In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the SPIRIT OF GOD was hovering over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2
Many people overlook the fact that the Holy Spirit is part of the godhead. Some people, on the other hand, are completely ignorant that there is such a person called the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, or as in Genesis 1, the Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit is a person. He is not an 'it' as we can all easily assume.
He is extremely precious to both God the Father and God the Son. We see this in Matthew 12:31-32, "Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."
Jesus is saying that "If you slander me, I'll forgive you; but if you slander the Holy Spirit, you're going to hell." The Bible does not speak of any other sin that will never be forgiven aside from speaking against the Holy Spirit.
If the Holy Spirit is not precious to the Father and to the Son, Jesus would never have declared this to be the one and only unforgivable sin.
But why is the Holy Spirit so valuable?
Because he is the power of God.
He is the force that made creation possible. It was him hovering over the face of the waters before light came to be. It was the Holy Spirit who made things the way they are for he is the creative force of God.
He is the very breath of God.
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 2:7
To parallel this,
And when he (Jesus) had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit." John 20:22
Genesis 2:27 and John 20:22 depict the same picture: being breathed upon by God.
To make this comparison clearer, human beings have body, spirit, and soul. When Adam was formed, he was perfect. He was living the way God intended humans to live being the spirit, which is the breath of the Almighty, the dominant person. But the serpent came, and Adam and Eve took a bite of a fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God told them not to do. As a result, the soul stepped forward and their spirits died.
When God told Adam and Eve that they would die from eating of this fruit, God did not mean a physical death but a spiritual one. And that's what happened. So, because the soul, or what we can also call the flesh, became the dominant one, every single human being born from that then on were born spiritually dead.
This is one of the reasons why Jesus came, to resurrect the spiritually dead and that is why this experience is called being born again.
It is the Holy Spirit who gives life and the born again experience restores us to God's original purpose.
The Holy Spirit was the one who enabled Jesus to do signs and wonders.
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. Acts 11:38
The Spirit is the one who makes the miracles, healing and deliverance by the multitude possible.
Jesus, speaking about the Holy Spirit says in Acts 1:8 about us who believe in him,
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
You read right. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. This is called the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
