In this sermon, the preacher talks about the coming of the Holy Ghost and the importance of recognizing its presence. The sermon emphasizes the love and grace of God, and the need for discipline and guidance from the Holy Ghost. The preacher shares a personal story about feeling proud to belong to God and the impact it had on their life. The sermon concludes with a call to stop and listen to the Holy Ghost, and a reminder of the importance of acknowledging God's presence in our lives.

This is tape KK9 in the Springs of Living Water Tape Library. Copies may be obtained by writing Springs of Living Water Tapes, PO Box 32636, Spring Lake Park, Minnesota 55432. A817, tape number three in a series of heart-to-heart talks on the subject, God is a Person. This is side one of the tape, and it features the message entitled, Released Now from the Bondage of Depression. And Tony Fontaine as he sings, The Touch of His Hand. The touch of his hand on mine. The smell of his presence divine. When I tremble with bewilderment. When I need him, he holds my hand. I love him, I count on his care. When I need him, he's always by my side. Pathways are dark and drear. A friend comes to face up my schedule. When I need him, he's always by my side. I want you to know that I personally have enjoyed bringing you these heart-to-heart talks. I've been blessed. I personally have been sincerely blessed because I've been talking to you about things that are very deep to my mind. It started like giving you a box and you holding a priceless jewel. A priceless treasure. And whenever I think about my relationship with God the Father, there's something that is so priceless. By God, I do everything to protect that relationship. When I think of my relationship to Jesus Christ the Son, it's something that is so priceless. I almost feel like a dream when I talk about it. Do you understand what I mean? When I talk about the fellowship that I had with the Holy Spirit, that's right, the fellowship that I had with the Holy Spirit, it is like I'm talking about a treasure that is so priceless, but I guard it carefully. I guard it so carefully. And so for the past several days, I've opened my box of treasures and we've been talking about things that are very precious, very close, most precious, just as I treasure the most vital things that we have in our lives. But again, the things that I have talked, are the questions, is God a person? Is Jesus Christ, however He said that He was, not only a person, but the very Son of God? Is the Holy Spirit a person? And during this series, we have given proof that God is a person, Jesus Christ. Not only a person, but this very hour, in position of great high proof that we're willing to make a decision for you and for me. And today we're going to discuss the Holy Spirit as a person. You see, the answer to that question is vitally important. We must know that Jesus is a person. And it's in my desire to bring you face to face with the person of God the Father. Face to face with the great high proof. Face to face with the person of the Holy Spirit, so that you might have fellowship with God the Father. That you might have fellowship with the great advocate, the great high proof. That you might have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. I repeat, what I said in our last High Five Talk. A person has intellect, emotion, will. With this intellect, a person can know, can think and understand. With the emotional capacity, a person can feel, can know. With the will, a person can decide and act. Now if you will please, turn to me to read the first chapter. I shall confess your memory by just reading the three verses. 14th to 15th of 16th. Do you believe that we have a great high proof that is passed into the heavens through the Christ the God, that is holds fast our possessions. But we have not a high proof which cannot be touched the feelings of our infirmities, that was in all points sent us like as we are, yet without sin. That it therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. All right. Continue if you will please Your means, I'll wait just a minute until you find your means. In the words, the eighth chapter, begin with the 14th verse. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Do you realize that you do not have to wait until death comes, you do not have to wait until your old high proof is at you. You do not have to wait until you get a new body and this which is corruption will have crowned incorruption. You become an heir of God, an adjunct of the Christ of peace. You cannot have a high proof to make this real to your house. Now are we the sons of God. Now have you passed from death unto life. Never apologize for being a Christian. Sometimes I just go to exercise with some of these folks who are so slow to admit and then they admit almost with apology that they are a Christian. That they have accepted the curse of the Savior. Never. You do not have to apologize for being a Christian. It means something to be a Christian. Know that. Strain your shoulders. Lift your head high. You are somebody. You are an heir of God and adjunct heir with Christ of peace. If you have had an experience of regeneration, if you have been born again, if you have accepted Christ as your Savior, if you have accepted that caravan, if you have had that transaction take place between yourself and Jesus, where you have accepted that which Jesus did for you and the cross, if you are a member of the body of Christ, then, beloved, you are an heir of God and adjunct heir with Christ of peace. Something happened when that transaction took place. Perhaps all the revelation you saw was just a few minutes. Only a few minutes. You are not even living yourself. Others are standing there and you look at them, and you look at them with a real heart and say, wonderful Jesus, come here. You see, it doesn't take a long time for this transaction to take