You see them all at the same time doing something together. Now, if you’ve got all three of them on the stage at once—boom, boom, boom--it’s obvious there’s three of them.
II Cor. 13:14 says, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." You see all three of them separate there?
"Look at Ephesians 2:18," says Jordan. "This is one of the verses that for some reason gets overlooked when you discuss this doctrine of the trinity. Paul writes, ‘For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.’
“I think that’s one of the greatest verses you can read about them! You have ACCESS by one spirit unto the father. How do you reach in and get contact and use this?! That’s when the Word and the Spirit get united together into the place where there’s that connection.
“In Luke 3:21 is all three of them on the stage acting separately and distinctly at one moment: ‘Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened.’
“John 14:16 says, ‘And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.’ Three distinct people and yet all three of them are God.
"Hebrews 9:14 calls the Holy Spirit ‘the eternal spirit.’ In Psalm 139, David says, ‘Where will I go to be away from thy spirit? I make my bed in hell and you’re there! I can’t get away from His Spirit!’ That’s omnipresence.
“The angel says to Mary in Luke 1:35, ‘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.’
“Who is the Holy Spirit? He’s the Most High. He’s omnipotent. He’s also omniscient and knows everything.
“Look at John 14:26. Look at chapter 16:13. He’s not only going to tell you everything there is to know right now, and everything that’s happened in the past, bringing you up-to-date, but He’s going to tell you the future.
“You remember what Isaiah said about that? ‘If you want to know I’m God, what should I be able to do? Have predictive prophecy.’ The Holy Spirit can do that because He has all the attributes of God.
Isaiah 6:5: “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”
Jordan asks, “So who spoke that back there when it said ‘the Lord said’? Well, in Isaiah it was Jehovah. Paul said it was the Holy Spirit. He takes Jehovah, referenced in Isaiah, and applies it to the Holy Spirit in Acts 28.
“Now the strange thing about that, if you come over to John 12:39. See, John’s going to quote Isaiah 6:9 again. John 12:41 says, ‘These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.’ So John quotes Isaiah and applies it to Jesus. Paul quotes it and applies it to the Holy Spirit.
“Well, how come when Jehovah the God the Spirit spoke it, He’s talking about Jehovah God the Son? That’s what verse 3 was in Isaiah 6, ‘Holy, Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.’ All three equally have access to the Jehovah title because all three are God. All three have an equal standing in the godhead as God Himself.
“God the Holy Spirit, when He indwells you as the resident agent of the godhead, He really is the person of God the Holy Spirit. Now He doesn’t talk about Himself; He talks about the person the Lord Jesus Christ because every member of the godhead always glorifies the other.
“But you need to appreciate the fact of the communion you have with the Spirit is the communion, not with a religious animation, or some blind force, with the person and His presence in your life gives you a nearness of communion.
"That’s why it’s not religious activity; it’s personal life. Don’t quench that; don’t extinguish that. Let that percolate in your heart and let it blow steam out of your ears like a teapot.”
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