of that. All right, so here's where I'm

here's where I'm going. We're just we're going to do

some theology up front. Every Christian denomination

that is biblical refers to the Holy Spirit as both God and

person. We we've got a word what we put.

Oh, it just fell down. Been reading too much GQ bro.

So every every every denomination that's biblical

refers to the Holy Spirit as both God and person.

We we have a word for Christian denominations that refer to the

Holy Spirit not as God or not as person.

That word is heretical. OK, Like, for instance, I was in

the car about a month ago with my, with my daughter and she

just out of the blue, I was like, I was blasting the music.

So I was like, what was that, honey?

What? And I, I turned the music down

and she said, you know, Dad, I've been thinking about it.

I was like, this should be interesting.

She says, I, I've been thinking about it, the Father, the Son,

the Holy Spirit. And I was like, Oh yeah, what

have you been thinking about? The Father, Son, the Holy

Spirit? And she said, I've been thinking

that actually we just, we just worshipped 3 different gods.

I was like, the whole Christian history has been thinking about

it. And they would say you're a

heretic Della. So I pulled over and I made her

walk home. I didn't, I didn't do that.

I didn't do that. I didn't do that.

But I just just what watch this. Here's here's the Catechism of

the Catholic Church. Even our Roman Catholic brothers

and sisters say the Trinity or God the Trinity is 1.

We do not confess 3 gods della we do not confess 3 gods, but

one God and three everybody say Persons, one God and three

persons. And the Holy Spirit is the

proper name of the third person of the Holy Trinity.

Now it's not just our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters on

the other side of the aisle all the way over with the Assemblies

of God friends. Joseph, your people, our

assembly of God's friends say in in their catechism quote, the

Holy Spirit is a divine everybody say person Co equal

with God the Father, Co equal with God the Son, and of the

same nature. He is a person, not a thing or

mere influence. If you don't like catechisms or

you don't like theology, here's CS Lewis.

Lewis is talking about the Trinitarian nature with the

Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and particularly the Father's social

life with the Son. How the Father loves the Son and

the Son loves the Father. How the Father delights in the

Son and the Son delights in the Father.

And Lewis goes on to write what grows out of the joint life of

the Father and Son. So their love and delight in one

another. He said it was so profound and

thick that that delight stands forth not just as an emotion,

but as a person. What goes out of the joint life

of the Father and the Son is a real person.

It's in fact the third of the three persons who are called

God. And this third person is called

in technical language, the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of God.

Here's here's what I'm saying. The Holy Spirit is personal.

So my big question for you this morning is I know you can

articulate who the Spirit is. I know you can say some stuff

about the Holy Spirit. My question for you is, do you

know the Holy Spirit personally? You're going to love us.

About a year ago, I, I overheard my 4 year old and six year old

son and daughter arguing in the room next to me.

So I did what every good parent does.

I eavesdropped, right? I heard them.

I heard them arguing. And so I went to the corner and

I was about to walk into the room and I thought, you know,

I'm just actually going to lean up against this corner and I'm

going to listen to what they're arguing about.

And Della was saying, no, Russell, he, he doesn't, he

can't. To which Russell diplomatically

and gently, but still forcefully said, you're wrong, Della.

He can, you've just never seen him do it.

So I'm, I could have, I could have walked into the room and

answered whatever argument it was they were having about me.

I didn't want to do that though, so I just kept on eavesdropping.

So I was leaning against the corner listening to my kids

argue. And then they revealed the

subject about me that they were arguing about.

Della said no Russell, dad doesn't cry, he can't cry.

To which Russell said, yes Della, everybody can cry.

You've just never seen dad cry. And so my 4 year old, she was 4

at the time, she's 5 now. But apparently my my daughter

literally thought of me as an impersonal force that doesn't

even have an emotional life and doesn't have the capacity to

cry, which would hurt my feelings if it weren't super

common. This is the primary way that

most people view their authority figures.

Piaget, a famous childhood psychologist, he said that the

fact that children view their parents impersonally, so they

they tend to view their parents primarily as rule makers,

primarily as need meters and primarily as optical removers,

he said. He said it's actually necessary

for the psychological safety of children to imagine their

parents as impersonal forces. And if they knew that their

parents weren't Superman or Superwoman, they would probably

never develop emotional safety. That's that's natural to them.

