What's in a Name?

Well, good morning to all of you, brethren. And again, welcome to Pentecost weekend, and our first sermon for this weekend anyway. I want to ask us a simple question today, and yet it's the focus of what I want to point out about one of the things that we could learn, one of the things we could grow in, in our understanding here regarding the day of Pentecost, and actually the meaning that this day portrays to us. The question is, what's in a name?

What's in a name? Does it make any difference what something is called?

You know, we actually, I think all of us are familiar with names. You know, we're all called, I'm called Joe, or sometimes called Dobson, or sometimes called all kinds of things, but maybe a lot much less, you know, appropriate names. But you, there were often, we often use different titles. Mr. Mrs. Miss. Dr. Numerous different titles that could be used that would be included in somebody's name. And sometimes you're even looking at people as far as what they do. I could, you know, state that Tom is, he's a writer. You know, that's not so much a name, but a profession. Something he does, that describes kind of what he does.

And, you know, any of us who are married, we could be called husbands or women, wives. Those are not directly names, but at least descriptions. And the same way with, if we're a father or mother, those are other descriptors of how it is that we see people, or view people, or what it is that we call them. And we have, of course, as you know, there are numerous chapters in the Bible that, in essence, list just lines of genealogy.

You know, it says son of this and son of this and son of this, or if it's in the reverse, you know, so-and-so is the father of so-and-so. So-and-so is the father of so-and-so.

And sometimes you can get to those chapters, especially in the Old Testament, and if you don't have a reference for what are we talking about here, it seems somewhat that, well, this is kind of a confusing chapter of begats, you know, so-and-so begats, so-and-so, and on down the line. In Luke chapter 3, you see one of these lists, and I simply want to point out a little bit about this list, because here in the lineage of Jesus, you have a listing of the lines of the fathers who begat sons down to Jesus. And in verse 23, says Jesus, Luke 3, verse 23, about 30 years old, when he began to work, he was his son, as was thought of Joseph, a son-in-law of Heli. So this is actually a genealogy of Mary, going back as far as her ancestors, and of course you see some rather notable ones. About verse 31, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, that son of Boaz, those are all very common and very, you know, significant names in the Old Testament. But when it goes back beyond that to verse 34, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, and then to drop down, even going back beyond Abraham, to names that you read about in the first few chapters of the book of Genesis, the son of Canaan, the son of Enos, in verse 38, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. Now that's a genealogical description that I'm not getting into any more than just to point this out to you. And of course, whenever you read that about Adam, Adam was the son of God.

He was a created son of God. We all know that Adam was created out of the dust of the ground. God breathed into him the breath of life, and so he became a living being. And so you have people, and in effect all people and all of us, could be considered to be the created sons of God because all people are the sons of God. You also see reference to all of the angelic realm as being the sons of God. Now they're also created in a different form, but they're created as angels. They're created sons of God. But whenever you have conception and birth involved, people can become born sons of God. And that's what I want us to think about as far as what's in a name. What's in the name that God places on us or in us as his children? That's important. With this Pentecost weekend, we're focusing, as we already have, on counting number of weeks, seven weeks, and then tomorrow is not just the seven weeks, but the next day, the fiftieth day. And there's a focus on first fruits of a harvest, and we can focus on the first fruits of God's great spiritual harvest. That's what he is not because of our greatness or might, not because we deserve it, but he has included us in a grouping that he describes as first fruits because he happens to be working with us in this age. He happens to be guiding our hearts and minds in a very important way. And as we've had mentioned in Acts chapter 2, you see a focus when you read through Acts 2, the beginning of the New Testament church, the focus is on the Holy Spirit being given to begin and to actually create.

