What is the Holy Spirit?
Why do some passages say that those who are rejected by Jesus Christ will be cast into a lake of fire?
Disyembre 21, 2022What are the gifts of the Spirit?
Disyembre 21, 2022The word “spirit” originally means breath, or wind. The Holy Spirit, sometimes “the Spirit of God”, is a way of describing God’s power. (The term “the Holy Ghost” is only found in the King James Bible – The spirit is not a ghost).
By His Spirit God made the world. By His Spirit God caused Jesus to be born. By His Spirit God caused the prophets and apostles to write the Scriptures. By His Spirit God is everywhere, and knows all that we do, think and say. By His Spirit God will raise the dead to life again when the Lord Jesus comes.
This Spirit-power of God is often called “Holy” when it is applied to God’s special work of producing Holy Scriptures and holy people.
Look at → Luke 1:35; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; Genesis 1:2; Job 33:4; Psalm 104:30; Jeremiah 32:17; 2 Peter 1:21; Psalm 139:1-14; Romans 8:11; Acts 7:51;
In much of the New Testament the word ‘spirit’ is used in a figurative sense in the battle between ‘flesh’ and ‘spirit’. These are just terms for the ‘new man’ in Christ, and the ‘old man’ in Adam.
Look at → Romans 8:5-7; Ephesians 4:20-24;
