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Holy Spirit is not God.
The Holy Spirit is a part of Man; the Holy Ghost is God; and there are three Spirits of God.
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I am a retired pastor of
the Church of God (Tennessee). My name is Isaac Livingston. I am from Neyyoor India. |
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1. Three Spirits are called as the 'Spirit of God'.
Three Spirits are known by the name, "the Spirit of God" in the Bible. The one and the only Spirit, who is Omnipotent, who is God, is the first of the three Spirits of God. For details, please use this link: "True God." The second is the Holy Ghost, who is one of the three persons in God; he is actually a Soul, but he is also called the Spirit of God. For details, please use this link: "Holy Ghost is God Person." The third is the holy spirit, he is the spirit of man, and he is also called the 'Spirit of God.' Actually this Spirit, which was the third part of Adam and Eve, died or departed from them, when they have committed sin. So, Jesus Christ tells us to be born again, that is to receive this spirit back from God, and to become a complete person. Let me give a link to see the complete information to the context: "God created man to overcome." Now let us study about this spirit of man, who is the holy spirit.
2. Holy Spirit is a part of Man; Holy Ghost is God.
Usually Christians think that the holy spirit is God. No! God calls the spirit of man, which Adam and Eve lost when they have committed sin, as the holy spirit. Why? The spirit of man could not stand sin and died or left. This spirit gives life to the soul to live to inherit the kingdom of God.
Isaiah 63:11, Zechariah 12:1, 1 Corinthians 2:11, Proverbs 20:27, Ecclesiastes 3:21, and Zechariah 12:1 say {Isaiah 63:11 says: "he (God) put his holy Spirit within him (man)." Zechariah 12:1 says: "God form the spirit of man within him." So, the holy spirit is called as spirit of man, since it is given to man. 1 Corinthians 2:11 says: "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." Proverbs 20:27 says: "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." Ecclesiastes 3:21 says: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Zechariah 12:1 says: "... the LORD, ... formeth the spirit of man within him."} that the names, "the spirit of man" and "the holy spirit" are used for the same spirit in man. So, we must know that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Man. However, the holy spirit will not force the soul to be holy, but it will lead the soul to holy life. If a person chooses not to follow the holy spirit, but continues in sin, the holy spirit will be grieved and will leave the person. Then, we may say that the person has quenched the spirit. So, a person has power over the holy spirit, and the person can grieve and also quench the holy spirit, since this spirit is subject to the person.
But ignorant preachers say that the holy spirit is God. We must not be confused between the holy spirit and the Holy Ghost. The holy spirit is a part of a born-again person, but the Holy Ghost is Omnipotent God, he is the creator of angels including Lucifer. Sin against him will not be forgiven. He is not the holy spirit. One important point to note is this: We are not born with the spirit. We must be born-again; that is, we must receive the holy spirit from God.
3. Receive Holy Spirit to see and to enter Heaven.
In "John 3:3 Jesus says, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." So, if we do not receive the spirit, we cannot even see heaven. "Ephesians 1:13 ... after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance ..." So the holy spirit will be sealed into us, as an earnest, that is an advance, to the inheritance in heaven. That is, if we do not have the spirit, we will have no place in heaven. Romans 8:9 says, "... Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." So, if we do not have the spirit, we do not even belong to Christ.
4. The Spirit of Man gives life to the Soul of Man.
In the beginning God created a lifeless dormant soul and a living flesh body, put them together and created a man. And God gave him a spirit to this living man by blowing through his nose. It is in Genesis 2:7. {"7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."} When the living man received the spirit, the living man became a living soul. At that point the man had a living flesh body and a living spirit body; and so, the man had two lives. One is, the soul with the flesh body, and the other is, the soul with the spirit body. But Adam lost the spirit body, or died to the spirit body, when he had committed sin. His generation, that is us, is born in his image and likeness, with no spirit. It is in Genesis 5:3. {"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; ..."} So, Jesus Christ tells us to be born again, that is to receive our spirit back from God, and to live with the spirit body also. If we do, our soul will live again, and we can live for God again. "Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: ... 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" So our spirit, which is the spirit of man, which is the holy spirit, will raise us from dead life to spiritual life and will seat us with Jesus Christ in heavenly places. But how do we know that our new life is not religious fake, but of real spirit? Ephesians 2:10 says, born again people are "created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." So, if we have received the holy spirit from God, we will be doing good works, and let others see what God has done in our lives. So, as we are living in our flesh body in the world, we will be living with our spirit body, mortifying the deeds of the flesh, to avoid sins. But if we live in sins with our flesh body, over-riding the spirit body, then the spirit body will leave us, meaning we will be dead to the spirit. This was what happened to Adam and Eve at the garden of Eden. "Galatians 5:16 ... Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." So, walk in the spirit. But if we are fulfilling the lust of the flesh, we will be cast into hell and then into the lake of fire.
5. Natural Man does not understand the things
of God
and Heaven, but Spiritual Man
understands them.
Spiritual things cannot be felt or proved by worldly means or by intelligence. So, if we have not received the holy Spirit from God, we will not understand spiritual things. "1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? ..." So we will not know anything of God, if we do not have the spirit. But our intelligence will tell us that we can figure out all things and Satan use our intelligence to fool us in godly matters. 12 says: "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." It refers to our spirit that is the holy spirit, which we have received from God. Since we have the holy Spirit, we will know the things that God freely gives. 13 says: "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." Since we have the holy spirit in us, we are able to speak the things that the Holy Ghost teaches. Example, I am as a pastor, studies scriptures by the revelation of the spirit, but not by intelligence; whereas my co-pastors who are with me, teach from theology and the doctrine of the churches with their intelligence. So, I understand spiritual things comparing spiritual things with spirituals, but they cannot. 14 says: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." It is about the congregation also. Those who are without the holy spirit cannot comprehend spiritual things; to them, spiritual things appear to be foolish. So, you must also be born again, and you must study the word of God only from those who are born again with proof of manifestation of righteousness and godliness. Bottom line is, let our spirits, that is the holy spirit, that we have received from God, lead our lives in the ways of God for us to inherit the kingdom of God in heaven.
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What is the true gospel and what are false gospels?
Matthew 28:20, & Mark 16:15. Jesus Christ preached his commandments to obey, as his
Gospel; it is the true Gospel to inherit Eternal life. Genesis 3:1-4 & 2 Corinth 11:2-4. But Preachers, who are Serpents of Satan, preach the life of man Jesus just to believe, but not to live as a chaste virgin, as the gospel; it is another gospel, which cannot and will not give Eternal life.What will the true Gospel do?
The true gospel will convert evil people to do good and thereby they will inherit the kingdom in heaven.
John 3:19-21 say that people are two kinds, evil and true. Evil doers will not come to the Light, who is God; but people of truth come to God for their deeds to be made manifest. We have good and evil people by our standard of our society or culture. These evil people may be converted to be doers of truth by the power of God, and they may inherit the kingdom of God in heaven.
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