And so the fact that your kids view you as an impersonal force

that's just there to meet needs and remove obstacles and and

make rules is actually it's, it's totally normal.

But PJ also argued that if children never mature, if they

just never mature to the point of realizing that their parents

are persons with real wills and real personalities and real

stories and real motivations, if they never mature to the point

of realizing their parents were persons, then their relationship

with their parents would be defined by three things.

Number one, delayed empathy. They would never even think to

imagine that there are emotions going on inside of your head and

heart. That's bad.

That's bad, right? Secondly, shallow communication.

I'll talk to my mom or dad if I need a thing, but that's it.

Shallow communication or third, relational immaturity.

And so as I was leaning against that corner listening, listening

to my daughter adamantly argue that I don't even have the

capacity to cry it, it dawned on me.

That's the same way that I tended to view my dad growing

up. Like I only saw my dad cry 2

times when I lived underneath the roof of his house, and both

of them were huge moments of revelation for me.

The 1st is when my grandfather died.

I remember seeing my dad standing over my grandpa's

casket, weeping. The second one was after my last

high school wrestling match. I remember him bear hugging me,

weeping and telling me that he was so proud of me.

And do you know what I thought during both of those moments?

Both of those moments, it was like being gripped by a new

revelation. I remember thinking, Huh, I

don't even know he could do that.

You know, I don't even know that.

And again, this is the most natural thing in the world.

This is the way that people tend to view all of their authority

figures. Kids tend to see their parents

impersonally. Churches tend to see their

pastors and personally, employees tend to see their

employers impersonally. Students tend to see their

teachers impersonally. Like, I remember when I was a

high school English teacher, I remember one Friday night

bumping into one of my students at Target.

And I swear that student looked like they had just seen a ghost.

And I came around the the corner at Target, like with deodorant

in my hand. And the student like stopped in

their tracks and they were like, dyke, what are you doing here?

I was like, I was like, what? Getting deal?

Like I was like, do you think that I just live at the high

school? And she said, I guess kind of it

just had never even seemed to occur to them that I had a

personal life that existed beyond the scope of their needs

for a teacher. I just lived in the high school,

Some most natural thing in the world.

And so there I was, leaning against the corner of that wall,

listening to my daughter argue adamantly that I didn't even

have the capacity to cry. And it dawned on me, yes, this

is how I view my dad. Yes, this is how I tend to view

my authority figures. But the most important

realization I had was this. I went, oh, that's actually how

I tend to view the Holy Spirit. Like I tend to view the Holy

Spirit as not even having the capacity for personhood.

It's not even having the capacity for crying or being

grieved. Did you know the Bible says that

you can grieve the Holy Spirit or quenched?

Paul says don't quench the Holy Spirit.

Do you know why he says that? Because you can, you can quench

the Spirit, you can grieve the Holy Spirit.

I recognize in that moment that I saw the Holy Spirit the exact

same way that my kids tend to view me as rule maker, as need

meter, as obstacle remover, perhaps as crazy uncle, right?

I go to the Father of the Son if I need something normal like

sanctification or encouragement or growth.

But I go to my crazy uncle Holy Spirit if I need something weird

like speaking in tongues. I tend to view them

impersonally. I tend to view them as gravity

right, you know? You know the way that you view

the way that you view gravity, right?

It's, it's all around us. No matter what we do, it's out

there doing its thing. So I may as well take it for

granted. Do you see the Spirit this way?

He's omniscient, he's omnipresent.

He's everywhere all the time. So why even personally engage

with them? And the reason I'm pressing into

this is because when we see the Holy Spirit impersonally, our

relationship with them tends to be characterized by the three

categories that Piaget already articulated 7 or 8 decades ago.

It tends to be characterized by the late empathy.

It just never even occurs to us that the Holy Spirit has a will

and desires and motives and personhood and in existence

apart from meeting our needs right.

If we view the Holy Spirit and personally, then our

relationship with them tends to be defined by delayed empathy,

by shallow communication. I'll go to the Spirit if I need

something, but absolutely nothing beyond that delayed

empathy, shallow communication, and relational immaturity.

So let me ask you again, do you know the Spirit personally?

I know you can articulate who the Holy Spirit is.

I know that you know the Holy Spirit the same way that you

know a baseball card. You kind of know the stats.

