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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An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-101
The Holy Spirit In Every Age Revelation 2:11, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." There is not one church age where this verse is not mentioned. Every single age has the same admonition to the people of every age. "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith." But it is absolutely impossible for all men to hear what the Spirit says to the different ages. I Corinthians 2:6-16, "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world,...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 1:E-49
The Great I Am, the Almighty God, has come as Spirit to fill His true church. He has a right to move anywhere He wants to, and upon anybody He wants to. We don't make any "holy men" amongst us, but the whole true congregation of the Lord is holy, because of the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is He, the Holy Spirit, that is holy, not the congregation of itself.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-26
To begin with, we know for a certainty that these verses are not teaching a new and contrary doctrine to John 4:24a "God is A (one) Spirit." But this is like I Corinthians 12:8-11 wherein we find ONE Spirit manifesting Himself in NINE ways. Thus we know that the seven Spirits of God mean it is the one and same Spirit coming forth in a sevenfold way. Now in Revelation 4:5 these same seven Spirits are called 'lamps of fire burning' before the Lord. Since John always used nothing but Old Testament symbols in the Revel...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-102
...y did this have to be so? Why was it that the seed of the serpent must come this way? Man was created for God. Man was to be the temple of God. The place of God's rest (the Holy Spirit) was man, the temple. Acts 7:46-51, "Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built Him an house. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or w...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-116
That this is the pattern of experience relative to receiving the Holy Spirit, note carefully the very next time that the Spirit fell upon a people. Acts 8:5-17, "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. A...