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Jan 4, 2022 · The outpouring was a unique coming of the Holy Spirit to earth; the filling happens whenever we are surrendered to God’s control of our lives. We are commanded to be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). In this regard it is possible for the believer either to be “filled with the Spirit” or to “quench” the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5 ...
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We don’t know how much the apostles understood of the Holy Spirit’s nature in the moment Jesus breathed on them, but they would soon come to understand that the Spirit was also their Lord and their God. He was not merely a vague emanation of the presence of God; the Breath of God was not like the breath of humans. The Breath was not an it but a he....
What Jesus revealed to his apostles when he came was that the one God (Mark 12:29) exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). The fact that the apostles fully embraced the Spirit’s personhood is clearly seen in how they speak of him in the New Testament. As my colleague, David Mathis, has so helpfully catalogued, These a...
This is why Jesus said, “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you” (John 16:7). I’ve offered an explanation elsewherewhy the Helper’s coming necessitated Jesus’s absence. But the great advantage to us of the Helper’s coming is that in him we are given the unspeakable gift of experiencing God i...
Whenever we speak of the nature of the Trinity, or any of the distinct persons, we are way over our heads. We are attempting to put words to things too wonderful for us. The best Christian minds spent the better part of five centuries defending, clarifying, and codifying for the rest of us the great mystery revealed in Scripture of the divine unity...
Aug 23, 2023 · Answer. The apostle Paul clearly taught that we receive the Holy Spirit the moment we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. First Corinthians 12:13 declares, “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.”. Romans 8:9 tells us that if a person does ...
May 19, 1991 · at Paul's conversion there is extraordinary boldness and empowering to witness (9:17, 22); and in Acts 5:32 Luke says that God "gave the Holy Spirit to everyone who is obeying him." So obedience to God is a mark of his presence. Luke Expects a Real, Identifiable Experience. So in every case of the Holy Spirit's coming or being received in the ...
- This passage raises the question of whether the Pentecostalunderstanding of the baptism in the Holy Spirit has a good basishere. What I mean by the...
- Many interpreters would say that even if the Samaritans werealready true believers and the Holy Spirit was given in two stages,this was not meant t...
- Now what are we to make of all this? It can get very confusing.The approach I want to take this morning is this: I want to come atthis issue of the...
- But however it comes, it is an experience of divine reality. Itis not just an idea about our spiritual condition that we inferfrom a decision we ha...
Feb 13, 2023 · In this week's livestream - the Holy Spirit comes. We see how God sent the Holy Spirit to empower His disciples on Pentecost. Watch as these ordinary people are transformed into fearless witnesses for Jesus and it's an amazing story of how God can work through us when we're obedient to Him. If you're curious about what happened on the day of ...
1. The Spirit as Creator and Sustainer of Life. First, and most basic, the OT believers were conscious of God's Spirit as the Creator and Sustainer of their natural life. In Job 33:4 Elihu speaks for all faithful Jews when he says, "The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."
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Jun 21, 2012 · God’s power is like spiritual dynamite, and it was given to every believer (Acts 2:38). The book of Acts tells the exciting “acts” or “actions” of the early believers. It is packed full of the amazing stories of how God’s Holy Spirit empowered believers to spread the truth of Jesus throughout the world.
