Appreciate your interest. Had a very good and uneventful trip to Detroit and back. Glad for that. And I was asked if my friend and I behaved, and I just will decline to answer that question. I will take the safe route and blame him. for any, no, we don't really cause trouble. So, Genesis chapter three, and I just wanna, we're gonna walk through, we'll pray here in a moment. We've turned our attention, this is now the fourth week that we've been focusing upon the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We, I think we kinda tend to think of him as kind of the reluctant, reticent member of the Trinity. I don't know that that's really an appropriate way to think about him. We will get to that. I will kind of make a little bit of an argument against that. And so this morning, I want to turn our attention. We've talked about who he is, and we've talked a little bit about his work in the Old Testament. And this morning, our focus is going to be upon the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ. And so let's pray. And as we get to that, I just want to lay some foundation about what God is doing in the way of salvation. Father, we thank you that we could be here this morning. We are grateful that you have revealed yourself to us as one God in three persons. And we appreciate your teaching us this and the enabling of our minds to receive it as limited as it is. We pray that we as your people would understand the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives since he is instrumental in making us like Christ. And so please help us, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. So again, Genesis chapter three. We will, in the not too distant future, I think I'm just going to take a couple of Wednesday nights and talk about basic concepts of humanity and gender identity. But God created man, Adam and Eve. He created us male and female, and he created us in his image. And in that very act of creation, folks, there is the suggestion that God is himself going to make an appearance in human form. In Jesus Christ, Paul tells us in Colossians, dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And in the Garden of Eden, God embodied some of his attributes in Adam and Eve. made in his image. And of course we know, and we know that this is no accident, and that's a whole other subject matter, much of which we cannot fathom, but we know that Adam and Eve fell, and that they both have a role in the fall, although Adam, rightly so, is the one who receives the responsibility. for an Adam all sinned. And that brings us then to Genesis chapter 3 and verse number 14 in which God is now beginning to systematically work his way through some of the implications of the fall, right? This is immediately after the fall. Verse number 14, and the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, Thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And he's been associated with the serpent ever since. And I will put enmity, hostility, between thee and the woman. Between thee and the woman. Between thy seed, the offspring of Satan, whatever that's going to look like, and her seed, the offspring of the woman. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. So there's the Lord's message to Satan. Genesis 3.15 is generally considered to be, excuse me, the first proclamation of the gospel message. It is the promise of redemption. It is the promise of a savior. And it touches upon this conflict that we now know had begun in heaven, that the rebellion of Satan against God had begun in heaven and it comes to earth when Satan tempts Eve and Adam and Eve fall. And so there again is the prediction. It is the curse upon Satan. It is hostility between whatever Satan's seed is which we will learn as the Bible progresses, from an earthly perspective, are lost people, unbelieving people. Jesus will say to the Pharisees, you are of your father, the devil, unbelieving people. And between her seed, and this hostility will result not only in conflict, but in injury. It will be the death of Satan, and of course will ultimately lead to the wounding of Christ. So from the very beginning, we are made in the image of man or the image of God. Man is made in God's image. And at the fall, there is the first promise of recovery. And this promise of recovery is going to come then through humanity. This is the big takeaway that I'm making at this point. The promise of redemption is a promise that God makes that will come through humanity. If you'll turn to Genesis then chapter 12, like I said, I just want to take a few minutes this morning and kind of walk us through this, how the Bible reveals this kind of progressively. So we have, first of all, a very broad and basic promise, right? Here is what Adam and Eve knew about salvation. They knew that salvation would come through a man, through humanity, right? That it would come through her seed. How much more than that she understood, we do not know. That's the text of scripture that she had. That was the word of the Lord to her. We fast forward Now to the time of Abraham, chapter 12 and verse number one. