CHAPTER THREE

THE DEFINITION OF THE SPIRIT

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Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 21:6; 22:17c; Acts 16:7; Rom. 8:9b; Phil. 1:19b; 2 Cor. 3:17-18; Rom. 12:2b; 1 Cor. 3:6, 9b, 12a; Eph. 4:16b; Matt. 28:19b; John 14:16-17; 15:26b; 16:13; 1 John 5:6b; Eph. 2:18; 2 Cor. 13:14

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2. In the New Testament the Spirit is:
2. The Spirit:
3. Through and in His resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to enter into His believers to flow out as rivers of living water—1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 21:6; 22:17c:
1. The Spirit of Jesus concerning Jesus in His humanity, who passed through human living and death on the cross, indicating that in the Spirit there is not only the divine element of God but also the human element of Jesus and the elements of His human living and of His suffering of death as well—Acts 16:7.
2. The Spirit of Christ concerning Christ in His divinity, who conquered death and became the life in resurrection with the resurrection power, indicating that in the Spirit there is the element of divinity that became the death-conquering and life-dispensing Spirit—Rom. 8:9b.
3. The Spirit of Jesus Christ, comprising all the elements of Jesus' humanity with His death and Christ's divinity with His resurrection, which become the bountiful supply of the unsearchable Christ for the support of His believers—Phil. 1:19b.
4. The Lord Spirit, the pneumatic Christ—2 Cor. 3:17-18:
1. 1) For the metabolic transformation of the believers into the Lord's image, from glory to glory.
2. 2) By the renewing of the mind—Rom. 12:2b.
3. 3) For the growth and the building up of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 3:6, 9b, 12a; Eph. 4:16b.
5. To consummate the processed Triune God—Matt. 28:19b:
1. 1) As the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2. 2) Consummating in the last of the Divine Trinity, that is, the Holy Spirit, as the consummation of the processed Triune God.
6. To be the Paraclete, the Comforter, to the believers— John 14:16-17.
7. To be the reality of the processed Triune God— John 14:17a; 15:26b; 16:13; 1 John 5:6b.
8. To be the reaching of the processed Triune God to the believers.
9. To be the believers' access unto the Father, the source of the Divine Trinity—Eph. 2:18.
10. To be the fellowship of the processed Triune God with the believers for their enjoyment of the riches of the Divine Trinity—2 Cor. 13:14.