The New Testament called out once. That's what the day of Pentecost we celebrate. We think about not only the giving of the law in the past because that clearly is involved, but also the beginning of the New Testament church and the beginning of a special, significant process that involves begettle. It involves the beginning of a growth process that will lead us to be like God. And so my question for us today is what name best describes the Spirit of God? Now, I'm going to say that the answer to that could vary because I'm asking all of you to think about that. What name best describes the Spirit of God? The Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit from God. There's a lot of different ways that the Spirit is written about in the pages of the Bible. But I want to point out three things that I hope would help guide us, and I'm going to tell you what I think. I'm going to tell you what I at least have come to believe. I don't know if I've always understood this, but I'm going to tell you what I think. And of course, you can conclude what you wish.

But the first thing I want to focus on is that you've got various descriptions or names for the Spirit of God. There are a lot of references to the Spirit of God in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and we could go through Hebrew and Greek words, but you know I'm not very good at doing that, so I'm not really wanting to do that. I'm just wanting to point out you see the Spirit of God described in numerous ways in the Old and even maybe more ways in the New.

In 1 Corinthians 2, you see a reference here, and I'm going to quickly have to go through some of this.

I can see. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, you see a great expression that was inspired by the apostle of by the Holy Spirit, actually, for the apostle Paul to write this down. He wrote it down about the people who made up the membership in the church at Corinth. And of course, these people were struggling, clearly not perfect people, clearly in many ways divided. You know, they had a lot of wrong ideas. They were needing to overcome that. See, that in a sense can be hopeful to us. As we struggle with our own difficulties, our own problems, we need to be reminded that the struggling is a part of the process. Struggling is important. It's important to be struggling. And here in 1 Corinthians 2, you see in verse 9, we'll read that, Eye is not seen or heard, and your human heart can see what God has prepared for those who love him. So Paul was mentioning to them that they're coming to know God, coming to know God's purpose, coming to know God's plan is incredible. And clearly, he was having to tell them, you're kind of missing the mark here because you're arguing over a lot of things that are irrelevant, things that are unimportant, things that really, you know, you should be getting beyond.

But he says in verse 10, these things, though, God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

And so here we see again a reference to the Spirit. That's one of the descriptors we would have, or a name we'd have. And in verse 11, for what human knows the things that are truly human except the human spirit or the spirit in man that is within him. And so also in the latter part of verse 11, no one comprehends what is truly God's. What are the things of God except through the Spirit of God? See, so we've seen a reference to the Spirit, we've seen a reference to the Spirit of God. If we go over to Acts 1, we were there earlier in the sermonette, but in Acts chapter 1, I'm going to point out just one verse here. I'd better quickly go through these. As Jesus, after his suffering, would appear to his disciples in verse 3 from over 40 days, and he was speaking about what? The kingdom of God. He was talking about the kingdom that we are preparing for and is going to be installed whenever Jesus returns. But in verse 4, while staying with them, he offered them or ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, chapter 1 verse 4, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. And this, he said, is what you have heard from me, for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Ghost.

Now that's what the New King James says. That's in the authorized version. The version word ghost is placed in there sometimes. That seems kind of mysterious. That certainly seems kind of odd, and I think you always often find in the New King James that that's going to be written the Holy Spirit, and that, of course, is what my translation that I'm using says.

But see, that's another reference. Whenever you read through the Bible, you see sometimes a reference to the Holy Ghost. But Jesus says you need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, not many days from now. So we've seen and mentioned as the Spirit, as the Spirit of God, as the Holy Ghost. Let's look at one of the verses here in John 15, because you've got a lot of good information here in John. John, verse 14 and 15 and 16 and 17. You see a lot of amazing information about the Holy Spirit.

See, here in John chapter 16, it says in verse 12, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now when the Spirit of truth comes. It will guide you into all the truth. Now there's another descriptor of the Spirit of God.

You have different references and different descriptions, and this one is the Spirit of truth. If we back up to chapter 14, chapter 14, verse 25, it says, I have said these things to you while I am still with you, but the Advocate, or your translation may say the Helper, or it may say the Comforter. But the Advocate, or the Comforter, or the Helper, all of those are coming from one Greek word that is describing the Holy Spirit, and yet you see it at times translated Helper. You see it sometimes translated Comforter. You see it sometimes referred to as Advocate. But clearly, here in verse 26, it says this Helper from God, and this is what Jesus was telling His disciples, I'm going to go away and I'm going to send this back. I'm going to strengthen and empower, and I am going to enable you by the Helper. It says the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name and will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you.

