Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart [a new heart] and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony [unnaturally hardened] heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh [sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God],

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Are you sensitive to the touch of God? I am not talking about rational thought. I am speaking as it is referred to here, a loving relational awareness. In every case where God measures man, in a personal relationship, He does not look to our actions as much as to our heart condition. God knows that if He can foster a deep abiding love with us, in us, then what we do will reflect that loving relationship.

As Jesus promised, the Father has given of Himself in the 3^rd person, the Holy Spirit. He is God just as much as the Father and the Son. His personality does not differ as they are One. His role however differs because He is in close personal contact with us. As such, we need to be aware of that role and how He enacts the will of the Father.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

The Holy Spirit is the perfect essence of humility. He never talks about Himself and will only testify of Jesus Christ.

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Psalm 119:11a,58a,161b Thy word have I hid in mine heart, I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Acts 2:1-7 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

Common men of no particular skills or training beyond having heard the Word of God, were now demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit. These were not prophets raised up and trained to serve God. They were fishermen for the most part. If God so chose to empower the lowliest of men with the Holy Spirit, there was hope for all mankind. That hope came in the way of a promises given by our Lord Himself.

Acts 2:32-33 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

All that God did in the Acts of the Apostles was to birth a new church in a time, place, and people that had to have strong signs and wonders to overcome the world they lived in.

Does the power of the Holy Spirit still abide in us today? Yes, but we are of a different time, a different place, a different people, and the Holy Spirit still enacts God’s plan in accordance with God’s will. We are an established body of Christ, matured in ways that God enacted in the epistles that followed Acts.