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Holy Spirit Prophecy 63
David similarly gave a prophecy when the Holy Spirit comes upon him. "The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me, his word is upon my tongue."1 God speaks to the people through the prophet and God's words of prophecy are on their lips. With the Holy Spirit comes holiness. "God makes a covenant with his people and separates them from the world as his own possession, and vouches himself for this covenant. "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy."23
We often call the Holy Spirit the "Comforter." The word goes back to Wycliffe, and from the Latin word "fortis" which means "brave." The Comforter is therefore someone who "instills courage in another." When we consider the infinite holiness of God, it causes us to tremble. J. S. Whale talks about running around the burning bush taking photographs from suitable angles instead of taking off our shoes from our feet because the place whereon we stand is holy ground. "The centuries go gliding, But still we have abiding, With us that Spirit holy, To make us brave and lowly."4 God speaks directly through humans after they have been given the Holy Spirit.
1 2 Samuel 23.2,3 2 Leviticus 19.2 3 Martin Luther "The Church and the Life of Discipleship" p306 4 F. C. Burkitt
"Jesus and the Holy Spirit as Brothers."
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