Who Is This Spirit In Us? (Part 1)

 In my last blog, I spoke about the need to be born of above to be able to enter the kingdom of God.  This was defined as being born again of the Spirit.  This happens when you receive what Jesus did for everyone, who chooses Him for what He did, on the cross, in His burial, and by His resurrection.  When you accept His sacrifice, your soul is filled with the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead. In this, Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Spirit. Now the Question, "Who is this Spirit?" Who is this Holy Spirit that indwells a person who acknowledges acceptance of the truth and believes.

The First Commandment says;

I am the Lord your God, you should have no other God's before Me.

Understanding who this Lord is, is the key to knowing who the Spirit is that is now dwelling in your soul.  When Moses asked God, at the time he was given the ten commandments,  "Whom shall I tell them you are?", the Lord replied, "Tell Them that I Am."  Not a lot of information there.  That is why He gave us the scriptures, so that we could come to know who He is. I am going to break it down this way so you can see the different ways that He has described Himself.

                                 The Holy Spirit in the Spiritual realm.

I am the Lord........  who He is.

Your God ......... His position.

                                 What the Holy Spirit did in the physical realm.

Father .....  what He did.

His Son (Body)Yeshua (Jesus) "The Lord Our Salvation"....... His name.


Before the Holy Spirit became a Father and a Son, He existed as a Spirit. Since God is Holy, then He is a Holy Spirit.  This Holy Spirit, somewhere in eternity, came up with an eternal plan. In this plan, He would become a Father.  In doing so, He made a body for Himself.  With this body, He, through His sacrificing Himself as, "the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world", would make for Himself an eternal glorified body by rising from the dead.  By what He did, EVERYONE who wants to, can be made in His likeness of His resurrected body. Being born of above a person can now be made in the likeness of His eternal glorified body at the resurrection.  Until the resurrection a believer walks in the newness of life, becoming a New Creation, having the Spirit of God living in them. 

How do we acknowledge this Spirit?  What do we call Him?

 One of the most telling passages of scripture, that explains to us who this Spirit is that dwells in a believer(saint), is in the gospel of John Chapter 14, verses 16-26;

                          16"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that
                          He may be with you forever, 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world
                          can not receive, because it does not behold Him, but you know Him
                          because He abides with you, and will be in you."

Key points right here.  I call them gold nuggets.  Jesus said, "seek and you will find."  As a New Creation, born again of the Spirit of God, most saints never take the time to read the precious Word of God.  We must read the Word of God to learn who He is and find the things hidden in the sides of the river beds, the Gold, that explain to us His true nature and who He is.  If you don't, then you may be listening to doctrines of demons that attempt conceal His true identity. 

The apostle Paul stated in Ephesians Chapter 1, verse 17, that he prayed this for the saints;

                         "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you
                          a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the true knowledge of Him."

 And again in Ephesians 4:13;

                         "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the true knowledge of the
                         Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
                         of Christ". 

When Paul says he prays that we grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, he is praying that we grow in knowing and understanding who He Is.  It is not saying in these passages to grow in all He knows, although in other scripture we do learn a lot of what He knows, but only in part.

So how was Jesus describing Himself in verses 16 and 17 ?  The Father will send a Helper, who is the Spirit of truth.  We know from scripture that Jesus is the Truth.  Jesus was revealing to the disciples, that they know Him because He (Jesus) is with you and will be IN YOU. Can this be backed up in other scripture? Of course it can or I wouldn't say it.

Paul gave us this gold nugget in his letter to the Galatians, when he wrote this in Chapter 4, verse 6;

                    "And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our 

                    hearts, crying Abba! Father!"

 Paul wrote another gold nugget in the 2nd letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 13, verse 5;

                    "Test yourselves to see if you are of the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you
                     not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you fail
                     the test?"

 When Paul wrote "examine yourselves!", this is one of the few places in all of scripture where an explanation point is used.  So do you think that this is an important thing to know? Of course it is.

I see a lot of confusion among the saints on how they should worship the Lord our God.  I see a lot of Holy Spirit worship, which is not bad in itself, but it is very important to acknowledge that this Holy Spirit that you are worshiping is Himself the Lord our God, The Lord Jesus (Yeshua), The Lord our Salvation..

 Jesus said, in Mathew, Chapter 18, verse 20,

                    " For where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in their mist."

 It is important to invite the Holy Spirit (Yeshua) into your mist by gathering in Jesus name, so that everyone, and even yourself, understands who you are worshiping.  God (the Holy Spirit) was very particular about the name that He would be called when He Himself came into this physical realm in the person of Jesus.  He had told both Mary and Joseph to name the child Jesus, Yeshua, The Lord Our Salvation, because He would be The Savior to the world.

 We also know from Acts Chapter 4, verse 12;

                     "And there is no other name under that has been given among men, by which
                     we must be saved."

  So if you are really concerned about someone getting saved and becoming born of above, becoming a New Creation, we better invoke the name of Jesus.

My next blog will be the second part of "Who Is This Spirit? This is a lot to absorb.

May you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.