2. _"I believe in the Holy Ghost,"_ these are the first words of the Third Article. We _believe_ in the Holy Ghost, thus we confess. To believe in some one means, as we have learned, _to put one's whole confidence and trust in him._ Now, God tells us in the First Commandment that we should fear and love Him above all things _and trust in Him alone. In God only_ we should believe. And therefore we believe in the Holy Ghost, because He is the true God. _In saying that we believe in the Holy Ghost, we confess that He is the one true God, that He is our God, God as truly as the Father and Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord._ The apostle says: _"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God, dwelleth in you?"_ 1 Cor. 3,16. Because the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, dwells in us, we are _God's_ temple. The Holy Ghost therefore is the true God.--Remember what you learned in the history of creation. There we read: _"And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."_ Gen. 1,2. The work of creation is ascribed to the Spirit of God, to the Holy Ghost. Creation is the work of God. _Therefore the Holy Ghost must be God._ 3. _We believe in the Father, and we believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, and we believe in the Holy Ghost._ There are _three distinct persons_ in whom we believe. There are three persons whom we confess to be our God--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. And we confess this according to Scripture. Christ, our Lord, commands us to baptize in the name of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Matt. 28,19. Let me remind you of the _baptism of our Lord._ There the three divine Persons revealed themselves. _God the Son,_ our Lord Jesus Christ, stood in the river Jordan, being baptized by John. _God the Father_ revealed Himself in a voice from heaven, saying: _"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."_ And the heavens opened, and the _Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost,_ like a dove, descended upon our Lord. _There are three distinct divine Persons in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost._