Why we should know who is the Holy Spirit?
Because He is God! We need God to LIVE and not to die in hell!
The Holy Spirit is a part of the Holy Trinity or tri-unity with the Father and Son.
Most Christians today understand Jesus the Son, and God the Father as two very distinct Persons within the Godhead;.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and in fact as we begin to know the Person of the Holy Spirit we will want to have a closer relationship with Him just as we would with the Father or Son.
Although the word Trinity is not mentioned in the Bible, we know God is three in one. There are three very distinct Person’sthe Godhead. that make up They are all equal in every way.
They (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit) are all:
Omnipotent – All powerful. Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.
Omnipresent – At all places at once. Psalms 139:7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
Omniscient – All knowing. 1 Corinthians 2:10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Eternal – Hebrews 9:14 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?
Equal – Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? While it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was it not in your own power? why have you conceived this thing in your heart? you have not lied unto men, but unto God.
The Holy Spirit was part of all things, from the very beginning of scripture to the very end of Scripture
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (elohiym (pronounced el-o-heem’) created the heaven and the earth.
- Elohiym is the plural form of God. Therefore, as Scripture was inspired and man began to write the Word, it was evident to the writers that God was made of more than 1 Person but at the same time there was one Godhead.
There are many scriptural references that show the coexistence of the the entities within the Trinity
Luke 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
- Here we see the evidence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all mentioned within one verse. We also see the same reference elsewhere in the Gospels.
Matthew 3:16-17 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mark 1:10-13 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
It is important to understand the Holy Spirit is truly God because of the fact that if we are “born again” or “born from above” He lives in us.
- What we allow ourselves to be part of we are inviting God to be part of..
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Four important principles to remember
1) The Holy Spirit is God, but He is a Person, not a force
2) What is the Holy Spirit’s mission? To reveal Jesus and support believers in Jesus. He is our Comforter. What is Jesus mission…to reveal the Father. What about the Father…to send Jesus and the Holy Spirit so we could be saved and forgiven of ALL our sins and could come to God. Perfect Harmony. They never had a crisis management meeting in Heaven. They never tried to sit down and work things out. They never had a power struggle amongst themselves.
3) The Holy Spirit is a distinct Person within the Godhead, not a force, a thing, or an “it”
Qualities that a person has…(a force or thing does not)
1) The Holy Spirit has intellect. 1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
2) The Holy Spirit has knowledge. 1 Corinthians 2:11 even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
3) The Holy Spirit has emotions. Ephesians 4:30 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
4) The Holy Spirit has his own will and he makes decisions. Acts 16:6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
5) The Holy Spirit Loves. Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Things only a person would do (a force or thing does not)
1) He teaches you things about God and yourself. John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
2) He tells the truth. John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
3) He guides. John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
4) He convinces. John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
5) He prays for you. Romans 8:26-27 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us[b] with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
6) He commands. Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
The Holy Spirit was on the scene long before
- He moved upon the face of the waters and was the active agent in creation. Jesus was the Word of God.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:2 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.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- The Holy Spirit gave us the words of God. 2 Peter 1:20-21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
- The Holy Spirit comes to live in us when we accept Jesus Christ as GOD into our life. This process is called to be a born again or born from ABOVE. We are born again for new life THROUGH our FAITH in God Jesus. It means that we are BORN from Above or born from the Spirit of God. John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
In fact, the Holy Spirit has always worked hand-in-hand with Jesus Christ
- His Birth – Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
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The life and ministry of Jesus – Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness AND… Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- His death and offering Himself as the perfect sacrifice- Hebrews 9:14 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?
- The resurrection of Jesus – Actually all 3 members of the Godhead had a part in the resurrection!
- Father – Ephesians 1:19-20 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Son (Jesus died willingly. He had the power to take His own life up again) – John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
- Holy Ghost – Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- In fact, the main purpose of the Holy Spirit is to tell us about Jesus and Glorify Him. John 16:13-14 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Conclusion:
1. Holy Spirit: One of Three Persons of God
The Holy Spirit is one of the three persons of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For many of us, this is a difficult concept to grasp. The Bible declares that there is only one living God, yet we learn from Scripture that He comprises three separate personages. One way to partially visualize this concept is to examine the nature of water (H2O). Water is a single compound that can exist in three states – liquid, ice and vapor. An egg is another picture. It is comprised of the white, the yoke and the shell, yet it is still one egg. Of course, by no means do these examples paint a complete picture of our God, but they are illustrative of the fact that His three “persons” in no way invalidate His oneness.
2. Holy Spirit: Much More that an Ethereal Life Force
The Holy Spirit is not a vague, ethereal life force. He is not impersonal or unthinking. The Holy Spirit is a “person” equal in every way with God, the Father, and God, the Son. The Bible tells us that all the characteristics of God apparent in the Father and the Son are equally apparent in the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is composed of intellect, emotions and will. In 1 Corinthians 2:11, we see an example of the Holy Spirit’s intellect and will: “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.”
In Romans 15:30, we see the Holy Spirit has emotion, as represented by the capacity to love:“Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;”
Although the Holy Spirit has all the characteristics of God, He has specific roles and functions in our lives. In John 16:13, we see the Spirit of Truth as our guide: “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.”
In John 14:26, we learn that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor and teacher: “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
In 1 Corinthians 3:16, we see that the Holy Spirit lives inside us: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
In Acts 1:8, we understand where our power comes from: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.”
In Romans 8:14, we understand where our direction comes from: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
In Romans 8:26, we learn that the Holy Spirit is there for us in times of weakness and prayer: “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
In Hebrews 9:14, we see that the Holy Spirit is eternal. In 1 Corinthians 2:11, we see that the Holy Spirit is all-knowing. In Psalm 139, we see that the Holy Spirit is everywhere.
Brother, pray now to the LORD
and accept His forgiveness of all your sins
through FAITH in His Son – God Jesus Christ!
Pray God right now And be saved!
God is bringing Judgement. Return of the Lord Jesus and His Judgement day should make difference in our behavior. Live your best in purity. Be excited about meeting with the Lord. You should anxiously await with joiful anticipation of the Lord’s return. If your hearts is filled with anticipation, excitement and joy, it indicates that you are walking with the Lord. If you are NOT sure and confident that if you would die today you would go to Heaven, it means you need to get right with God. If you never said- YES- to Jesus, do it today! If you have fallen away from the Lord, come back to Him today.
We will close with prayers:
Father, we believe that Jesus is coming again. We believe we need to be ready. And Lord I am praying about any person who is reading my message and if they dont have confidence that they are ready for Your return, help them to come to You today and get right with You now. Amen.
First, recognise brother, that you are sinner. Be sorry for your sin. And ask God to forgive you right now. The way as we do that TROUGH PRAYER. That’s how we communicate with God.
I’d like to lead you in prayer. If you want Christ to forgive your sins. If you want to know that when you will die you will go to Heaven then pray this prayer with me right now:
God, I know I am a sinner. And I am sorry for what I have done. And I turn from my sin now and ask You to forgive me. Thank You that Your Son Jesus Christ died on the cross and shed His blood for me. Be my Savior and my Lord. And be my friend. I want to follow You from this day forward. Fill me with Your Spirit. And help me to be Your disciple. Thank You for accepting me. Thank You for forgiving me. Thank You that I am now YOURS. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
If you sincerely asked God to forgive you then WELCOME to the family of God. Now you are adopted by God. Now you bacame His son and His inheritance. His angels have written your name in the Book of Life. And you have the BRIGHT FUTURE.
Walk with God and live eternally Arab nation! Amen.
Questions and Answers:
thank you for this message below and the email of miss Dalia Omar, i want to said that there is no difference between all religions who believe in god since theses humans believe on something who to be afraid in their live and the important is to have a maximum of humans who have a good heart and have a love to another humans. In the history we see that many people who believe in the god religions who love war, and the objective is to have much more power regardless of the number of human died. If the entire human in this earth have a good heart, I am sure that there is much more space for each one. I see all the religions , Islam, Christian, Judaism like a factor that difference a human from the animal.
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Reply:
Isser salam,
Thank u for message.
You are right in what u said.
But some ways of some of beliefs and religions are killing people and destroying our world….Consider religion of Osama Bin Laden, or Islamic fundamentalists
who are claiming that Jihad is correct way and bombs of suicide bombers are bringing them to paradice according to Qur’an. Or religion of some catholics who
disregarded teaching of Jesus and created their own religion to justify their killing of Muslims in Israel…There are countless number of such madness in lives of mad people. They are mad because they HAVE not found TRUE God!
