SPIRIT
Holy Spirit/Ghost (Member of the God Head) and the Baptism
Also
Spiritual Realm and other spirits
Webster Dictionary 1828 Definition:
SPIR'IT, noun [Latin spiritus, from spiro, to breathe, to blow. The primary sense is to rush or drive.]
1. Primarily, wind; air in motion; hence, breath. All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts within them.
2. Animal excitement, or the effect of it; life; ardor; fire; courage; elevation or vehemence of mind. The troops attacked the enemy with great spirit The young man has the spirit of youth. He speaks or act with spirit Spirits, in the plural, is used in nearly a like sense. The troops began to recover their spirits.
3. Vigor of intellect; genius. His wit, his beauty and his spirit The noblest spirit or genius cannot deserve enough of mankind to pretend to the esteem of heroic virtue.
4. Temper; disposition of mind, habitual or temporary; as a man of a generous spirit or of a revengeful spirit; the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit Let us go to the house of God in the spirit of prayer.
5. The soul of man; the intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of human beings. The spirit shall return to God that gave it. Eceles. 12.
6. An immaterial intelligent substance. spirit is a substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist. Hence,
7. An immaterial intelligent being. By which he went and preached to the spirit in prison. I Pet. 3. God is a spirit John 4:23.
8. Turn of mind; temper; occasions; state of the mind. A perfect judge will read each work of wit, with the same spirit that its author writ.
9. Powers of mind distinct from the body. In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume.
10. Sentiment; perception. You spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
11. Eager desire; disposition of mind excited and directed to a particular object. God has made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
12. A person of activity; a man of life, vigor or enterprise. The watery kingdom is no bar to stop the foreign spirits, but they come.
13. Persons distinguished by qualities of the mind. Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
14. Excitement of mind; animation; cheerfulness; usually in the plural. We found our friend in very good spirits. He has a great flow of spirits. -To sing thy praise, would heaven my breath prolong, Infusing spirits worthy such a song.
15. Life or strength of resemblance; essential qualities; as, to set off the face in its true spirit The copy has not the spirit of the original.
16. Something eminently pure and refined. Nor doth the eye itself, that most pure spirit of sense, behold itself.
17. That which hath power or energy; the quality of any substance which manifest life, activity, or the power of strongly affecting other bodies; as the spirit of wine or of any liquor.
18. A strong, pungent or stimulation liquor, usually obtained by distillation, as rum, brandy, gin, whiskey. In America, spirit used without other words explanatory of its meaning, signifies the liquor distilled from cane-juice, or rum. We say, new spirit or old spirit Jamaica spirit etc.
19. An apparition; a ghost.
20. The renewed nature of man. Matthew 26:41. Galatians 5:5.
21. The influences of the Holy spirit Matthew 22:43.
HOLY SPIRIT, the third person in the Trinity.
SPIRIT, verb transitive
1. To animate; to actuate; as a spirit
So talkd the spirited sly snake. [Little Used.]
2. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; as, civil dissensions spirit the ambition of private man.
It is sometimes followed by up; as, to spirit up.
3. To kidnap.
To spirit away, to entice or seduce.
Locations in the KJV of Bible with verses related to this subject:
HOLY GHOST and BAPTISM
Acts 1:5 Baptism in Water and Baptism in the Holy Ghost are two distinct things.
Acts 1:8 Receive power to witness after Baptism in the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:1-41 The outpouring of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost
Acts 2:42-47 As a result of the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, the believers were changed.
Acts 5:1-11 Attempting to deceive the Holy Spirit
Romans 8:1-5 Walking in the Spirit, Spirit of Life
Romans 8:9-11 Spirit is life because of righteousness
Romans 8:12-15 Living in the Spirit
Romans 8:16-17 Spirit is our witness
Romans 8:26-27 Spirit makes intercession for the saints
Galatians 3:1-4 Spirit is received through faith
Galatians 3:13-14 We received the blessing of having the Spirit available due to Christ death
Galatians 5:13-18 Spirit and the flesh are contrary to one another. Led by Spirit are not under the law.
Galatians 6:17 Walking in the Spirit will cause sacrifice
Ephesians 5:8-20 Walking in the Spirit and no fellowship with Darkness but to reprove them.
All things reproved are made manifest by light.
Walk with an understanding of what the Will of God is.
1Peter 1:10-12 The Spirit was involved in the Prophets foretelling of the sufferings and glory of Christ
GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT – Specific to Gifts
1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Paul’s Encouragement to the receiving of Spiritual Gifts
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 Revelation by the Spirit. Those that can see, and those that cannot.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 The Body of Christ is made of many members and each receive Gifts from the Spirit. There are various Gifts.
1 Corinthians 14:1-33 Gifts of the Spirit and the proper usage of them. Prophecy versus Speaking in Tongues.
Galatians 5:22-26 The fruits of the Spirit are…
1Peter 4:8-11 Use the gifts to glorify God when using them for the Body of Christ
2Peter 1:19-21 Prophecy of old came by the Holy Spirit and it is NOT of any private interpretation.
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
SPIRITS - DEMONIC
Acts 19:13-20 Example of Demonic recognition of the power of God
2 Corinthians 12:7 Paul’s thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan responsible for hindering the ministry.
2 Corinthians 11:12-15 The power of Satan and his forces need to be recognized.
Ephesians 6:10-18 We do not wrestle with the powers of darkness. We have the Armour of God to defeat them.
1Peter 3:18-22 Jesus preached to spirits
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”
2Peter 2:4 “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”
GENERAL
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Where the Spirit of Lord is, there is liberty from the old law.
We are changed into the same image.
2 Corinthians 4:15-18 Inner man renewed. We look at the things that are not seen.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 We do not war after the flesh. Weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
2 Corinthians 12:1-4 Paul recounts a vision of the third heaven.
Colossians 3:1-3 “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
This is true “spirit living”. The more a believer’s focus is placed upon things above, the less affection there is for things below.
SEE ALSO: (list similar subjects and link to them)
Righteousness; Body of Christ; Godliness;