Three Attributes of God's Holy Spirit

God's Holy Spirit is a fruit. It is a fruit that produces many fruits. Yesterday, I went through a portion of Galatians 5, 22-23, where it talks about the fruit of God's Holy Spirit, and it talks about various attributes like love, joy, peace, and also attributes that affect our interpersonal relationships like long suffering, kindness, and goodness, and also attributes that are of our basic makeup like faithfulness and gentleness or meekness and self-control. There are also other attributes or characteristics of God's Holy Spirit. If you turn with me to 1st Corinthians chapter 12 starting in verse 7, we see it talks about the manifestation the Spirit is given to each one of us for the prophet of the whole church of everyone, and one is given the word of wisdom, to another is given the manifestation of through the Spirit to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit. So, some of us have a special capability of helping others with wisdom, with specific teaching capabilities. Others, by the example of faith and trust, can encourage others the benefit of the church. Others, ministers, there's many times that you ask for healing and anointing, and God has intervened in many times that have seen miracles have occurred. And so, also the capability of preaching in a way that people can understand. That's the prophesy, the profess, the teaching in a way that people can understand the doctrines and the principles. We also do the discerning of the Spirit. You know, sometimes we learn to see, well, you know, things need to get a bit better and we need to get ourselves cleaner, and we learn to discern certain attitudes in people, and we try and help people. God has given us capability of different capabilities of speaking in different languages to preach the gospel, and also to be able to assist others through interpretation. Like, particularly, for instance, if we have a congregation and the church is doing it where there are a few people that are hard of hearing, then there are people that do sign language and help through that. So, there are many characteristics of God's Holy Spirit that God does distribute to each one as He wills, as He decides that is appropriate, then God distributes that. So, that's something that God does for all of us.

As I mentioned, we all have to bear fruits. Look at John 15. John 15. So, we have all those characteristics, all those attributes that God's Holy Spirit gives us, but on top of it, we've got to use them to bear fruit. In John 15, and we do bear a lot of fruits. In John 15, verse 1 through 5.

John 15, 1 through 5. Christ is talking here. He says, I am the vine, and my father is a vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, it takes away. And, you know, that sap, like living water going through that tree, like we heard in the sermonette, which, by the way, I appreciate very much. Very good examples given there about baptism and the rivers of living water. It's the same concept as here as being in the tree and helping us to grow. So, and it says, every branch in verse 4, Christ says, every branch in me and I knew, but as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine. So, we have to abide in Christ and bear fruit through that, the use of God's Holy Spirit. So, we can see, and there are others, like if you read the 2nd Timothy chapter 1, where he talks about God's Holy Spirit, the spirit of power and love of a sound mind. And that is such an important attribute. In this world, a lot of people do not have sound minds. People put right things, say things, then you say, where is a sound mind in a statement like that? We really have to be careful, brethren, that we say things that represent a sound mind. That is a sign of God's Holy Spirit. If you are lacking in it, ask for it, but make sure that whatever you say and whatever you tell others, it's with a sound mind. Analyze that carefully. So, there are many attributes of God's Holy Spirit. You know, many attributes, many things, power, like I said, love, joy, peace of mind, long suffering, means being patient, patient, being kind to other people, speaking with kindness, being good, being loyal and faithful, and whatever you say, yes is yes, being gentle, being teachable, having self-control. So, there's so many attributes of God's Holy Spirit, and through that you beat a lot of fruit. But today, brethren, I want to talk about three specific attributes of God's Holy Spirit, in addition to those I've mentioned. Three. And let me tell you what they are. So, you know exactly where I'm going. They are that God's Holy Spirit, number one, guides us, number two, begets us, and number three, sanctifies us. Those are the three characteristics of God's Holy Spirit that I'm addressing today. God's Holy Spirit guides us, begets us, and sanctifies us. So, let's start right there with guiding us, and look at with me at John chapter 14. So, you're very near there, John 15. So, let's go to John 14 now, verse 17. And it says, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it not sees Him nor knows Him. In other words, they don't see God. They don't know God, but you know God, you know Him, for He and God, His essence through Him, through God, His essence comes to us, and God dwells amongst us, and Jesus Christ dwells among us, through the power of the Holy Spirit. And it says, dwells with us, but also God's Holy Spirit will be in you. Now, this is an important point for us to understand. Now, when I deal with people that are not baptized, and even with people that are baptized, it is important that God's Holy Spirit dwells with us, and so you and I cannot understand the things of God unless God's Holy Spirit is helping you, is guiding you.

And let me explain to you a little bit more about that in a moment, but before we turn away from this scripture in verse 17, it says, and will be in you. So, there's two points here. One is with you, that is guide. That is the first point that I'm addressing today, and I'll go into a little bit more detail about that. And the second point that is will be in you. That is the second point of the sermon, which is about begetting you. So, in this verse alone is already talking about two of those points that I'm addressing today, and the third one, as I mentioned, is sanctified. So, but let's look at the first one that God's Holy Spirit dwells with us. In other words, God's Holy Spirit guides us, and let's understand a little bit deeper about that by turning first to 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 10 through 16. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 10 through 16.

2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 10. But God has revealed them. You know, there was those things of God. That's what it is in verse 9. He says, I have not seen, or yet heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared to those who love him. So, but God has revealed to us those things that God has prepared just very briefly, but he has revealed to us through the Spirit, through God's Holy Spirit. So, God's Holy Spirit guides us, shows us things, reveals us things. So, it's guiding us, he's teaching us, he's instructing us, it's guiding us, it's showing this is the way walk in it. He's guiding us, but he's teaching us and instructing us about it, so we can understand it and we can grasp it.

He says, for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. Brethren, people in the world do not understand God and the deep things of God. Why? Because God's Holy Spirit is not with them. That's a powerful statement. That's why I paused to think about it. Now, understand the impetio of verse 11. For what man knows the things of man except the Spirit of man which is in him?

What human being, what person, what living being understands the things of man unless they have the Spirit of man which is in man? For instance, a lion does not understand the things of man because he does not have the Spirit of man. A baboon does not understand the things of man because he does not have the Spirit of man. There is a major difference between the human brain and the human mind.

And the difference is that the mind is more than just the physical brain. The mind is the brain working with the Spirit of man in man that makes it the mind.

Because the brain is just a physical, mechanical characteristic. Think about it. It's like a computer. You can have a computer, beautiful computer. But if it has no software, if it does not have an operating system, it doesn't work like a computer. In other words, you need that software in analogy. The brain is the computer. You know, you've got the computer chirped, you've got all that stuff. The brain is a computer, but the computer only works if it has the software.

And so, our brain only works if it has the software in it, which is the spirit of man in man. So you can have the brain of a baboon. It will not work like the brain of man because it does not have that software. It has a different software. Like a bird has a different software. Yeah, it's got the brain of a bird and amazing. Some of these birds can fly around the world from summer to winter and they know exactly where to go and they know how to navigate. And look at stallings when they fly and they don't crash against one another. And if you're an airplane pilot, you ask my son that it's amazing how they can fly together without crashing in a flock like this, you know, group of birds. So they got a brain, but they got some software that makes them be a bird and act like a bird. You know, they don't have the spirit of man. There's something there, a component, a pre-programmed component, that they know how to fly. They didn't go to school, the grade one, in pre-kindergarten, in grade two to learn how to fly. Sure, the parents, the mother, it features them, but you know, really it's very elementary.

You look at the calf, he's born and after a while Cleveland stands up and starts walking. Your son or your daughter probably took at least about a year or even more to start walking.

So there is a difference. And what makes us tick like a human being is not just our brain, but it is the spirit of man in man which God has given to us, that breath of life, which makes us think and act like a human being. So you are not going to go to a bird and tell the bird to watch TV and watch the news and tell you what they've just watched on TV, because I don't think you're going to be successful. Obviously, I'm being facetious.

You know, we're not going to be successful. So, why? Because they don't have the spirit of man in man. Do you follow what I mean? Likewise, you can go to a human being, to a person, and tell them about the things of God and they blank. They don't get it. Why? Because they don't have the spirit of God. That's what we're reading here in verse 11. In the latter part of verse 11 says, even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God, just like a baboon or a lion or a tiger or giraffe cannot understand the things of man, because God has not given them that quote-unquote between inverted common software that helps them to understand the things of man.

A human being cannot understand the things of God unless they have the spirit of God. That spiritual component that helps us to understand the things of God. So, God's only spirit guides us, instructs us, elevates our brain to the level of a God brain. Think about it this way. Just like the spirit of man elevates our brain to the level of a human being, the spirit of God then adds on that, that extra understanding.

