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HOLY SPIRIT

The Holy Spirit is a divine being who is spirit in nature (Luke 24:39) and holy in character.

  • The Holy Spirit is not a mere force (as some cultists insist, e.g., the "Jehovah's Witnesses"); rather, he is an individual entity, a person, who speaks, teaches, helps, etc. (1 Timothy 4:1; John 14:26; Romans 8:26).
  • The Spirit is a separate person from both the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; John 14:16; 15:26).
  • He possesses the very nature of God (Acts 5:3–4)
  • He empowered Christ (John 3:34–35; Acts 10:38), the apostles (Acts 1:5; 2:4), and certain persons on whom the apostles laid their hands (Acts 8:18; 19:6) to perform supernatural works as a validation of their messages.
  • The Spirit endowed the household of Cornelius with the ability to speak supernaturally in other languages in order to establish the fact that Gentiles were to be granted the gospel (Acts 10, 11).
  • Christians receive the Holy Spirit (in a non-miraculous measure) when they are baptized into Christ (Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Galatians 4:6). The Spirit assists God's children in their prayers (Romans 8:26).
  • The Spirit directed the writers of the Bible in the messages they produced (2 Samuel 23:2; Acts 1:16; 1 Timothy 4:1) so that these documents can be accepted as the very words of God (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
Adapted from the book "Bible Words and Theological Terms Made Easy" by Wayne Jackson