When we have come to understand our Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father, it is also important and essential for us to know and understand clearly based on the Holy Bible about The Holy Spirit. God the Father calls us to have the knowledge about the Holy Spirit so that we will be in Christ always.
When we discuss about the Holy Spirit, we might come across many questions such as Who is this Holy Spirit? Why is He given to us? How can we receive Him? When do we receive Him?
Nowadays some of the pastors are preaching that The Old testament’s period is the period of God the Father, The New Testament’s period is the period of our Lord Jesus Christ and the period in which we live now is the period of The Holy Spirit. This shows their immaturity and poor understanding of the Word of God and not only that this is the evil preaching which is against the will of God the Father. Therefore, my dear brothers, sisters and children in Christ, it is very essential and important for everyone to have the correct knowledge and understanding about the Holy Spirit.
In the Holy Bible, The Holy Spirit is described in two ways such as
- The Spirit of Christ (Rom 8:26, 34; Galatians 4:6, II Corns 3:17, Rom 8:9)
- The Spirit of God the Father (Rom 8:9&14).
When Christ was born in this world, He was conceived or felt in the womb of Virgin Mary was from the Holy Spirit according to the Gospel of Matthew and Luke. As Christ is in the form of both Spirit and the Holy Body (invisible and visible), He transformed Himself into a small Holy Baby so that even an ordinary woman like Mary could bear Him. Everybody saw this Baby Jesus when He was born in this world. If I am not exaggerating, I would say that He went into Mary’s womb in an invisible way so that He would be seen by all mankind when He was born. In the Mary’s womb, our Lord Jesus Who was called Jehovah in the Old Testament period reduced Himself into a small Holy Baby so that human flesh could see Him. Therefore, if we say that He had the human structure only after His birth at Bethlehem, it is wrong. Before the creation when He was with God the Father, He had the specific Human structure as we discussed earlier. So, He is both in the form of Holy Spirit and Holy specific manly structural shape. Directly speaking, He is both in the visible and invisible form and some of the prophets in the Old Testament period saw His Holy manly structure and worshipped Him saying He is both visible and invisible. But when our Lord Jesus was in this world, everybody saw Him, and they considered Him as the visible God.
Therefore, our Lord Jesus was not born to a man and a woman and mother Mary only bore His Holy Baby Body, but she was not actually His own mother, when our Lord Jesus was born in this world in the combined form of Holy Body and the Holy Spirit. Because mother Mary was a holy virgin and her husband Joseph was a descendant of King David, He chose them as the holy vessels to come into this world.