Jesus Christ our Creator/ One Person in the Triune God-

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Now think about this! God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; all equal. Different roles, but equal. And therefore if God the Father is omnipotent, God the Son is omnipotent, God the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. And who is it that indwells every single believer but the Holy Spirt of God who is omnipotent, all powerful and who has as His purpose to release His supernatural, divine energy through you and me; to live the Christian life and to serve Him in whatever capacity He calls us. So for believers, every single one of us is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of the living God. We accept this by faith, as the Holy Scriptures enlighten our undestanding.

Somebody says, "Now wait a minute now. For years you've talked about Christ being our life and Jesus Christ indwelling us. Now you tell us that the Holy Spirit is indwelling us." Right! Jesus Christ said, "I'm going away. If I do not go away the Comforter will not come. But if I go I will send Him. He'll be in you, with you and upon you."

He said, " I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you" (John 16:7 and John 14:16-17). And how did Jesus come back to them? He came to them just the same way He comes to us. We talk about receiving the Lord Jesus Christ: "But as many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become the sons of God." It is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit with us who lives out through us the very life of Jesus Christ. Christ dwells with us in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. God the Father is in us in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

You cannot separate Father, Son, and Spirit when it comes to the unity. On the other hand, they each have a diffent role in God's great redemptive plan. And so, God the Father is seated at His throne in heaven. At His right hand is God the Son. On this earth to take the place of Jesus Christ who ascended, living in the life of every single believer is the person of the Holy Spirit in all of His deity, in all of of His unlimited Godhead, living through us. One of His primary purposes is to live through us the life of Jesus Christ, because He knows we can't live it on our own. And it's interesting that He said to the apostles, "You're not ready to preach, you're not ready to carry out the Great Commission until you be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49,par.).

So the promise of the Holy Spirit is the promise of a Person. It is a 'gift' from God. It is the gift of a person of the Trinity. It is the promise of the Father to every single believer. Every single one of us who know Jesus Christ as our Savior is indwelt by a person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit who has come to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

I encourage you to make the Trinity a matter of prayer, asking that God would illuminate these truths for you. May He "give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him...that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe" (Ephesians 1:17-19a, NAS).-
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Pastor Charles Stanley
Father, Son, & Holy Spirit
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