Who Is The Holy Spirit? | Herbert Cooper - Audio

Acts 19:1–2 NIV - While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at
Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2  and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you
believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”



3 Myths About the Holy Spirit



1. The Holy Spirit is junior varsity



Acts 5:3-4 NIV - Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you
have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the
land?  4  Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your
disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to
God.”



1. Holy Spirit is eternal



Hebrews 9:14 NIV - How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so
that we may serve the living God!



2. Holy Spirit is all-powerful



Luke 1:35 NIV - The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Romans 8:11 NLT - The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God
raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within
you.



3. Holy Spirit is omnipresent



Psalm 139:7 ESV - Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?



4. Holy Spirit is omniscient



1 Corinthians 2:10-11 NASB - For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all
things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the
man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.



5. Holy Spirit is creator



Genesis 1:1–2 NLT - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2  The earth was
formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering
over the surface of the waters.



Genesis 1:26 NIV - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that
they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild
animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”



Job 33:4 NLT - For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.



Matthew 28:19 NIV - Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 



Luke 3:22 NIV - and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came
from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”



John 15:26 NIV - “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit
of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.



Acts 2:33 NIV - Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy
Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.



Acts 10:38 NIV - how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he
went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was
with him.



2 Corinthians 13:14 NIV - May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.



1 Peter 1:2 NIV - who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace
and peace be yours in abundance.



2. The Holy Spirit is scary and weird



1 Corinthians 14:32-33 NIV - The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets.  33  For God is
not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.



John 14:16 NIV - And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and
be with you forever—



Romans 8:26 NIV - In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we
ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.



Romans 8:14 NIV - For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.



Luke 9:38–39 NIV - A man in the crowd called out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is
my only child. 39  A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that
he foams at the mouth. It scarcely ever leaves him and is destroying him.



Galatians 5:18 NIV - But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.



Galatians 5:16 NLT -   So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what
your sinful nature craves.



Acts 2:4 NIV - All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as
the Spirit enabled them.



3. The Holy Spirit is an optional part of my faith



Galatians 3:3 NLT - How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you
now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?



1. Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit



Ephesians 4:30-32 NIV - And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the
day of redemption. 31  Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every
form of malice. 32  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God
forgave you.



2. Don’t neglect the Holy Spirit



1 Thessalonians 5:19 NIV - Do not quench the Spirit.



3. Desire more of the Holy Spirit



Ephesians 5:18 NLT -   Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled
with the Holy Spirit,



Luke 11:13 NIV - If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”