Church Camp Theme Message 1 - The Third Person of the Holy Trinity

12 June 2017, Monday 7:30 pm

Eastin Hotel Makkasan, Bangkok 

Tonight this message kick start the first message of church camp 2017. 

"We are here to study God". This is Pastor's first sentence, after reading the passage of John 3:1-8. Knowing God is the highest of all knowledge, it is the apex of all sciences. Knowing God helps us to know who we are. It is the knowledge that will last forever, while all other knowledge all become obsolete once this world passed away. 

There is only one God, and the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy Trinity. God is so huge, so big, so infinite; can puny man ever hope to comprehend all of God? Deuteronomy 29:29 say that we don't have all the answers pertaining to God. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; thus we remain silent where God did not reveal. All that we can do is to trust and obey, for God knows the best. It is an experience that we ourselves will know once we submit to Him, and enjoy the peace that comes with it. "Be still and know that I am God." We experience such things through the work of the Holy Spirit, and only if we have the Holy Spirit with us can we understand God's word and feel the peace within. "Verily verily I say unto you, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

The concept of the Holy Spirit is difficult to understand without "supernatural" understanding from the supernatural book of books. The Lord our God is one God, yet there are 3 distinct persons - the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost; and three are one. (1 John 5:7) Yet these three are distinct - when Jesus was being baptised by John in Matthew 3:14-17, Jesus the Word was baptised, and the heaven opened and the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, descent upon him, and he heard God the Father said: "this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 

Of the three Persons, we needed the Holy Spirit to guide us into all understanding. In return we should know more about this Person. John 14:16 says the Holy Spirit is another Comforter, someone that is of the same kind as Jesus. Romans 8:27 says that the Spirit has a mind, he thinks and makes decision. 1 Corinthians 2:10  says that the Spirit searches all things and knows the things of God. 1 Corinthians 12:11 says that the Spirit decides what gifts we have. In Acts 4:3, the Holy Spirit was lied to. The Holy Spirit can be resisted, grieved, insulted, blasphemed; it is in every way a Person. 

To be born again is to invite the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, and transform us. To do this we need to ask, ask the Lord to come into our lives, so that we can receive the Spirit within us. To be born again is to be born of the Spirit, a spiritual birth. We allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives, in His own unpredictable, mysterious ways. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." John 3:8. Those who experienced such workings of he Holy Spirit in their lives, they are truly blessed.