A Study of the Holy Spirit

By Pastor Raymond Vietmeier

The author, Pastor Raymond Vietmeier was awakened one night and directed by the Holy Spirit to look up “courses about the Holy Spirit.” When that did not produce anything useful, the Holy Spirit said to look up “study the Holy Spirit.” That brought up what the Holy Spirit wanted. It was a public domain document outlining everything about the Holy Spirit. The author followed the outline and added commentaries about each feature of the Holy Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit directed in detail the final chapter. The author noticed that the Holy Spirit sends messages much faster than what the author is used to with the Father and the Son. When the final chapter was completed, the author spoke to the Holy Spirit saying, “I’m sorry, Holy Spirit, but you spoke so fast that I have made many typos, misspellings, words printed twice, and even missing words.” The Holy Spirit replied, “Don’t worry, we will clean up the rough draft in the morning.” The next morning, the author was awakened by the Holy Spirit and directed to go to the computer and work with the Holy Spirit to correct the final chapter. In the nightly prayer following that day, Pastor Ray began to pray, but like many times before, God spoke up and began a two-way conversation as Pastor Ray is living in the light. Meaning that he is walking and talking with the Father. When Pastor Ray commented about the speed the Holy Spirit sends messages, both the Father and the author began to laugh. The author thought he should not have joked about the Holy Spirit, but the Father did not seem to mind at all. Both the Father and the Son enjoy talking one-on-one instead of just in prayer. This closeness has caused the evil one, Satan, to become very upset. He hates those who are close to the Holy Trinity. When writing the fourth book, Satan actually destroyed two chapters referring to how the Jewish people and Muslims can find love, joy, and happiness in becoming a true Christian.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638743354

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Chapter 1

The Deity of the Holy Spirit

Before beginning, I wish to explain that throughout this book, all biblical quotes will be from the New International Version (NIV) Bible. As an ordained independent minister or nondenominational preacher, I try to make statements that can be backed up by Scripture. There may be exceptions, but I try my best to back up every statement I make as a human being with Biblical scriptures so you know it is coming from the inspired words of God Himself and not something I think up out of my own beliefs. I preach directly from the Bible rather than from the desires of a denominational headquarters. I do not favor any denomination, nor will I criticize any denomination.

To begin with, the Holy Spirit is called God as part of the Holy Trinity. When we speak of the Holy Trinity, we specify the three parts as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Then Peter Said, Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God. (Acts 5:3–4)

In examining the deity of the Holy Spirit, we can find the answers throughout the Bible. Here are several other examples of the Bible referring the Holy Spirit as being God.

The Lord answered Moses, Go out in front of the people, take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink. So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, Is the Lord among us or not? (Exodus 17:5–7)

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did. For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways. ‘So I declared on oath in my anger; They shall never enter my rest." (Psalm 95:6–11)

There is a warning against unbelief in the book of Hebrews chapter 3.

So, as the Holy Spirit says; Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (Hebrews 3:7–11)

God is omnipresent, meaning He is in all places at the same time. For evidence of this, we return to the book of Psalm.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? (Psalm 139:7)

God is omniscient, meaning He is all-knowing.

These are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit.

The Spirit searches all thing, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one know the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10–11)

There is proof in the diversity in the body.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. (1 Corinthians 12:13)

God is omnipotent, meaning He has unlimited power and authority; He is all-powerful. Most Christian denominations believe that he can do anything just with his words. To me, I am amazed to hear that some people believe that the words in the Holy Bible are not the inspired words of God.

How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin? The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elisabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail. (Luke 12:34–37)

But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who is in you. (Romans 8:11)

I have to admit that I wondered how the Holy Spirit worked in the bodies of those who are born again. The Scripture just quoted from Romans