But there is only ONE Way of the God of LOVE- Jesus- who is leading us to FREEDOM from our sins and WHO stoped any VIOLENCE in our lives by bringing to us
other standards! Standards of God of LOVE and Justice! There are no such standards in Islam, Buddism or in any other world except HIS PERFECT World called the
Kingdom of Heaven which He is going to give you in your heart, your country and in your family! Kingdom of Heaven will be in you! Believe in Him!
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Bahira
you said:
Jesus appears on the Iron …
It is really very stupid to claim that it is face of Jesus.
But your Qur’an claims that you will see Jesus soon. You will see His face and pierced hands…
He is coming back to us to the earth.
And God in Bible said that we will meet Him. If we will not get right with God Jesus, then
how will you meet Him? As your enemy…your friend…or God who justified you and accepted you to His NEW World through your
FAITH in Him?
Bahira
thank u for messages.
If u talk about worshipping idols, pls know that idols are the most of most prohibited in Islam
Look to mthe idol STATUS of Jesus so large on the top of a montain near Brazil Rio de Janero !!look to Vatican drawings of a baby and his father paints and idol status – Correct brother. Idol worshiping is prohibited by christian God. But catholics dont want to obey our holy Scriptures where God said that ALL who are worshiping any gods except Him will die in hell! God of Islam is among these gods. If you will worship allah in Islam you will die in hell! Belive in God Jesus!
Dont worship any pictures or any monuments of Jesus or His mother. It is sin. And punishment for sin is DEATH. We should worship God in the TRUTH and SPIRIT!
There is no truth in pictures! You are right!
WHO IS THEN WORSHIPPING IDOLS ???????????
Bahira ..do u want to convince me using bible verses ??- yes.
Jesus, save my brother Bahy, PLEASE. Amen.
Bahira
…..I wander from your ignorance !!
you know !! Even Arab Christian knows well that
there is a great diffirence between Allah & Jesus !!
– Arab christians are saving Muslims from hell!
Jesus, save please Dalia from hell and save also everyone who is reading this message. Amen.
Oh Jesus, I am asking You to give Your precious FAITH in God Jesus to my sister Dalia! Amen.
First I’d like to thank you about your reply that means you are interested to discuss me Although your reply is too late.– i am interested to communicate with u!
But let me to reply your mail, First I’d to Explained that I’ll do as you do, write your comment or reply and I’ll reply.
First you say:-
Because there is only ONE God and He is God of our father Ibrahim. But He is NOT in Islam because Islam is AGAINST His Son -Jesus Christ.
I’d say that all Muslims believe that there is only ONE God and He is God of our father Ibrahim and believe Jesus but as a son of Virgo Miriam who born by miracle from Allah and who selected by Allah to inform people The teachings of Christianity. So you are wrong when you say But He is NOT in Islam.– God said that all who accept Jesus- His Son- ACCEPT Him. All who reject Jesus as God reject His Father! So, christian God and muslim God are different.
Second you say:-
The word ‘gospel’ means good news that Jesus is ALIVE. There are four gospel accounts in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John give account as witnesses about everything what happened with them and Jesus.
Let me say if this true Why the four men tales of different public events that occurred at the time of Christ like wars as an example it certainly occurred with them and Jesus at the same time so I think if you read the event of a war that should not find a difference in the narrative of events or the number of combatants or the number of dead as it exists the four Gospels.– narrative events..correct…people are different and all say about their perceptions…but 4 gospels are about God Jesus.
Third you say:-
Matthew had formerly been a tax collector, a Jew working for the Roman government, probably dishonest and despised
Probably dishonest and despised I’d to ask you if you have a friend probably dishonest and despised are you believe him if he tell you some thing ? may yes or no , I think that.– we are all dishonest and despised cuz we all are sinners. But holy God is giving us- sinners- His Kingdom! Kingdom of Heaven is for sinners who repented and turned to God from evil sins.
If it was really Jesus son of God certainly the God must choose to his son the person who moves everything what happened with him and Jesus so this person must be honest .- Qur’an says that Jesus was holy and Bible says it too.
Fourth you say :-
there is no discrepancies in Gospels. They just describe evens from different positions and different perspectives.
