Question 53

53. What do you believe concerning the "Holy Ghost"?

First, that He is coeternal God with the Father and the Son. l) Second, that He is also given unto me:2) by true faith makes me a partaker of Christ and all His benefits,3) comforts me, 4) and shall abide with me forever. 5)

1) And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen. 1:2.
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. Isa. 48:16.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? I Cor. 3:16.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? I Cor. 6:19.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. Acts 5:3,4.
2) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matt. 28:19.
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor. 1:21,22.
3) Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. I Peter 1:2.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. I Cor. 6:17.
4) Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied. Acts 9:31.
5) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. John 14:16.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. I Peter 4:14.
* Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. I John 4:13.
* Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. 15:13.

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