HOLY SPIRIT CLASS l "God Speaks in the Spirit's Voice" l School of the Bible l VidDevoChurch

God Speaks in the Spirit's Voice

Another line of evidence  that the Holy Spirit  is God may be found  in noting how the  New  Testament  uses  some  Old  Testament  texts.  

Very  often  an  Old Testament  scripture  about  God  is  ascribed  to  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  New Testament, thus making the Holy Spirit and God one.

Consider  Isaiah 6:8,9, which  reads, "Also  I heard  the voice of the  Lord,  saying: 'Whom shall I send, and who will go  for Us?' 

Then I said,  'Here am  I! Send me.'

And He said, 'Go, and tell this people: "Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive."' 

Paul quotes this passage  in Acts 28:25,26, where he says, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly  through  Isaiah  the prophet  to our

fathers, saying,  'Go  to this people  and  say: Hearing  you will hear, and shall  not understand; and  seeing  you will see,  and not perceive."'  

Here  Paul quite clearly attributes to the Holy Spirit an Old Testament scripture ascribed to God.

In Jeremiah 31:31,32  the prophet  said,  "Behold,  the  days  are  coming,  says  the Lord, when  I  will make  a  new  covenant  with  the  house  of  Israel  and  with  the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their  fathers in the day that I took them by the hand  to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My

covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord." 

Yet in Hebrews 10:15 the writer says, "The Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had  said before,  'This is the covenant  that  I will make  with them  after those days,  says  the  Lord."'  

The  New  Testament  declares  it  was  the  Holy  Spirit  who

inspired  Jeremiah,  even  though  the  prophet  himself  said  it  was  the  Lord  who

spoke  these  things.  In other words,  the Holy  Spirit  is  the One who  inspired  the writing of the Bible.

That  is why  in  II Timothy  3:16  we read,  'All Scripture  is given  by inspiration  of God," and yet Peter says  in II Peter 1:21, "For prophecy never  came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."

Notice:  Paul  says  all  Scripture  is  given  by  the  inspiration  of  God,  yet  Peter declares that holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.  

Is there a problem? No, none at all. Why not? Because the Holy Spirit is God.

That  is why Jesus  in Mark 12:36  could say,  "For David himself  said by the Holy Spirit..." And  it is why Peter,  speaking about  a fulfilled  prophecy  of  David,  said, "Which  the Holy Spirit  spoke  before  by  the mouth  of David"  (Acts  1:16). 

When God spoke,  it was  the Holy Spirit  talking.  The Holy Spirit  is God.  He is the third member of the Godhead.