Who is the Holy Spirit

Who is The Holy Spirit?

Who is the Holy Spirit, the comforter it means advocate a one who helps alongside. That word comforter, that is what the Lord Jesus Christ was promising just before he was to die on the cross and be resurrected and ascended to heaven. Then he was going to send a comforter, someone to help alongside.

Who is the Holy Spirit Scripture?

The scripture teaches that he's a person. He's not an engine or an influencer, he's God and we're never to refer to the Holy Spirit as 'it’.

There's some mistranslation in the Authorised Version because in those days when this was translated several hundred years ago they referred to certain things about the Holy Spirit as 'It', because it was a new term. But he is not something but he's someone and holy, indicates that he's only within himself Holy Spirit.

Now the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is co-equal with God the Father and God the Son. There is a Trinity, God the Father, God the Son God, the Holy Spirit. Now the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. The word omnipotent means all-powerful.

The Holy Spirit Bible Verses

In Micah 3:8, it says I'm full of power by the Spirit of the Lord. And then the Bible says, if the Holy Spirit is present everywhere at the same time, whoever shall I go from thy spirit, or where shall I flee from thy presence, said the Psalms in 139: 7. You can't go anywhere and get away from the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is everywhere. That's the reason when you have a sense of guilt put there by the Holy Spirit many times. That guilt will go with you even if you travel to a faraway Island trying to get rid of it the Holy Spirit convicting you of sin.

The power of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is not confined to a body. The Holy Spirit can be all over the world at the same time and he said it's expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Holy Spirit cannot come unto you. Now the Bible also teaches that he has all knowledge. Read this in 1st Corinthians 2:10, “but God had revealed unto them unto us by his Spirit for the spirit searches all things that deep things of God”. The Holy Spirit is here searching your brain, searching your heart, searching your mind, searching your soul.

In the book of Revelation he is spoken of as having seven eyes which is symbolic indicating that nothing is hidden from his searching glance and perfect knowledge and this ought to lead all of us to walk daily before God. And then the Bible says he is eternal in Matthew 9: 14 we have the phrase the Eternal Spirit. 

The Holy Trinity

He is Co eternal with God the Father and the son like we have ice and water and vapour. Three things but they're all the same but they take different forms. The Holy Spirit is one of the Trinity equal with God the Father and God the Son. He is also holy and the word holy is used concerning the Holy Spirit one hundred times in the New Testament. ‘be ye holy even as I'm holy’ is God's command.

But it is the Holy Spirit who alone can impart divine holiness and the Bible says without holiness no man can see God. What does that mean? That means that before you can get to heaven you have to have the righteousness that is equal to that of Jesus Christ. On this you might think, I can never have that. No you cannot but when Christ died on the cross he died to provide you with a road of righteousness which the moment you receive Christ you're clothed in. Then so that when God looks at you he no longer sees your heart filled with its invented sin and it's wickedness but he sees the blood of Christ and you are accepted because you're clothed in his righteousness. You are declared righteous, you're declared righteous by the judicial act of God because he accepts the atonement of Christ on the cross for your sins and that's a wonderful thing to know. The Holy Spirit bears witness to Jesus Christ who is the truth.

The Bible also teaches, where he is there is Liberty. The Holy Spirit liberates us. One famous leader once said, that ‘the best test of freedom is not in what we are free to do but in what we are free not to do’. Now the Holy Spirit not only convicts but he gives new life. The Bible says that we're dead in sins. Do you realise that you're as a walking dead person, you're dead toward God? You're spiritually dead, your soul is dead, your spirit is dead, your body is alive but you're dead. The real you is dead.

Work of the Holy Spirit

What needs to be done for a dead person? He needs to be made alive and that's the work of the Holy Spirit to make you alive. Jesus said, you must be born again and that word actually means to be made born from above, born by the Spirit of God. You see man without God is dead and life is at best of bore. Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Have you been born again?

He also indwells.God says through Ezekiel, he dwelled with you and shall be in you. Jesus said in chapter 14 John, “know that you're the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you”.

The Holy Spirit comes to live within you, the Holy Spirit also baptises. He baptises us into the body of Christ.

I believe the Scriptures teach that we're at least one time baptised when we receive Christ. We are baptised into the body of Christ. Have you been baptised into the body of Christ? That's not just joining a church, that's really coming to Christ as Lord, master and Savior and being baptised into his body. He also empowers us for service but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me power, supernatural power.

Fruits of Holy Spirit

Then he produces the fruit of the Spirit. When you receive Jesus Christ you want to be a person of love and joy and peace, long-suffering and gentleness, goodness, faith and meekness, temperance, self-control that's produced for the Holy Spirit. Those are attributes of Jesus Christ himself. Love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith meekness and self-control. He had it all. You can have it all but it has to be done by the Holy Spirit through you. You cannot of yourself live the Christian life. You'll be a total flop and failure. It has to be the Holy Spirit living it through you and producing it in you and he will do that you see.

Romans 7 and 8

Read Romans chapter 7, that's a chapter of defeat but then you pick up the next chapter Romans 8, you'll find the Holy Spirit is mentioned eight times and it's a chapter of victory. You can have victory in the Holy Spirit. We're told to walk in the spirit and then he magnifies and glorifies and exalts the Lord Jesus Christ. He shall not speak up himself. If you find a person coming along saying the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit never talking about Jesus Christ, you can know that that man is not speaking from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit exalts Christ, he exalts the Lord Jesus Christ. He did not come to talk of himself and then he fills us.

Be Filled with the Holy Spirit

The scripture says be not drunk with wine but be filled with the spirit and that means to be continually filled with the spirit you have to be emptied of your selfishness and your own desires and your own gratifications so you can be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that's a command be filled with the Holy Spirit. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? You can be by faith filled with The Holy Spirit, you can say all the ever known sin in my life has been forgiven, I've confessed every known sin, by faith I believe I'm filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Worst sin

But also you can sin against the Holy Spirit and the worst of all sins of the sins against the Holy Spirit. You can anger the Spirit. As I pick up the Bible I do discover the wrath of the Spirit. In Psalm we read how often they rebelled and grieved him in the desert. The translation is they disobeyed and made angry the Spirit of God. They rebelled and angered his Holy Spirit therefore, he turned to be their enemy and himself fought against them. Wouldn't it be terrible to have the Holy Spirit as your enemy because you anger him? The word grieve means to make very angry.

I would urge every one of you to be very careful lest you rouse the wrath of the Spirit. My spirit shall not always strive with man. God said way back in Genesis 6 in the days of Noah, ‘the Spirit of God ceased striving and the flood came and the world was destroyed except for eight people’. The Holy Spirit can be lied against. In Acts 5:4, ‘Thou hast not lie unto men, but to God said Peter’. They acted a lie, they pretended to be what they were not, they were hypocrites and they acted out a lie.

The Holy Spirit can be tempted, how is it that you've agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord. Many times sinners say well if God is God let him strike me dead. You can tempt God. Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God. You can wait too long, you can tempt God too long and the day of the time will come when it's no longer possible. And then the Holy Spirit can be resisted. You do always resist the Holy Spirit as your father's did so do you. You can resist the Holy Spirit and some of you know that you need Christ but you've been resisting the Holy Spirit. That's a sin against the Spirit. A solemn thing to resist the Holy Spirit is you detect his voice and yet you deliberately do nothing about it. It's a dangerous thing.

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Final Closure

We all know who the Holy Spirit is. Let’s not resist him nor deny him. Let him filled us with all his gifts and then let’s produced the fruits. Let’s become a person like our Jesus Christ is. Amen