# “The gift of the Holy Spirit” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2024-06-29T09:00:45-05:00
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“The first work which Christ does after His exaltation to the right hand of the 
Father is to send out the Holy Spirit.

At His exaltation He Himself accepted from the Father the Holy Spirit promised in
the Old Testament, and therefore He can now, as He promised His disciples He would,
share it with His disciples (**Acts 2:33**).

The Spirit He gives proceeds from the Father, is given Him by the Father, and is
thereupon given to the church (**Luke 24:49 and John 14:26**).

This sending of the Holy Spirit which took place on the day of Pentecost is a unique
event in the history of the church of Christ.

Just as the creation and the incarnation, it took place but once. It was not preceded
by any granting of the Spirit equal to it in importance, and none has ever followed
it.

Just as Christ in His conception assumed the human nature, never again to lay it
aside, so the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost chose the church as His dwelling
place and temple, never again to be separated from it.”

–Herman Bavinck, [_The Wonderful Works of God_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733627227?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
trans. Henry Zylstra; Glenside, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 1909/2019), 367.

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