The Holy Spirit

God's Holy Spirit

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters - Genesis 1:1,2.

The Holy Spirit is not a second spirit. There is One God who is Spirit; therefore there can be only one Spirit that is God’s Spirit–

There is one body and one Spirit – Ephesians 4:4.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body… I Corinthians 12:13.

    As we have been shown in the previous chapter, there is only One Intelligence that directs the operations of His Spirit. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father –John 15:26 – (That is sent by the intelligence that is the Father) –John 14:26 by the prayer of Jesus, - And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever - (John 14:16; 16:7) - and is the Spirit of the Father -For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you - Matthew 10:20. For it is not you that speak but the Holy Ghost - Mark 13:11.

    God is a Spirit - John 4:24 -The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of our God - …ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God – I Corinthians 6:11.

    God’s Holy Spirit is often manifested in the Scriptures as elements, cloud and fire, wind and water. He was seen as cloud by day and fire by night to the Jews in the wilderness (Exodus 13:21), and appeared as tongues of fire upon the Apostles and other believers just before God announced His arrival by a rushing, mighty wind (Acts 2:1-3.) The Spirit is also paralleled to water and is referred to as the latter rain - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth – Hosea 6:3.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month - Joel 2:23.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit – Joel 2:28,29.
    The fire of the Holy Spirit is also sometimes manifested and used in conjunction symbolically with plural eyes that represent the Spirit’s omnipresence – one eye can see in one place, two eyes can see more, and many eyes can see all over the place!
    In Ezekiel’s vision we see cloud and fire manifesting with the plural eyes that were on the wheels (Ezekiel 1:4, 1:18.) In Revelation four, verse five, there are seven “lamps” burning with fire before the Throne of God. (Remember, God’s “Person” can be on His throne while His omnipresent Spirit is everywhere.) And out of the throne proceeded lightenings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of God – Revelation 4:5.
    In the book of Daniel chapter ten verses five and six, the eyes of the “man clothed in linen” are likened to “lamps of fire.” In Revelation chapter five, verse six, we see Jesus as a slain Lamb representing Him in His incarnate state, but this Lamb has seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God, the “lamps” in chapter four, sent forth into all the earth. -And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
    There is only one Spirit that is God as we have seen. The eyes and the plural Spirits represent the omnipresent Holy Spirit of God that is everywhere. And this omnipresent Spirit is seen in Jesus.
    In the Scriptures, Jesus is referred to as a Rock – (Romans 9:33, I Corinthians 10:4.) In the book of Zechariah, Jesus is represented symbolically by a stone, which can also be translated as a gem stone.

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day – Zechariah 3:9. Here we see God engraving plural eyes upon the Rock of our salvation - Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles - Isaiah 42:1.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me” – Luke 4:18.

God engraved His law in the tablets of stone (Exodus 31:18). He engraved His Holy Spirit in the Rock of our Salvation.

   Through Jesus we receive the “seal” of the Holy Spirit. The Rock in Zechariah can also be translated a gem stone. Certain stones were used as signets or seals. A design was carved into the stone and then pressed into wax or moist clay. God engraves His Spirit in Jesus and through Him, His Spirit is impressed into the clay of God’s creation, and we become the possession of the most High God, Jehovah.

   On the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:3) we see the Holy Spirit as fire manifesting on the heads of one hundred and twenty believers in multiples of one God; the Omnipresent Spirit that fills the whole universe and beyond, is the God of the individual. God has the ability to designate individual portions of His Spirit to every believer, and this is another reason why His Spirit is represented as individual lamps of fire in Revelation 4:5, and also individual “drops” of the latter rain.

I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people – II Corinthians 6:16.

    The believers in the second chapter of Acts received God’s Holy Spirit in individual portions and the very first one to experience this “portioning” of God’s Spirit is Jesus Christ, the Firstborn Son of God.
    The Holy Spirit is the portion of God’s Spirit that God, the Father has designated to be the Spirit of His Son – and God gave of His Spirit to His Son without measure - For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him - John 3:34.

    In most cases, the Holy Spirit is rendered in the neuter in the Greek, possibly because there is no soul or “person” associated with the Spirit apart from the Father’s soul or person and the Son’s soul. The Apostles made no distinction between the Father’s Spirit and the Spirit of Christ. The Father’s Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 10:20) and the Spirit of His Son are synonymous. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father which is Christ’s Spirit.
    …the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His - Romans 8:9.
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow - I Peter 1:11.
And because you are sons, God (the intelligence that directs the operations of His Spirit) has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father - Galatians 4:6.
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ - Philippians 1:19. I (Jesus) will come to you -John 14:18.
For without Me you can do nothing – John 15:5.
For I (Jesus) will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist - Luke 21:15.
And if Christ be in you… Romans 8:1 -
if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you - Romans 8:11.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord - II Corinthians 3:17,18.

    The Holy Spirit is Jesus’ Spirit, which is the Father’s Spirit in His Son. There is only One God who is Spirit and there is only One Spirit that is God – and God imparts His Spirit to us through His only Son.

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear - Acts 2:33.
…according to mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior – Titus 3:5,6.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me” – Revelation 3:20.

    Human beings were created for fellowship with God. This fellowship was severed by mankind’s disobedience. We are created in the image of God’s image of soul and spirit. Our souls have eternal properties and were originally designed to live forever. With the advent of sin, the spiritual connection to God disintegrated and our souls essentially became earth bound and unable to enter God’s presence when the body dies and the soul is released. It was for the restoration of this relationship of man to God that the Son of God was manifested.
Jesus, the Messiah, was sent to accomplish the greatest rescue mission of all time. And it is for this reason that God’s “two” of soul and spirit are joined with His Son and the “three” have been revealed to mankind.

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