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NASB | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant (treaty) with them nor show mercy and compassion to them. |
Subject: But What is it? |
Bible Note: Greetings Coop1! I'm back! There are a couple of passages which have a very important bearing on the question of who has the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:9 says, " You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." Thus, every Christian has the Holy Spirit, or they could not be Christian. The same thought is expressed in 1 John 3:24 - "Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us." 1 Cor. 12:13 says, "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." Or, 1 Cor. 3:16 which says, "Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?" The point is that every Christian receives the Holy Spirit at the moment of New Birth. It is the Spirit which baptizes us into the Body of Christ. At the same time, Acts makes it clear that there was another experience subsequent to salvation. Most call it being baptized or filled with the Spirit. I have no problem with either name, as long as we understand that the believer doesn't receive the Holy Spirit at that point. It is simply a consecrating or empowering experience which doesn't add to their salvation. I hope this helped some! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |