What is the Holy Spirit? Who is the Third Person of the Godhead?

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What is the Holy Spirit?
Who is the Third Person of the Godhead?
From God's Word and Pastor Jack Sequeira.

John 14:16, 17, 26:

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

As we study the New Testament we will see that each member of the Godhead has a specific part to play in our salvation. According to the great commission that Jesus gave in Matthew 28:19, He told His disciples that when believers are baptized, it should be done in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit:

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,

The reason that is done is because all three Persons of the Godhead are involved in our salvation and the whole of heaven is concerned about our salvation.

In our study of the Bible, we discover God the Father’s part in the plan of salvation. For example, we read in John 3:17 that God sent His Son not to condemn us but to save us:

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Then, in John 6:38, Jesus said:

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

In Galatians 4:4-5 Paul says:

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

So the Father is the Director of the plan of salvation.

The Son, Jesus Christ, is the Savior of all men. In Luke 2:11, the angel, speaking to the shepherds, announced to them:

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.

In John 4:42, Jesus is referred to as the Savior of the world:

They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

Paul writes in 1 Timothy 4:10 describing Jesus as the Savior of all men:

...(And for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.

Christ, and in His doing, dying, and resurrection has reconciled us to God; He has redeemed us; He has rewritten our history, so that in Christ every one of us can come to God boldly without fear, with full assurance, because there in Christ we stand accepted in the Beloved.

Let us direct our thoughts and our attention to the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Godhead, and look at the part He has to play in our salvation. The Holy Spirit is “The Communicator.” Throughout Scripture, His function is as the active Agent of God in our salvation and He is also the active Agent in other things. While the Father sent Jesus into this world in order that there might be a gospel to be preached, God sends the Holy Spirit to make th

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