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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The sin of unbelief
58-0517E §14
...ve Solomon a great gift of discernment, and all Israel rallied around it. Oh, would it not be a great day today if all the churches would rally around God's great gift, the Holy Spirit? Would it not be wonderful if we'd just forget our differences and denominations and just rally around the greatest gift that God ever sent to the earth, the Holy Spirit? His Son died that He might come. You say the Holy Spirit being a greater gift than Christ? By Christ came the Holy Spirit. When they called Him Beelzebub, He said,...
The Rejected King
60-0610 §60
Now, we find out then when a man rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit... You know what God did for Saul? He give him a evil spirit to lead him. Now, how about that? He give him a evil spirit. God gave him a evil spirit to lead him. So, when a man rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit, or any person rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit, you've got a devil on you to lead you. That's exactly the Bible. O God, I wish we could have a revival. I wish there could come a time that when the Holy Spirit could really get...
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...