We're turning please to Exodus chapter 33. We're looking tonight at the subject of the Holy Spirit as person. By that I mean He is a person. We're not so much looking at His person. I'm not so much wanting to prove tonight that He is person. There are a number of different proofs that we could give throughout Scripture. And I have some of them there on your notes. But I'm not so much wanting to prove tonight His personhood as I am wanting to explain something of the implications of that. to us tonight and there is, I think, great encouragement in the fact that he is person. I think we do ourselves a great disservice as Christians by not understanding correctly the attributes, the character, the person of God. It is true that the more we know of him, the more we know him, And the more we know of him, the greater our peace and our joy in him is. And that is my task as a pastor, and that is my prayer for you as individuals, that you will know him. Not just that you will know him as your savior, but that you will know him as the companion of your soul, as the comfort of your heart, as the guide and a sustainer of your mind, that every aspect of your life will be conformed to him, to his will, to his person, to his character. And that's why I say, if we know his character, then we are comforted. There's aspects of our lives that if we could plug them in and put them in, in context with who God is for us, for me, then we would be greatly comforted in this aspect of our lives. And I think we lose comfort. We miss that enjoyment because we either don't know or most likely we forget. There's a problem. We are forgetful. And that's why the hymn writer said, tell me the old, old story for I forget so soon. And that's why we need to keep ourselves and our hearts reminded of who He is as our Savior, who He is as our God, as our sovereign Lord and Master. And I want us to be encouraged by these studies in the Holy Spirit. And not so much, as I said before, with regard to this particular study tonight, but with regard to the whole study, I'm not so much wanting to instruct and lecture in who the Holy Spirit is and His work. I want us to see the application of His work for me now in life. And that's where we want to get to. And that's why the notes are structured as they are. There's a statement that we make, and the format of the notes will be the same for the duration of the study, I hope. unless I come up with a better one, which could be, which is possible. There's the statement, there's the scripture, there's the explanation, and then there's the application. And I put each week a quote at the bottom from some, usually a dead saint who has written before. Quoting dead saints is part and parcel of Christianity, I guess, that's what we do. And there's some great quotes. that we have from those who've gone on before. Let's read, I want to read two portions of scripture here. Exodus chapter 33 and the verse, let's read from verse 12. Moses said unto the Lord, see, thou sayest unto me, bring up this people, and thou hast not let me know whom I will send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight, and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. He said unto him, if thy presence go not with me, carry me not up hence. Then over to John chapter 14 and the verse 17. We'll perhaps come back to Exodus a little later on. John chapter 14 and the verse 17. We'll read from verse 15. If you love me, keep my commandments and I will pray the Father and He shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Amen. We'll end the reading there at that verse. As I said, I want us to consider this subject tonight, the Holy Spirit as person, and I'm basing our comments tonight on this statement that the Holy Spirit is not a power to be invoked. He is a person to be enjoyed. That's the statement that I want us to prove tonight and to see the implications of. The Holy Spirit is not a power to be invoked. He is a person to be enjoyed. When we speak of the Trinity, we think of the Trinity in three hypostases or hypostases. We speak of the Trinity and what we call the hypostatic union of the Trinity. By that, I mean the hypostases, it's used in different fields of study. It's used in medicine to speak of the the sediment that falls to the bottom of a test tube or an experiment. It's the essence. And when we speak of the hypostases with regard to the Trinity, we are speaking of the essence of three individual persons in one God. There are three hypostases. one person. There are three persons, three personalities, the essence of three in one God. We cannot understand that. We cannot comprehend that. We are trying to understand that from a human perspective. We are trying to define and understand our Creator and that's an impossibility. And so we accept that by faith. We go through scripture. We glean all of these things from scripture. We bring it together and systematize it in a systematic theology of God. And we understand this is true of God, that there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, spoken of individually, separately, and of individual and separate works. But we come over here and we read that God is one. And so how do we compute that? How do we correlate that and reconcile those things? There are things in Scripture we cannot reconcile. We believe them to be true. And so we state them as statements of our faith. The Trinity is three in one. Christ is our Savior. The Father, we often say, planned salvation. The Son, Christ, bought our salvation by his work on Calvary, and the Holy Spirit brought our salvation. When we think of the Holy Spirit, there's a tendency to think of the Holy Spirit in terms of a power. That is the way we normally speak of him, a power. The problem lies in the fact that the Holy Spirit is the agent of the Father. He is the agent also of the Son. He brings to us the work of Christ. He makes known to us the work of Christ. He makes known to us also the reality of the Father. He is the agent of the Father and the Son, revealing God to us. And so we think of him only very often by his effects. We think also when we read scripture, and there are certain scriptures that would lean towards this idea of the effects of the Spirit of God. We think especially of John chapter 3, where John, or where the Lord is speaking to Nicodemus, and he says concerning the wind, bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof. John 3 verse 8. but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." And the point that Christ is making to Nicodemus is that the Spirit is working and very often all we can see is the effect of the Spirit. You look outside, you can't see the wind, But you can see the effects of the wind. You see the leaves blowing on the trees. That's the effect of the wind. You see the grass blowing and so forth, blowing in the wind. And that's how we often think of the Holy Spirit with regard to his effects, the effects of his work. We see the effects of him, but we never see him because he is invisible. Our tendency then, as Christians, is to think of him in terms of the symbols that the scripture gives us. There are a number of symbols that the scripture uses concerning the Holy Spirit. Wind, as I've noted in John chapter 3 verse 8. Fire. The fire come down at Pentecost. and in other places the fire comes down and consumes and we think of the power and the consuming power of the Spirit of God. The effects of the fire. We think also with regard to the oil and we speak of the pouring out of the Spirit of God. Now you try to understand the pouring out of the Spirit of God when it speaks of the Lord pouring out the Spirit of God. How do you pour out a person? You see the problem then, when we speak of and read of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, but He's a person. Now what we need to do as God's people is to understand that when the Scripture speaks in terms of the symbols of the Spirit of God, it is using those symbols that we understand. Anthropomorphic language, language that God uses that we can understand. We take that symbol, whether it's the oil, or the wind, or the fire, or whatever, the dove, and we apply an aspect of that symbol, whatever the point of reference in that symbol is, to the Holy Spirit, we apply that to the person of the Holy Spirit. That's how we understand the language of Scripture. We ought to resist this temptation to think of the Holy Spirit as a mere power. As a mere power. And I have this in the notes there. He is distinguished from a thing. He is not a thing. He is not to be referred to as it. And we often do that, perhaps a slippage of the tongue or a misunderstanding. But very often the Holy Spirit is referred to as it. as a thing. He is not a thing. He is a person. He is not the personification of God. Let me just go through a few things here that will try to explain to us what we mean by God, the Holy Spirit, being a person. He is not the personification of God. Jack Frost is the personification of winter. The Holy Spirit is not the personification or the representation of the Father. Nor is He the persona of God. He is not the overwhelming personality of God. Sometimes with regard to people who have big personalities, you know them from a distance no matter where they are in the room. Their personality is known. They're there. The fact that they're there is known because they have such a big personality. The Spirit is not the personality of the Father as though the Father could project his personality to earth. He's not the persona of the Father. The Spirit, and I think sometimes this is how we think of Him, the Spirit is not the atmosphere or the mood or feeling that Christ left behind when He was on earth. This happy, powerful, peaceful atmosphere that enveloped Christ, and He has left some of this atmosphere and feeling behind. He is not just the Spirit of God, He is God the Spirit, and He is the Spirit who is God. I want us to understand that, that has great ramifications on how we think of Him. He is not just the Spirit of God, He is God the Spirit, or we might say the Spirit who is God. Now I want us to think, because this is a very problematic area of theology in some circles, by treating the Holy Spirit as a mere power to be invoked. And we hear it very often, very often people talk about the power of God. By treating the Holy Spirit as a mere power to be invoked tends to spiritual pride. And you can maybe think of friends or individuals who talk like this. Look at the power of God that I have. Look at the power of deliverance that the Lord has given me, the power of healing. What safety we have by this power who surrounds us, when he surrounds our home, when he surrounds our family, because we've prayed him down as though he were a power to be invoked. And the emphasis then