 Okay. Okay, let's get started. Okay, why don't you sit down. Let's pray. Father, we thank you Lord for this for this day Lord. We thank you for yet another opportunity that you've given us to come to your presence Lord. We thank you Lord for yet another opportunity to know you and Lord we thank you that you just want to reveal your heart to us Lord and Lord we pray even as we get to know you today Master I pray that Lord that you will write your word upon our hearts Lord. Father God that we will not be forgetful hear us of the word but be diligent do us of the word and Master we pray we come at this day we come at this time into your mighty hands we pray that you will Lord lead us Lord into all that you have for us Master. We thank you for the good things for the good works Lord that you have planned for us Lord and so we just want to give you praise and we commit ourselves into your mighty hands we surrender our lives Lord to you Father God and we pray that you will mold us and shape us today Lord. Can we just ask the Lord you know to say to just really mold us right to change things within us to transform us and and remove things out of our lives all the unhealthy things out of our lives and to refine our lives let's ask the Lord to do that yes Lord we we commit ourselves Lord we surrender our lives Lord into your mighty hands yes Lord move among us Lord move in us Lord individually God and changes from the inside out we thank you we give you all the praise and all the glory in Jesus' matchless name we pray amen amen okay so we've been studying about the Holy Spirit so last class we looked at certain things that we started by looking at Trinity right so what is Trinity anyone what did we study about Trinity last class yeah okay one God and three persons Trinity is not three gods right so so what what are those three persons that we studied about the Holy Spirit yeah okay and so so in the Bible we saw that scripture just declares the triune God right doesn't go on to explain you know about the triangle but just declares the triune God right so what do you remember of the pictures that we saw of the Trinity being described in the Bible right so what do you remember where do you see those those pictures of Trinity okay sorry yeah good that's true we see it in Genesis chapter 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the Spirit of God was hovering over the earth yes we see the Father we see the mention of the Son of the Spirit and then in Hebrews we read the parallel that that everything was created everything that was created was through the Son right so we see the picture there right anyone else okay we see Suze sorry Lucy Stephen looking up to heaven yes at the martyrdom of Stephen okay where else efficient efficient chapter 3 verse 9 sorry efficient chapter 3 verse 9 can you just read that out for us yeah yeah and what was that about in reference to and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which form the beginning of the AIDS has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ yeah so God created everything through Jesus so you see the reference to the Father and the Son here right yeah okay so particularly so we so we need to study this and also look at Genesis 1 and then and then Hebrews we see that the pictures complete we see the way in God being mentioned right now any other place birth of a Lord Jesus Christ brother yeah birth of the Lord so the angel come then announces and then there also we see power of the highest will overshadow and the one that is born will be called the Son of the highest and and so on right okay and then we we looked at the you know some of the description of the Holy Spirit we looked at the fact that he is God because he is eternal we saw that he is it he's God because he's omnipotent his omnipresent his omniscient all these attributes or characteristics are seen in the Holy Spirit right so we studied that okay so we started by looking at the fact that the Holy Spirit is a person right the Holy Spirit is a person we has a personality it's not an object not a force not a thing right we saw that the Holy Spirit is a person and what qualifies us to be what qualifies someone to be a person rather than a thing or an object why would you say why would you not say that the chair is a person or a table is a person because it's an object sorry someone said because it's an object it is an object yeah it is an object so why would an object not qualify to be a person okay so I see the responses here there are no emotions no will because it cannot move okay yeah so all these are about it okay so so the thing is this when we say the Holy Spirit is a person and not a force or not an inanimate object we see that the Holy Spirit you know he has a will he speaks communicates the Bible talks about the Holy Spirit being grieved right the instruction being do not do not grieve the Spirit of God right so we looked at all that okay so let's continue and if you have your notes you can you can look into your notes online students the notes are there a classwork section if you've not yet downloaded that or you can you can just go there and just click on that and open it right so okay so we see that we saw last class that he has a will he has emotions he can speak and we also saw that you know he can we can insult the Holy Spirit we can blaspheme the Holy Spirit right people did and we can resist the Holy Spirit so what does that mean resist the Holy Spirit which means that you and