Spiritual gifts part 31: The Holy Spirit is God throughout the Scriptures

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Sunday,
September 26, 2010

Spiritual gifts part 31: The Holy Spirit is God throughout the Scriptures

The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts

Point 2. The Giver of the Gifts: The Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit.

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.

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;
Isa 6:8-9, Act 28:25-27; Heb 10:15-17, Jer 31:33

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, 1Co 12:11
Omniscience, 1Co 2:10-11.
Omnipotence, Rom 15:13.
Omnipresence,
Psa 139:7-8.

Eternal Life:
Heb 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Veracity:
1Jo 5:6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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

Act 20:28 "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.