A CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT – “On Pentecost Sunday, we generally say we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. However, what we do not openly recognize is that the Holy Spirit has always existed. When we read in John 15: 26, ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf,’ ABM Pew Reflection for the Day of Pentecost – we are basically referred back to John 1:1 ‘In the beginning was the Word’ – This says that the Lord Jesus
has always been and refers to the eternal self-existence of Jesus before He became flesh as noted in John 1:14. It is equally true that the Holy Spirit has always existed and been active in the affairs of the world along with God the Father, and God the Son. These events all occurred before the manifestation of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. That is what we celebrate on the day of Pentecost – the manifestation or revealing of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles.”
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