I have free will and the Holy Spirit wants to do something right or ask us to do something we can disappear and resist right resist means saying no you know I will not do it okay so we can resist the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit wants to take us someplace or Holy Spirit wants to do something in us we can actually resist right so accept a seven you can turn there accept a seven and verse 51 okay accept a one seven verse 51 Paul I'm sorry we see that Stephen is actually reprimanding the people okay saying you stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears you always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did so do you okay so what do they do they resisted the work of the Holy Spirit resisted means you know to block to come against to do things opposite of what the Spirit wants us to do they resisted okay so we whether knowingly or unknowingly we can resist the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit says do not go there do not do that and we can actually resist his instructions resist his voice the Holy Spirit is God he's all powerful but at the same time God has given us free will what does that mean free will choice yeah freedom to choose freedom to decide freedom you can decide whether to obey you can decide whether to his obey right so he has not made us as machines you know the machine when you if you have to you know run the fan you switch on it doesn't say today I don't feel like running right it just runs just moves right because that's what it's it's been it's been manufactured in such a way that when there's electricity passing through it will move right so God has not made us to be machines he has given us the ability to decide choose or not choose so in our maybe in our ignorance ignorance means not knowing what is right and wrong or it could be in our rebellion that we can actually resist the work of the Holy Spirit right we can block the work of the Holy Spirit right so the Holy Spirit can be resisted so and so we see here Stephen reprimanding the the people who had gathered there that you resist to the Holy Spirit the second thing that we the other one more thing that we see is that the Holy Spirit can be quenched what does quench mean what does his word quench mean Holy Spirit can be quenched what does that mean sorry thirst actually it's used in relation to thirst in the sense I want to quench my thirst so I drink some water I'm feeling thirsty and I want to quench my thirst what does that mean that means that to put out this sensation of thirst so therefore I drink some liquid to quench my thirst so quench actually means to put out right to it you can say you know so suppose there's a fire and you want to put off that fire put out that fire we take a bucket of water and throw and then throw on it and the what fire is put out right so the fire is quenched so the Holy Spirit can be quenched and we see that one Thessalonians 5 and verse 19 says do not quench the Holy Spirit 5 verse 19 do not quench the spirit so it means don't you know you you have the ability to choose and not choose you have the ability to obey and not obey when the Holy Spirit is moving and wanting to do something in your life do not quench the spirit because of your choice or because of your disobedience do not quench the work of the Holy Spirit or do not quench the spirit so which means that you know all these why are we studying all these things all these attributes because to just to understand that the Holy Spirit is a person okay so that how does that understanding change our relationship with God okay how does this knowing that Holy Spirit is a person okay does it change anything in me or in my relationship with God what do you think or is it just information sometimes we open the newspaper and we read okay the weather in this place is like this in Himachal there was rain we close the newspaper and then we go on with our lives okay is it like that you open the Bible okay Holy Spirit is a person you know we quench I shouldn't don't know quench the Holy Spirit okay I just go about it so does anything change in us because of our understanding that the Holy Spirit is a person what do you think does anything change should anything change pastor yes we we know then God's nature and character and God is holy and scripture says that we have to be holy like God so this will help us to increase our understanding of who God is yeah so the thing is see we understood that yeah I get what you're saying like the Holy Spirit you know he is holy so therefore we must be holy but specifically about the Holy Spirit being a person you know we've been studying that so in our understanding of the Holy Spirit as a person now that he understood okay he speaks he communicates he has a will he can be grieved so in what way does that change us or does it really change us should it change us our relationship with God yeah in what way that's the question right okay so here's Charles response says it helps to be more sensitive in our relationship with him yeah I think there's a good response so for us you know just imagine this okay so you let's say you're invited for let's say a birthday dinner or something yeah your friend's dinner birthday they're not invited to you they said okay tomorrow was Friday so after you finish your Bible classes whatever you know come there okay for lunch okay two o'clock be there okay so now you go there and you know they're all doing their own thing okay your