As I mentioned earlier in a war you can found a different between Matthew and Luke , But, unfortunately I do not remember it now but I will tell you later
Finally you say about BERNABA Gospel :-
yes it is FALSE teaching and commonly NOT accepted as part of Bible because it gives WRONG account of the events.
Who is the person who ruled that it is false ? And how he ruled ? Is he ruled based on rules ?
And why he say BERNABA is false and other 4 versions are right? Why not be the opposite is true?
Is there a basis for this decision?– Basis is HOLY Scripture and its main concepts. If one of any considered scriptures claims different from what God said before – it is considered as false teaching.
Again I’d like to thank you and be happy to discuss you.– God bless you and save you brother!
Bahira
- Salam aliekum , peace be upon you and all people on earth
Our God be One . Jesus is a prophet of the prohpets of God ..Our God be greater than having a son,…….God the greatest shoud not have a son how to Be a God and have a son .God means He is not like his creatures . if there are two gods , all earth and the sky will be corrupted ……every thing in earth or in the sky or in stars points at The oneness of Our God
Our God is One
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Salam brother,
God is not human being.
We have in our organism also such cells which could be multiplied without any “woman” cells.
There are many organisms in sea which are not human being but they are multiplied even without “woman” organisms.
For example: cancer cells, or team cells…WHY then God CANNOT have Son Jesus?
He said in more than 300 prophecies in the OLD testamnet (part of Bible) that Jesus – God will be born to save us from our sins and death
through our FAITH in Him.
And all who will refuse to believe in Him will die in hell.
Be saved by God Jesus, my brother! Amen.
Bahira
Prayers:
O My Jesus, forgive us our sins,
save us from the fires of Hell
and lead all souls to Heaven,
especially those who are in
most need of Thy mercy.
- God is light; in him there in no darkness at all.
If we claim to have fellowship with him,
yet walk in the darkness,
we lie and son not live by the truth.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
purifies us from sin.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (John 1:5b-8)
Most holy and merciful Father,
We confess to you and to one another,
that we have sinned against You
by what we have done,
and by what we have left undone.
We have not loved You with our
whole heart and mind and strength.
We have not fully loved our neighbors as ourselves.
We have not always had in us the mind of Christ.
You alone know how often we have grieved you
by wasting your gifts, by wandering from your ways.
Forgive us, we pray you, most merciful Father;
And free us from our sin.
Renew in us the grace and strength of your Holy Spirit, for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Savior. Amen.
- Paradoxes
O Changeless God,
Under the conviction of the Spirit I learn that
The more I do, the worse I am,
The more I know, the less I know,
The more holiness I have, the mores sinful I am,
The more I love, the more there is to love.
O wretched man that I am!O Lord,
I have a wild heart
And cannot stand before thee;
I am like a bird before a man.
How little I love thy truth and ways!
I neglect prayer,
By thinking I have prayed enough and earnestly,
By knowing thou hast saved my soul.
Of all hypocrites, grant that I may not be an evangelical hypocrite,
Who sins more safely because grace abounds,
Who tells his lusts that Christ’s blood cleanseth them,
Who reasons that God cannot cast him into hell, for his is saved,
Who loves evangelical preaching, churches, Christians, but lives
Unholily.
My mind is a bucket without a bottom,
With no spiritual understanding,
No desire for the Lord’s Day,
Ever learning but never reaching the truth,
Always at the gospel-well but never holding water.
My conscience is without conviction or contrition,
With nothing to repent of.
My will is without power of decision or resolution.
My heart is without affection, and full of leaks.
My memory has no retention,
So I forget so easily the lessons learned,
And thy truths seep away.
Give me a broken heart that yet carries home the water of grace.
Amen
- Prayer of Confession and Pardon
O Holy One, we call to you and name you as eternal, ever-present, and boundless in love. Yet there are times, O God, when we fail to recognize you in the dailyness of our lives. Sometimes shame clenches tightly around our hearts, and we hide our true feelings. Sometimes fear makes us small, and we miss the chance to speak from our strength. Sometimes doubt invades our hopefulness, and we degrade our own wisdom.
Holy God, in the daily round from sunrise to sunset, remind us again of your holy presence hovering near us and in us. Free us from shame and self-doubt. Help us to see you in the moment-by-moment possibilities to live honestly, to act courageously, and to speak from our wisdom.
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