Martin Lloyd-Jones says, “Because of certain exaggerations, excesses and freak manifestations, and the crossing of the border line from the spiritual to the scientific, the political and the merely emotional, there are many people who are afraid of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, afraid of being too subjective. So, they neglect it altogether. I would also suggest that others have neglected the doctrine because they have false ideas with regard to the actual teaching concerning the person of the Holy Spirit.”
There are three persons in the God head; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These are the only persons in the Godhead. They share four characteristics of divinity, which establishes their character and nature soundly. All three are Omnipotent, which means “all-powerful.” Only three Persons have the attribute of omnipotence. God the Father is omnipotent in 1 Peter 1:5. The Son is omnipotent in Hebrews 1:3. The Holy Spirit is omnipotent in Romans 15:19. All three are omniscient. That means “all-knowing.” The Father is omniscient in Jeremiah 17:10. The Son is omniscient in John 16:30; 21:17, and Revelation 2:23. The Holy Spirit is omniscient in 1 Corinthians 2:10–11. All three are omnipresent, meaning that “God is everywhere.” The Father is omnipresent according to Jeremiah 23:24. The Son is omnipresent according to Matthew 18:20 and 28:20. The Holy Spirit is omnipresent according to Psalm 139:7–10.
The fourth shared characteristic of the three divine beings is their eternality. The scriptures clearly establish this for God the Father and God the Son. Hebrews 9:14 confirms this for the Holy Spirit. It states, “…how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” Only these three possess all four of these divine attributes. John Owen, a prominent Puritan theologian, suggests that if the sin of Old Testament times was the rejection of God the Father, and the sin of New Testament times was the rejection of God the Son, then the sin of our times is the rejection of God the Holy Spirit, underscoring the importance of understanding the Holy Spirit in the context of sin.