friend is there so nobody's you know some people are there they're just talking among themselves they're doing their thing and you go there and nobody acknowledges you right you go to the house everything is there the food is there you know the cake is there but they're all doing their own thing and you go and wish your friend you know happy birthday and in the he just you know ignores you and just keeps going okay so how will you feel we'll be like you know why did I come here like why did I come to this place yeah I know I was invited but why did I even come here there's nobody talking to me there's nobody you know there's nobody coming no interacting with me and I'm here doing my own thing the food is there and you know it's as if I can just go eat and then just get back sometimes it happens right certain get together's maybe you invited for a wedding nobody's even there to say hello and you go something is happening there and then you go back okay so why are we where we why are we you know even talking about this first the fact is that the Holy Spirit is a person he wants to talk Holy Spirit is a person he has a will and he wants to give some instructions and he was to share his thoughts so me as a as a believer we as believers in the Lord our response to God should be to fellowship with the Holy Spirit to talk to spend time to hear and to listen and to hear his heart and to actually receive from his wisdom and understanding and everything and say Lord what what do you think about this so to commune with the Holy Spirit to fellowship with the Holy Spirit and if there is something that is grieving his heart we know that the Holy Spirit will make it known in our spirit because he indwells us and we feel the emotion of grief that the Holy Spirit feels right so Holy Spirit is disturbed he's provoked we feel that emotion and and so all that we need to do we are invited to fellowship with the Holy Spirit to walk with the Holy Spirit okay so this understanding of the Holy Spirit being a person should change our prayer life should change our you know perspective of God that we don't just talk to God maybe at you know like a corporate gathering say this is prayer time now I will pray no we continue to commune with God fellowship with God we continue to talk to him tell him our joy tell him our sorrows tell him our challenges receive from him when it comes to solving certain challenges solving problems you know just involve be involved in in the Holy Spirit like because he is involved in our lives okay so why don't we just close eyes and just talk to the God talk to the Holy Spirit you speak in your own words in your own language right and say Spirit of God speak to me right I want to talk to you and you can tell him if there's maybe you're feeling fear just tell the lock maybe if you're feeling sad about something just open your heart to him he understands maybe you feel that you're struggling in something just tell the Lord because though our God the Holy Spirit is a person right and we there is so much more to who the Holy Spirit is we we saw that he is a teacher and he's the one who reminds us but he's a teacher he leads us into all truth so we can say come Holy Spirit have your way in my life come Holy Spirit I want to know you more I want to spend time in your presence come Holy Spirit yes Lord we we just invite you Lord at this time but you have the right of way in our lives Lord we pray that you'll enable us to know you more and I pray that every day for God that you enable us to spend time in your presence just talking to you and listening to your voice just involving you in all areas of our lives God can we tell the Lord that Lord we just want to involve you in all areas of our life open up our hearts in all areas all aspects of our lives come Lord have your way have your way God it is anything to do with my thoughts I think to do with my words anything to do with my lifestyle my action God everything Lord just want to involve you I want to walk with you I want to please you I don't want to believe you Lord thank you Lord thank you in Jesus name amen so you know every day we have the privilege of having God with us they have this privilege you don't have to go to a physical place in order to seek God we have him in dwelling us so all we have to do is just call upon him switch on the fan you can so we have God you know in dwelling us revealing things to us and teaching us and so and that's why you know he wants to be known as the helper he wants to be known as the Comforter you know that's who he is so many times we you don't really draw from his help or draw from his comfort draw from the wisdom so we can do other so we're going to look at you know some aspects of the Holy Spirit like what did the Holy Spirit do in the Old Testament okay so we're going to go through some of these Old Testament scriptures actually a lot of Old Testament scriptures so if you have your Bible just open it up as we look at these references you know you look it read it in your own Bibles right so we're going to go through some of the Old Testament scriptures right from Genesis Genesis we're going to see what did the Holy Spirit do okay so then we get an understanding oh he did this in the Old Testament so he's capable of doing this you know just like how we learned okay this is what the Holy Spirit is as a person you know he speaks and he knows that he has intelligence and all that so just like that when we look at the work of the Holy Spirit