But as we read in John 1417, the spirit of God can be with us. And so it means that when he's with us, he's already helping us to understand these things. He's with us. It's helping us. That's why people that are not yet baptized, they can be called because God gives them that spirit of God to be with them and for them to start understanding the things of God so that their minds are open.

That's the calling. Many are called. How does, because God decides and the spirit of God proceeds from the Father. Bingo! So it comes from the Father. It all jells. It comes from the Father. It's the Father that calls. It's the Father that gives that person the spirit of God to be with us. God can be with him or with her so he can start understanding. So it's being guided by God's spirit. So this is important for us to understand. And let's go on reading verse 12. For we have not received not the spirit of the world, which is not the vibes and the bad attitudes of the world, but the spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God, by the Father.

These things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches. The Holy Spirit is our teacher. It opens our minds for us to grasp, to understand. He's guiding us and he's helping us, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But a natural man does not receive the spirit, the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. So try and talk to a person that has not been called, and what are you talking to them? Because being right over the head and says, yeah, come on, go.

That's what they think. Why? Because they don't have God's spirit working with them. Why? Because they're spiritually discerned. They don't have that gift around them. God hasn't opened their minds. But he who is spiritual, judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, but yet he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. So it elevates our mind to a mind of God, to understand the deep things of God. That's why, as in the world tomorrow, we'll be able to go to other people.

As you read in Phrysis in Isaiah 30, it says, this is the way, walk in it. We will take a similar role, but physically, literally, being able to help people and showing, hey, do this. This is the way, walk in it. But we also read in John 14 verse 17 that God's Holy Spirit is in us. So not just with us, but in us. So now moving to the second point, that God's Holy Spirit begets us. So I've covered the first point. God's Holy Spirit guides us, teaches us, opens our mind to understand things.

But when Jesus Christ was talking to the apostles in John 14, you know that was on the night that he was betrayed, and then it was like, say, about 50 plus days before there was the Day of Pentecost. And on the Day of Pentecost, they received the Holy Spirit. And by the way, it's like rivers of living waters, like we heard in the sermon, represented by the blue in the flowers. And it was like a flame of fires, like the sralitzis. Like representing that flame of fire in the head. So it is good to actually try and describe this through different symbolisms. And it really is exciting to understand that on the Day of Pentecost, they were given the Holy Spirit, and it was not just with them, but now was also in them. In them. And that means they were begotten. They were begotten. Read with me, please, John 8 verse 9. John 8 verse 9. John 8 verse 9.

But then thou, then thou who heard it, began convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with all this, even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. I'm reading, John.

I think I got the wrong scripture. Yeah, I apologize.

I think it's Romans 8 verse 9 that I meant to put on my notes. Let me just double check. I'm getting old. It doesn't happen to you, it just happens to me.

Right. Romans 8 verse 9 says, But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

How does the Spirit of God dwell in you? You see, it's no more just with us, but in us.

How does that happen? Now, this is a critically important point for us to grasp and understand.

Many people in the church do not grasp this. This is critical. That's why I'm taking a bit of time to explain it here. How does it happen? Look at 1 John chapter 5 verse 1. 1 John chapter 5 verse 1.

Whoever believes, whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. What do you mean? Oh, I just have to believe. Hallelujah, I believe and now I'm born of God.

Remember, always say, behind the word believe, see the word do.

Do. So you can't believe if you don't do what somebody else tells you to do. If somebody else tells you, don't cross the street because there's a car coming and you could get smashed or hurt and the car is coming and if and you're giving a warning, don't do it.

And they say, well, I believe but I just walked anyway. You're gonna get killed or whatever. Why? Because you don't obey. Whatever you see the word believe, see the word do behind it. Okay, so whoever believes in God is going to do what God tells us to do because I believe in Him.

Right. So whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah. So it's not just believe but you know we're going to live a life, we're going to believe, we're going to trust, we're going to do what He says to do. Right. He's born of God. What does that mean? You see, the translators took the original word in Greek, ganau, which means begotten. Means begotten. Maybe another word will be conceived. Right. An English word begotten is probably an old English. It's conceived but impregnated.

You know, as a father, as a dad, when you conceive a baby, he's not yet born. But he's already your son. But he's already your son or your daughter.

