 the person of the Holy Spirit or Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit wants to have a relationship with you more than you want to have a relationship with Him. I think we already established that. But what I want you to learn in this lesson is that you cannot have a relationship and fellowship with the Holy Spirit if you call Him or view Him as it. We can't have fellowship with the Holy Spirit if we view Him as a force instead of a friend, power instead of a person. I will pray the Father and He will give you another Comforter, a Helper, that He may abide with you forever. If you read this verse you will see words He and Him. Jesus doesn't see, present or introduce the Holy Spirit as impersonal force. He introduces Him as a person. He, the Holy Spirit, is the same way a person as Jesus, as you and as me. He is not a force. Holy Spirit is not a dove. He's not a wind. He's not oil. He's not fire. He's not manifestations and He's also not tongues. Holy Spirit is a person. A person is somebody, is a living being with the personality. A person is a being with the soul and the soul is the mind, the emotions and the will. And so I want to take just a moment and I want you to listen very carefully, even those of you who maybe have heard this before. I want the Holy Spirit to use this information to make it into revelation because only then you can experience transformation in your life. So information is led to revelation which turns into transformation. And the four things that I want to present to you today that I believe are very crucial if you want to have a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. First one is the Holy Spirit has a mind. Romans chapter 8 verse 27 it says, But he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. He, God the Father, he knows the mind of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has a mind. The mind of the Holy Spirit is in union with the Father and the Son, but he is separate person of the Godhead. So the Holy Spirit is not a robot. He's not an artificial intelligence. He has a mind of his own. Number two, what makes Holy Spirit a person is the Holy Spirit has a will. Jesus told his followers to go into all the world and preach the gospel. But the Holy Spirit prohibited Paul from going to Asia. Acts chapter 16 verse 6 and 7. The Holy Spirit wasn't against preaching in those cities, but he knows better everything that we do and he leads us in the ways that help us to be most effective for God. That's why God never gave us a map. Yes, the Bible is a map, but Bible doesn't tell you whether you should marry her or her. The Bible doesn't tell you which city you should live with. The Scripture also doesn't tell you which career choice you should take, which church to join. There's a lot of things that the Bible doesn't give you specifics on to do, that therefore God didn't just give us the map, the Bible, he also gave us the guide, the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has his own will. It's in union with the will of the Father, in union with the will of the Son, but it's distinct. Number three, the Holy Spirit has emotions. And do not grieve the Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30. To grieve the Holy Spirit is to cause him sorrow. He is not a robot or a machine without emotions or feelings. Even though he's exemplified as fire and wind, he is none of them because fire and wind doesn't have will, mind or emotions. The Holy Spirit is a person. Our actions can bring him joy or displeasure. Like if you remember in Genesis, when humanity turned into violence, when evil ran rampant, the Bible says when he came to Noah, the Lord says, my spirit will not strive with men forever. God's spirit was enduring displeasure. I find it interesting because the Holy Spirit was not the one who was complaining. The Holy Spirit was not the one who said, I am being hurt. I am being inflicted, afflicted. I am grieved. It was God the Father who spoke on behalf of the Holy Spirit and took action. Now, most people view Holy Spirit like this. If we offend him, he would walk away and leave us because we see stories in the Bible of King Saul and Samson, Holy Spirit departing. But in the book of Genesis, it says when humanity was sinning and the spirit was grieved, not only the Father stepped in, but he did not remove the Holy Spirit. He removed humans. He shortened our days. He shortened our years. So instead of living for a thousand years, our life on earth went to a hundred. Do you know why? Because of how we treated the Holy Spirit. I find it interesting, the Holy Spirit did not complain about being grieved and afflicted by our behavior, but God the Father stepped in and spanked the humans, if I can use the terminology. When Jesus was being credited for deliverance by using the power of the devil, it grieved and blasphemed the Holy Spirit. It's interesting because the Holy Spirit didn't complain. He was being mistreated. The Holy Spirit was being blasphemed, but you don't see Holy Spirit crying or complaining. He was taking that and Jesus defended the Holy Spirit. In fact, he said to people who accuse them of that, he said, you guys are toast. You're grieving the Holy Spirit. You're blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. What you guys are doing is wrong. When Israel grieved the Spirit of God, the Bible says in Psalm that God went to war with Israel because of how they treated the Spirit of God. You know what that tells me? The Holy Spirit can be grieved. The Holy Spirit can be afflicted by my behavior, but if he can be grieved, he can also experience pleasure and joy from how I'm treating other people and how I am treating him. But he's not going to fight me. Holy Spirit is not vengeful. Holy Spirit is not revengeful. Holy Spirit is very gentle. He's very meek. His personality is very precious, and therefore God the Father and God the Son goes to war when the Spirit gets grieved, afflicted, and hurt by our behavior. So that tells me just because the Holy Spirit doesn't fight you back, it doesn't mean the Father