I conclude this series of quotes from Billy Graham’s book, The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life, with these comments:

“There should be no more distinctive mark of the Christian than love. . . . The Holy Spirit is the one who reproves, convicts, strives, instructs, invites, quickens, regenerates, renews, strengthens, and uses. He must not be grieved, resisted, tempted, quenched, insulted, or blasphemed. He gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ. He teaches us how to use the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. He guides us into all truth. He directs in the way of godliness. He teaches us how to answer the enemies of our Lord. He gives us [direct] access to the Father.”

“…the operations of the Holy Spirit among men in the three periods of human history may be defined by three words: “upon,” “with,” “in.” In the Old Testament He came upon selected persons and remained for a season (Judg. 14:19). In the Gospels He is represented as dwelling with the disciples in the person of Christ (John 14:17). From the second chapter of Acts onward he is spoken of as being in the people of God (1 Cor. 6:19).” (Billy Graham)

“Pentecost in the New Testament marked the commencement of the present age of the Holy Spirit. Believers are under the guidance even as the disciples of Jesus were under Him. From heaven Jesus still exercises lordship over us, but, not being physically with us now, He transmits his directions by means of the Holy Spirit who makes Christ real to us. Since Pentecost the Holy Spirit is the link between the first and second advents of Jesus. He applies the work of Jesus Christ to men in this age….” (Billy Graham)

I have endeavored to share how, at least in part, the holy spirit communes with the spirit and soul of man through the synaptic networks of the human brain, transmitting specified information encoded within wave forms of action potentials. neuroscience is clarifying this process with applications of technological advances that show concordance with Scripture.

Genesis 2:7 also says that the Lord God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” … clearly man owes his very life to God according to this passage. And the breath of God that started man on his earthly journey was, in fact, the Holy Spirit, as Job 33:4 tells us. (The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.)

It is pointed out in my second book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story, that the Fall of Adam accounted for the loss of indwelling communion between the Holy Spirit and the spirit and soul of Adam since God does not abide with sin. But by the grace and boundless love of God for mankind through the sin sacrifice of HIs Son, Jesus Christ, the indwelling has been restored to those who are in repentance and choose to follow the Counsel of the Holy Spirit sent as promised by the resurrected and living Jesus Christ.

Before he died, Pope John was asked what church doctrine most needed emphasis today. He replied, "The doctrine of the Holy Spirit.” Billy Graham asked Dr. Karl Barth what he thought the next emphasis on theology would be. He replied without hesitation, “The Holy Spirit.”

Doctor Graham expressed concern over the misunderstanding and even ignorance in some Christian circles concerning the Third Person of the Trinity. How the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit relate is explained as follows: …we say that we pray to the Father through the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit. …functionally the Father came first, then the Son became incarnate, died and rose again. Now the Spirit does His work in this age of the Spirit….trinitarianism preserves the unity of the Godhead, and at the same time it acknowledges that there are three persons in that Godhead which is still of one essence. God is one, but that oneness is not simple - it is complex. God the Father is fully God. God the Son is fully God. God the Holy Spirit is fully God. The Bible presents this as fact….although the Father is the Source of all blessing, it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

I have presented evidence from neuroscience in my books and in several blogs posted to date that confirm dualist interaction between the immaterial Spirit of God and the human spirit and soul through the material neural synaptic networks of the human brain. The human cognitive capacity to interpret linguistic neural codes actualized within spike trains of action potentials enables work of the Holy Spirit within us.

I am posting quotes from the wonderful book by Billy Graham, Just As I Am, which reinforce points I offer in my book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story:

One of the New Testament’s most compelling images of spiritual conversion is found in the phrase born again or new birth. . . . Jesus used it in His interview with the religious leader Nicodemus: “I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). We each need what Jesus was teaching: a spiritual rebirth or renewed from within, by the power of God. . . . a spiritual rebirth is something only God can do. . . . God Himself takes up residence in our lives through His Holy Spirit. He begins to change us from within and gives us a whole new reason for living.

God created us in His image. He created us and loves us so that we may live in harmony and fellowship with Him.

He yearns to forgive us and bring us back to Himself. He wants to fill our lives with meaning and purpose right now. Then He wants us to spend all eternity with Him in Heaven, free forever from the pain and sorrow and death of this world.

Shawn Bolz has authored a book on modern prophecy, on hearing God’s voice. God restored our capacity to interact with the voice of God by His grace through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hearing from the indwelling Holy Spirit is the major focus of my books and my blogs on this website. It is a dualist interaction actualized in our time via the neural synaptic networks of the human brain. I wish to share several quotations from his book, Modern Prophets: A Toolkit for Everyone on Hearing God’s Voice , which parallel points I have made in these forums.

Nothing in our Christian experience is quite as wonderful as getting to know God and hearing His heart in real time. The God of all the universe wired us on an intellectual, neurological, biological, emotional and, of course, spiritual level to hear from him and to know Him. As we pursue Him through His Word, we will have experiences with Him. These experiences always confirm His nature, His Word, and His will.

God is a relator. He made you for connection and His strongest desire is for relationship with you! He cares about every aspect of His creation, and through His Spirit, He is restoring His original plan and design to humanity. This can only truly happen, though, if we hear Him!

What is in the heart of God is made possible through HIs voice. An awesome thing about God’s voice is that His children recognize it: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27, NKJV)

In Jesus Christ we have faith in the incarnate, crucified and risen God. In the incarnation we learn of the love of God for His creation; in the crucifixion we learn of the judgment of God upon all flesh; and in the resurrection we learn of God’s will for a new world. There could be no greater error than to tear these three elements apart; for each of them comprise the whole. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

That the process of sanctification is deemed a “mystery” is addressed in both of my books. I hope that the neurophysiological process of sanctification created and guided by our Savior is clarified. God wants mankind to increase in knowledge and understanding by applying advances in scientific knowledge coupled with proper Scriptural exegesis to such a “mystery.” I am posting on my blog this last excerpt taken from my second book, a quotation from Colossians 1: 21-27:

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation - if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant….I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness - the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

i trust that this latest series of selected blog posts provides a sufficient cumulation of evidence from scripture and the neurosciences to explain how the atoning death and resurrection of jesus christ as a sin sacrifice for all mankind reopened a direct interactive communion with god by the power of the holy spirit. blogs to follow will amplify on this point, giving truth to the gospel.