Chapter 5

"THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH"

Index
Section 1

The Trinitarian Position
Section 2

Scriptural use of "Spirit" and "Holy Spirit"

Section 3

Is the Holy Spirit a person?

Section 4

Spirit gifts Past and present. 

Chapter 5 Appendix
 

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIVE: THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT OF JESUS

The conclusion stated on pages 110ff, that the phrases in the above title are synonymous, is further substantiated when we compare a number of New Testament parallels which refer to the function of the two. The following list of equivalences is by no means complete.

OPERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

   THE ROLE OF JESUS

"Having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia (Acts 16:6)

 "They attempted to go into  Bythinia, but the Spirit of Jesus  did not allow them" (Acts 16:7)
"Let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Revelation 1:1). "The Revelation of Jesus Christ ... to show to his servants" (Revelation 2:7).
"It is not you who speaks, but the Holy Spirit" (Mark 13:11). "I Jesus will give you a mouth and wisdom" (Luke 21:15).
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy and peace" (Galatians 5:22). "He who abides in me ... he it is that bears much fruit" (John 15:5).
"Through sanctification by the Spirit" (2 Thess.2:13) "To those sanctified in Christ Jesus". "Christ Jesus, whom God made our ... sanctification" ( 1 Cor. 1:2, 30).
"The Spirit intercedes for us (Romans 8:26).  "Christ Jesus ... who indeed intercedes for us" (Rom. 8:34).
"But the Counsellor the Holy Spirit, (parakletos),  whom the Father will send in my name" (John 14:25). "We have an advocate (parakletos), with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous" (1 John 2:1).
"Through the Spirit in the inner man" (Ephesians 3:16). "That Christ may dwell in your hearts" (Ephesians 3:17).
"Through him (Jesus) we both have access in one Spirit to the Father" (Ephesians 2:18). "Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have ... confidence of access through our faith in in him" (Ephesians 3:12). "Through him (Jesus) we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand" (Romans 5:2).
"One and the same spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills" (1 Cor.12:11). "And his (Christ's) gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets". (Ephesians 4:11)

We conclude that what Jesus himself did during his earthly ministry, he continued to do, once he was exalted to his Father's side, through the Spirit vested in him without measure. It is the post-Pentecostal antitype to the situation described in the Old Testament, where God is located on His heavenly throne, but aware of and controlling all things by the omnipresence of His Spirit. Further, the breathing of the Holy Spirit into the disciples by Jesus after his resurrection (John 20:22) is a close parallel with the creation of Adam (Genesis 2:7), and shows how Jesus became the beginning of a new creation see chapter 6, page 286ff.

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