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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Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §43
Now, when a man's speaking, or preaching up here at the platform, or a message going forth, if the man is of God, he's anointed of the Spirit to preach the Word. And that's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is moving there, that's just your gift there, trying to get you started. But the Holy Spirit is coming through the Word. And the Holy Spirit will, always, the Holy Spirit feeds on the Word of God. Right. And It'll recognize the Word and be reverent. And then, when the time comes, when the Holy Spirit is left the...
Hear ye Him
58-0324 §10
And the Scripture is of no private interpretation. It was wrote by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the only One who can reveal it, for it is hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and it's revealed to babes such as will learn. So if you don't watch, if you don't use the mind of the Holy Spirit to put it together, you'll have your scene all mixed up; for instance, like a cow picking grass in the top of a tree. And that's just about the way some of it looks. When we think that we could go to heaven by sha...
Everlasting Life and how to receive it
54-1231 §38
That's the apostolic church, moving in the Spirit, wherever God said. Peter done without his dinner. Peter went on to follow the Lord. And God could ever get a man and women today, in this tabernacle, anywhere else, that'll pay no attention to what's going on around them, but submit themselves to the Lord, as an individual unit, God will lead the same man today that He led then. He proves that He's with us. What we need today is a humble, submitted life. Submit yourself. Don't squeeze yourself back. Don't do nothin...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §18
...e, that used to be here and preach in this city, very fine man, as far as I know. But, you see, he was a Nazarene, and he thought that sanctification was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which it is not. There's no Scripture to show that. I'll prove that in a little bit, in the Bible, see, that it isn't. You're not sealed by sanctification. You're sealed by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A sealing is the completing of the work. That's the reason it couldn't be sealed under Luther or Wesley, either one. It had to co...
The impersonation of Christianity
57-0127A §36
Now, watch the Bible. "I will give you ... take the old stony heart away, and give you a heart of flesh, tender hearted. And then I will give you a new spirit. And then, I will put My Spirit in you." Now, watch. His Spirit was different from your new spirit. And many people get the new spirit and think they get the Holy Spirit. They get feeling happy, and jump around, and maybe do a few things religiously. And they think that they got the Holy Spirit. Oh, no, the Holy Spirit makes you act different. The Holy Spirit...