"Personal Pronouns" l HOLY SPIRIT CLASS l Chuck Smith l Living Water l l Utah VidDevo l VidDevoChurch

Personal Pronouns Are for People

Personal pronouns are also used for the Holy Spirit. 

While the word spirit itself is in the neuter (and that's why many people speak of the Holy Spirit as an essence rather than a person), it is a fact that personal pronouns are used to refer to the
Holy Spirit. 

Some 16 times in the New Testament the Greek pronoun for the Holy Spirit is echeinos, which means "he," a pronoun in the masculine gender. 

We find it in John 14:26, which says, "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He [echeinos] will teach you all things." 

We find the same thing in John 15:26: "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He [echeinos] will testify of Me." 

And then again, in John 16:13: "However, when
He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth." 

The same usage can be found in John 14:16,17 and 16:7-14.

All of these personal pronouns used in reference to the Holy Spirit can mean only that He is indeed a Person.