we see that oh he's capable of doing this and if you did it then in the Old Testament times we know that he is a God who does not change and so he can do it now here in the present right okay so let's look at you know the first scripture reference Genesis chapter 1 and verse 2 we see that the Spirit of God is brooding over the waters right that is what we see the earth was without form and void darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters right so it's brooding and the word used there hovering a calf which means that just like how the bird like a hen mother hen would actually brood over the eggs in order to hatch the eggs okay so that's the that's the meaning of that of that hovering here that we see here that the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters and that word is used in the Hebrew language to describe a mother bird or a mother hen which is you know hovering or sitting on the eggs in order to hatch it so we see that you know right after that we see verse 3 God said let there be light and there was light so it's as if the Holy Spirit was you know hovering there if you know he's omnipotent all powerful he's even birthing certain things you know giving birth to creation itself so we see that happening so you know we can invite the Holy Spirit to give birth to the purposes of God right to spring about the purposes of God in our day and time in our cities in our nation Lord let the purposes of God you know okay here Genesis to one we see creation you know that was the intent that was the purpose and the Holy Spirit was brooding we can invite the Holy Spirit and say Lord let your let the purposes let the plans for the city for the nation you know for this thing let it for my life now let it be birth let it be brought into reality let the things be created so we see the Holy Spirit birthing you know brooding okay then we when we go through we just going to quickly go through certain stitches right we see that the Holy Spirit let's move on to Genesis 41 okay so Genesis 41 verse 38 maybe somebody can read okay what do we see there Genesis 41 yeah you can read 31 verse 38 yeah you can bunk it only thing is it's it's a little muddy here your voice it's not very clear so that's the thing but go ahead please read Genesis chapter 41 verse 38 and Parva said to his servants can we find such a one as this a man in whom is the spirit of God okay let me just read that again then Pharoah said to the sorry then Pharoah said to his servants can we find such a one as this a man in whom is the spirit of God and why did he say that why did he testify because here Joseph he had actually you know he had about the dream he had shared he had given the interpretation of the dream and so the pharaoh was very very impressed and it was about the seven years of famine and the seven years of plenty so here's Joseph interpreting the pharaoh's dream and also giving a strategy for the nation and so the pharaoh testifies and he says you know can we find such a person in whom is the spirit of God so Joseph himself you know he says that interpretation comes from God it is not from man this this whole what is interpretation you know the meaning of the dream right what the dream means and what the communication of that dream so the spirit of God the Holy Spirit is the one who brought about the interpretation so that's something that we understand okay so sometimes we have dreams and God is speaking to us in those dreams God speaks to us can God speak in dreams what do you think yes or no okay so we know that God can but does God speak in dreams now in these days what do you think he spoke then right Joseph and even Joseph and Mary spoke in dreams but does God speak in dreams today yes he's the same God right if he wants to if he chooses to he can communicate certain things in dreams and he can do that because when we are awake maybe we are not listening he's saying hey now I want to tell you something and we are looking elsewhere but in the when you're when you're sleeping you're you know you're completely there resting and you don't have a choice the dream comes to you right but then we don't know what the dream means sometimes you're there walking in the field looking at the Sun and someone comes and tells you you know going to that house all this happens right in a dream and some of these things are literal literal meaning you know it is it is how it is maybe you saw the Bible College in a dream I don't know how many of you had that experience you know you were at home and you had a dream okay I'm going to this place and you came here and you saw that he this is exactly how I had you know how I had the dream right so it's a literal dream you saw the steps you saw the building and you came and and you're saying oh this is this is exactly how it was in my dream so it's a literal dream right but a dream can be symbolic in the sense you know maybe the dream was about you going back to school right and you remind yourself okay this is you know you're going back to school and you're sitting at your desk and somebody dressed in a blue shirt comes and teaches you right you see that blue blue shirt and it's a symbolic dream you know it's going back to school you know I've already finished schooling why should I get back to school and what does this blue shirt mean and then suddenly you realize hey it's a symbolic dream what is a symbol the fact that God wants to teach me equip me and it's a formal setting like a school and the