We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine, the third Person of the Trinity, not merely a principle, force, or power, as He possesses all the qualities of personhood. He inspired men of old to write the Scriptures. He exalts and glorifies Christ and not Himself and so should the Church. When Jesus Christ is emphasized, magnified, and glorified then the Spirit of God is at work. He calls individuals to the Savior and effects regeneration. It is by the means of the Holy Spirit that Jesus baptizes into the body of Christ (positional truth), indwells, and seals all believers when He is given to them at the moment of salvation. We believe in the universal full indwelling of the Holy Spirit in every believer at the moment of salvation. This is the only Spirit baptism. The Holy Spirit seals the believer until the day of redemption. He guides and teaches the willing believer to godly living and He comes alongside the in-fellowship believer to influence the believer to live pleasing to God. His goal is to bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ; He gives gifts to every believer to serve in the building up of the body of Christ. These gifts are to be used in accordance to biblical guidelines and priorities. The miraculous sign gifts were for the time period of the founding of the church before the completion of the written Scriptures and are no longer functioning in the church today. This includes the sign gift of spontaneously spoken unlearned human languages or tongues. The other sign gifts no longer in effect today are: word of wisdom, word of knowledge, prophecy, discerning of spirits, interpretation of tongues, Apostles, individuals with the gifts of healing (although the Lord still can and does heal today according to His will), and workers of miracles. The filling of the Holy Spirit occurs as the individual believer confesses sin in accordance with 1 John 1:9. The believer matures in the faith with the learning and application of Bible Doctrine under the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalms 51:11; 139:7ff.; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,6-11, 38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 6:19, 12:3-11,13, 13:8-10, 14:9, 20-23; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:7-12, 30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John1:9, 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17.