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
50-0810 §25
...d for the Christ for four thousand years. That's right, people; you know that. But here, an old man, old in age, said, "I'm not going to die until I see the Christ, for the Holy Spirit told me so." Pretty good reason, isn't it? He believed what was told him. Do you? The Holy Spirit give him the revelation, "You're not going to die, Simeon, until you see the Lord's Christ." And he said, "Amen. I believe it." Stayed right with it. All right. Now, we haven't got two Holy Spirits; there's only one. And that same Holy S...
Expectancy
53-0903 §23
The same God that led Simeon, because he had a promise in his heart, that the Christ he would see before he died, that same Holy Spirit... There's not two Holy Spirits. There is only one Holy Spirit. And that same Holy Spirit, because something in Simeon's heart told him that he was going to see Christ before he died, that same Holy Spirit led you here tonight. There's no two Holy Spirits. One led you here tonight, because you believe in divine healing and He's led you to the fountain where it's open tonight, free...
What does it take to make a Christian life?
57-0113 §35
The Holy Spirit will make every movement like Christ. It'll make you Christ-like. The fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, faith. Those things are what the Holy Spirit controls: our emotions. Our emotions is not so much as jumping up and down. You can do that. A shindig will bring that to you. But the Holy Spirit brings you into operation ... or, in control of God, that you walk in peace and in love and in joy with long suffering, goodness, meekness, ge...
The Lamb and the Dove
57-0325 §60
And that meek, humble spirit that you used to have, you wasn't all temper and saw-blades like you are. The Holy Spirit just took its flight. You've put on shorts, the Holy Spirit flew away. You started smoking cigarettes, the Holy Spirit flew away. You started getting grouchy and fussy, and the Holy Spirit flew away. You started a little cult in your church, the Holy Spirit flew away. You broke away from your church and pulled off with some little cult, the Holy Spirit flew away. The Holy Spirit's not a author of c...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §8
...cause if we have membership then we bring the people, like to an organization, which we are strictly interdenominational, unorganized. Only one thing to lead us, that's the Holy Spirit. And we believe that the Holy Spirit leads through our leader. If God set a--a...Holy Spirit set a teacher in the church, then if the Holy Spirit wants the church to know something, He'll speak through the teacher. For the Holy Spirit...That's what the teacher is ordained to do. Is that right? It's ordained. That gift is in the churc...