WHO IS THE SPIRIT (2) Pneumatology

WHAT HE IS CALLED SHOWS HIS DEITY Acts 16:7 and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them; The Spirit of Jesus 1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. The Spirit of our God John 14:16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; Another helper Allos – ‘another’ of the same kind * [word in passage] Heteros – ‘another’ of a different kind

HIS ATTRIBUTES ARE THOSE THAT BELONG TO GOD ALONE Isaiah 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him? 1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? Job 33:4 "The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Psalm 104:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground. Omniscience Omnipresence Omnipotence

HIS ACTIONS ARE THOSE THAT ONLY GOD CAN PERFORM He brought about the virgin birth He is the agent behind the inspired Scriptures He was involved in the Creation of the world Luke 1:35 The angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God. 2 Peter 1:21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Acts 28:25 And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, 26 saying, ‘ GO TO THIS PEOPLE AND SAY, “ YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND ; AND YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE ; 27 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, AND WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES ; OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.”’ Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.’ 10 “Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”

Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” THE SPIRIT IS IDENTIFIED AS YAHWEH Hebrews 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 “ THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE L ORD : I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM,” He then says, 17 “ AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”

Matthew 12:31 "Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. 32 "Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. Acts 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land? 4 "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." Spirit and God: blaspheming or lying to Spirit is the same as doing the same to God Ac 5.3-4

HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHER PERSONS OF THE GODHEAD DEMONSTRATE HIS DEITY Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. The Spirit is named in the same breath as the Father and the Son – expresses equality

“HE IS A PERSON AND HE IS GOD.” Ryrie, 398.