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make thee a great nation and I will bless thee. And I will make thy name great and thou shall be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And now in Genesis chapter 12, the broad promise of salvation through humanity has its first distinctive narrowing. Genesis 12, 1-3 are what we call the Abrahamic Covenant. And this is the promise that salvation will come, not just through any man, but through the line of Abraham. And of course we know, right? And we can go to the book of Galatians to reference this, right? That this promise will be fulfilled, not really in Isaac, it will be fulfilled in one level in Isaac, the child of promise. But Paul will go to great lengths to point out that the promise was not to seeds many, but to seed singular, and that that seed is Christ. So now he fast forwards all the way past, we will come back to that. But here is what Abraham knows. Abraham knows that redemption will come through humanity, and Abraham knows that redemption will come through his family line of humanity. And Abraham then, right, his faith, not that there was no faith prior to Abraham, But God deals with Abraham in such a way and Abraham's faith is responsive in such a way that Abraham then becomes the benchmark. And of course, you know, when you go to Romans three and four, that Abraham is set forth as the benchmark of faith, right? And all of us come to the Lord then the way that Abraham did. We believe what God told us. We don't come through works. We don't come through works of the law. We don't come through human goodness. We come through faith. Then if you'll go to the end of Genesis, to Genesis chapter 49. So of course, again, I'm going to just mention what I assume we all know that Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, Jacob begat 12 sons that became the 12 tribes of Israel. These are the chosen people, the people of God. We have Genesis 3, a promise of salvation through humanity. We have Genesis 12, a promise of salvation not through any human, but through the line of Abraham. Genesis 49, verse number eight, Judah, Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp, from the prey my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, the rod of kingly ruling, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass his colt unto the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk. Now, again, there's a lot there and I don't want to get into that. Shiloh has the idea of the one to whom it is due. But here is, yet again, another bit of information, another, if you will, kind of restricting. Salvation is going to come through humanity. Salvation is going to come not through any human, but through the line of Abraham. And not just any of Abraham's descendants, it is going to come through the tribe of Judah. And again, we know that, and I'm not gonna take the time to point out to you all the places that the Bible makes some kind of reference to the significance of Judah, but I will point this out, folks, The writer of Hebrews goes to great lengths to make sure that we understand the distinction between the tribe of Levi and its role, and the tribe of Judah and its role, and that Christ could not possibly be a priest like the Levitical priesthood because he wasn't from the tribe of Levi. And the Bible says nothing about the tribe of Judah being a priest. The tribe of Judah is the royal tribe. the royal tribe. So now, right, again, Abraham is long dead when this information is given. Abraham knows that salvation is coming to humanity through him. And now Jacob proclaims that salvation is coming to humanity, not simply through his family, but through his one son, Judah. And now let's fast forward again a number of years to 2 Samuel 7. And beginning in verse number one. Second, Samuel 71, it came to pass when the king sat in his house and the Lord had given him restaurant about from all his enemies. But the king said unto Nathan, the prophet, see now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. And Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in thine heart, for the Lord is with thee. And it came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan saying, go and tell my servant David, thus saith the Lord. Shalt thou build me in house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, why building me not in house of cedar? Now therefore, so shalt thou say unto my servant David, thus saith the Lord of hosts. I took thee from the sheep coat, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel. And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in the place of their own, and move no more. Neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as before time. And if since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee in house. And when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seat after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build in house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father. He shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men. and with the stripes of the children of men, but my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before thee, and thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee. Thy throne shall be established forever according to all these words and according to all this vision. So did Nathan speak unto David. And so now we have even more information about this humanity. Genesis three, redemption will come through man. The conflict between God and Satan will be resolved. I want to be very careful how I put this. It will be resolved, not simply at a divine level, but at a human level, through humanity. And this human being will be a direct descendant of Abraham. And this, not only Abraham, but Judah. And now, not only Judah, but David. Now again, without going back and trying to prove all of this, I hope that you will, if you don't already know, you will accept my word on this, that David is from the tribe of Judah. He is himself born to that family. So that these are the promises that the Old Testament makes. And of course, you know that the Old Testament makes further promises about where the Messiah will be born, right? I'm not trying to get into that, because I'm just trying to get focused in on who, right? The Bible has been, over the course of many, many centuries, the Bible has been very explicit that not just any human, but a descendant of Abraham, not just any descendant of Abraham, but out of the tribe of Judah, not just anyone out of the tribe of Judah, but