blue shirt is someone who's probably teaching in that school that God is using for example okay so that is the interpretation that the Holy Spirit would give right so it's a symbolic dream so here Joseph saw that Joseph saw the dream and he saw that yeah seven years seven pin cows eating up the seven healthy cows coming out of the river and then he saw that seven years of corn which are you know which we're actually swallowing up the consuming the seven healthy cons and so you know for for a person normal person it'd be like okay what is that strange dream it's a very strange dream right animals eating animals how can cows you know cows are supposed to eat the cons they are eating each other right seems like a strange thing but then so the Pharaoh is very disturbed right I saw this I don't know I don't know the dream the interpretation of the dream etc so so the people you know the magicians and everyone they could not interpret it they could not give the meaning of it with conviction with confidence except Joseph now who gave Joseph their interpretation the Holy Spirit right so that wisdom because he is omniscient all knowing and that information because he is the one actually who spoke to the Pharaoh God is the one who spoke to the Pharaoh even though Pharaoh did not know God and God is the one who gave the interpretation the meaning of that dream to Joseph so we see that the Holy Spirit is the one who brought about that interpretation okay so we see God speaks through his son Jesus Christ Gertrude yes very valid God speaks through the word God speaks through you know in so many ways so many avenues but we also see that God does speak to us in dreams he will always confirm it from the word right the standard of God's values and standards and holiness and so on it will always the word of God will not contradict if if there is a contradiction then we know that the source of the dream is not God right okay okay then let's move on let's move on to Exodus right very interesting Exodus 28 Exodus 28 and we see God's giving certain instructions so those people let's look at Exodus 28 and verse 3 okay so he's here's God was giving instructions to Moses and this is what we read okay Exodus 28 verse 3 okay so you shall speak to all who are gifted artisans whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him that he may minister to me as priests okay let's look at one more verse let's move on to chapter 31 and let's look at verses 2 to 5 right chapter 31 verse 2 and okay so the Lord let's read from verse 1 then the Lord spoke to Moses saying see I have called by name Bezalel son of Yuri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah and I have filled in with the spirit of God in wisdom in understanding in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to design artistic works to work in gold and silver and bronze in cutting jewels for setting in carving wood and to work in all manner of workmanship okay so we see something here that the Holy Spirit is not just interpreting dreams is not just the God of creation but we see the Holy Spirit is a creative person who's giving creative ability to another human being right what is what what ability does he give you know in 28 we see that he's filling that person or the gifted artisans who are gifted artisans it means people who are skilled at creative work like maybe pottery maybe maybe painting right maybe jewelry making jewelry several other things like maybe carpentry they they are good at carving now he says here that in that time God saying that I have filled with the spirit of wisdom that they may make even Aaron's garments like maybe fabric and you know maybe you know some designing of fabric and so on and in verse sorry chapter 31 specifically we read about this person by name what is the person's name there huh in chapter 31 what is the name of the person is everybody looking at your bible yeah yeah okay is basalal there 31 chapter 31 verse 3 what is the name of the person chapter 31 verse 3 exodus chapter 31 so so in hindi it's its name is mentioned as basalal okay so basalal in english right so we see that God is filling this person with the holy spirit and for what is he giving ability to preach evangelize okay so you both of you what's your name behind the person behind you yeah your name nagaland from nagaland what's your name yeah non-sang right non-sang okay now person next to non-sang what is your name sorry okay okay so what did the holy spirit give what kind of ability did the holy spirit give basalal what did the holy spirit what ability did he give basalal was it to preach was it to teach okay wisdom for what uh artistic design right so so the holy spirit gave basalal the ability for artistic design so what is artistic design artistic design what is artistic design yeah anything that's creative like you can maybe draw paint but here specifically is talking about um workmanship uh all manner of workmanship right to work in gold in silver and bronze with jewels right um so it's it's difficult work right just think about it cutting jewels one cut one wrong cut that's all you can't use it right and you have to cut it in a certain way so that the light hits that stone precious stone or whatever the and then the beauty of the stone is comes up right so who's giving that ability the holy spirit so many times we don't think that way now we look at creative work and we think okay that person learned it but the holy spirit who is all knowing the holy spirit