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NASB | Acts 19:2 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 19:2 He asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed [in Jesus as the Christ]?" And they said, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." |
Subject: How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? |
Bible Note: If you are still living in sin, you have not the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. For to still be a sinner and proclaiming the power of God through His Spirit living within you, is claiming the Spirit is a sinner also. To become “born anew,” is to be born into a new family, the family of God. God becomes our Father, Father in the real sense of the word; we must have a close relationship with Him as we do our own fathers, at some stage of our lives. And this relationship is the basis of, “being born again”; for to be, “saved from our sin”, (Matthew 1:21) which is what Christ came to save us from, and not, “saved in our sin”, which many believe as the truth. The sin, which Christ came to save us from is, being unable to follow God, and His ways, in our own human nature; it is not possible in our own strength to follow God, but He, God, made this possible through the relationship we become to Him, through Jesus; for we must put off of our own fleshy desires, to be self- sufficient, and instead put on the flesh of Jesus, (Galatians 3:27) which makes us rely on God completely, because it is only through this mystery of Spirit, accomplished by God for us, that is obedience to God even unto death. (Hebrews 5:7-10) For obedience is the key of a relationship with God, as Adam and Eve’s story so amply portrays it to us, so as we put to death our old man of sin in sacrifice to God, we are raised up as a new creature of God; for he who is willing to be dead to the old nature of following the Devil, is set free from the penalty of the sin of following Satan and not God. Romans 6:4-8 We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. When we put on the Lord Jesus, (Romans 13-14) we become, in the eyes of God, His only begotten Son, as we are hid in Jesus before God. (Colossians 3:3) bartay |