The Spirit Is Treated as a Person
Many personal treatments are accorded to the Holy Spirit.Allow me to give just three examples.
The Spirit can be lied to, as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5.
Peter responded to these lies by saying, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land?" (Acts 5:3).
The Spirit can be resisted.
Stephen, in his defense recorded in Acts 7:51, said to his fellow Jews, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you."
The Spirit can be blasphemed.
Mark 3:28 records that Jesus said, "Assuredly, I
say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation."
Of course, it is impossible to lie to, resist, or blaspheme a non-person.
And yet ungodly men do all three to the Holy Spirit.
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