out of the tribe of David, will this salvation come? And all of this is fulfilled then in the person of Jesus Christ. And this, by the way, folks, is one of the reasons that the genealogies are not throwaway verses. Not that you and I need to become genealogical experts in our devotional reading of the genealogies, but when you get to them, you ought to read them. But because if it could just be any old human being, the genealogies wouldn't be necessary. But it can't be just any old human being. It's not going to be just any old human being. There are going to be very specific markers as to who this human being is. And that human being, of course, is none other than Jesus Christ. I've already made reference to it, you will need not to turn to it. Galatians chapter three, verse number 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not unto seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. Matthew chapter one. One of the things that is predicted, Isaiah chapter seven, part of the evidence and testimony that God gives to an unbeliever is that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and his name will be called Emmanuel, God with us. And this is how Jesus is taught to us and brought to us, verse number 18, of Matthew chapter number one. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his mother Mary was his spouse to Joseph, right, again, the closest correlation that we would have, we don't really do betrothal, we do engagement, which is really not the same, but close enough for our illustration, right? Mary is engaged to Joseph before they came together, a euphemism for their sexual union, right? So they are committed to each other, but they have not been physically together. She was found with child of, and the word of there means out of. This child came out of the Holy Spirit. Child came out of the Holy Spirit. or the Holy Ghost, as our King James Bible says. And then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, right? Because now you're introduced into a little bit to some of the, right? Which again, I would argue is not just information, but part of the validation of exactly what is going on here, right? Here's what Joseph knows in Matthew 1.18. Joseph knows the baby is not his. That's what Joseph knows. That is all that Joseph knows in Matthew 1.18. It's not my baby. I haven't touched this girl. It's not my baby. Joseph being a just man, not willing to make her a public example, he has no desire to humiliate this woman that he has betrothed to by calling her out publicly a la John chapter eight, the woman taken in adultery in the very act, is minded to put her away privily. And again, this goes back to the betrothal, which has legal and committal dimensions that our engagement does not. There is a formalized process of betrothal that requires a formalized process of divorce. He is minded to put her away privately. deal with whatever grief, anger, vexation he had, and deal with her privately. And then he is brought into illumination. Verse 20, while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee. And again, why does it matter that he's a son of David? Because it is essential that the Messiah be a descendant of David. All of these things have to happen. They have to happen. They have to happen. Fear not to take unto thee, Mary, thy wife, or that which is conceived in her is of, or out of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth the Son, thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. All this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet Isaiah, saying, behold, a virgin shall be with child, shall bring forth a son, they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us, and of course, Joseph then, right? Being a just and godly man, believe the word of the Lord, right? No moral violation on the part of his bride and enters into a marriage with her. Luke chapter number one. Let's start in verse number 28 of Luke chapter one. The angel came in unto her, Mary, and said, Hail thou that art highly favored. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. When she saw him, she was troubled at the saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. Nobody talks to me like that, she says. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, bring forth a son, shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. And then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Right? So here is yet more information about the nature of this humanity. Salvation will come through humanity, Genesis 3. Abraham, Genesis 12. Judah, Genesis 49. David, 2 Samuel 7. And God, Isaiah 7, Matthew 1, Luke 1. This human being will have a divine father. His paternity will be divine. The humanity of Christ, by the way, right, this is the Isaiah of Isaiah, the fulfillment of Isaiah chapter seven. This is, right, so now we have, right, we have God in flesh. And by virtue of the fact that God is his father and his paternity is divine, it is flesh that has no sin. It is flesh that has no sin. It is not flesh like our flesh. I don't think, by the way, and maybe I'll come back to this, but probably not this morning, because it's not really all that I'm trying to say. I don't think, I think sometimes we think that if we didn't have sinful flesh, this would be a lot easier. And certainly there are some level at which that's true. But I don't think that we should presume to think that Jesus found it easy being locked in a human body. And what I mean is there's a big debate about this, folks. I mean, Jesus was sinless. Could he have sinned? When he was tempted, could he have sinned? And I think, right, that where the Bible would leave you is at this threshold. From the perspective of his divinity, he could not have sinned. But from the perspective of his humanity, He did not necessarily believe he could not sin. He did not, he did not presume. Well, let me, all right, having gone there, maybe I should, maybe I should try and address what I'm, go to Hebrews chapter five, and let me take this little excursion. Why I say that. Hebrews chapter five and verse number five. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, but he that said unto him, thou art my son, today have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That's Genesis 14 and Psalm 110. Who in the days of his flesh, in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared." Now, if all that's talking about, folks, is the crucifixion, that's an unanswered prayer, isn't it? Because he wasn't spared from death. And I just think, all I'm trying to say is this, folks, I do not think for a moment, go to Hebrews chapter five, go to Philippians chapter two, the great passage on the emptying of Christ, and understand that Christ fully identified with humanity. It wasn't necessarily a piece of cake or a walk in the park for Jesus to be a man and experience those kinds of temptations. But that most likely one of the reasons that he went off so frequently and so often and was found praying alone was because he was a man. Was because he was a man. Now he was not going to sin, so I'm not, right, I'm not opening that door. But I do think that the Bible presents to us a picture of the God-man who did not presume that he would not sin, but fully entered into what it was to be a human. In other words, how real were the temptations? How real were the temptations? And there was a reality to the temptation. All right, so now, let's go back to the Gospels. Go back to Luke chapter three. I'm not gonna have you turn, I'm already in danger of using up all of my time and I wanna get to this. But two passages describe for us, right? So here is this infant born, we all know the Christmas story, the story of the incarnation, Mary and Joseph, no room at the end, there's Jesus, there he's born. We all know from Luke chapter two that by this time he's 12 years old, right? He is fully aware of who he is. He is fully aware, certainly both of his humanity but he is also fully aware of his divinity. When he comes up missing at the great feast and he is finally found, his response is, did you not know I had to be about my father's business? And nobody would ever read that and think he was talking about Joseph. He wasn't catching up on carpentry projects. He was in the temple discussing spiritual things with religious leaders. He was about his father's business. Which makes it all the more interesting, folks, to contemplate what is going on then in Luke chapter 3. Verse number 13. I'm sorry, let's look at verse number 21. Oh, yes. It's Matthew. I'm sorry. Never mind. Doesn't matter. Luke 321. Now, when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. And a voice came from heaven which said, thou art my beloved son, and thee I am well pleased. So he is born without sinful flesh. He is born with a woman as his mother and God as his father. He is fully cognizant of his true identity by the age of 12. And yet, on the basis of scripture, folks, the Holy Spirit comes to him. He is, at this time, we know, about the age of 30. Sinless flesh, never sinned. But the Holy Spirit comes at the age of 30. And John 3.27 will explain to us in that passage, John 3.27 through 36, that the Spirit is given to him without measure. Because of his deity, because of his identity, there is no constraint of any kind upon how much Holy Spirit power and wisdom and knowledge he possesses. He is fully God. The Spirit is fully God. They operate as fully God. in their three, in their distinct offices. This is how it is presented. Luke chapter four and verse number one. And now for the first time, folks, right, at his baptism and the coming of the Holy Spirit, now the Holy Spirit becomes identified as the operative power agent in the life of Christ. Luke chapter four and verse number one. And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being 40 days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing. And when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the temptation of Christ we're not going to pursue apart from it argues to reinforce folks the reality of his humanity. Were the temptations real? Well, he was really hungry. He was genuinely hungry. And so the temptation to have God turn stones into bread was a genuine temptation to him. It was an option. It's not the option that he took. And this is another subject, by the way, but James is pretty clear and helpful here. So he makes a distinction, folks. To be tempted is not to commit the sin. To be tempted to do the sin is not the same as doing the sin. James is very helpful there. So Jesus is not committing sin by being tempted. To offer somebody the option of sin is not the same thing as following through on the offer and committing the sin, to put it quite simply. Right? So Jesus in the book of Luke, and recall that Luke is the gospel that probably identifies more closely with his humanity. What kind of human being is this child who is born supernaturally through the agency of God's Holy Spirit? He is a man who encounters intense temptations and deals with them in the power of the Spirit. In Luke chapter 4 and verse number 14, the temptation is over. Luke 4.14, Jesus returns in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. And there went out a fame of him throughout all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth. or he had been brought up as his custom was. He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for a read and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written of all the passages to find, this is the one he finds. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and he closed the book, gave it again to the minister, sat down, and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." So again, 30 years as sinless flesh. And at the inauguration of his ministry, his baptism, the Spirit comes. And immediately he begins to live his life energized by the Spirit. In the power of the Spirit, he deals with Satan in the wilderness. In the power of Spirit, he preaches in his hometown of Nazareth. Which, by the way, let me just point out here, is no guarantee of numerical success. He is rejected by those people, although he preached to them in the power of the Spirit. He did his miracles. Go back if you would to Matthew chapter 12. He did his miracles in the power of the Spirit. Matthew chapter 12. Matthew chapter 12 and verse number 15, but when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all and charged them that they should not make him known that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying, behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break. Smoking flack shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory, and in his name shall the Gentiles trust. He did his miracles through the Spirit. And part of the point that is being made there, folks, in fulfillment of the prophecy, right? Nobody should ever think of Jesus as some kind of self-promoter or carnival circus act. That's what's really getting addressed there. He will not strive, nor cry, nor hear his voice in the streets. He's not out proclaiming himself. He is not an agitator for the sake of getting a crowd. A bruised reed shall he not break. This is a man who is not going to pluck a broken dandelion if the point of plucking it is to promote himself or call attention to himself. He has a mission, and his mission, of course, is to turn men to the Father through belief in the Son. But he does his miracles in accordance with the Old Testament prediction in the Spirit. And we, of course, would be what are known as cessationists. We don't believe that the signed gifts have continued. But if they did continue, folks, the miracle worker would still be none other than the Spirit of God. It would not be a person. because it wasn't the person of Jesus. I'm going to get to this, but Jesus didn't do his miracles through the power of sinless flesh, but through the power of God's Holy Spirit. In Hebrews chapter 9 verses 13 through 15, I'm going to have you turn to Romans chapter 8 in a minute. But in Hebrews chapter 9 verses 13 through 15, his crucifixion and sacrificial work were done through the Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit. And even his resurrection, Romans chapter 8 and verse number 11. Romans chapter eight and verse number 11. And notice the way Paul makes the connection because this is a great place for us to transition into the end. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead. All right, so how was Jesus raised? By the work of the spirit. So he wasn't raised by the power of his sinless flesh. He was raised by the power of God's Spirit. Now, if that Spirit, if that Spirit dwells in you, Romans 8, 11, now if the Spirit of Him, but if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken or raise up, give life to your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. And this is one of the reasons folks, right? This is not just an academic study on the ministry of the Spirit in the life of Christ. It is essential that we understand that although Jesus had perfect sinless flesh, the operating power was God's Spirit. This is helpful to us folks you don't do any work for God, right? Sometimes some well-intentioned person will say, you can't, you know, you're trying to do the work of God in the power of the flesh, okay? So let me just pause right here. No, you're not. No, you're not. No, you're not. No, you're not. The flesh is at enmity with God. The flesh is hostile to God. The flesh will not have for one second in all of eternity, not one millisecond of interest in doing anything for God. It is mortal enemy now and forever. So you're never trying to do the work of God in the flesh. Whatever work believers do for God is done through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. This is what God has ordained, folks. Right? And it's right there. The hint of it is, male and female created he them in the image of God. God is going to do this work through humanity. Now there's a whole bunch to that that I just can't get into this morning. I'll deal with it at another time in the near future with another lesson. I can't even remember what it is right now, but we'll talk about that. God is going to do his work through human beings. The great work of redemption he is going to do through his son, Jesus Christ, Jehovah, At John chapter 19, Jesus Christ is Jehovah in a human body, our Savior. And the work that he is doing on earth today, he is doing through his spirit, through his people. He didn't work through Jesus's flesh, and he doesn't work through our flesh. Now, our bodies are active. That's a different subject. but not our flesh. Jesus preached in the body. You could hear him, people looked at him and saw him. But the power for what he did, the power for his service was God's Holy Spirit. And this is why when passages like Hebrews 2.10 and Hebrews 6.20 and 2 Peter 1.21 point out that Jesus is exemplary for us, he is an example. This is how it can be an encouragement to us and not a matter of despondency because we have God's Spirit. Now, we don't have it without measure. We have it measured. Our faith is measured. His grace is measured. His Spirit is measured. It is given to us in limited terms because we are finite and mortal, but it is the agency through which God does His work. Okay, I'm going to stop there. I'll be happy, as always, to talk to you privately. If I've been unclear or if I've misspoken, then don't hesitate to point that out to me.