The Holy Spirit Speaks
Posted by Matt Postiff October 21, 2025 on Matt Postiff's Blog under Theology Bible Texts
Credit for this blog post goes to one of our church members who sent me an observation this morning about Hebrews 3:7.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts..."
Indeed, the Spirit of God speaks, something which no impersonal force does. He is a real (divine) person. We see the same idea in several other passages:
"Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas..." (Acts 1:16)
As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." (Acts 13:2)
So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying, 'Go to this people and say: "Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive..."'" (Acts 28:25-26)
The Spirit of God spoke through the vehicle of the prophets in the Old Testament, and similarly via the apostles in the New Testament. What He spoke, they spoke, or wrote.
Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21)
