100 GOOD MORNING, HOLY SPIRIT
many divine character traits are best made known through
human nature, which is created in God's image (Gen.
1:26-27; Jam. 3:9).
Hebrews speaks of Christ as "being the brightness of
His glory and the express image of His person" (Heb. 1:3).
I can only come to one conclusion: When we see Jesus, we
see the Father also. And I believe that Jesus reveals the
Holy Ghost as He does the Father. Look at Jesus and you
see the Spirit too.
Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain. And I
believe that you are planning to be there too.
Again, the Holy Spirit is not a heavenly breeze or a
hazy cloud floating in and out of your life. He is God, and
He resides in us—equal with the Father and the Son in the
Trinity. Paul, writing to the church at Corinth, said, "Do
you not know that you are the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy,
which temple you are" (1 Cor. 3:16-17). He is saying that
the Spirit lives in God's temple. We are that temple, and the
Father and the Spirit are equal in us.
Coequal with Father and Son
The Holy Spirit is not simply a person, distinct from the
Father and distinct from the Son. He is much more. He's
God, coequal with the Father and Christ.
First, we find that the Holy Ghost is omnipresent. In
other words, He can be at all places at the same time.
"Spirits" are not omnipresent, but the Holy Ghost is. He's
just as real in Los Angeles as He is in Leningrad. Just as
alive. Just as full of glory.
Now some people have needless problems with Satan.
They think the devil is omnipresent. Let me assure you that