The Holy Spirit is for every believer
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul emphasizes that there are different expressions and manifestations of the Holy Spirit, but it is a single Spirit. Every believer is given the manifestation of the Spirit for their benefit and the benefit of God's purposes on Earth. Paul gives examples of spiritual gifts such as wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues, but this list is not exhaustive. The Holy Spirit manifests His wealth in different ways in the lives of believers, and there can potentially be thousands of different gifts and ways that the richness of the Holy Spirit can be expressed. The important thing is to manifest the life of the Spirit of God in a humble and simple way, moving in the gift received.
Paul speaks that there are different expressions of the Holy Spirit but that it is a single Spirit, not as in the occult world in which the Ephesians and the Corinthians moved, different spirits, deities specializing so to speak in different operations, but it is a single Spirit expressing itself in the life of the believer in different ways.
And Paul speaks of different gifts, charismaton, different ministries, diaconium, and also says that there are a diversity of operations, energematon, that is, where the word energy comes from; There are different potentialities or activities of the Holy Spirit but God, who does all things in everyone, is the same. It was very important to Paul that the believers recognize that fact that it was the only Spirit. He wanted to dissolve that pagan doctrine that there were many different spirits, because the Corinthians was a culture, a Greek, Greco-Roman city and their tendency was to try to paganize Christianity and Paul says: no, this is something very different. This is a single Spirit moving through different manifestations.
And Paul speaks of different gifts, charismaton, different ministries, diaconium, and also says that there are a diversity of operations, energematon, that is, where the word energy comes from; There are different potentialities or activities of the Holy Spirit but God, who does all things in everyone, is the same. It was very important to Paul that the believers recognize that fact that it was the only Spirit. He wanted to dissolve that pagan doctrine that there were many different spirits, because the Corinthians was a culture, a Greek, Greco-Roman city and their tendency was to try to paganize Christianity and Paul says: no, this is something very different. This is a single Spirit moving through different manifestations.
