Who Is the Holy Spirit?
1) Direct Answer
The Holy Spirit is God Himself—the very Life of Jesus Christ—coming to dwell in and empower His people. He is not a third person; He is the one God in His indwelling office.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24). That’s who the Holy Spirit is—God.
- “Now the Lord is that Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:17). The Lord Jesus, after His resurrection, comes back as Spirit to be in His Church.
- Jesus promised “another Comforter,” then said, “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (John 14:16-18). And, “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost… shall teach you all things” (John 14:26). So the Comforter is His own presence by the Spirit.
- The Scripture uses “Spirit of God” and “Spirit of Christ” for the same indwelling Life: “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his… the Spirit of God dwell in you” (Romans 8:9-11).
- “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27) is the Holy Spirit in the believer.
- There is “one Spirit” (Ephesians 4:4), not a separate divine person from the Father and the Son.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice, it’s not three Gods and not three persons. The one God was above us as Father, came among us in flesh as the Son, and returned to live in us as the Holy Spirit. The body that walked in Galilee was the Son; the Life inside was God. After finishing redemption, that same Life came back on the Day of Pentecost to indwell believers. He seals (Ephesians 1:13; 4:30), empowers (Acts 1:8), leads into all truth (John 16:13), quickens our mortal bodies (Romans 8:11), and gives the new birth (John 3:5-8). “Holy Ghost” and “Holy Spirit” are the same—the personal presence of God in His people.
4) Reinforcing Statement
You see, the Holy Spirit is Jesus Christ in Spirit form living in His Church today—one God making Himself known in us.
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Former and Latter Rain
60-0303 §27
...e, and we see it in the handwriting everywhere---it makes us call out, "Watchman, what of the night?" We have a watchman, a watchman that climbed the ramparts of glory. The Holy Spirit was sent back to tower in men and women who would believe God. That's the watchman---the Holy Spirit sent to us as a watchman that watches over us! He is our guardian. The Holy Spirit was sent to lead men, to be the watchman of our soul. Exactly right. Man wasn't to watch one another; it was the Holy Spirit to watch over us. He's our...
The impersonation of Christianity
57-0127A §59
Wouldn't you love to do that again? And is it possible? Yes, certainly. And if the Holy Spirit brooded your body from the ground without you having any idea of what you was going to be, or any knowledge of your coming, and could bring you up to where you are, and give you a choice, how much more will it take the Holy Spirit to brood you out of the ground, no matter if your body is scattered to the four winds of the earth? What brought you in the first place. Dust thou art; sin swept in, and we have to go, we're sti...
Church Ages, part 7: The Sardisean Church Age
60-1209 §110
...rpretation: "Yea, my people, I speak unto thee this night as thou hast assembled together, even as I have moved out upon thy hearts tonight, and have pierced thy soul by my Spirit and my Word. I speak once again, my children. Yeah, the days that lie before thee shall be great days for those that shall declare to follow me, saith the Lord. For I say that I shall shine upon thy pathway many things out of my Word. "And I speak unto thee, my people, that if thou shall purpose to follow me, then I shall give unto thee t...
The great coming revival
54-0718A §62
...lift up our hands now. "Let those hands that once hung down, feeble hands, be lifted up," the Bible says, and let's give thanks to God and thank Him for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (Joseph, as you come here.) Now, our heavenly Father, we thank Thee this afternoon for this privilege of gathering here in this building. We thank Thee for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And while these people, sinners and those without the Holy Spirit, is standing, and those with the Holy Spirit's standing, we're praying together...
It is I, be not afraid
59-0811 §36
Jesus said, "Be not afraid; It's I." And tonight, the "I" is the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit of God that's come down in ... to live into the church. God first lived in a pillar of fire, then He was made flesh by a virgin birth and dwelt in Christ. Then at the going away of Christ, He sanctified a church that was born sexually, that He might sanctify this people and live in them, His presence, the Holy Spirit, to carry on the work. And tonight, the Holy Spirit is here finishing up, binding up, finishing the...