of the individual and the category of people who talk like that, the emphasis is spiritual pride. Look what I can do because God gives me the strength to do it. If we think of the spirit of God not as a power to be invoked but as a person to enjoy, then we will be humbled before him. And God hates pride, especially when we are prideful off the back of the Trinity. Humility, beloved, humility is a characteristic of those who feel the power of God. Not pride. Not pride. If we treat him as a person, as the New Testament treats him, it tends to humility. The power of the Holy Spirit is in his personal presence. Understand that. The power of the Holy Spirit is in his personal presence. His power is not projected. His power is in his personal presence. Remember, he is God. He is everywhere present. He is not like an angel who is not omnipresent. He is not like the devil who is not omnipresent. The Spirit of God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. He is omnipotent. He is omniscient. He is God. And so the Spirit that the Lord Jesus has told us would be sent, the Comforter, remember, is God, the Spirit, comforting us. Because He is omnipresent. Because He is omniscient. because he is omnipotent. And that, beloved, that sense of his presence humbles us. We feel our own inability. We feel our own sin in the presence of a holy God. In just the same manner as all of those throughout scripture who met with an angel or met with the God or Christophany or Theophany in the Old Testament were humbled to the dust in the presence of God and deity. Now I want us to understand this because I have there in your notes these passages, descriptive passages. Exodus chapter 33 and then I have Contra Acts chapter 8. Acts chapter 8. And this is important. If you look at Acts chapter 8 and the verse 19. When Peter had done these miracles. Verse 18 of Acts chapter 8, And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me this power. Give me this power. That on whosoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Now what's the point I want us to make here? The point that I want us to see is that here is an individual who only sees the power of the Spirit. The emphasis of Simon Magus is the power of the Spirit. What's the emphasis of Moses in Exodus 33? It was the presence of God, the presence of the Spirit. I get very dubious, I get very dubious about people's understanding of theology and enjoyment of the Holy Spirit when all they speak about is the power of the Spirit. It's a problem. because he's not a power to be invoked. He is a person to be enjoyed, and he humbles us, not elevates us, not fills us with pride. I make the point here in the notes that he is distinguished from a thing. He is not a mere force. He's not a personification of the Father, nor the persona of God the Father or Christ. He is a person and is spoken of in scripture with the use of personal pronouns. This is very significant if you look back at John chapter 14 and the verse 26. John chapter 14 and the verse 26, he is spoken of with the use of personal pronouns. And we're going to see the significance of this in just a moment. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Right? He shall teach you all things. In chapter 15, in the verse 26, the same thing. When the Comforter has come, whom I shall send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." Now it's important to notice, as I say in your notes there, the Greek language, the word spirit is neuter. It's neither masculine or feminine. It's a neuter noun. And so it should be found along with a neuter pronoun. However, In Scripture, when it speaks of the Spirit of God, the Word of God goes against grammatical rules. God is not bound by human grammar. He goes against grammatical laws, and he uses the masculine pronoun with a neuter noun. That's significant. That's significant. Why? Because he is a person, he is not a thing. He is not a thing. The word spirit can mean breath, a thing, a wind, a thing. But when it's used with regard to Christ, the masculine pronoun is used. In fact, it's very often used in John chapter 14, verse 24, it's used with a specific pronoun, which is a demonstrative pronoun. That, that, and the pronoun is alone without the noun. It's just the verb and the pronoun. That, the pronoun alone is there, although referring to an invisible object. That's also significant. You look at the grammar of all of this and you think, at the language and the grammar of how the Lord, the Scripture speaks of the Spirit of God, and the grammar doesn't make sense. Here's a pronoun, a demonstrative pronoun, a kynos, without the noun, and it's in the masculine. that spirit, that one who would come, that significant beloved. There are other points here that I want you to see with regard to not only is he not a thing, he is a person. He is self-conscious, he is rational, and he is relational. He is self-conscious. In 2 Corinthians 2, verse 11, I'm not going to go through these, I just want you to reference them. I'm not going to give an exegesis of each passage. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 11. He can know. He can know. