Subject: Holy Spirit, holy spirit, or both? |
Bible Note: The Holy Spirit which The Father and the Son send to indwell us is none other than the third Person of the Trinity. There is no "holy spirit" distinct from Him. God Himself indwells the believer: "When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance." --Acts 2:1-4 "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory." --Ephesians 1:13-14 "So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you." --1 Thessalonians 4:8 "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?" --1 Corinthians 6:19 (A "temple" is a "place of worship") "Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" --1 Corinthians 3:16 The "holy spirit field" you talk about seems something like the Force from the Star Wars saga. It bears no resemblance to the God of the universe -- the Holy Spirit -- who indwells the Christian and who is to be obeyed, not "tapped into." The Holy Spirit is not an "it." The Holy Spirit is a "He." --Joe! |