Now, you actually have a lot of information in each one of these verses, but I'm simply focusing on the different names or descriptions that we have. And that's really my first point. You see reference to the Spirit of God. You see reference to the Holy Ghost. You see reference to the Spirit of Truth. You see reference or at least sometimes a translation that would point out that it is the Advocate or the Helper or the Comforter or the Holy Spirit. Now, which one of those names means the most to you? It's not that we should not use all of them because all of them do provide insight. All of them provide understanding in helping us grasp the significance of what God has made available to us. But which name stands out in your mind? Which one is most meaningful? Secondly, I want to go to John chapter 3 because here in John 3 we have an exchange that is actually about what it is to be a recipient of the Holy Spirit. Here in John chapter 3, the beginning of this chapter, we see Jesus of exchange with Nicodemus. A Pharisee named Nicodemus, the leader of the Jews, in verse 1 he came to Jesus by night and he said, Rabbi, we know that you're a teacher who's come from God. No one could do what you do apart from the presence of God. He was acknowledging who Jesus was. Whether he understood fully, we doubt. Maybe he later fully comprehended because he clearly assisted in Jesus' burial. He was involved in that. But Jesus said to him, so here Jesus is pointing out something that was very important for Nicodemus and for every one of us who would later be drawn into the family of God. Jesus answered and verily I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again, without being born from above, without entering into a process of being brought forth from the great God who is our Father.

And so Jesus is going to talk about this. Of course, again, as Mr. Jackson pointed out, there's a lot of misunderstanding about being born again. And yet, Jesus pointed out, Nicodemus said, well, how can that happen? Can you enter your mother's womb twice and be born? He said in verse 5, verily I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and of the Spirit. And so clearly he was talking about being born of the Spirit.

And he goes on to describe how it is that in many ways we might find that this spiritual birth process, this spiritual birth process that God the Father initiates.

See, that's why it's somewhat discouraging to see the many people who are religious, but have little understanding of what God is doing. But, you know, we have a blessing of truly knowing something that is incredibly important. Jesus in describing what it is to be born from above, verse 8, the wind blows where it chooses and you hear the sound of it. You don't know where it comes from, you don't know where it goes, so it is with everyone who's born of the Spirit.

See, now when you receive the Holy Spirit, you don't necessarily have some sensation or emotional experience. It may be emotional to do that, but you're not going to have, you know, chills running up and down your back. None of us, you know, experience that. I surely know I did not, but I full well knew that that was the most important, significant activity of my lifetime to that date.

And what Jesus is saying is that, well, you know, this is not something you can just physically see. You know, the wind, we know how that works. We see what the wind does, but where the wind comes from, where it goes, we just don't see that.

Unless you're in Oklahoma and you see a lot of dust, see a lot of dirt in the wind. But that's not the point. Nicodemus said, how can these things be? And of course, Jesus continued to tell him in verse 12, I've told you about earthly things, and you don't believe. How can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? See, Jesus understood. He was explaining a spiritual birth process, a spiritual birth process that does not, it does not begin without a begettle from the Father, without a begettle and a conception and then a gestation period that ultimately will culminate in a birth, a spiritual birth.

Now, that's significant in a number of ways, and I want to, let's see, we can go to Ephesians chapter one. We want to keep that in mind because physically we can understand the process of being born. Now, there is a begettle, there is a conception, there is a gestation period, and ultimately a bringing forth of a new little baby. So physically we understand that.

And yet spiritually, where does that begin? How does that begin? Well, it begins with the Father calling and drawing us to Jesus Christ. It begins with what we read in Exodus, or excuse me, not in Exodus, but in Acts. I guess we could read something in Exodus that would be applicable, but I was thinking of Acts where you read, and this is such a, you know, we're all familiar with this verse.

