Sunday, March 10, 2013

What is the Holy Spirit?



 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, whatever I have said to you.

1 Corinthians 2:13
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

In the greek strong  concordance:
4151. pneuma -- wind, spirit
... by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or
(superhuman) an angel,

Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit, and He’s saying it is like wind. When you get into the Greek behind that, the Greek word is pneuma, which again means "a current of air," "breath," or a "breeze, " and again by analogy, "a spirit." 

So both the Hebrew and the Greek word are talking about breath. It’s talking about wind.www.twspbu.org

 
The Holy Spirit, the breath of God. When you get into that kind of analogy, you now understand better what the attributes are. It’s no longer something spooky, but it’s something very close to you. It’s as close to you as your very breath. The Bible says, "In Him we live and move and have our being." I love the current praise song that says "You are the air I breathe, Your holy Presence in me." We can literally breathe in the Presence of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit with our breath.

demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit -- ghost, 1491. eidos -- appearance, fashion, shape, sight.
... 1491 ("visible appearance") refers to the taken on by each of the three Persons of the tri-personal God: a) the in Lk 3:22: "And the Holy Spirit descended upon The Holy Spirit is one and the same Who spake in the prophets and apostles.

The Holy Spirit is one and the same Who spake in the prophets and apostles, Who is the Spirit of God and of Christ; Whom, further, Scripture designates the Paraclete,( in Christianity, the Holy Spirit)  and the Spirit of life and truth.