I had like, I had like 300 Ken Griffey junior baseball cards

when I was I was obsessed with Griffey.

I can tell you the stats, right? I had a baseball card

relationship with Ken Griffey Junior.

If you went to Ken Griffey Junior and you're like, hey,

what do you think about cold Eikey?

You know what he would say, who is this your relationship with

the Holy Spirit? You know his stats.

But if you really engage with his spirit and you're like, Hey,

do you know cold Eikey what the Holy Spirit say who in Germany,

this was only a couple years ago.

This was the year 2020. Some theologians did a did a

study, a pretty extensive one, where they wanted to see if they

can make any observations about whether or not the image that we

hold in our mind of God has any sort of quantitative impact on

the quality of our relationship with God.

And this is not going to surprise you.

I think this is just a nice study to hear that kind of maybe

supports traditional historic Christian theology.

So this isn't going to surprise you.

But what they did is they asked the participants to describe how

they viewed God. And based on the image that they

used to describe God, they divided people into two

different categories. There were people over here who

had an image of God as personal, and there were people over here

who have an image of God as impersonal.

And so this is really helpful because right now in new Age

spirituality, it's really trendy and it's really cool to describe

God impersonally, right? To describe God as, you know,

he's just kind of the force behind existence or he's just

kind of the vibe that makes me feel spiritual.

And what this study found is that that sounds nice, right?

Participants said God is that the energy in everything, which

is not wrong, but if that's your only image of the spirit or the

spirit is just the fire that helps me feel spiritual or the

spirit is more of a vibe or force than a person.

All of these things, they sound very spiritual.

You know what the problem is? The problem is that people who

articulated God in their image of God as impersonal, they were

three times as likely to describe their spirituality as

quote, feeling spiritual disconnection, feeling

spiritually detached or struggling with prayer and

emotional connection. And then on the other end, the

people who saw God with personal images like father, son, spirit

helper, friend, they were three times more likely to describe

their spiritual life as quote, having higher spiritual

vitality, showing greater resilience and suffering and

showing more ethical consistency in their lives.

And so like, these aren't surprising findings, right?

Really what the only thing that finding shows us is that if you

see God impersonally, you won't have a relationship with him.

Or that's not surprising. If you see God impersonally, you

won't have a relationship with him.

So let me ask you one more time. Do you know the Holy Spirit

personally? And so like, look, there's,

there's a million different ways that we can press into this and

get some practical application. OK, no, cool.

I kind of struggle with that. OK, what do I do?

So let me just kind of pluck one that I think is interesting and

I want to compel you to try this.

OK, so this week what I want you to do is I want you to practice

making small talk with the Holy Spirit.

Small talk and don't hear what I'm not saying.

I'm a big fan of carving out bigger chunks of time to prayer.

I like carving out 30 minutes or 60 minutes in order to listen

deeply to the Spirit. I just don't want you to start

there. I want you to start by learning

the skill of making small talk with the Holy Spirit.

The problem here is that if you only come to the Holy Spirit for

super intense spiritual sessions once a week on Sunday mornings

where you're like, I'm going to cram, I want a really special

moment with the Holy Spirit. So I'm going to take an hour and

set that aside and just see if I can really connect with the Holy

Spirit, I think that's good. But if that's all you do, you

just try to impatiently cram a whole relationship into an hour

a week. And relationships can't flourish

under those circumstances. And so I think something that's

not really talked a lot about in Christian circles is the fact

that we need to learn the skill of small talk with the Holy

Spirit. So let me let me frame this in a

simple way around a car drive. So this week, when you're in

your car, whether you're driving to work or you're driving to a

friend's house or you're driving back home, I don't care.

I want you to do three things. Every time you hit a stop sign,

I want you to to stop for a second and just pray.

Holy Spirit, enlighten me. Just be open to small talk with

the Spirit. Be open to whether or not the

Holy Spirit wants to say anything or reveal anything to

you during that car ride. Just Holy Spirit, enlighten me

and see what He does. Hypothetically, when you hit a

stoplight, you should have a few more seconds.

So when you hit a stoplight, I want you to pray this Holy

Spirit, search me, write that Psalm 51.

Search me and know me Spirit. Just be open to Spirit.

Is there anything off kilter in my soul?