On the day of Pentecost, Peter preached when people came to him and they were pricked in the heart, and they were in need of help. They saw, I'm doomed, I'm dead, and we just put other people to death. We just put the Son of God to death. They saw what happened because of their sins, and then they were told, repent, be baptized, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

You know, that was an initial begettle of that spirit. That was a starting point, in a sense, for us. A starting point that I, again, think back on, and all of you can think back on, is as a beginning of our spiritual development, a beginning of being born of the Spirit, or being born again. If we go over to Ephesians chapter 1, you see a little bit more of the explanation of this. Ephesians chapter 1, talking about Jesus Christ, you see here in the beginning of chapter 1 that well, Paul is continuing to talk to the church there.

He talks to them in verse 9 about the mystery of the will of God, according to the good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, a plan for the fullness of time. So this was discussing an understanding of God's purpose for human life.

And then he talks about Jesus Christ in verse 12 and verse 13, and him also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit.

See, you were given, as it goes on in verse 14, this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people to the praise of His glory. See, this is when we received the Holy Spirit at a given point in our life. What that was was a begettle from the Father. That was an initial beginning of a spirit life that was to continue to develop and grow throughout the remaining of our physical existence. And if we die prior to Christ's returns, then we have concluded that development stage.

And we have nothing, nothing to be worried about because the Father is the one who is doing the work. He's the one who is wanting to work in us. Now we're going to see many different things that the spirit that has been placed in us is able to do. And that's why I mentioned what I did earlier. We may not fully understand all that the Spirit of God is able to do. Certainly, whether we understand it or not, we may not be able to fully appreciate what the Spirit of God is able to achieve in our lives or in not only our collective individual lives, but also collectively as a group, what God can do. You see this same description of spiritual development over in Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 is again a chapter that's called the Holy Spirit chapter. And yet, Romans chapter 8, you can start in verse 9, it says, you're not in the flesh, you're in the spirit since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. So Paul makes it very clear that before God has chosen to intervene in our lives and to bring us to a point of where the receipt of his Spirit can actually produce godly fruit, then we are not Jesus Christ's. But he goes on to say, if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit, he goes on to say, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will give to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you. He will give life to your mortal bodies.

So this is actually talking about how it is that God imparts eternal life. Now we can read simply where it is a gift from God. We can read how it is that eternal life is achieved, and yet that's not achieved on our own. That's not achieved by our power. That's achieved by being in submission to God. See, you'll be reminded of what we saw there in Acts 2, that the formula, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Spirit. Why would God give his Holy Spirit? Why would God give his Holy Spirit to someone who was not teachable, who was not repentant, who was not desirous of following God and wanting to obey and wanting to do what God says? Well, I think we could say he wouldn't do that.

Now we have to evaluate, well, how much am I yielded? How much am I yearning to see what God is able to do? Not what I am able to do, but what God is able to do.

Because he is guiding and teaching and leading us by the Holy Spirit of God.

So I want to drop down to verse 15. There's way too much in here to try to cover. You did not receive a spirit of slavery or of bondage. You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received a spirit of, and most of the translations say adoption.

Sonship, I think, does convey a better understanding. Because even though in an adoption, a girl or boy becomes a son or daughter of a given parent, in sonship you're dealing with directly imparting the characteristics of the father and the mother to the child.

And see, that's important for us to think about when we think about being born from above. Born, again. Born of the Spirit. See, that comes from God. That's why we have hope.

And now we can read all of the descriptions about how it's a spirit of power and a spirit of love and a spirit of a sound mind. And we can see others of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and it appears that those vary sometimes according to who? According to God. According to the Father. According to what He chooses to do within the framework of the Mother, the Church of God. And yet, we want to continually be aware that if we're going to be born again, if we're going to enter into that process and ultimately be born as the children of God, well then that's going to be to His glory, that's to His honor, that's to His praise, and it is of His work in us through His Spirit. Now, too many times I think we overlook that. We may not understand it well. We should grow an understanding of that so that we strive to understand it better, and yet it's important to know that, you know, being begotten by the Father, that we become His children, as we're going to read here in verse 15. You've not received the spirit of bondage, but a spirit of sonship where we cry, Abba, Father. It's that very spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we're the children of God. And if we're children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if in fact we suffer with Him so that we may be glorified with Him. Again, we can read those, and we often do, and that may not make much of an imprint. But see, even this terminology, Abba, Father. See, Paul uses this in this case, and we see it only in a couple of other references in the New Testament. But you see it here. You see it written about those who were begotten children of God, those who had been recipient of the spirit of God, those who were going to relate to the Father in a new way, in a better way, in a more meaningful way, in a converted way.