That's it. Once you've conceived that baby, you could say ultimately you'll be born unless there is some mishap in the process. And likewise spiritually, once you're conceived by God, the father, you will be a spirit being unless there is a mishap because you're not faithful to the end and you walked away from God.

So, but God has done His part and He wants you. He's your son, you as parents, once you've you've conceived the child, you want that child to be born, you'll do everything that that child is born. You don't want any mishap. Likewise, the father and Jesus Christ don't want any mishap, they want you there. But the warrior is now, which means begotten, which means conceived.

So whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, in other words, that does, what do you do? You make a commitment at baptism, that's what you do. You make a commitment at baptism. You believe what are two preconditions for baptism, fight and repentance. And then you'll be baptized. You know that. The ministry went through that with you plenty of times, surely. And you make a commitment. They say, yes, I do. Like a husband and wife when they get married. Yes, I do. That's baptism. It's a commitment. That's why it says it's a covenant. It's like a marriage covenant. It's a covenant with God. Yes, I do. You made a commitment. You're going to do it. That means believe that Jesus is the Christ. When you're baptized, what does the minister ask you? Do you believe that Christ is your savior, your messiah, I'm big a part of your high priest, and your soon coming king? Yes, you do. So you believe and you acted on it by doing what? By making a commitment, a promise, a contract, a covenant with God at baptism. When that happens, he is begotten of God. How? Because after that, you know, there is the prayer, the lay-on of hands, and we ask the Father to fulfill his promise to give that believer, the Holy Spirit, through the lay-on of hands and the prayer. And Jesus Christ is the one that the mediator that gives us the Holy Spirit that proceeds from the Father, and Christ gives it to us. He's a mediator, comes through Christ. He's now begotten of God, not born yet, not yet born again. You will be born again when you and I are resurrected as spirit beings. We're not yet born again. We are begotten at this moment. Begotten. There is a paper in the Church's website about being born again, which has just been reviewed by the Council of Elders, which clarifies some of these points a little bit clearer. I do encourage you to read that paper and study it carefully. It's very important. It covers these points very detailed, and it's very important. But anyway, you are begotten of God, and whoever who loves Him who begot also loves Him who is begotten of Him. You see, now they translated that correctly. You see, why they translated incorrectly on the first time the word was used? Because the word is used three times, yeah, in this verse. It says, whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is, ganal, begotten of God, and everyone who loves Him who ganal begot also loves Him who is ganal of Him. You see, the word is used three times. So, if you believe in Jesus, and that means if we do and we make that commitment that we're going to follow Christ, then we are, as it says, begotten. And everyone who loves Him who begot us, who is it to begot us? He's the Father! It's the Dad that begets us, right? It's the Dad that makes the mother pregnant. That's what it is. We are the womb of the mother, which is the Church.

And so, we're growing in for nine months, which basically means for this physical life, spiritually speaking, until we are born again at the resurrection, or when Christ comes, whichever one comes first. So, it says whoever is begotten of God, whoever believes is begotten of God, and everyone who loves Him, that's the Father, who begot, who is begotten by Him. It was if you love, if you've been begotten by God, you're gonna love the Father, and you're gonna love the brethren! You're gonna love the brethren! Think about it! Isn't that what the Ten Commandments all about? Love God and love one another? Ah, interesting, isn't it? Right now, it's telling you about the Ten Commandments! By this, verse 2, we know that we love the children of God when we love God. Yeah, it's back to the same thing. It's actually repeating verse 1 by saying verse 2, and then it says, and keep His commandments. It's the same thing! For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and these commandments are not burdensome. Why? Because they love. Okay, let's move a bit forward to verse 18. Verse 18. Still, in 1 John chapter 5 verse 18.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin. Born is Gennel.

Is begotten of God. Does not sin.

Maybe a better translation is, do not live in the practice of sin or continuous sinning. Why? Because when you realize that you've done something wrong, you don't want to keep doing what? Because you've repented. At baptism, right, you said, do you repent? Yay! So that means you don't sin. Does it mean you never fail? That you're perfect? No! None of us is perfect. But we do not live in the practice of sin. But he who has been born, Gennel, begotten of God, keeps himself. What do you mean? You strive to keep yourself clean. You strive not to sin. You keep himself. And therefore, Satan, the wicked one, does not touch you. Why? Because you're a child of God. Man, imagine if somebody comes to your children and you are dead out there because you're there and somebody comes to your children and won't try to hurt your children, what are you going to do?

Are you going to allow somebody to come to you and your children and hurt your children? You, as a dad, are going to permit that? And if that person is much weaker than you, he will be away from your children because he knows what's coming.

And that's exactly the same thing. God, his our father, is far more powerful than the wicked one. So he does not touch us.

You know, you know the story of Balaam and Balak, right? They said, well, you can't curse these allies. But what he did, you know the story, he went behind their back and encouraged them to sin, right? To commit fornication and adultery with those false women and then they were cursed. He couldn't. He was not allowed to curse the Israelites, but he was subtle and went through, let's think of it like the back door, and tried to deceive these realites to do the wrong thing to sin. The same thing with us. If you and I are going to start breaking our covenant that we said we will not sin, but we start sinning and we start being negligent and walking away from that promise, then surely God is going to say, well, you're going to have to learn some lessons, George, or put your name in there. And there are trials and tests. Now, it does not mean that every trial and test is because of that. Why? It could be other people that bring trials and tests on us and could be that it's like the purifying of gold. Sometimes a little extra fire, testing the fire, is going to take certain impurities because God, in his mercy, wants us to have a better reward. And therefore, he allows us to go through certain trials and difficulties. And in that process, we go through certain trials and difficulties. And you know what? At the end of it, it's not nice when we go through trials and difficulties. They can be extremely difficult, extremely frustrating. Sometimes they are whole life. But you know what? You're going to bear the right fruit.

You're going to have a bigger crown for it. You're going to have a bigger reward for it. Yeah, it's not pleasant while we go through it, like James says, but count the joy while you go through these things because God is with you and is allowing it because he knows you'll never allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able to. And he's allowing you to have a bigger reward. So, but get back to the point. How does this happen that God begets us? Because the analogy is that the spirit of man in man is in analogy like the egg, like the oven in a mother's womb. And the spirit of God is that divine seed that impregnates the oven.

So, physically speaking, you have an oven and you have a human seed that impregnates the egg and the mother becomes pregnant. Spiritually speaking, you've got the spiritual oven which is the spirit of man in man because it's a spiritual element. And you've got the spirit of God that impregnates at the baptism, after the laying on of hands, from the Father through Jesus Christ that impregnates the spirit of man in man and now you are a begotten son of God. That's how the spirit of God begets you. It's a wonderful analogy. And not only that, because you and I have a spirit of man, a spiritual element, that spirit can receive the guidance that we talked about from the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is with us. We have a spirit element. We can have that interaction connection with God. And it begins us. So it's with us and in us.

So seeing that we in 1st John, let's read chapter 3 of 1st John, or a section of chapter 3 of 1st John, which says verse 1 and 2. Behold what manner of love, 1st John 3 verse 1. The Father has bestowed on us that we should be called the children of God. Brethren, your children, even though they might have not been born yet, maybe they're still in the womb of the mother, as a father they are already your children. When the mother is pregnant, waiting for the baby to be born, that baby is already a child of that dad. That's what he's saying. We should be called the children of God. Yes, we are already the children of God. Why? Because we're already being begotten by the father. We're not yet born. Again, therefore, the world does not know us because it does not know him. Be a beloved. Now we are the children of God. Why? Because you're being begotten by God, by through his Holy Spirit. It proceeded from the father and it was given to us, as it says in John the Baptist, when John Baptist said, and I think it's in Matthew 2, he says, I baptize you with water, but he that comes after me will baptize you with the spirit and with fire. So Christ baptizes us with this Holy Spirit. So it proceeds from the Father through Christ and comes to us. He also baptizes us with fire and that is the Gaena fire. That's the lake of fire if you reject God.

So you don't want to be baptized with fire because that's the lake of fire. That's the second there. So you don't want to get there, but you want to receive the Holy Spirit and and respond to it and overcome your weaknesses. So it goes on. It says, verse 2, Beloved, we are now the children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. Why? Because we're not yet born again. We're not yet spirit beings.

But we know that when he's revealed, that is when Christ comes, when he's revealed at the second coming, we shall be like him, like Christ, glorified like Christ. For we shall see him as he is. You will be able to see God and to see Christ in their full glory. If you today as a physical human being try, we're able to see God, you would melt because the energy and the power of spirit, it would destroy you. You would have to see it through a vision or God would have to give you a vision or a dream or something, but you could not see it in full reality, in full glory. I mean, if I remember, it was, I can't remember whether it was now Moses or Abram, but you know, they wanted to see God and they had to go behind a rock. And he says, no, otherwise, it was Moses. So his face was shining and there it just shows that the power of God. So everyone who has the soap in him purifies himself. Jesus is pure. So this is a motivator. But now look at verse 18. Now we've covered that. No, verse 9, bigger part of verse 9. Verse 9, he says, whoever has been born of God does not sin. Again, whoever has been begotten of God, he does not live in the practice of sin for his seed.

Whose seed? God's seed. Now, if you have capability of looking at the Greek word now, it's interesting at this moment. But if you're not, make a note and go home and study. The word seed there in Greek is sperma, which we would put it in English today. The equivalent of sperm. His seed. It's a divine seed that impregnates, reminds in him. So if you have been begotten of God, you don't live in the practice of sin because the divine seed from God, which is the Holy Spirit, has impregnated your spiritual egg, which is the spirit of man in man, and therefore you are now a begotten son of God and growing in the womb, which is the mother. And he cannot sin because he's being begotten of God. Again, now begotten of God. So let's now jump forward to Romans 8, verse 15 through 17. And my apologies to Kirby. And you'll understand it this afternoon because I think he's going to quote the Scripture as well this afternoon. So Romans 8, verse 15 through 17. But that's okay. Maybe God wants it to year it twice. Romans 8, 15 through 17.

It says, For you did not receive the spirit of bondage. You know, God's Holy Spirit is not a spirit of bondage. Again, to fear. But you have received the spirit of sonship. I know your Bible says adoption, but that's an incorrect translation. It's the spirit of sonship. The Greek word is hiltisia. Hilt, filio, in Portuguese, filio, son, hill, which means sun, and tisia is like a thesis. It's like a placing in. You place it as a sun. So, geothese, placed as a sun. So it's not an adoption. Yeah, you could translate it as adoption. But now you know, you understand that the divine seed begets the spiritual egg of them, which is spirit of man and man. And now you become really a son. So it's a spirit of sonship. You become a son by whom we cry, Abba, father, daddy, father. You see, he is really our dad. Now this is important to understand. This is important to understand because it's important to understand. Let me use the example of having a lovely domesticated animal at home. Say, for instance, there are some people that have a great love for their own pets. And for instance, you've got a cat and you say, I've adopted this cat and it's my son. There's nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong. But you know what? That cat will always be a cat. Will never be a human being.

Now, I'm not speaking anything wrong about those people that have an amazing act of adoption to other children. Please, I'm not misrepresenting that or speaking bad. That is an amazing act of love that many people do and adopt other children. But those children are really human beings. What I'm talking about is that the mere act of adoption does not change the kind of being from an animal to a human being. And so, if you were adopted by God, our humankind would not be changed from humankind to God kind.

You see, we're not adopted. We are begotten. And so that our humanity is going to be changed to divine characteristics of Godlike, to be sons of God. We're going to be in the form, in the kind, as it reads in John 10. If I remember correctly, it says, the law says that you are sons of God and the law cannot be broken. And that was Christ Himself speaking. So, we're going to be God beings, but obviously a lot inferior to the spiritual dad. But we're going to be of the same kind, of the same type of glory, of the same type of body, of characteristics. So, we're not going to be humans. We're going to be spirit beings of the same kind as Christ is. That's what we will be. That's why it reads on verse 16, the spirit Himself, itself, as it should read, bears witness with our spirit, the spirit of God, bears witness of our human spirit, spirit of man in man, that we are the children of God. Because the spirit of God has interacted with the spirit of man, and now we are really children of God, not just adopted, but really children of God. And if children of His is of God. We're going to inherit Godhood. That's what it means.

And join as with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him. Yes, Christ had to suffer unjustly. And yes, we all have to suffer unjustly. I know it's not nice to say that, but I know many of us are suffering, and in many cases unjustly. So did Christ have to. If we indeed suffer with Him, we'll also be glorified together with Him.

So, we are the sons of God, brethren.

We are begotten by God. And that is the second point. So I'm going to move on to the third point, which is, we, God's Holy Spirit, one of the attributes of God's Holy Spirit, it sanctifies us.

Look at 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 13 through 14. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 13 and 14.

To which, 13, bigger part, 13, starting in verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God, the Father, from the beginning, chose you for salvation.

Brethren, the Father has chosen you for salvation from the beginning. Oh, therefore we are predestined. No, He's chosen mankind. The whole of mankind has been chosen for salvation. Yes, He's decided to call you first, but He's going to call everybody in His time, each one in His own order. So, yes, He's chosen us, human beings. He hasn't chosen dogs, cats, angels, whatever. He's chosen us, human beings, to salvation through what? Through sanctification by the Spirit. Through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

You see, another attribute of God's Holy Spirit is the act of sanctification. Sanctification means making you saint, making you different, making you separate from the world, making you a new man or a new woman, changing you from the old man to the new man. That's what sanctification is. And you know, once you baptized and you received God's Holy Spirit, you stole the old man. And you still, you're only starting the race now. Now you've got years, probably years and years of overcoming and getting rid of wrong thoughts and minds and getting... That is the process of sanctification.

That is the process of sanctification through or by the Holy Spirit. It's God's Holy Spirit, that washing of that living water, running with us, through us, continuously washing us, the washing of regeneration, the washing of changing our minds, time and time again, for us to be more like God.

You see, we know God's Holy Spirit writes God's law in our minds. And in our hearts, you read that thing in Hebrews 8 verse 10 through 12. And as it does that, what is it doing to our minds? It's washing our minds. It's a washing of regeneration, of re-becoming different. So it's not just but begotten and voila, you say, no, now you've got to be faithful till the end and be overcoming. And you know what? We all have a lot to overcome. I have a lot to overcome. Ask my wife. And we all have a lot to overcome. Right, so... But anyway, it's just part of it. And we just have to get out of it. And we just have to keep it at and not be discouraged. And keep it at and keep it at and keep it at. Titus chapter 3 verse 5, please. Titus chapter 3 verse 5. Just off the term, I think, Titus chapter 3 verse 5.

We're going to start reading from verse 4, because that's the beginning of the sentence. But when the kindness and the love of God, our Savior, toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, you were not called because you were a super righteous, holy, holy being. You were called by God's mercy that he picked up and chose you.

And you many times probably wondered, why me? I don't know, but God chose you. That's it. He chose us. Not by works of righteousness who should that, but according to his mercy. He saved us. He saved us from the world. We ultimately not yet saved yet, but he saved us from the mess of this world. He called us through what? Through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Through that living running water, as we are in the sermon, that living running water that runs through us and washes us and regenerates and renews us and makes us what? A new man and a new woman.

Look at 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 2. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 2. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 2.

Peter and I'm starting again from the beginning of the sentence. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, that's in verse 1 to the programs of the dispersion in Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, elect. In other words, we selected, we chosen, we elect. According to the full knowledge of God the Father, in what? In the sanctification of the Spirit. We are chosen through as responding and using God's Holy Spirit and as we are responding to the calling, we become elect. We become chosen. Many are called but few are chosen. Why are few chosen? Because those people are being called and don't respond. So if we respond to the sanctification of the Spirit, which the Spirit is working with our minds, is with us, and we are responding and we're coming back, then God gives us more of His Spirit and as we respond, then finally we get baptized and that is the sanctification of the Spirit. For what purpose? Sanctification of the Spirit for obedience. We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit to obey and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. In the words, that washes us from sin and forgives us. So, brethren, today I want you to have covered to you three additional attributes of God's Holy Spirit. The God's Holy Spirit guides us. Yes, God's Holy Spirit guides us, teaches us, opens our mind. Now, another point I didn't even mention today, it doesn't force us. It doesn't possess us. It guides us. Gently guides us. This is the way it never forces you. Demons possess people and force people. Not God's Holy Spirit. It's the Spirit of love and kindness to guide us, to teach us. It's up to us to respond. Then God's Holy Spirit begets us, is in us, begets us, makes us really children of God. The potential to obey of the God's kind, not just of the humankind, but of the God kind, begets us. And that proceeds from the Father. And God's Holy Spirit helps us to change from the old man to the new man. So I hope, brethren, that this message, this sermon, has given you a little clearer understanding of the power and the benefits that God has given to us through His Holy Spirit, that besides so many other attributes the new and I know of, but it guides us, begets us, and sanctifies us.