Glory attributed to Christ

[Henoch]

I believe it was Dr Macarthur in his strange fire conference who said
"Show me a person obsessed with the Holy Spirit and His gifts, and I will show you a person not filled with the Holy Spirit. But show me a person focused on the person and work of Christ, and I will show you a person who is filled with the Spirit!"

Now is the ultimate goal of the Holy Spirit to point to the Lord Jesus' glory
The Father glorifies the Son as well
Are the Father and Spirit to be glorified only through glorifying the Son and not glorifying them separately?
Should all the glory in the Trinity be directed to the Son rather than the Father and Spirit just like Colossians says in all things Christ may have preeminence?
How does this work?

Please help me understand this, brothers!

 

[John Nyberg]

Now is the ultimate goal of the Holy Spirit to point to the Lord Jesus' glory
The Father glorifies the Son as well
Are the Father and Spirit to be glorified only through glorifying the Son and not glorifying them separately?

I think the Nicene Creed is helpful here:

“And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.”

 

[Allen]

I’d like to know what Dr. Macarthur means by “obsessed with the Holy Spirit”. In my experience, people described as such are only actually obsessed with themselves. They don’t love the Spirit as much as they love the idea of possessing supernatural power, using the Holy Spirit as a veil to hide that.
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Interestingly (again, in my experience) those people don’t want to attribute salvation as a work of the Holy Spirit. It made them dance, shout, gave them visions, and drifted a shopping cart their way so they wouldn’t have to go grab one. But is it the one who convicts and changes the heart that the sinner otherwise couldn’t? No, don’t be ridiculous.

 

[Tree]

God the son died on the Cross for our sins, for this he deserves our worship. God the Spirit changes us to want relationship with God and produces the fruit of the spirit in us. It is not wrong to focus on the Holy Spirit (though not exclusively) he is God glorious and worthy of praise, what is wrong is obsessing over the gifts of the Spirit. The supernatural gifts are often obsessed over (I suspect this is) because of the power accociated with them but the focus needs to be on God not what he gives us.

 

[MyCrows]

If I'm not mistaken, the obsession over the Holy Spirit that MacArthur was usually criticizing would be an obsession akin to that of Simon, like detailed in Acts ch. 8.

MacArthur routinely confronted the charismatics and the prosperity gospel crowd, both of which had heavy emphasis on the gifts, rather than the sovereign grace of the giver.

 

[MW]

The Spirit's mission is to glorify the Son. Christ is the one who became incarnate, died, rose, and ascended into heaven. Christ poured out the Spirit being exalted to the right hand of God. The Spirit's mission is not to glorify Himself. He is the Spirit of Christ, the Son, in all that He does in believers. Hence the Spirit of adoption. But this is economic, not ontological.

The Father also glorifies the Son. This is in accord with the everlasting covenant. Christ humbled Himself willingly submitting to the command of the Father to lay down His life on the understanding that He had a command to take it up again. In this sense the Father gives Christ everything that He possesses, including all authority in heaven and earth. But Christ Himself will deliver up the kingdom to the Father and God will be all in all. Again, this is economic, not ontological.

In all things Christ has the preeminence as the head of the church, the firstborn from the dead, and the image of the invisible God, besides many other titles. But in the divine essence, the Father, Son, and Spirit are consubstantial, coequal, and coeternal.