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NASB | Luke 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:13 "If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!" |
Subject: When then? |
Bible Note: Greetings Kalos, Mitch, and TEP! Perhaps part of the difficulty in this discussion is that Scripture seems to use many of the words and phrases relating to this topic almost interchangeably. Sometimes Scripture speaks of baptism, sometimes of filling, and sometimes of receiving. I think that we all agree that every Christian has the Holy Spirit. In general, I would rather use the term 'baptism' to refer to the intial reception of the Holy Spirit that every Christian goes through. However, as Mitch pointed out in Acts 1:5 and 2:4, even this distinction can't be pressed too far. Perhaps the best solution would be to see the distinction between the baptism done by the Spirit and the baptism in the Spirit. By this I mean that 1 Cor. 12:13 doesn't seem to speak as much of the receiving of the Holy Spirit as it does of what the Holy Spirit does for us by bringing us into the body of Christ. At the same time, the 'second' works are not usually refered to as baptisms. They seem to be more often named 'fillings' and 'receivings'. Which ever is the case, it certainly is an interesting study. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |