To me, this is an absolutely mind-boggling concept from Paul to fully internalize: “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” (Romans 8:26)

The third person of the godhead is called the Spirit because He’s the one who takes the benefits Jesus Christ won for us at Calvary and brings them into our personal possession.

Jordan explains, “The Spirit is the one to take us by the hand across the bridge the Son has made into the presence of the Father and give us access. Paul says, ‘By faith, we have access into this grace wherein we stand.’ The way this access that Christ has provided for us is realized in our life is through the ministry of the Holy Spirit as He works. Eph. 3:16 says He strengthens us by His Spirit; He works in our spirit.”

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The Spirit of God is the one wrote the Word of God and so as we trust His Word it’s the means whereby the Spirit personally works in us.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit is called the Holy Ghost, a term representing the coming together of the word “God” with “host.”

Jordan explains, “Your spirit is the place where God operates in you; it’s God’s host in your life. We used that word ‘ghost’ to describe something in the spirit world that’s human. It’s talking about the human nature. When you see the Holy Spirit called the Holy Ghost, if you’ll check the context, you’ll see the emphasis is on the person of the Holy Spirit and His functioning and working.”

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In Romans 8:2, Paul refers to “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” and that, in a sense, is the title of the Holy Spirit.

“We don’t go around and call Him ‘the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus’ but that’s who He is,” says Jordan. “His function in your life and in your experience is to bring the life of Jesus Christ and make it yours, and ‘the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,’ well, that’s the operative law by which the Believer functions today; He’s the one through whom the life of the godhead is actualized in you.”

The very reason Christ rose again on the “third day” is because that day is used scripturally in connection with the third person of the godhead, or the Spirit.

Jordan says, “It’s the day of resurrection life; it’s the day of imparting divine life—the life of the godhead. This life is provided for us through Christ and it’s personalized by His Holy Spirit working through His Word in our spirit. It’s connected with the life of the godhead becoming ours (individually) because of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ.”