will not. You have to honor the Holy Spirit. Don't cause him displeasure. Don't cause him grief. Bring him joy by loving Jesus, loving other people, and walking and surrendering to the Holy Spirit. He is a person. He can be offended. He can be grieved. He can be humiliated. And he can be belittled and even limited. He can be quenched. He can be resisted. And we'll talk in the next lesson about sins that people commit against the Holy Spirit. But I want you to know that God the Father treasures and values and defends the Holy Spirit when we commit sin against them. The Holy Spirit is a person because he has a mind. Holy Spirit has a will and Holy Spirit has emotions. Another thing that I would like to highlight is the Holy Spirit has a body. Yes, he has a body. Did you not know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you whom you have from God and you are not your own, for you were bought at the price. Therefore glorify in your body and in your spirit which are gods. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 19 and verse 20. You know when I started to develop intimacy with the Holy Spirit I struggled a little bit because I kind of had this question to the Lord. I said Lord if you made the Holy Spirit to be having fellowship with us, if he's not staying with us for just three and a half years and then going up to heaven. But his assignment is and he's calling by you. You called him to stay with us until the end. Why in the world did you give him a name Holy Ghost? I mean the word Holy scares me, okay? Because I'm not always Holy and the ghost is a little bit intimidating. And on the top of that, unlike God the Father, it's easier for us to relate with the title of the Father. It's not hard for us to relate with Jesus because Jesus was a Jewish man, Middle Eastern man. And so for us when we think of Jesus we think of you know a figure we saw in the movie or on pictures, a good strong man with a beard and long robe. And then when it talks about the Holy Spirit, many of us are very confused because in our mind we think of a ghost, something of oil, other things of fire, other people think of some kind of a feeling or an atmosphere or a force or power. And then we're supposed to have a fellowship with this ghost. What helped me is when the Holy Spirit convicted me and he said, I have a body. I'm no less of a person than you if I don't have a body. For example, if you go to a funeral, a person has a body in the casket. Your friend, for example, or a family member, but they are not there. They got all the fingers, both eyes, both ears, one nose, all their teeth are still intact, but they're not there. Their body is there because the real you is not the body, the real you is the person inside of the body. And so I started to get the revelation that the Holy Spirit is that person. He is as real as me, even though he doesn't have a physical body. But then I was corrected by the Word of God, that though Holy Spirit is a person, he also has a body. You know what that body is? It's your body. It's my body. You know, God the Father took the image of the Father. The personality connects with us. Jesus, you know, he took that image of a Jewish man and the Holy Spirit said, I want Vlad's body. I want John's body. I want her body. So your body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. That changes how you view your body. If you ever felt insecure about your physical appearance, now you have a greater reason not to live in insecurity. You can now live in thanksgiving to the Lord for not only creating your body, healing your body or resurrecting your body in the future and rewarding what's done in the body, but also choosing to reside in your body right now. The Holy Spirit made his mailing address. Your body is his PO box. He lives in you. It changes your view of your body. It raises its value and importance. You know, sometimes they sell a baseball bat that a famous baseball player held it. They would sell a shirt that a famous football player played and won a Super Bowl and it goes for a ridiculously high price. They would sell a basketball that a famous basketball player played and won a championship game and that basketball was used on the court. Why? Because at one time, this person touched that item. It becomes so valuable because this person is so important. All of those stars and celebrities are people. Holy Spirit is God. He didn't just touch you. He chooses to live in you. He chooses your body as his primary real estate and his residence. You know what that means? Not only this means that you can fellowship with Holy Spirit. Not only this means Holy Spirit is no less a person just because you can see him physically, but it means that the value of your body goes through the roof. Not in prideful, high-sufficing ways, but in seeing yourself, your body, the wrinkles, maybe certain things you don't like about your physical face or your shape or the color of your skin or the color of your hair or the way your eyes are or the way your fingers are or whatever it is, you have to look at it through the new way. The Holy Spirit has chosen that body you're currently despising as his primary dwelling place. So why don't you get on with the program and begin to thank God that not only your body was created by God, not only God heals it, not only one day he'll resurrect it, not only one day he'll reward you for what you did in your body, but currently the Holy Spirit finds it good enough to dwell in it. Does that mean you shouldn't take care of yourself? Of course not. In fact, you should take care of yourself more than other people. You should exercise, you should eat right, you should put on the right clothes, you should trim your hair, you should clean your face. Why? Because you want the house of the Holy Spirit to look at its best. To have fellowship with Holy Spirit, you have to view him as a person. To view him as a person, you must understand, yes he is God, but he's also a person who has a will, who has emotions, and who has a mind, and who has a body. It's your body that he chose to dwell in.