Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 029
The Holy Spirit
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos, opening with hymnography that confesses the Holy Spirit as consubstantial and enthroned with the Father and the Son, urges Christians to rejoice in the Spirit even amid suffering, since present trials are nothing beside the glory to come (Romans 8:18). Against the Jehovah's Witnesses, he argues that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force but one of the three divine persons, illustrating the Trinity through the single sun with its disk, light, and warmth, and citing Christ's promise that the Spirit dwells in believers after Pentecost (John 14:17). Defining personhood as reason, self-awareness, emotion, and will, he shows from Scripture that the Spirit knows, speaks, decides, grieves, sends, calls, and distributes gifts as He wills (1 Corinthians 12:11). From Acts, Paul, the Psalms, and Hebrews he argues that Scripture identifies the Spirit with God and Lord, calling the Witnesses' denial a grave error while praying for their return to the Orthodox Church.
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