Lesson: What is the Holy Ghost?

WHAT IS THE HOLY GHOST?

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INTRO

To determine what is the holy spirit we'll examine what we know about it and we'll reach a conclusion from the scriptures. Let's start with what it is not.

WHAT IT IS NOT!

It Is Not Speaking Gibberish

Acts 2:1-8

1 Cor 13:8 tongues shall cease

It Is Not Convulsing In the Church

Mark 9:14-29,26* convulsing is a sign of demon possession

• Mark 1:21-28

It Is Not Yahawashi

Acts 10:37-38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

• Luke 3:16 Yashai shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire

It Is Not the Power

Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:

• Luke 24:49 Stay in Jerusalem until you get power

• Q. What power?

• Acts 19:11-12, Luke 9:1-2

ATTRIBUTES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Spirit Has A Mind

Romans 8:26-27

27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

• Romans 8:6-11 the mind of the spirit

It Has Feelings

Ephesians 4:30 grieve not the holy spirit of Yah

• Isaiah 63:10

The Spirit Has Fruits

Romans 8:23,34

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The First Fruits Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-18 The ability to prophesy the word of Yahawah!

• Num 11:16-17, 24-30
• Acts 19:1-6 they spoke with languages and prophesied

•  John 6:63 (extra precept) The words I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life
• John 3:34 Yahawashi didn’t have a measure of the spirit but the fullness of it. The fullness of the spirit allowed him to speak the words of God to perfection.

Other Fruits Of The Spirit

• Gal 5:16-26 love, peace etc
• Miraculous Power

• Acts 19:11 And Yah wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul
• 2 Kings 2:9 Elisha asked for a double portion of the spiritual power that Elijah had

WHERE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM? 

From Yahawah

1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

• Psalm 51:11 Take not thy Holy Spirit from me
• 1 Cor 2:12 from Yah

WHERE DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELL?

Luke 4:16-21 Upon Yashai

Joel 2:27, 28-32 Upon the righteous Israelites

• Acts 2:16-18 unto whom did Yah pour out his spirit? Servants and handmaids

• Proverbs 1:23 in a holy Israelite

WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

Eph 4:4-6 The One Spirit

• 1 Cor 12:4, 7-11

The Spirit Of Life!

Romans 8:2

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

• Rev 11:11 the spirit of life from Yah entered into them

• Ezekiel 37:3-10 see 9 interlinear

• Gen 2:6-7

The Spirit Of Yahawah

1 Corinthians 2:9-14,10-11*

• 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? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
• 12-14 the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Yahawah.

• Acts 28:25-27 spoke through Isaiah to our forefathers
• Acts 7:51-53 your fathers always resist the spirit of Yahawah
• Luke 4:18-19 the spirit of Yah is upon me
• Proverbs 1:23 I will pour out my spirit on you, I will make known my words unto you
• Acts 21:10-14 the spirit of Yahawah

CONCLUSION

1 Cor 2:14 the carnal man cannot receive the things of the spirit because they are spiritually discerned