who is the creative you know you see he was brooding over the waters right then at creation and God says and everything comes into being trying God is involved right that's a power of the holy spirit the son is involved father is involved and creation and we look at some of the things that we see around you see the coconut tree see the pattern you know when you look at it very intricate you look at yourself right you look at your hand you look at your you know the print in your hand look at your hand now look at your palm you see that design okay no one else has that so unique right no one else has that the chances of another person having the same finger print is very very remote very remote right and that is why for other card and everything they took your did they take finger print then your retina all that they checked right so so creative so unique God has created us the holy spirit is very very he is creative and he gives this creative ability to man for a purpose amazing so that's again under expands our understanding okay maybe you have a talent you know he's giving that added ability to gifted people maybe you you think okay I have I can draw I can paint ask the holy spirit spirit of God just like you poured out your spirit with wisdom and understanding on this l l so that he can do all these things you give me the ability also give me the ability maybe you're working for a you know advertising and you're supposed to come out with a concept come out with a idea and you know or you could be a musician you could be a creative person who's creative and all that ask the holy spirit and say Lord you give me the ability right it's not only preaching and teaching etc the holy spirit will empower us in all these ways to express his beauty right so that people can be drawn to him give glory to him okay right so we see that then let's move on to numbers chapter 11 okay we we have a lot to cover so we just keep going in numbers chapter 11 numbers chapter 11 and we see in verses 17 to 29 okay so numbers 11 17 so the spirit of God here he does something very unique again let's read from verse 16 okay so the Lord said to Moses gathered to me 70 men from the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them bring them to the tabernacle of meeting that they may stand there with you okay so Moses there are these elders now they are actually in the wilderness so Moses has this awesome responsibility of leading these people onto the promised land and so the Lord says you you know now the people have grown which means that they have problems they have to have some judgments right they have meaning they have to have some solutions right so they've grown into a mighty nation so they're always complaining you know this person has taken the I my place this I'm supposed to live here but this person has moved here you know all kinds of things so Moses has to solve that for them okay so so God is saying we bring those people 70 elders 70 men of the elders of Israel and verse 17 what does he say okay we are looking at numbers 11 verse 17 says then I will come down and talk with you there I will take of the spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them that they shall bear the burden of the people with you and you shall not bear it yourself alone okay we understood this okay so what is what is the Lord doing here what is the Lord doing here sharing the responsibility rather sharing the responsibility of Moses yeah so he's so what does he do now Moses has this huge huge responsibility of leading the people and as we read the verses before or the chapters before we are in verses before in numbers 11 we see that they are difficult people there are things to be addressed he has they come to him and ask you know what should we do he has to tell them and then there are many people like from right from sunrise the sunset he is doing this so the Lord actually gives the same ability of leadership right Moses is leading he's a leader and with all his wisdom with all the wisdom that God has given him he's supposed to you know decide and choose and etc on behalf of the people now the Lord is saying I will take the spirit that is upon you okay which means that he led the call and anointing and everything came by the Holy Spirit now the Lord is saying I will take the spirit that is upon you and put it upon who put it upon 70 70 elders so that so what happens when the 70 elders also they will bear the burden which means that they will also have the same kind of capacity to lead the people okay so here is one man who is leading and here are 70 others who have received the same capacity or same ability and the same wisdom to lead the people okay so what happens now Moses's burden is lightened that's what happens here you shall they shall bear the burden of the people with you you know have you tried carrying something on your own maybe there's a heavy table or something and somebody sees you carrying and then two other people come and say hey let me carry it okay so how did you feel the burden became lighter table became lighter you felt a little more relieved okay and as you're going you're talking and you're you know there's some fellowship happening so it becomes easier you're not using so much energy it becomes easier so the Lord is saying you know I know it's it's burden summer but I'm going to take that same spirit and put it upon all the 70 elders okay okay so we'll take a break and then we'll come back in 10 minutes thank you