I would like to start off by sharing with you a sermon by Elder David Scullins.

Unfortunately someone had to respond to the video. Generally such responses are not an issue but this individual not only made some wild, unscriptural claims, but in the process denies God’s very Word on the matter, twisting Scripture to their own interpretation and holding themselves up on a rather high pedestal. The claim being made is that the Holy Spirit is not an aspect of God, His Spirit in-dwelling us as we embrace the fullness of the salvation His Son paid for, but that The Comforter is an actual person and that the respondent is indeed The Comforter spoke of in Scripture.

Unfortunately YouTube won’t let me even get part of the way into dealing with this, as they limit responses to some arbitrary length of characters, so I intend to list the Scriptures here. I will not be linking to the YouTube respondent as I have no desire to spread such blasphemous teachings.

First and foremost in Brother Scullin’s sermon is John 14:26:
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

This is a huge statement. Christ has just told His disciples that God will be sending the Holy Spirit in Christ’s name to teach them all they need, causing them to remember all Christ taught, and in so doing bringing to them the full revelation of what it all meant. We can see this happened by the teachings of Peter, Paul, Luke, Jesus’ half-brother James and the unknown author of Hebrews. We know when it happened (the day of Pentecost). We know how it happened. We know the result of it happening.

How then can someone be claiming to be that Comforter today, over 2,000 years after the fact? I’m not really certain aside from them being under the influence of the enemy and 6 years of twisting Scripture to their own purpose (the individual made the claim they spent 6 years studying Scripture to be able to back up their claim).

I guess at this point, you are wondering, if one person can claim it, what Scriptures might they have used?

To be honest, I’m not sure. All references in Scripture to the Holy Spirit, or God’s Spirit, all refer to it indwelling people and it not being a person. Here are those Scriptures, in order that I have found them.

Psalm 51:10-12
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

“Do not take your Holy Spirit from me,” the Psalmist writes. To beg God not to take His Holy Spirit from him, the Holy Spirit had to be with him, indwelling him and teaching him all things God wanted him to know. Crying out to God, asking for Him to create a clean hear and renew a steadfast spirit within him. Oh what a joy it must have been for the Psalmist, knowing God dwelt within him, and what a saddening event it must have been for him to cry out to God asking for this in the first place.

Isaiah 63:9-12
In all their affliction He was afflicted,
And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And He bore them and carried them
All the days of old.
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit;
So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
And He fought against them.

Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying:
“Where is He who brought them up out of the sea
With the shepherd of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,
Who led them by the right hand of Moses,
With His glorious arm,
Dividing the water before them
To make for Himself an everlasting name,

Again we see talk of His Holy Spirit, and again we see mention of it indwelling within people.

Daniel 4:7-9
Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its interpretation. But at last Daniel came before me (his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying: “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Daniel 4:18
“This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you.”

Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

To unequivocally declare that the Spirit of the Living God does not indwell us is a complete and utter denial of Scripture. All throughout Scripture we find people in whom the Spirit of God dwelt. Let’s continue with some more examples.

Mark 13:11
But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

The only way for the Holy Spirit to speak for them is if it was indwelling them, giving them divine inspiration with which to answer instead of them relying on their human minds. They were to process all things through the Spirit, not the flesh.

Luke 1:41
And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:67
Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

Luke 2:25
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Luke 4:1
Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Luke 11:13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

Luke 12:11-12
“Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Not only will the Spirit indwell us, but it will teach us (remember John 14:26?).

John 20:21-23
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Acts 1:1-8
The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:16
“Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

And so on. The Comforter has come, and all who shall believe in Him who sent Him shall be indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God. Let no one deceive you of these things which through Holy Scripture we are taught.

Praise be to God.