THIS HOLY SPIRIT - 2

‘THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD’

In the narration of the birth of Jesus Christ, it was recorded that the angel of the Lord, visited Mary and gave her some good news which at first was strange to her. This good news was that she will be pregnant with a baby that will change the course and destiny of the fallen man. She will bear the baby Jesus in her womb, but how will it be? She asked in curiosity, and the angel gave her a reply which was not so clear to her, she found it difficult to believe that 'a Holy Spirit' will come upon her and then she will be pregnant.

We all know the end of this story, that the Holy Spirit truly came upon this virgin and she became pregnant with  a baby. This baby was Jesus (meaning the savior) and Christ (meaning the anointed one).

Now, why are we telling this story?

In our study of the Word of God, we have discovered how that Jesus was both God and man. The bible made us understand in the book of John that, he was in the beginning with God, and that all things were created by him, and in fact, that he (the Word) is God himself. John went further to tell us how this Word who is God himself became Flesh and dwelled on this earth as Jesus Christ, but many people did not know it. They took him for an ordinary man just like everyone else.

And in the book of Philippians, we have it spelt out more clearly, that God left his throne to become Jesus Christ. This again confirms the deity of Jesus Christ as God himself.

So, if Jesus Christ was born of the Holy Spirit coming upon the virgin, then it means the Holy Spirit birthed Jesus Christ. By implication, the Holy Spirit and the Father are the same!

The Holy Spirit is therefore God!

Let’s get this very clear…

God is not three persons. God is just one person! The ELOHIM…

The confusion of the understanding of the three:  Father, Son and the Holy Spirit is a very major controversy, I agree, and I do not intend to delve into that theology here. It is the first argument ever to spring up after the death of the apostles; it is exactly the argument that caused the great schism – the first division in the church in the early 1000s.

The Holy Spirit has been relegated to be the ‘third’ person in the trinity. Although this is true by dispensation, however ‘third’ does not refer to the position as in hierarchy at all. The Holy Spirit is not the third person in command. He is not the next person after Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is not less important than the Father and the Word. The Holy Spirit is the same as the Word, and the same as the Father.

The confusion of the trinity is a result of many statement and occurrences in the bible where the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit were manifested distinctly. For example, in the story of the baptism of Jesus Christ. We have the Father speaking from heaven, as the Holy Spirit descended like a dove, with Jesus inside the water. So people use cases like this to differentiate between these three, and get confused again when Jesus say that to Philip that he sees him, he has seen the Father!

What then is the mystery? Why do we say that the Holy Spirit is not inferior? Why do we say that the Holy Spirit is God?

This is because, God is one!

The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit is the name of the three offices or functions of God to humanity! 

That God is the Father when he needed to be, that he became the Son to perform another function or task, and that he became the Holy Spirit to perform another function. One God splitted himself into three major Functions.  Hope you get it?

To avoid arguments and to stick with sound doctrine, we will not go deeper than that.

These three are functions, the Father must send the Son to the earth realm to redeem, the Son must be filled with the Holy Spirit to successfully complete this task. The Holy Spirit must then seal those who were redeemed thereafter, for proper identification and connection with the Godhead.

All these are the functions, roles and offices that are necessary for the fulfillment of the eternal counsel of God.

God is one!

God is not three!

The Holy Spirit is God!

Don’t ever take him for a wind; he is not a wind, neither a breeze!

Although the Holy Spirit has taken up several forms; like wind, breeze, dove, fire etc. But these does not make him any of these things. He became those things at those times to perform certain tasks.

Remember that Peter made Ananias to understand that they lied against the Holy Spirit? If you check well, he again said they lied against God. So, the Holy Spirit is God!

You believe that God is a Spirit? Then that Spirit is same as the Spirit that is you!

Amen.