(2) We see the same thing again in Matthew 28:19: +"Go ye therefore,
and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them into the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."+ If the Holy
Spirit is not God, it would be shocking to couple His name in this way
with that of God, the Father, and of the Lord Jesus, His Son.
(3) Another striking illustration of this is found in II Corinthians
13:14: +"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all."+ Here the
name of the Holy Spirit is coupled on a ground of equality with that
of the Father and of the Son. In all these passages, the name of the
Holy Spirit is coupled with that of God in a way in which it would be
impossible for a reverent, thoughtful mind to couple the name of any
finite being with that of Deity.
5. _The fifth_ and last, and, if possible, more decisive way _in which
the Deity of the Holy Spirit is taught in the Bible is that the Holy
Spirit in so many words is called God_. This we find in Acts 5:3, 4:
+"But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to
the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? While
it remained, did it not remain thine own? And after it was sold, was
it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in
thy heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God."+ In the third
verse we are distinctly told that it was to the Holy Spirit to Whom
Ananias lied, and in the fourth verse we are told that it was to God
that Ananias lied. Putting the two statements together, it is evident
that the Holy Spirit is God.
To sum up all that we have said under the head of the Deity of the
Holy Spirit, we see that _by the ascription of all the distinctively
divine attributes, and several distinctively divine works, by referring
statements which in the Old Testament distinctly named Jehovah, the
Lord or God, as their subject, to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament,
by coupling the name of the Holy Spirit with that of God in a way in
which it would be impossible to couple the name of any finite being
with that of Deity, by calling the Holy Spirit "God," in all these
unmistakable ways God in His Word distinctly proclaims that the Holy
Spirit is a Divine Person_. It is absolutely impossible for any one to
go to the Bible to find out what it actually teaches, and not merely
to twist and distort it to fit into his own preconceived notions, and
come to any other conclusion but that the Holy Spirit is a Divine
Person, that He is God.
II. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
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