God The Holy Spirit: The Third Person of the Trinity!

Sometimes I think the Holy Spirit is the forgotten God. You hardly hear His name even mentioned because most Christians do not know much about Him. God the Son, Jesus, was visible and people can picture Him from being on earth. How can a person not picture Jesus performing all of His miracles? If I say “walking on water,” in your minds eye you see the gentle Jesus as a man walking on water, or standing in front of the grave in Bethany and calling out Lazarus from the dead. I can use many examples, and you would agree that there are many events in which we can depict God the Son. But since the Holy Spirit is not seen, it is hard to speak about Him because it is hard to visualize Him.

Let us first think of what we envision when we mention the Holy Spirit. Some of you would probably picture a dove descending from Heaven as He appeared at the baptism of Jesus. Others would say that they envision Him as tongues of fire spread around as He appeared to the Disciples on the Day of Pentecost. Some for sure would say they think of long hair when the Holy Spirit is mentioned, as the case was with Samson. The Bible says that when Samson cut his hair the Holy Spirit had left him without Samson’s knowledge. Here are some more confusing depictions of God the Holy Spirit. In Acts 10:45 we read about the Holy Spirit being poured out on gentile believers. In Acts 4:8,13 the Apostle Peter was filled with Holy Spirit while fearlessly speaking to the religious rulers of his day fearlessly. Verse 13 states that the Holy Spirit gave Peter strength, baldness and extraordinary power. This is one person I love to talk about and I will definitely in future posts. We live in the age of God the Holy Spirit. I understand much about Him; He is fantastic, to say the least.

To me, the Holy Spirit is a person just like God the Son and God the Father; please remember that the Holy Trinity is not a simple god like the god of fertility or the god of beauty, etc. Our God is a complicated God, hard to understand in the human mind, but He reveals Himself to us in many ways. The following biblical references will begin to give you some evidence that the Holy Spirit is a person and not power or energy, or wind.

The first verse I want to share with you is John 14:26, where the Holy Spirit is a teacher; a teacher is a person, not a dove. The verse states, “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things.” The following references will show us that the Holy Spirit speaks; keep in mind that wind can not speak. Acts 21:11 states, “And coming to us (a prophet named Agabus) he took Paul’s girdle and bound his feet and hands, and said, ‘Thus says the Holy Spirit,’ So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this girdle and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles (The Romans).” Revelation 2:7 also states, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” The last example I will use for this post is that the Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf as an advocate would; this certainly tells me that He is a person. “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.”

Lord willing I will continue to write about God the Holy Spirit. Thanks be to God!!!