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.
Expectations
61-0308 §63
...sure as you believe in that, that shows there's a fountain of divine healing somewhere. That's right. It's got to be. And the Bible speaks and says that it's his, it's his Holy Spirit that leads you. The same Holy Spirit that led Simeon to believe that, is the same Holy Spirit that leads you to believe in divine healing---no two Holy Spirits, just one. That same Holy Spirit that revealed to him that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ, that same Holy Spirit speaks to you. There is a power of God...
Expectations
50-0810 §40
And all of a sudden, through all of that mass of people, the Holy Spirit spoke out there to Simeon. He--here He come, just... Faith moved him into the temple, coming right down through the people, walked right down that line, and stopped just where that mother was, picked up that baby in his arms, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace according to Your Word, for my eyes have seen Your Salvation." Why? He had the promise of the Holy Spirit. That's why the Holy Spirit led him. For the Holy Spirit had promi...
Hear ye Him
58-0209A §24
The Holy Spirit is the teacher of the church. How many knows that? Sure, the Holy Spirit's a teacher, but we've adopted popes and bishops and everything instead. But the Holy Spirit is the tutor, and the raiser, and the teacher of the Body of Christ. "Those who are led by the Spirit have no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." And now the Holy Spirit teaches the church. Now, this teacher must be an honest person. Not a man that wants the father to pat...
Position of a believer in Christ
55-0227A §55
But now, the Holy Spirit that come out of the body of Christ, not the animals, out of the body of Christ, the Son of God, that Holy Spirit come back on the church. And as one time, by one offering, by one time, perfected forever those that come to Him and been received by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 4:30, quote it for the sake of time: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God (by your backbiting, by your carrying on, indifference, negligence, by your unbelief)... Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed t...
Hear ye Him
60-0806 §37
...iser for that sons and daughters. And it wasn't a bishop, neither was it a cardinal. He couldn't trust them. So he got the best there was in heaven to raise His church: the Holy Spirit. He's the tutor of the church. And we've... He's honest. He will tell the Father just exactly what we're doing. He will not hold back one thing. He will be honest before the Father, how His children's progressing. Now, that's the reason He picked that one. There was no better He could find, than to have the Holy Spirit. We've adopted...