And I want us to look at Mark 14 because this is one of the other places where that terminology is used. Mark 14 is obviously toward the end of Jesus' life. And here in Mark 14, Mark 14, we find Jesus praying with His disciples. Those disciples were following Him. They certainly learned a lot. They learned how inadequate they were. They learned how much they needed help. They learned how cowardly they were. They learned how limited they were.

In most cases, they didn't understand what He was explaining to them, and they would later come to understand it with the help of the Begevel from the Father, with the help of the Holy Spirit that they would receive on the day of Pentecost. But you see Peter and James and John being taken with Jesus. And He said to them in verse 34, I'm deeply grieved, even to death, remain here and keep awake. Going a little further, He threw Himself on the ground and prayed. If it were possible, the hour might pass from Him. But in verse 36, He says, Abba, Father, for You all things are possible. Remove this cup from Me, yet not what I will, but what You will.

You see an incredible admission from Jesus, the Son of God, God in the flesh, the one who related to the Father in the most unique way that any other human being could ever relate to the Father. But see, that was the way He related to the Father in a human form, because He had taken on this form willingly. He had subserviently come to the earth in order to rescue men. But this is one of the, this is the description that we read there in Romans about how it is that we come to relate to the Father as a son or daughter, as someone who has been empowered and engendered with a spirit from God.

And see, that spirit empowers us in ways that we may not utilize. And we may not even understand, but we can truly rely on it. We can be thankful for it. We can appreciate it. And certainly, you know, understanding that the Holy Spirit being given on the day of Pentecost was being given to individuals who were repentant, who wanted to be obedient and were baptized, who were teachable, and who would benefit from the receipt of the Spirit from God, our Father. Now, the last thing I want to mention is just simply, and we sang about this in one of our songs before we, you know, earlier here in our service. In 1 Peter 1, you see a directive, you see what the Spirit of God working in us and living in us and growing in us is going to produce.

Here in 1 Peter 1, starting in verse 13, Peter is telling Christians in general, he's telling all of us who will come to see what God has done in our lives.

He says, prepare your mind for action. Be ready to do the work that God has missioned you to do.

Prepare your minds for action, discipline yourself, set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring when He is revealed. Like obedient children in verse 14, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance, but instead, as He who called you as holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct, for it is written, you shall be holy as I am holy.

I would say, brethren, that that probably has far more significance, even though we may think that we try to be holy or we want to learn what it is to be holy, and we can see certain things in the Bible that talk about being holy, and you see, you can go through a whole study of the Old Testament and New Testament about holiness.

See, I would say the primary way that we become holy is by allowing God to rule in our hearts and in our minds, and allowing the begettle from the Father and from His Holy Spirit to transform us to be a different type of person, a different mind, a different heart. We didn't read it, but over there in 1 Corinthians 2, whenever Paul was talking about the the fact that the natural mind of man is one thing and a mind that is guided by the Spirit of God is completely different. He closed that chapter, chapter 1, I believe it, now it's chapter 2. 1 Corinthians 2, the very last verse, says, I think that I have the mind of Christ.

He says, I think I have something that is impossible, except with God all things are possible. He is able to produce in us a holiness through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit that He offers us in the process of being born from above. And so, and I think you could also tie together how that in Hebrews chapter 10, it talks about the new relationship that we have, the new covenant relationship we have with our Father. Let's just go to that Hebrews chapter 10. In verse 15, the Holy Spirit testifies to us and says, this is the covenant that I will make with them after these days, said the Lord, I will put my wall in their hearts. I will write those laws on their minds. See, in Romans 7, 12, Paul says the law is holy. See, that's a part of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. It's a part of the spiritual development that the law of God is written on our heart. It's written on our mind. We take on an element of God that is holy when we embrace the law, when we embrace an understanding of His law, an application of the law. And so I think it's important, and certainly the statement, be you holy as I am holy, may have more meaning than I understand, but it is clearly what He tells us to do. He tells us, and Peter talks about this a little later, that you're to be a holy priesthood, you're to be a royal nation, you're going to be a peculiar people, you're going to stand out from the bulk of society because God is not dealing with everyone right now, but to those of us that He is dealing with, to those of us that He has granted the blessing of the Holy Spirit, as we review what I've gone over here in these few points that we've made, you know, I believe the term Holy Spirit probably is most meaningful to me as a description of the Spirit of God, because I've often thought of and used as word Spirit of God, and I don't know that I've had it as embedded in my thinking as it being important to understand that how God imparts His holiness to us, and because of what He's doing, because of how He lives in us, then we can achieve, you know, not only the work that He wants us to do, but we can achieve the fabulous blessing of being the children of God who are not only the children of God during this life, but at His return, you know, we'll be the children who are given eternal life, the children who are granted that birth into the family of God. I just want to go to one other verse here in 1 Corinthians 15, and I know again Mr. Jackson could have gone over some of that, because it's applicable because Paul's talking about how it is, you know, what kind of body we have now, what kind of body we're going to have, you know, that was a question that the Corinthians needed to try to understand, and of course all of us want to understand. But it is fascinating when you think about the fact that as human beings we have lived our lives and God has intervened in them by bringing us to a recognition of our need for forgiveness, and by creating a teachable attitude in us, and by granting us the Holy Spirit. That is a spirit that works in us.

Here in 1 Corinthians 15, starting in verse 42, he says, so it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, and what is raised is imperishable. So he's making an obvious transition from everything physical, everything very much on a mundane, earthy level, to the tremendous spiritual level that being resurrected as a spirit being will be. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. What is sown in dishonor will be raised in glory. What is sown in weakness is raised in power. What is sown as a physical body is to be raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there's also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living spirit, the last man Adam became the one who was Jesus Christ, became a living, life-giving spirit. So in verse 46, but it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical and then the spiritual.

The first man was from the earth, man of dust, the second man is from heaven.

And as was the man of dust, as was Adam, so were those who were of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so were those who were of heaven.

So just as we have borne the image, just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven. See, here he clearly talks about a development of a spirit life. We are in agreement with God whenever we are pursuing that process.

Now, yes, do we struggle with that? Sure. Many recipients of the Holy Spirit are going to go through all kinds of struggles. We're going to go through all kinds of distress. We suffer even as we grow in long suffering. We suffer other things. And yet all of that is a part of the process. It's a part of the development. It's a part of the growing, and certainly, you know, as we find ourselves more and more limited with age, we realize, I need help more than I ever understood. When I was 25, I thought I knew everything, or at least I, maybe I didn't, I don't think I knew everything because I had started to wise up by then. I thought I could do almost anything because I was able to do almost whatever I wanted anyway. But at 65 or more, I'm much more aware of how much I need God, how much I need His help, how much I need His direction in my life, and how much I want to seek that, how much I want to pursue that. Now, do I do that perfectly? No. I'm lacking too many times. But I at least see that that's where I ought to hit. That's where I ought to go. And even that struggle is not bad because, as it says here, as we bear the image of the physical, of the earthy, well then we will also then bear the image of the heavenly because, because God is working in us through the power of His Holy Spirit. So, whenever you read, Be You Holy as I am Holy, I hope that can take on new significance, a new understanding about how God chooses to work in our lives and that we can truly understand that that holy ness that God is speaking about is brought or built in us by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God. That's why I think maybe, you know, thinking of the Spirit as the Holy Spirit is going to impart better understanding to us as we continue our development toward the family of God.