Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is a phenomenal person who performs numerous acts and miracles through us, and assists us in every aspect of our lives if we allow him. The Holy Spirit can be characterized and described in numerous ways. The Holy Spirit is God or co-equal to God, and he is a person. The Holy Spirit can also be described as the Spirit of truth, promise, grace, holiness, glory, the eternal spirit, and a comforter. The Holy Spirit is God or coequal to God. He is part of the Trinity, of which all persons are equal and one. In Psalm 139:7-8, the psalmist asks “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.”…
The Holy Spirit is a very unique and amazing person; he is also very complex. The person of the Holy Spirit has many characteristics. Along with all hi characteristics, his emotions are also a huge part of what make up the Holy Spirit. One of the places in the bible you can see the Holy Spirit’s emotions come out is seen in Romans 15:30. This verse particularly shows the Holy Spirit’s love; it goes on to say, “Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to…
doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Upon receiving the gift of salvation, the believer is immediately indwelt by the Holy Spirit where He remains for the rest of the believer’s life. As believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, it is important to know how the Holy Spirit works in our lives and how we can work with the Holy Spirit to better serve our Lord. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit is called Pneumatology. The word pneumatology comes from the two Greek words, pneuma, meaning spirit, and logos,…
THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS vv.1 - 2 Luke emphatically intends to show the role of the Spirit in the ministry of Christ. He begins the contextual description for the narrative by describing Jesus as “full of the Holy Spirit”, an exclusive Lukan claim that immediately follows the baptism narrative where the Spirit is descending in the form of a dove. He is then led by this same Spirit into the wilderness, in which the Greek prepositional phrase εν τω πνευματι most likely conveys intervention through the…
will define what the Holy Spirit (The Supernatural). How the Holy Spirit works, its available to everyone who believers and receives. Explain who is the holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is God. Where to find biblical scriptures and concepts to support the terms relating to the (Supernatural) known as the “Holy Spirit.” How Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is a sin, how people quenched the Holy Spirit. Eph. 4:30.(KJV). The reason some people have no relationship with God. There are people who are…
The Holy Spirit In many churches across this country they will sing a song of praise which asks the Holy Spirit to come and fill this place. The question one needs to answer is why do people see the need to be filled by the Holy Spirit? Romans 8:5-7 tells us, “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind…
If you look and read through the bible, it displays the holy spirit as a person that has the same equality of the father and jesus. The spirit is also referred to one of the three personalities of the trinity which are the father the son and the holy spirit. the divine characteristics of the holy spirit can be seen in the process of the creation of the world in the book of genesis. In genesis 1:1 it obviously says god created the heavens and the earth but the holy spirit was there in the…
The position paper on Spirit Baptism is very insightful and down to the point; in addition, Gordon L. Anderson’s article does an excellent job unpacking the missteps some Pentecostals have made in debating baptism in the Holy Spirit with those who disagree in the theological and scriptural teaching. Specifically, Anderson says, “These different positions have challenged Pentecostals, largely because they are based on biblical and experiential evidence that seems to be more coherent than that…
between God and man created by the inability of communion between Holy and sinful. Jesus Christ had to die in order to reconcile this gap and create a bridge for man to know God again. While Jesus was on earth his mission was to reconnect us with God by fulfilling the Law. However Jesus was limited in doing the mission because His divinity was confined to a mortal body. He initiated the move to bring the reconciliation but it would ultimately be by the Holy Spirit that the original intimacy…
If I had to rate, out of 10, how much the Holy Spirit influences my life I would say six. I say this because I do think about God and the Holy Spirit everyday of my life, I sometimes just do not notice when it is trying to reach out to me. I can be very selfish at times too. I am the oldest of my brothers and I need to realize that I am not the only on in the family. “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the spirit…