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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Life Story
52-0720A §165
...down through the valley of the shadow of death, and light up the way, and bear my weary soul to a haven of rest. Until that time, I will search after Thee and seek for the Holy Spirit until Thou hast give It to me. And I'll make my life, the best of my knowledge, a pattern or a salt to the unbeliever, that they might see my work by my faith, and come to You. Receive me, O God, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, while your heads are bowed... Father, Thou has heard their confession. They believe truly that You have s...
Hear ye Him
57-0310E §27
...er comes to town, to preach the Gospel in the fullness of the power of the resurrection, and the people walk the street and walk by and make fun of the Word of God. And the Holy Spirit has to bring that before the Father and say, "They even make fun. They won't listen; they are a stiff-necked people. They're starchy, they're know-it-alls, they won't listen." And if the Holy Spirit (here it is), if the Holy Spirit will teach anything, it'll be out of that Bible. For He said, "When the Holy Ghost is come, He will bri...
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §46
Now the Holy Spirit has never left the earth; it's still on the earth, and it's brooding over the earth. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden." All you materials that's been built in the image of God, cooing, calling, wooing. And if the Holy Spirit woos, and we come back and say, "Yes, great God, You made me and I love You. And You are my Creator, and I'm sinful, and I'm ashamed of it." Then He places in me eternal life. Then if He give me eternal life by answering back to His call, and made me what...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §20
...e ten minutes after I'm out of the platform, I couldn't tell you what I said. I don't know. It's all that...I haven't got anything to do with it. I just yield myself to the Holy Spirit and He does the talking. And there's the whole thing. That's right. So, it isn't I. It's not me. If you judge that I have the Holy Spirit, then it's the Holy Spirit. And if you judge that it isn't the Holy Spirit, then you might think it was a devil. But the thing of it is, compare it with This and see what it compares with. Uh-hum....
What was the Holy Ghost given for?
59-1217 §11
...God working in you. Anywhere in the world, if He'd want to call on you, you're right there; working in you to do His good will. How we ought to thank God for that! God the Holy Spirit is sent for the purpose of God living in His church, moving through each age, working out His divine will.