Are there any sour corners of my heart that need to be sweetened?

Is there any sin I need to repent of?

Is there any gunk in my heart that you want to clean out?

Holy Spirit, search me. And then when you eventually

come to a full stop in the parking lot or in your driveway

or wherever it is you're going, I want you to pray.

Holy Spirit, send me. Begin to view.

Wherever you're walking into your house, you're being sent by

the Holy Spirit. You're walking into work, you're

being sent by the Holy Spirit. You're walking into to Walmart,

you're being sent by the Holy Spirit.

All three of those prayers will form a constellation of things

that we could call small talk. Enlighten me.

Search me. Send me.

Social commentators tell us that personal relationships, they're

not magic. We tend to view personal

relationships as well that just magically clicked or that

magically happened. Social commentators have a

different view. They argue that relationships

aren't magic. They're formed by performing a

series of small concrete social actions.

Well, can I say that again? Small, concrete social actions.

Well, our struggle to form deep relationships isn't because we

were born without the personal relationship gene.

It's not a thing. We are all deeply social

creatures, whether we're aware of that or not.

If we struggle with personal relationships, it's because we

lack practical knowledge about how to give others the kind of

rich attention that we desire to receive.

And so the point of cultivating small talk with the Holy Spirit

is to lay the kindling necessary so that the bigger fire can be

lit at a later time. Does that make sense?

OK, so I want to ask you again, do you know the Holy Spirit

personally or is he just an idea to you?

I'm just going to say what I mean.

And it's the steps on your toes. So be it.

I think the reason why so many people, so many Christians, see

the Holy Spirit as a concept and not a person is because they

don't want the Holy Spirit to be a person.

But that's the problem at the bottom.

It's that we don't want the Spirit to be a person because

persons are time consuming. They make demands on our lives.

They have a will that's separate from us.

If the Holy Spirit is a person, he may disagree with me, He may

nudge me, He may challenge me, He may disagree with me, and he

may have conflicting desires of me.

You know what doesn't do that? Concepts don't do that.

A concept of something you read on a sheet of paper and then you

memorize it to impress your friends.

Concepts make they make us feel superior about ourselves.

They make us feel good about ourselves.

They don't really challenge us. They stay on the page.

Like here's the concept. Do you know what the word

pneumatology means, Jay? Do you know the study of what so

close the study of the spirit? That's a concept.

Say that later today in everyday conversation, I guarantee you

you'll feel better than the other person.

Seriously, say to you say to one of your friends today, hey,

what's your pneumatology, bro? And the way that you'll feel is,

well, I feel better about myself, makes me feel superior.

It makes me feel good about myself.

That's what concepts do. You memorize them and then you

impress people with them. That's not what persons do.

A person demands to be communed with, and if you commune with

the Spirit, that's dangerous. He might ask you to repent.

He might ask you to give up a comfort.

He might ask you to go pray for somebody in a socially awkward

situation. That's why so many of us want

the Holy Spirit to be a concept and not a person.

Pastors are the same way. I want you want to know why so

many pastors struggle with seeing the Holy Spirit as a

person rather than a concept. It's because they don't want the

Holy Spirit to be a person. Oh my gosh.

If the Holy Spirit is personal, he might ask me to set my notes

aside. If the Holy Spirit's a person,

he might He might demand me to lead the congregation in a

direction that's not financially beneficial.

He might tell me to preach a sermon that's not popular.

It's way easier to see the Holy Spirit as a concept on a paper.

And all I do is I explain it to people and we go, Hooray, now we

know what the Spirit is. And that's why so many of us

view the the Spirit as a concept and and not a person.

If the Spirit's real, he might, he might compel me to give my

time and energy to somebody who has nothing to offer the church

and will never even volunteer. That's not time efficient.

But the Spirit is a person and he has a will.

And sometimes he leads us in the direction that we wouldn't go in

our own flesh. Do you know him this way?

Do you know the Spirit personally?

And if your answer to this is no, you're like, man, I have

depersonalized the Holy Spirit. If you have depersonalized the

Holy Spirit, I have really good news for you this morning,

right? If you're like, dude, I've spent

most of my life ignoring the Spirit, grieving the Spirit,

stiff arming the Spirit. If that's you, I have really

good news for you this morning. Here it is.

Jesus died for you. Christ was crucified for

sinners. Amen.

