3.  HE WAS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil” (Matt. 4:1).  “And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness” (Mark 1:12).  “And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness” (Luke 4:1).

4.  HE WROUGHT MIRACLES BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you” (Matt. 12:28).  “But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you” (Luke 11:20).

5.  HE OFFERED HIMSELF UP THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “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).

6.  HE WAS RAISED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “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).  “Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Rom. 1:4).

7.  HE GAVE THE COMMISSION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen” (Acts 1:1, 2).

8.  HIS ASCENSION AND CORONATION WERE ANNOUNCED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.  “Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which you see and hear” (Acts 2:33).  “Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified” (Acts 2:36).

Thus the Spirit predicted the coming of Jesus and the great facts of his birth, baptism, anointing, miracles, death, burial and resurrection, ascension and coronation, and then came from the Father to carry on the work of extending his kingdom.  In the light of this testimony we can truly say with Paul in 2 Cor. 12:3:  “Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema:  and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.”

“I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world:  thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.  Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:  for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and know of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send me....  While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me:  and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled....  I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  I pray not that thou shouldst take them from the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one” (John 17:6-8, 12, 14, 15).