ower of creation.

Some have erroneously taught that the Holy Spirit is the Word. How can
they do so when the second person in the trinity declares he is the Word?
John 1:1. "For there are three that bare record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost." 1 John 5:7. Is not this plain enough to stop
the mouths of all such false teachers?

The office of the Holy Spirit. He is everywhere termed the Holy Spirit. It
is true. Christ is holy, and God is holy, but this term is especially
applied to the Spirit, because his particular mission is to restore
mankind to holiness. Holiness and sanctification, so far as they apply to
a state, are synonymous terms. The Holy Spirit is the sanctifier. Rom.
15:16. This is the especial mission and prime work of the Holy Spirit.
Much is involved in the work of sanctification. In this is the destruction
of carnality and division, and consequently the unifying of the children
of God. The Holy Spirit is the agency in answering the prayer of the
Savior: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word: that they all may be one." John 17:20,
21. Sanctification is the work which effects this oneness. "For both he
that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which
cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." Heb. 2:11. Holiness and
unity accomplished by the Holy Spirit are the two most sublime themes in
the New Testament. Nothing accomplished in the mission of the Holy Spirit
is more glorifying to God.

God The Son.

Jesus Christ, the second person in the trinity, is also called God. "And
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." John 20:28. "In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was
God." John 1:1. He is God revealed in the flesh on a mission of love and
mercy to this world. He came as a Redeemer or Savior. An angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream before the nativity of the holy child and
gave him the name Jesus or Savior (see margin of Mat. 1:21), because he
should save his people from their sins. He was both God and man. Born of a
woman, he was human. Conceived by the Holy Spirit, he was divine. As God,
he was not subject to temptation, "for God can not be tempted;" but as a
man he endured all the temptations common to mankind. In the beginning of
his ministry he was forty days tempted of the devil.

He is one with God the Father. "I and my Father a