Christ was crucified for sinners while we were yet enemies.

And by grace through faith, when we believe in the gospel, we

receive a million gifts from God, free, free, free of merit,

free of achievement. When you believe in the gospel,

you receive the forgiveness of sins.

That's a great gift, Amen. When you believe in the gospel,

you receive the gift of righteousness.

That's a great gift, Amen. You receive the gift of heavenly

eternity with God. And all of those things are

awesome. They're all great gifts, but

none of them are the greatest gift of the gospel.

The greatest gift of the gospel is not something that God gives

you. The greatest gift of the gospel

is someone that God gives you. God gives you himself.

God's the greatest gift of the gospel.

He gives you the Holy Spirit apart from your good works,

apart from your merit, apart from your achievements.

You get the Holy Spirit and he seals you forever.

That's what makes Christianity so unique.

The unique question of Christianity is not are you a

better person? Every religion asks that

question, right? The unique question of

Christianity is not are you a moral person?

It's good to aim at that. The essential question of

Christianity is not are you a religious person, though?

That's fine. None of those things separate

Christianity from other faiths. The essential question that

Christianity asks is, do you know the Spirit personally?

You know him, Do you walk with him?

Do you make space for him? He could have been corrected by

him. You're all right with being

convicted by him. Do you listen?

Do you allow yourself to be nudged?

Or is it just baseball card stats?

Right? Because like, if your

relationship with the Holy Spirit is just studying, just

thinking, just reading, all of which are indispensable to

relationships, all those things are important.

But what I'm saying is if your relationship with the Holy

Spirit is just reading, just thinking, just studying, what

you have with the Holy Spirit is online dating.

That's what you're doing. You might think you're above

online dating, but if you never commune with the Spirit, that's

all you got. It's long distance relationship

all right. If if it's all reading and

studying and no relationship, then you and the Holy Spirit,

you have never made it past Christian mingles.com you're

still on it. Sorry, Joseph, what was yours?

Christian farmers only that's the one.

If your relationship with the Spirit resembles online dating

more than a lifelong marriage, I just want to tell you there's so

much more for you. If it's all reading, no warmth,

all theory, no embrace, all hypothesis, no spark, all

speculation, no life, I'm telling you there's more for you

in the Christian life. Look at the cross.

Jesus didn't die on the cross for online dating.

He wants a lifelong, personal, warm, covenantal, lived

relationship with you. The Holy Spirit is an on dating

apps. He's not interested in only

being known through his bio. He wants to be known by you.

He wants to be known by you. So let's get to know Heavenly

Father. Yeah.

I just pray that this moment would be a moment where perhaps

we reconnect with your spirit. We tend, I tend to make a ton of

assumptions about the Holy Spirit and just be like, you

know, the Holy Spirit. He's just there for all the

weird stuff, you know, Maybe if I want a prophetic word, I'll go

to him. Or maybe if I want to speak in

tongues, I'll go to him. I want something weird, I'll go

to the Holy Spirit. But otherwise, Nah.

And so, Lord, I just confess that I have treated the Spirit

as a force and not as a person. And so, Lord, I know you forgive

me and I receive that forgiveness, but also would you

just give me the power to live a lived relationship with the Holy

Spirit where I listen and open and nudged by and even even that

word that Reformed people are allergic to feel.

I pray that we would also feel that your Holy Spirit, you are

so relational and social, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

before time even began, before you, Lord, before you ever the

star, the Father was in love with the sun, the sun was in

love with the Spirit, and the Spirit was in love with the

Father. And the Father delighted in the

Spirit, and the Spirit delighted in the sun, and the sun

delighted in the Father. And there was this triune dance.

And that tells me that you did not create us as your image

bearers to just be people who put you under a microscope

inside of you. You created us to bring us into

what the New Testament calls participants of the divine

nature. We're swept up in relationship

with you so that the Father loves the Son, the Son loves the

Spirit, the Spirit loves coal, and coal loves the Father.

We're swept up into that tribe pants.

And so, Lord, would you do that for us this morning?

Soften our hearts, open our ears, nudge us, push us, pull

us, embrace us, hug us, shake us, speak to us, and may we walk

out as people who say yes, I know the Holy Spirit person.

So it's in the precious name of Jesus that all gods being

prayed.