Week 3: Last week we read about the Holy Trinity

A Study on the Holy Ghost

̶Week 3 of 38̶

By David Wilson

The following scriptures prove a Divine Trinity of separate persons in the Godhead.

1. The word one means “one in unity as well as one in number.” It means unity in 1 John 5:7 as well as it does in John 17:11, 21-23.

1 John 5:7

For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

John 17:11

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one; as we are.

John 17:21-23

²¹ That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Matthew 28:18-19

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Jesus is explaining the formula for water baptism. In this passage He’s giving us a look at the Godhead. In His own words He tells us there are three. “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.” Water baptism does not wash away our sins and save us. Salvation comes when we repent of our sins and ask Jesus to come into our life. While salvation comes when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Master, water baptism is the outward sign to the world that there has been a change. It symbolizes the death of the old man of sin as we go under the water, and the new man in Christ Jesus as we rise out of the water. The water doesn’t save us; Jesus saves us by His blood washing us free from sin.

John 14:26

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 15:26

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

(Next week we will read about the three being one.

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