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God knoweth. A thing does not know. person knows over in chapter 12 and the verse 11 also chapter 12 and the verse 11 but all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will as who will as the spirit will not only can he know but he has a will he has a will. Now this is all going to come into focus when we get to the end and see the application. If the Spirit of God is a person and he knows, if he is a person and he has a will, if he is a person and he can be tested according to Acts 5 verse 9, he tempted and Ananias and Sapphira tempted to the Holy Spirit. The word is to test and to try. But he's not only a self-conscious, rational and relational being. The relational idea we see with regard to the fellowship in Philippians 2, verses 1 and 2, and 2 Corinthians 13, 14. He is fellowship. We can fellowship in the Spirit. We have spiritual fellowship. We sang in that hymn, Blessed be the tide that binds. One of those verses speaks of the time when we're set apart, when we're brought apart, but we're united in heart. What is that unity in heart? It is the Spirit of God. The same Spirit working in both, in all of believers, bringing us together. Because it is the presence of the Spirit of God that distinguishes me from the world. This is what the Lord told Moses. When Moses said, if thy presence go not with me, carry me not up hence, carry us not up hence, that we might be distinguished from the world, from those around us, from the nations round about us. Beloved Christian, it is the Spirit of God that distinguishes you from the world. The world cannot receive Him. John 14 tells us. The world cannot receive Him because it doesn't know Him. It doesn't know Him. And so He is not only self-conscious, rational, relational, He is a person, He has a personality. A personality is that thing that aspect of a person that is unique to them. You have your personality, I have mine. You probably don't want mine, and I probably don't want yours. We have all a unique personality. The Spirit of God has a unique personality. It is holy. It is holy. It can be grieved. Let me just go through these aspects of the personality of the Holy Spirit. can be grieved. He can be angry. We'll go to Hebrews chapter 10 and the verse 29. Hebrews chapter 10 and the verse 29. How much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace." He can be angry. To do despite. To treat him with such disregard and to trod underfoot. How much more sore punishment will that person who trades the work of the Spirit of God, the ministry of the Spirit of God, to their hearts. So he is angered. He is angered. He can be vexed. We're going to turn to the passages, Psalm 78, 40 and Isaiah 63, 10. He can be vexed and angry and grieved. Beloved, he's a person. He has personality. Now let's see what the application, what the implications are to us as God's people. Understanding, if I can sum it up, understanding that this God whom we serve, whom we believe in, we trust in him as we do Christ. Christ has worked for us on Calvary and throughout his life he has earned for us a salvation that we could not earn. He has taken his blood into the holy place, he has presented his blood before the Father on my behalf and I trust in that. I have never seen it. I have never seen him do it. But I believe it. I believe it. Because he says he has done it. Now why do I believe it? I believe it because the Spirit of God has witnessed it to my heart. The Spirit of God has wooed me. The Spirit of God has convinced me of the truth that Christ has done what he says he has done for me. And so the work of Christ is not some objective work that may have happened in time 2,000 years ago. The work of Christ is relational then. It means something to me. I am the beneficiary of it. I have discerned the body of Christ, according to Paul in 1 Corinthians 11, because the Spirit of God has convinced me in his power. He has made me willing. I have believed at that point. I have believed the Spirit. You see? Because in believing what Christ has done for me, I believe the witness of the Spirit. It's the witness of the Spirit that convinces me of the beauty and work of Christ. And so I believe the Spirit there. Now you come on 20 years, fast forward 20 years from your conversion, and the Spirit of God is still with you as an individual. He is still working for you. He is still ministering for you. He is still in you, indwelling you. He is still comforting you. He is still witnessing the Word of God. He is still bringing to your remembrance the things of the work of Christ. He dwells now. He dwells with us. God dwells with us in the power of the Spirit of God. He is the Spirit then of Emmanuel. He is Emmanuel. The Spirit of Emmanuel. When we have to ask the question then, how conscious are we of his reality and presence? I don't say his power at this point. I don't say his power at this point. I say how conscious, I ask the question, how conscious are we of his reality, of his presence? Do we think of him as someone whom we can talk to? Do you think of Him as someone who is there beside you throughout your day as you work and labour in your workplace or as you interact in the home? Do you think of the Spirit of God as the person who is standing beside you? Not just an influence who is in you. Not just a power who is protecting and comforting you. He is a person standing beside you. A person who can be grieved. A person who can be vexed. A person who can be made angry. A person who knows what you need. A person who has a will to work out what you need. So I ask the question, are we conscious? That's the key question. Are we