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Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news
to the poor.

2 Cor. 3:3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but
with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Phil. 1:19 For I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has
happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.

1 Peter 1:10-11 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you,
searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the
Spirit of Christ in them was pointed when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would
follow.

The Holy Spirit is associated with the Father by eleven different titles and with the Son by five distinct titles.
This association identifies the Holy Spirit with the other members of the Trinity. The titles point to the
equality of the Holy Spirit with the Father and Son not to inferiority or dependence. When He is called “the
Spirit of God” that means that He is the very Person of God. 1 Cor. 2:11 clearly shows that as man and his
spirit make one and the same being, so God and His Spirit are only one. (Rene Pache, The Person and Work
of the Holy Spirit, p. 14.)

The Holy Spirit possesses the attributes of God:

The Holy Spirit is eternal.
Heb. 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
unblemished to God, cleanse your consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living
God!

The Holy Spirit is Holy. The Spirit is most often addressed as “the Holy Spirit.” This more than any other
title identifies his divine nature.

Romans 1:4 Who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his
resurrection from the dead; Jesus our Lord.

1 John 2:20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

The Holy Spirit is Life.
Romans 8:2 Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

The Holy Spirit is Truth.
John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his
own; he will speak only when he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

The Holy Spirit is Wisdom.
Isaiah11:2 The Spirit will rest on him-the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of council and of
power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit is Grace.

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