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What we believe and teach - The Holy Spirit - |
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Jesus
Christ, on the night He was betrayed, said to His disciples that after His
departure He would send the Holy Spirit to them from the Father. The Holy Spirit
would abide with them forever, He would guide them into all truth, He would
tell them things to come, He would teach them all things and bring to their
remembrance all things that He had said to them, and He would convict the
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. And shortly before He
was received up into heaven, Jesus said to them: “You will receive power when
the Holy Spirit comes on you”. That is what happened a few days after His
ascension, for Jesus, having received from the Father the promised Spirit,
poured out the Spirit of God on His disciples. On that day (the day of
Pentecost) the promise which the Father had made through the prophets of old
and confirmed through Jesus Christ was fulfilled. |
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The Holy
Spirit is a person and not a force, for He speaks, He teaches, He guides, He
reveals hidden things, He can be grieved and resisted. He is eternal, good,
righteous, and holy. He knows everything, He can do anything, and He is
everywhere, therefore He is God. The Spirit gives His gifts to each one
individually as He wills. We can call God ‘Father’ because the Holy Spirit,
whom God sent forth into our hearts, cries out, ‘Abba, Father’. The Holy
Spirit does another very important thing, that is to say, He makes
intercession for the saints according to the will of God. In addition to
this, He transforms us into the likeness of Christ because we who are sons of
God were predestined to be conformed to the image of the Son of God, that He
might be the firstborn among many brethren. Every sin and blasphemy will be
forgiven men. But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be
forgiven, he is guilty of an eternal sin. The Holy Spirit is called also
Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, Spirit of Jesus, Spirit of the Lord, Spirit
of grace, Spirit of truth, and Spirit of adoption. We do not pray nor sing to
the Holy Spirit, for we don’t want to go beyond what is written. |