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When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters,\xa0I didn\u2019t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God\u2019s secret plan.\xa0For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NLT)

I came to you in weakness\u2014timid and trembling.\xa0And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.\xa0I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God\u2026 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NLT)

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 (NLT)

But\xa0it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God\u2019s deep secrets.\xa01 Corinthians 2:9-12 (NLT)\xa0

No one can know a person\u2019s thoughts except that person\u2019s own spirit, and no one can know God\u2019s thoughts except God\u2019s own Spirit.\xa0 And we have received God\u2019s Spirit (not the world\u2019s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 (NLT)

And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit\xa0on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants,\xa0both men and women,\xa0I will pour out my Spirit in those days. Joel 2:28-29 (NIV)

\u201cIf you love me, keep my commands.\xa0And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate\xa0to help you and be with you forever\u2014\xa0the Spirit of truth.\xa0John 14:15-20 (NIV)

The world cannot accept him,\xa0because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be\xa0in you.\xa0I will not leave you as orphans;\xa0I will come to you.\xa0John 14:15-20 (NIV)

Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.\xa0Because I live, you also will live.\xa0On that day\xa0you will realize that I am in my Father,\xa0and you are in me, and I am in you.\u201d John 14:15-20 (NIV)

So who is He?

The Holy Spirit is NOT a FORCE to experience, but a PERSONALITY to KNOW and RELATE with.

3 things that help identify who the Holy Spirit is to us:

1. He is our ADVOCATE

When the Advocate\xa0comes, whom I will send to you from the Father\u2014the Spirit of truth\xa0who goes out from the Father\u2014he will testify about me. John 15:26 (NIV)

As our ADVOCATE, The Holy Spirit stands WITH US and stands up FOR US based on what Jesus has already done.
When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the\xa0Lord\xa0will lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19 (NKJV)\xa0

1. He is our GUIDE

But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate\xa0will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.\xa0When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment\u2026 John 16:7-8 (NIV)

\xa0\u201cI have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.\xa0But when he, the Spirit of truth,\xa0comes, he will guide you into all the truth.\xa0He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. John 16:12-13 (NIV)

But the Advocate,\xa0the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,\xa0will teach you all things\xa0and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26 (NIV)

God loved us so much that He didn\u2019t just make a WAY\u2026 He provided a GUIDE.

The Holy Spirit will only lead us to the level of our surrender.

1. He is our \u201cright here\u201d GOD

And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead. Don\u2019t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!\xa01 Corinthians 6:14-17 (NLT)\xa0

And don\u2019t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, \u201cThe two are united into one.\u201d\xa0But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 1 Corinthians 6:14-17 (NLT)\xa0

He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.\xa0All that belongs to the Father is mine.\xa0That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.\u201d John 16:14-15 (NIV)