The Holy Spirit should be emphasized more in our theology and in our thinking. The only ones who really accentuates the work of the Spirit in their conversation are charismatics, and they mostly misrepresent His actions today. So, this week is all about the Holy Spirit and Who He is, as well as, the work that He does. I hope it will help us to think more often about Him. After all, our sanctification, and therefore, our spiritual purity, is a work of the Holy Spirit.

In our last blog, I established that the Spirit has consciousness, rationality, and individuality. In other words, He is a person. However, we should realize that He is not just a person; He is a di-vine person. He is a part of the godhead that is composed of three distinct individuals. Since proving that there is a godhead, that is, that the One God of the Bible is made up of three distinct and divine individuals, would take the entirety of this blog, I am going to assume that most of you reading this blog already accept this scriptural truth. My focus will simply be on emphasizing the deity of the Holy Spirit, and that we should give Him the reverence that He, as such, deserves.

How do I know that the Holy Spirit is God? First, because He is eternal (Hebrews 9:14). Eternal existence is a divine attribute. Only God has always existed and will always be. While man will have no ending, so far as the soul is concerned, there was a time that we all came into existence. However, God is from everlasting to everlasting (Psalms 90:2), and this can be said of the Holy Spirit.

Furthermore, the Spirit is both omnipresent and omniscient. David makes it clear that there is nowhere we can flee from the presence of the Spirit of God.

Psalm 139:7-12 (ESV)
⁷ Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸ If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! ⁹ If I take the wings of the morn-ing and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, ¹⁰ even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” ¹² even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Once again, only God is omnipresent. Since the Spirit is omnipresent, He has to be divine in nature. When we add to this the fact that the Spirit is omniscient, knowing even the mind of the Father (1 Corinthians 2:11), we have an overwhelming case for the deity of the Holy Spirit. However, there is even more evidence. The Spirit has Divine Power. He creates (Genesis 1:1-2; Job 26:13), works miracles (Matthew 12:28; 1 Corinthians 12:8-11), and inspired prophets and apostles, giving them divine truth (1 Corinthians 2:11-13; Ephesians 3:3-5; 1 Peter 1:9-12; 2 Pe-ter 1:19-21).

There should be no doubt in our minds that the Holy Spirit is God. So, just like the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit deserves our admiration and praise. All the accolades that we give the Father and Son, we should be giving the Holy Spirit too. Let us honor the Spirit with the fruit of our lips and by our obedience to His revealed commands. We should be thankful everyday that we have Him in our lives,

As you wind down for the night, think on these things.