A Divine Person

As to the Holy Spirit, though He is a divine Person and therefore everywhere present, yet nothing is more clearly revealed in Scripture than that He came down and took up His abode in God's people on earth on the clay of Pentecost to abide with us forever. And the more we search the Scriptures on the subject, the more we shall be assured that the gift of the Holy Spirit, consequent upon an accomplished redemption, is a characteristic truth of Christianity.
Is it any wonder, then, that it should be so perverted and denied by our subtle adversary? Is it not
most distressing to hear of some denying that He is God, of others praying that He may be sent down? There are others pleading for a greater measure of the Spirit, a fresh baptism and a Pentecostal blessing. All these points and many more concerning the Godhead, personality, indwelling and operations of the Holy Spirit we hope briefly to consider. But we are assured that most of the other errors arise from not knowing Him as a divine Person, coequal with the Father and the Son.
In the verse at the beginning of this article, lie is distinctly and unmistakably called God and a Person capable of being lied to. Hence He is sometimes called "the Spirit of God," and the things of God knows no man but "the Spirit of God." He is "the eternal Spirit." Before the earth and the heavens were formed. the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the chaotic waters, and we are told that "by His Spirit He bath garnished the heavens" (Job 26:13). Who could be truthfully said to be "eternal" but "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity"?