place. The very minute that you are living, the very minute that you confess your sin, the very second that you confess your need, it is more than it is for you than it is for me. That transaction took place and it is even greater than just the fact that you become a new person in Christ Jesus. At that moment, your relationship changes, so far as Judas is concerned, between you and God. At the present moment, God is just your mighty creator. That's one thing that all men have in common. God is our creator, but he does not become our heavenly father until we accept his son in the forgiveness of our sins. In that moment, the one who up until then has been our creator becomes our heavenly father by adoption. Lip to lip, we adopt. Oh, that's so funny. Do you know something? That I found out, that's very funny, you may disinherit your own child, but the Lord does not permit you to disinherit a child that you have adopted. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I like that. Because, you see, I don't ever want to be disinherited. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Do you have that experience? Are you being led by the Spirit of God? Have you surrendered yourself to him? Then you are sons among the sons of God. For you have not received this day the bondage of them to fear. I've got to stop that here. I am amazed. So many, many of them, who profess to be Christians, who are under this bondage of... I can't explain it, if you know exactly what I'm talking about. And oh, what a bondage to be under. The bondage of fear. The bondage of being touched. And we're founded more and more to that, as we kneel before him, the great Captain. This bondage of fear. Over and over again in a miracle service, I come face to face with somebody who is under that bondage of fear. And I say to them, What? Oh! You'll never be free of it now. It is not in the throne of God, in the will of God, that you're chosen to be under the bondage of fear. The bondage of anxiety. The bondage of worry. The bondage of being touched. Stop and remember to whom you belong. Remember! You have received of this spirit of adoption. And he takes you out of this spirit of bondage. Whereby we cry, Oh, but why? This spirit trusts the witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Do you know what that means? Oh, children of God, if it is in my life, when I would meet somebody that I thought that they weren't quite sure to whom I belonged, and I say, You know, I belong to Joe Krumen. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I know it's a whole world, America. I was Joe Krumen's kid. I don't know whether poverty is that side of me to tell you whether that's my side or not. But I know I was mighty proud to tell the whole world that that was my daddy, and I belonged to him. And one of the nicest memories I have was from not too long ago. I went to Concordia, New Zealand. I'm just out of the highway. I stopped to get some gas, and the attendant said to me, Are you from around here? And I said, Yes. I'm talking to you. Oh, Mr. Are you Joe Krumen's son? And I swore with pride to say, Talk to me, please. The one who has crucified me didn't mean a single word to him. No. But I swore with pride when he said, Oh, are you Joe Krumen's father? I couldn't hide from him that it was the nicest thing to have said. And I said, Yes. I'm Joe Krumen. I swore with pride, and I can take the whole world and tell the whole world I belong to him. The mighty god of this universe is my heavenly father. I'm filled by the dust. I'm a giant air with his wonderful sound. I'm his father. He's present in all. All the gods, not just all the gods. It shall be that we suffer with him that we may also be glorified in that night when we're going to be deposed. When we're going to be cast in the spirit of bondage. The bondage. Yes. Of course. And we remember who we belong to. I see. But it is my desire to bring you face to face with a priest so that you might have fellowship with that priest. And so now we come to the presence of the Holy Spirit. I could not, I do not have the vocabulary to tell you that fellowship that I have with the Holy Spirit. There's no reason to reason any human being that I don't know enough to leave it in front of myself that I have ever seen the Holy Spirit. No. And neither have I seen the wind. I have not seen the wind. I cannot be sure that I'm very conscious of the wind that blows and I'm very conscious of the order I breathe. And without the wind there is no flesh. My only flesh is very, very real. The truth of the Holy Spirit. I want to read one of the most familiar verses in the Bible. So when there's a minister saying this quote that I'm trying to remember to dismiss this contradiction without giving this one verse of Scripture. And ever I wonder how many real miracles can find in this verse. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost in which you are the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. All the grace comes boldly before the throne of grace that we will obtain mercy and find grace for us in the time that we need. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The grace that is greater than I see. And the love of God. The love of a tender Heavenly Father. The one who would love us enough to do this for us. That we might have life eternal. A full depth of that love we'll never know. We'll never know. The love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost. The communion with the Pope. The Holy Ghost. The great sentinel. The mighty prophet. When the waters are so deep for you're going to see a great sentinel in that glorious communion of the Holy Ghost. And I pray that you shall know that future that's coming straight this way. With the person of the Holy Ghost that you might have that fellowship and that constant communion with him. Please stop your machine at this point and turn your cassette over.