and not just a power or an influence. It is impossible to lie to a force. Furthermore, Paul,

in Eph. 4: 30 exhorts members of the Body not to "grieve the Spirit of God whereby

they are sealed unto the day of redemption". Again, it is quite impossible to grieve

power. We live in an age of power, which has come to the fore today as it has never done

in times past. Yet no one in their senses would think it possible to grieve, let us say,

atomic power, tremendous though this may be. One can only grieve a moral being.

When one considers this and the whole revelation of the Bible concerning the Holy

Spirit, there should be no doubt whatever that He is a manifestation of the one God Who

declares that there is `none else' beside Him (Isa. 42: 8; 43: 10; 44: 6; 45: 18, 21).

Anything less than this is, as we have before said, utterly defective and is therefore

misleading and dangerous.

The deity of the Holy Spirit may raise problems in our minds, but the first thing we

must always do, if we want nothing but truth, is to believe what God says in His Word,

even if we do not understand it. Anything less than this dishonours Him and exhibits an

heart of unbelief which comes under His condemnation. If we are only going to believe

what we can understand, our creed will be a small one indeed and moreover we are then

open to the deception of the enemy; because our loins are not girded about by truth

(Ephesians 6: 14).

The closeness of the relationship between the three manifestations of the triune God is

seen by how one honours the other.

(1) The Father honours the Son. "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed

all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the

Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which hath sent Him"

(John 5: 22, 23).

(2) The Son honours the Father. "Then answered the Jews, and said unto Him, Say

we not well that Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a

devil; but I honour My Father, and ye dishonour Me" (John 8: 48, 49).

(3) The Spirit honours the Son. "But when the Comforter is come, Whom I will send

unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He

shall testify of Me" (John 15: 26). "He (the Spirit of truth) shall glorify Me: for He shall

receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you" (John 16: 14). It is this one God, Who has

found it necessary to manifest Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit for our salvation

and the completion of His redemptive purpose for heaven and earth, that we worship and

There are various titles of the Holy Spirit: