What is the Holy Ghost ?

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I believe the Holy Ghost in us is absolutely essential to Kingdom living. Paul said that there was no good thing in his flesh, and he could not do the good he desired to do. Then he said at the end of Rom 7 that with the flesh he cannot serve the law of God. Chapter 8 says to not walk after the flesh but after the Spirit. This shows us that the Spirit of God in us is meant to be relied upon instead of our own fleshly abilities!

Unfortunately, there is not that knowledge in every one, as Romans 6 relates. You can have the Holy Ghost in you and not realize you are meant to rely upon it for empowerment to do the will of God. Most Pentecostals think walking after the Spirit ids simply HAVING or getting the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They think it is simply obeying Acts 2:38. Not so. Unless we realize that the Spirit in us is to be consciously relied upon after we receive Him, we will instinctively rely upon fleshly power to do the will of God and will fail.

We must learn to walk after this Spirit by prayer to God For His Spirit in us to strengthen us with might in the inner man. We are relying on the Holy Ghost when we follow through with Rom 6:13.

Rom 6:13 KJV Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

The Spirit of God in us is power over sin! It is power to fulfill the will of God.

Zec 4:6 KJV Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah was told these words after seeing a vision of the GOLDEN OIL pouring from Olive Trees into the Seven Golden candlesticks.

Zec 4:2-3 KJV And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: (3) And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

The Spirit and the Word agree. The OIL coming forth from the olive trees obviously speaks of SPIRIT. ANOINTING OIL . But there is WORD involved as well. The two olive trees were Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the governor. They PROPHESIED as two witnesses, similar to Rev 11. WORD AND SPIRIT are always vital. The Spirit is given to empower, but without the Word of truth concerning that purpose, we have the Spirit and do not benefit from it.

Genesis 1 shows SPIRIT hovering over the earth, and WORD spoken to work together with the Spirit and CAUSE LIGHT, etc.

The Word reacts with the Spirit in us as our understanding is endowed with truth, and the Holy Ghost is no longer DORMANT in us, except for speaking in tongues occasionally, and is there to then do what He is there to do! EMPOWER US!