The Holy Spirit - how Scripture address Him

Luke 1:35

            “And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” 

We refer to Him as the third person of the Triune (Three in One) God, and Scripture addresses Him as the Holy Spirit, today is a good day to look deeper into what the Scriptures say about Him.  In the second letter of Peter, chapter one verse twenty-one, we are told the Holy Spirit is the “Author of Scripture.” Both the prophet Isaiah and the apostle John gives this insight into the Holy Spirit as Comforter / Counselor / Helper; Isaiah 11:2, “And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.”   In John 14:16-17 we have this insight; “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”

The apostle John calls the Holy Spirit our “Teacher” in John 14:26, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my mane, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”  Note: it requires one to read and study the Bible for the Holy Spirit to teach us and to bring to our memory what Jesus has said.  The apostle Paul tells us the Holy Spirit is also our “Intercessor” in Romans 8:26-27, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning’s too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

The apostle John tells us when the Helper comes He will “Convict of Sin” and of Righteousness” you will find this in John 16:7-11.  As one who is a follower of Jesus Christ, who put faith in the blood of Jesus that covers all sin, and in the finished work of the cross, this act of the Holy Spirit to be our “Deposit / Seal” “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”

When the Holy Spirit comes upon you and the power of the Most High overshadows you your life will never be the same, God is the same today as He was yesterday.

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Bob Rice