(4) He can be resisted.  “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit” (Acts 7:51).

(5) He can be lied unto.  “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” (Acts 5:3).

A mere principle can not sustain any of the above slights.  Nothing but a personality can be blasphemed, lied to, resisted or grieved.

4.  HE IS A DIVINE PERSONALITY.  This will be seen from the following attributes, which are the attributes of God: 

(1) Eternity.  “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 9:14).  “Jehovah is great in Zion; And he is high above all the peoples” (Ps. 99:2).

(2) Omniscience.  “But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit:  for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2:10, 11).

(3) Omnipotence.  “But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin” (Mic. 3:8).

(4) Omnipresence.  “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?  Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?...  Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me” (Ps. 139:7, 10).  “Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah.  Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah” (Jer. 23:24).

5.  THE WORKS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT MANIFEST DIVINITY.

(1) The work of creation.  “And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep:  and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2).  “By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; his hand hath pierced the swift serpent” (Job 26:13).  “By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Ps. 33:6).  “The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life” (Job 33:4).

(2) The work of providence.  “Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground” (Ps. 104:30).

(3) The work of regeneration and resurrection.  “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).  “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you” (Rom. 8:11).

(4) He is the source of the miraculous. “But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you” (Matt. 12:28).  “To another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing, in the one Spirit; ... but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will” (1 Cor. 12:9, 11).