In Jeremiah 27:5 the omnipotent (all-powerful) God made this statement: “I have made the earth, mankind and all the creatures that are upon it (the earth) by MY GREAT POWER … and have given them (earth, creatures, etc.) to whomever I want to have them.”

As an aside I will interject a bit of history at this point.  Because of Abram’s (Abraham’s) obedience, God promised to give his descendants (the Israelites) all of the land between the Nile and Euphrates Rivers (Gen. 15:18).  The world, including much of the church world, does not accept this Biblical Truth, which is why the Jews–three of the tribes of Israel–are universally hated for occupying a small part of the land God promised Abraham’s descendants, commonly known as the Promised (Holy) Land today.  The Jews misnamed the area they officially occupied in 1948 “Israel.”  The small portion of the Promised Land the Jews live on today is the area anciently called “Judea.”  Racially, the Jews are Israelites; tribally they are Judahites comprised of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi.  Today the identities of the other nine tribes are unknown to the world and to themselves.  As a group they are commonly known as “the lost tribes of Israel.”  Only a minutely few people know where they are and by what names they now exist.  Read Who and Were is Israel Today?  Key word, Today.  Now let us return to the focal subject–The Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 27:5 and 51:15 reveal God’s unfanthomable creative power which, as this series proclaims, is His Holy Spirit.  As a man, Jesus of Nazareth had the same power (Jn. 3:34).  The Holy Spirit is the power that begat Him (Lk. 1:35) and later raised Him from the dead (Jn. 14:26).  Let it be understood that EVERY WORK DONE BY THE LORD WAS AND CONTINUES TO BE DONE BY THAT SAME POWER–HIS HOLY SPIRIT–which is also called “the Spirit of Jesus” (Rom. 8:9/Phil. 1:19/Gal. 4:6).  Let it be known that the Holy Spirit is in God’s Very Elect–those who are “in Christ” (Rom. 8:2).  This is the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1:4).  Those who walk in holiness (in obedience to God’s Word) have the same Holy Spirit within them that Jesus had within Him while on earth.  As was Jesus, His true saints (“holy ones”) are led by and obey the Holy Spirit, making them true children of God (Rom. 8:14).  These are they who will rise to meet Christ in the air during the first resurrection (1 Thes. 4:16), descend with Him to the Mt. of Olives, enter Jerusalem with Him where He will establish the Kingdom of God.  There Jesus and His saints (“holy ones”) will live forever, ruling and reigning with Him over the earth and the universe.  I warned you that I often go off track.  But when the Holy Spirit moves, I must move with it.  Back to the subject at hand.

God made man through the power of the Holy Spirit (Job 33:4).  True converts are baptized unto God’s Truth through His Holy Spirit power (Matthew 3:11).  The Holy Spirit dwells in the Lord’s holy ones (Acts 2:38), reveals His secrets to them (Lk. 2:26) and brings things to their remembrance through the Holy Spirit (Jn. 14:26).

The Holy Spirit of God and Christ is omnipresent, meaning that the Spirit is everywhere at all times.  Recall in Genesis 1:2 that the Spirit “hovered over the deep” (water) that COVERED THE ENTIRE EARTH following the war between God and His angels and Lucifer (Satan) and his angels.  Note: many, possibly hundreds or even thousands, of years elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.  Note also that the word “God” in verse 1 is “Elohim”–plural, meaning “Gods.”  Yahweh (God) and Adonai (the “Word”–Jn. 1:1-4,14) created all things through the power of Their Holy Spirit, which is not a third god, but rather is the power of the two Gods.

Both God and Christ are each in one location at any given time as the Scriptures plainly state.  As King David made clear, Their Spirit is everywhere at all times.  In Psalm 139 David confesses to the Lord that no matter where he might go, “You are there” in the form of His Spirit (vss 7-12).  He summarizes that Truth in verse 7: “Where can I go from Your Spirit? or where can I hide from Your presence?”  The answer is–nowhere, because God’s Holy Spirit is everywhere.  Note that David equated God’s Spirit with God Himself, as God being present.

As stated, Jesus and ALL WHO ARE HIS–WHO ARE “IN HIM”–were spiritually begotten by God through power of the Holy Spirit.  God is Christ’s Father to whom He prayed.  If the Holy Spirit was a god, Jesus would have prayed to Him.  He did not, nor are we ever told to pray to the Holy Spirt, but rather to pray USING THE HOLY SPIRIT’S POWER.  It is through the Spirit that God speaks to us and we speak to Him.  When Peter professed to Jesus: “You are the Christ (anointed One), the Son of the living God” (Mat. 16:15-17), Jesus told him that God had spoken those Words to Him.  No one else heard them.  How did God speak to him?  Through the Holy Spirit.  Peter “heard” God’s spiritual “voice” in his heart (mind) and repeated what he heard.  I have heard His “voice” many times.  When I reacted appropriately, I succeeded.  When I did not, I failed.

I will close this posting by using man himself as a perfect example of God and Christ having a Spirit that is not a third God as trinitarians claim.  The Bible plainly states that MAN HAS A SPIRIT (Job 32:8/ Proverbs 20:27/ 1 Cor. 6:20).  This is also brought out in I Corinthians 2:11: “For what man knows the things of a man (himself) except by the SPIRIT OF MAN WHICH IS IN HIM?”  Man knows the things of himself through his spirit.  However, man can know the things of God only through the Holy Spirit through which uses to communicate with His people.  Having a spirit does not make a man two men.  God and Christ are two Gods Who share a singular Spirit which is their power.  Having a Spirit does not make God two Gods or Christ two Christs.  Nor does the Holy Spirit constitute a third God.  L.J.