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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Investments
63-1116B §54
...d can only get one person in His hand; then through there, like Moses and through Daniel, and through the different prophets. And listen. You say, "Well now, what about the Holy Spirit?" The Holy Spirit doesn't change it. Look, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. John was the prophet of the hour. He was standing in the water, declaring that the Messiah was already among them, somewhere. He would know it by a sign. And when the Messiah, being the Word, He came into the water, to the prophet, the Word coming t...
Church Ages, part 7: The Sardisean Church Age
60-1209 §56
Then if that was Christ's Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost that did those things, it's Christ's Holy Spirit been pushed out here, Christ's Holy Spirit still holding in here, Christ's Holy Spirit still holding here, on down here, unto the end of the world. The same Holy Spirit that filled Paul with the Holy Ghost and the things that he done, will fill this one, Irenaeus, full of the Holy Ghost, fill Martin full of the Holy Ghost, and the rest of them full of the Holy Ghost, and fill you and I full of the Hol...
What was the Holy Ghost given for?
59-1217 §96
Lord Jesus, we close this little gathering tonight after the fellowship around the Word and the Holy Ghost. How He has blessed us and poured out into our hearts the oil of His Word. There are ministers; there are men here that were ... all walks of life that's tasted and seen the Lord is good. We know what the Holy Spirit is now: a promise of God. It is eternal life to as many as believe. And we know that the Holy Spirit was the Spirit of Jesus Christ sent back. And He's in us today as God was above us in that pill...
Church Ages, part 2: The Patmos Vision
60-1204E §7
And if we just let the Holy Spirit... Who wrote the Bible? The Holy Spirit moved on men and wrote the Bible. Then without the Holy Spirit, no matter how well you're educated, you'll never understand it, because... Even Jesus thanked God that He had hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. And every one of the disciples were more or less illiterate and unlearned people but one, and that was Paul. And Paul said he had to forget all he ever knowed in order to find...
Going beyond the camp
64-0719E §82
If there be those here who doesn't know Him and has never went beyond the camp of some church affiliation, yet you profess to be a Christian. But when you say these things, "I believe for another day," that shows it cannot be the Holy Spirit. How can a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost ever be baptized using the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, when Paul, the great apostle, said, "If an angel comes from heaven..." You might've done it one time not knowing any different. Those people did it not knowing different...