(4) _Eternity is also ascribed to the Holy Spirit._ This we find in
Hebrews 9:14, where we read: +"How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish
unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God?"+ Here we find the words "the Eternal Spirit" just as elsewhere
we find the words "the Eternal God" (e.g., Deut. 33:27): Putting these
different passages together, we see clearly that each of the four
distinctively divine attributes, the four attributes that no one but
God possesses, are ascribed to the Holy Spirit.
2. The second line of proof of the true Deity of the Holy Spirit is
found in the fact that _three distinctively divine works are ascribed
to the Holy Spirit—that is to say, the Holy Spirit is said to do three
things which God alone can do_.
(1) The first of these distinctively divine works that are ascribed
to the Holy Spirit is _the work which we always think of first when
we think of God and His work—that is to say, the work of creation.
We find creation ascribed to the Holy Spirit in Job 33:4_: +"The
Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty giveth me
life."+ We find the same thing implied in Psalms 104:30: +"Thou
sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the
face of the ground."+ In these two passages creation, the most
distinctively divine of all works, is ascribed to the Holy Spirit.
(2) The _impartation of life is ascribed to the Holy Spirit_. This we
find, for example, in John 6:63: +"It is the Spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing."+ We find the same thing again in
Romans 8:11: +"But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you."+ In
this passage we have not merely impartation of life to the spirit of
man, but the impartation of life to the body in the resurrection of the
body ascribed to the Holy Spirit. Man's creation and the impartation
of life to man are ascribed to the operation of the Holy Spirit in
the first book in the Bible, where we read in Genesis 2:7: +"And
Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."+ Here we
are told that man was created and became a living soul through God's
breathing into him the breath of life. This clearly implies that it was
through the instrumentality of the Holy Spirit; for the Holy Spirit is
the breath of God going out in a personal way.
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