Spiritual gifts part 30: The Deity of the Holy Spirit.
Pastor-Teacher Spiritual Gifts Part 30: The Deity of the Holy Spirit.The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts The Personhood and Deity of the Holy Spirit One attack is that He is not even a person. But the other is that He is not God. Tonight we will examine in detail the deity of the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Act 28:25-27 proves His deity since the passage quoted in Isaiah is attributed to Adonai. 1: Trinity passages reveal the coequality, coeternity, and co-infinity of God the Holy Spirit with God the Son and God the Father. 2Co 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 2: The deity of the Holy Spirit is proven by the words used to describe Him.
a. The Hebrew word Adonai is used of the Holy Spirit; b. In Eph 4:30 He is called theos which is the Greek word for God. c. In 2Co 3:17 the Holy Spirit is called kurios which connotes deity. 3: The deity is the Holy Spirit is proven by the mention of His divine attributes.
Sovereignty:
Eternal Life:
Veracity: Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. Omniscience, 1Co 2:10-11. Omnipotence, Rom 15:13. The Holy Spirit supplies the divine power for believers to execute the PPOG. Omnipresence, Psa 139:7-8. He is also omnipresent because He is said to indwell every believer, 1Co 6:19.
The Holy Spirit gives life:
He inspires the Scriptures, 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; The Holy Spirit also regenerates believers, Joh 3:5-6. 4: The Christian is said to be indwelt by the Spirit, that is, by God, in 1Co 3:16, 6:19; Eph 2:22. 1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 5: Believers are placed into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, that is by God, 1Co 12:6-18
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