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Comforter Holy Spirit
The God who created the heavens and the earth and created man and all things is a Triune God. The doctrine of the Trinity is the doctrine that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have different comforts but are one. This doctrine is the orthodox doctrine of Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Protestantism.
Father, son, and mother have different personalities in our home, but they are united in love. When someone in the family is happy, we rejoice together, and when someone in the family gets sick or sad happens to someone, the whole family suffers and grieves together. It can be said that the principle of the oneness of the family and the doctrine of the Trinity are similar.
Comforter means helper. When Jesus came to this earth in a human body, people who lived at that time could see Him with their eyes, touch Him with their hands, and have a conversation with Him face to face. But the Holy Spirit is invisible to our eyes as a Spirit. But he is always with us, in us, inspiring, enlightening, and comforting us so that we can live victoriously in this world.
Also on this earth, an evil spirit, the devil, is active even though we cannot see it. Demons have spiritual powers that cannot be compared with human abilities, and they deceive, steal, kill, and destroy humans. The devil's favorite thing to do is to disrupt the relationship between God and man and to make it impossible for man to know or believe in God. In this way, God's will, that is, man's salvation is prevented from being accomplished.
Because God is love, He loves all mankind. He wants all human beings to be delivered from their sins, and He wants them to have eternal life. So, He sent His Son to this earth to shed His blood and bear the cross for mankind's sins. He who believes in the atoning death of his Son will be saved. The devil interferes with this work, makes people drunk on the world, and makes them live according to the lusts of the flesh, and prevents them from ever being saved.
The Holy Spirit comes as a gift to those who believe in Jesus, repent and receive forgiveness from God. He regenerates(makes one bone again) this man and gives this manpower so that he can understand all the tricks of the devil. And he enables us to understand and follow the will of God and make us witnesses of Jesus.
The meaning of the coming of the Holy Spirit to make us witnesses of Jesus is as follows. Although we have not met Jesus, the Holy Spirit makes us believe that Jesus is the Son of the living God. At the same time, it means that He confirms us with certainty as we can see about His blood shed for the salvation of mankind, His sufferings on the cross, and His resurrection and ascension. At the same time, it means that the Holy Spirit rules our hearts so that we can testify as if we had seen Jesus. And it means to give courage, wisdom, and zeal so that they can always share Jesus with those who do not believe in Jesus.
To do this, we must read the Bible and understand the contents of the Bible well. But the Holy Spirit also helps us to read and understand this Bible. Not only that, but it also gives us the joy of reading the Bible and the spiritual hunger for realizing the truth.
In this way, when we receive the Holy Spirit and realize the truth through the Bible, our eyes are opened and we become powerful people. It doesn't matter who you were in the past. It doesn't matter whether it is the uneducated, the poor in various ways, the world throws away, the useless, the physically weak, the lowly, the poor because of lack of money,, or the person who is ill and has no hope. All of these people believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit and power. And they did great things in the world that the strong, well-educated, and wealthy could never do or even dream of.
So was the fisherman Peter, so was the apostle John, and so was the tax collector Matthew. Even in Korea, many people who received the Holy Spirit from Catholicism were not afraid of martyrdom. Even in Protestantism, ordinary people who received the Holy Spirit did amazing and great things. Most of the current pastors of mega-churches in Korea were healed by the power of God and received the Holy Spirit in a state where they had to die because of disease, and they grew a global church with that power. The Holy Spirit comes on all those who know that they are sinners, repent and believe and acknowledge the only salvation through Jesus.
The power of the Holy Spirit is not human ability, nor is it a human ability to measure. Those who do not believe in Jesus and live by their own strength in this harsh world and those who live by the power of the Holy Spirit have very different results and different ways of life. First of all, those who believe lead a peaceful life. Even if they look weak, lack of money, and lack of ability to ordinary people, this person is always at peace wherever they are.
And they do not live by experience based on their own abilities and knowledge, but by obeying the will of God and obedience to the words of the Bible. People who are cunning and well-informed about the world seem simple and foolish, but they are people who live by the truth that leads to salvation. They are people who embrace and love people who are going to hell without knowing Jesus as neighbors and preach the gospel. Unlike people who go to hell when they leave this world and whose whole soul is engulfed in fear of death, they die in peace and trust that they will meet the Lord with joy. These are people who plan a life in the eternal heaven in this short world and live a really rich and abundant life. It is the Holy Spirit who makes us truly free, truly wise, and truly fruitful.
We should always welcome and acknowledge this good Holy Spirit. We must always never forget that the growth of the church, my prosperity, and all my work for the kingdom of God that the Holy Spirit accomplished through me, who had no choice but to die, came to be done by the power of the Holy Spirit. We believers must always confess the work of the Holy Spirit and live a humble life.
Jesus healed 10 lepers. Everyone was abandoned and isolated from the world, so they were unable to have normal human relationships. Now that their bodies are back to normal, they are busy doing so many things that they have never been able to do before, so they forgot Jesus and thanked him. But only one out of ten did not forget this and came to Jesus to give thanks. Everything is by the grace of God. It is the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit that the writer preaches all the gospel like this.
The understanding of the new Bible and the understanding of the world are all given by the Holy Spirit. This is something I cannot do even if I claim to be mine. So it is right to cast away all greed and let God use it.
Because the Holy Spirit is an invisible spirit, it is difficult for us to even recognize it. Therefore, we may mistake all the work of the church and the achievements in the world as our own with the power God has given us. If that happens, I will think of God's material as my own and steal. I might end up using God's material, God's facilities, or God's people more for my own personal purposes than other church members. Illusion makes me sin It is a great sin.
We must never forget that we had no choice but to die because of our sins before we just received the Holy Spirit. Also, we must never forget that we are human beings without a relationship with God, who had neither the ability nor the qualifications to do any work of God. Then I will always be a normal human being like everyone else, even if I did everything at church. Also, he will be nothing more than an uglier person than a normal person. Therefore, we will never be entitled to any privileges or benefits in comparison with ordinary members of the church.
Following Paul, who became like the dregs of all things, in order to save all people from the bottom of the world, we find unbelieving souls and go out with the gospel today. We sincerely hope that the spread of the gospel will go beyond South Korea, to North Korea, to Japan, China, Russia, and to all over the world. The Bible has already told us what happens when the Holy Spirit comes on us. We walk the same path that Paul walked, the path that Peter walked, and the path that all the saints who received the Holy Spirit walked today.
I hope that everyone will receive the Holy Spirit and receive power to enjoy peace and live a victorious life in this world. Hallelujah!
Act 1:8. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."