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.
Whatever He says to you, do it
53-0601 §14
Now, on the platform, when the Holy Spirit is speaking, and He's speaking through mortal lips---He always does... I believe these are ministers behind me. And, brethren, you never preached a sermon in your life. The Holy Spirit preached through you a sermon. That's right, see. See, we don't preach; the Holy Spirit does the speaking. Oh, we might write out something and read it, but that isn't preaching. Preaching is when inspiration comes. See, and it's preached by inspiration. And the Holy Spirit gives the unction...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §47
So, get Christ in your heart; that's a real ... Christ and the Holy Spirit's the same thing. Holy Spirit, Christ means "the anointed One." And the Holy Spirit is that anointing, and you are the one that's anointed. See? And it's Christ in you anointing you. See what I mean? Then you've got the right thing. Then He can use you to anything He wants to use you in, 'cause you're in the body and subject to any of those gifts. But see, to have one of the gifts outside of the body, it would do you no good. "Though I speak...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-135
...for all to understand if all believed the doctrine of the oneness of the Godhead. For there are not three persons in that Godhead but ONE. Thus we are NOT born again by the Spirit of Life of Jesus coming in, and then subsequent to that the Holy Spirit coming in to give us power. If that were true, why are we dishonoring the Father by not giving Him a part in our complete salvation, for if salvation is of the Lord and there are three Lords, then HE (Father) must have something to do, too. But surely it can be seen t...
A Testimony
53-0607E §9
I think of Simeon back there in the temple---old man, an old sage---had been told by the Holy Spirit that he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. Luke, the second chapter, you read the article. And he wasn't afraid to go around tell people that he was going to see the Christ, because the Holy Spirit told him so. So, there's no two Holy Spirits; there's only one. So, the same Holy Spirit that was with Simeon, is the same Holy Spirit here tonight. So, now watch. An old man, eighty, or better, ye...
Expectation
61-0207 §59
Now, the Holy Spirit was obligated, then, to lead him to that fountain. Amen. Oh, if you're expecting it, the same Holy Spirit leads you to that fountain! It's got to open up somewhere! If you've got that burning desire in your heart, the Holy Spirit's obligated to lead you to it---right to that fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners (that's unbelievers) plunge beneath the flood, lose all their unbelief. That's right. Oh, you want to be to a place to where you can surpass any doubt i...