The Person of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit is God
The Third Person of the Trinity
Description
The Holy Spirit is not merely a force or influence but a divine Person—the third Person of the Trinity, coequal and coeternal with the Father and the Son. He possesses all the attributes of deity: omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, and eternality. To lie to the Holy Spirit is to lie to God. He is called the Lord, the Spirit. He was present at creation, hovering over the face of the waters. He is the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin, testifying to His full deity.
Key Verses
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?