conscious of Him? I've made the point over and over again. of being conscious of God, of being conscious with regard to our fellowship in our Sunday school, we've been looking at the idea of fellowship, of being conscious of the fellowship of the saints, of being conscious of the witness, this great cloud of witnesses of saints who live, who lived before, and they're looking on, they're a cloud of witnesses looking on as though it were a race that I'm in, and they're cheering me on, Because they have gone through the race before, they know the pitfalls, they know the hurdles, they know the struggles. And the Spirit of God is there with me. Beside me. And depending on my action, depending on my disposition towards Him, Depending on my thoughts of Him and depending on my thoughts of what's happening around me, He can be grieved. That's a very solemn, serious thought. That's phenomenal. That's why we have to bring every thought into subjection, you see. Every thought. I think so often, as I say here in the notes, I think so often we think of him as some divine pixie dust or some genie that we can rub out of a bottle at our will. And I leave that for the Charismatics and the Pentecostals to work out and to figure out in their abuse of the person and work of the Spirit of God. He is not pixie dust. He is not a genie who comes to me at my will and whose power I can invoke when I want for any specific aspect of my life. He is the God of heaven who is sovereign, who has a will of his own that is not always according to my will. And remember that, He has a will. It's the will of God, which does not always fit with my will, and my will does not always fit with His will. We will only know His power by faith in His presence, not by random and selfish invocations. And we are to trust the Holy Spirit In these three areas, we're to trust the Holy Spirit in these three areas. And I think if we can understand these three areas and our trust in Him as a person beside me, whom I can talk to, whom I can enjoy, whom I can commune with, who can be grieved and can enjoy fellowship with me, then I need to trust in these areas. Number one, the affection of my heart. the affection of my heart. I love Him as I love Christ my Savior. I love Him. I love Christ for His death on the cross. I love the Spirit for His work in my life convincing me of Christ. I love Him as God. I love Him as a person. I love His person. I love His personality. Because it's a holy personality. It's the personality of God. It's the personality of one who loves me. It's the personality of one who wants my good. Not necessarily my enjoyment, but my good. It's the personality, it's the presence of one who is working all things out according to my good. To my good. And He brings me a path, perhaps, that I don't like. He brings me a secret, a shrewd in life, perhaps, that is difficult and hard. But He's with me. He is with me. And He's promised to be with me. And He's promised He will never leave us nor forsake us. And that promise was given in the Old Testament, remember? But it's significant that that promise of a continual presence, God, is reiterated in the New Testament after the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Significant. I love him. I trust him with the affections of my heart. I trust him with the attention of my mind. And I trust him with the enjoyment of my conversation, or my communion would perhaps be a better word, my communion with him. That's what it means, beloved, to continue in prayer. I think we compartmentalize all these aspects of life. Here's my devotion life, here's my work life, here's my family life, and here's my devotion life again, and here's my worship, and here's my praise and worship. No, our Christian life as Christians is a life that is dependent on the Spirit of God that is conscious of His presence. And if I'm conscious of His continual presence and the personality of God with me, who can enjoy my fellowship or who can be grieved at my lack of fellowship and communion, my lack of trust, and who can withdraw, what do you do? What do you do, what do we do as human beings when someone upsets us, when our personality is hurt? We withdraw. We recoil. We step back. We go quiet. The Holy Spirit is represented to us in Scripture in ways that we can understand. And that's what He does when we grieve Him. What do you do when your wife doesn't listen to you? You step back. If we could only understand that that's what the Spirit of God does with us when we are indifferent to Him, when we refuse to be comforted by Him, when we refuse to learn through His ministry and the Word of God, He steps back, He's grieved. Let's invite him and let's make our heart and cause our heart by faith to embrace him, to enjoy him. And then, then, after that, his power will be evident. That's the power, that is the power of the Spirit of God. That is the power of the Spirit of God. And I trust tonight that we will enjoy it and know it in our own hearts and lives. Let's look to the Lord in prayer. Father, we pray tonight that we might enjoy his presence. We say with Moses, if thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence. Cause us, O God, to wait. Cause us, our Father, to step back, to evaluate our walk with Thee, and to take the Spirit of God with us then, to know that Spirit, that Presence, to know the power of His Presence, the enjoyment of His Presence. Oh God, that we might simply enjoy Him. The power of enjoyment in Christ. Bless us, we pray tonight in our Savior's name. Amen. Amen. I did promise anybody has any questions, so let me see if there are any questions with regard to the study. I don't want anybody going away misunderstanding, misrepresenting, mis-whatever. Any questions with regard to this particular study? Jason. No, that's exactly what I mean, but that's exactly what I mean. But let me explain what that's going to be. Right? He's not going to be saying in your math test, Jason, the answer is 15. Right? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. It does not apply to math tests and practical things like that. When we speak about the Spirit of God witnessing and working and speaking to us, what is he speaking to us about? What is he, wherein is he comforting us? Where's the answer? What's the answer to that question? When the Spirit of God is comforting and speaking to us, what's He speaking to us about? Christ! Right? So, yes, listen to the Spirit of God because He's pointing you to Scripture. Let me give you an example. If you're in a difficult situation and there's a struggle, there's a temptation, there's this whirlwind in your mind and the verse comes to you Resist evil. Who's that? It's the Spirit of God. Recognize that as the Spirit of God. Or if a verse comes to you in a particular situation, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. That verse comes to you just out of the blue. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Who is that? The devil doesn't come with comfort like that. That's the Spirit of God. Right? And that's what I mean by listening to the Spirit and being conscious that when Scripture comes to our minds like that, let's recognize that that's the Spirit of God. It's not coincidence. It's the Spirit of God bringing to us the Word of God that we have read. Now, that brings us to something else. We have to read it in order for him to use it back in our minds. He works with us on a human level, right? You know, your parents perhaps told you when you were a kid, when you were getting into your English test or math test, you can't put anything down that you haven't taken in, right? You can't go into a math test having not studied it and get an A+, unless you're a genius. We need to be in the Word of God, learning the Word of God, memorizing the Word of God, reading the Word of God, and the Spirit of God will bring it to our minds. He will bring it, like he did with the disciples. After Pentecost, when they heard, when the Spirit of God came, all of the scripture that they learned and the things that Christ had talked to them about, all came flooding back to their minds. Have you ever experienced that? Something happens and there's something that happened 30 years ago, a verse or a hymn or an instance in your life, and it comes back to your mind and it's a comfort. That's the Spirit of God. I have no other explanation for it. But we have to be careful what we attribute to the Spirit of God. He points us to Christ. He points us to Christ. Always. It says, because our comfort is nowhere else to be found but in Christ. I can do all things through Christ. That's speaking about our spiritual warfare. I can do all things through Christ, and the Spirit of God is there to bring Christ to my remembrance, the work of Christ, the application of Christ, the benefits of Christ, all coming back. Does that make sense? Vince? Right. All the commandments. All that He commands me to do. It might be something that's specific to me. If I love God, and yet I know He's telling me to do something that I don't want to do. He's opening up His word to me and telling me, this is a direction that you need to go in your life. That's not in the moral law, but here's a particular area of your life that you need to deal with, that you need to move forward, that you need to address. If I love Him, I will keep that commandment. The commandments are simply His will, right? There's different uses of the word in Scripture, but the commandments is the will of God, pretty much. So if I love Him, I'm gonna do His will. And that will is different in many respects for each one of us. What you're going through in life and what I'm going through, what the next person's going through is different. God's will in the areas of your life is different than it is in my life. So if I love Him, I will keep His commandments. But all of the commandments, all of the will of God comes back to the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments that we see in Exodus 20 are comprised in that short chapter, 20 verses or whatever. But those are extensive. Those Ten Commandments just filter through all of life. Any other questions? I want us to be clear in this. I want us to understand who He is, the Spirit of God, and how we can relate to Him and how by our relating to Him and understanding Him, we can be benefited and comforted and enjoy Him, enjoy life in Christ. That's why He's given us it. You know, He says in chapter 14, the world knoweth Him not. The world cannot receive Him. Why can the world not receive Him? Because they don't believe. That's what He said. The world can't receive what we have because they don't believe. We've believed. We have the comfort. We have the presence. We have the enjoyment of the Spirit of God. Any other questions? Does that answer your question?