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AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 1:14 Guard [with greatest care] and keep unchanged, the treasure [that precious truth] which has been entrusted to you [that is, the good news about salvation through personal faith in Christ Jesus], through [the help of] the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. |
Subject: Evidence of holy spirit in a Christian? |
Bible Note: Dear Mr. Aixen, I do appreciate you responding to my note and I apologize if I have offended anyone or said anything rashly. It is my first time on these forums and I am still learning my way! I am sorry! I do not disagree when you say that the Holy Spirit enters a new believers life upon salvation and that he/she is saved through the Spirit, and is marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit. I am drawing your attention to the endument of power in a Christian's life. We as humans are powerless to preform miracles and signs correct? But when we are empowered by the Spirit as Jesus said, we have the ability to do greater things than He! (Acts 1:8) The result of pentecost thrust the early church into a bizarre new world for all of them! Simple fishermen and farmers found themselves healing sicknesses and casting out demons in Jesus name! The teachers of the law where shocked when they saw uneducated men so fearless and knowledgable in Acts 4:13. I have to disagree with you when you say that the days of the early church or set apart from our present day. I find no scriptures to support the claim that the laying on of hands was for that specific time, and that the power of the Spirit was only given to the early church. If we are to say that those days are gone and we live in a new era of the Spirit where the Power is not poured out then we are not living in the kingdom of God, "for the kingdom of God is not of talk but of Power! 1 Corinthians 4:20" Actually, I have been a witness to the same experiences today that were then! I seen people become full of the power of the Spirit when others had laid hands on them, and I myself have recieved the Baptism of the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands. For me to say that it does not happen today would be denying what God has done for me and I would not dare to do that! And to go on further, I also have laid my hands on other believers and they have been filled with the Holy Spirit in a dramatic way! It is important that we don't convince ourselves of another way of ministering, because Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:4 that "his teachings were not with wise and pursuasive words but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that faith may not rest on the wisdom of man, but on God's power!" Halleluia! (Read Acts 4:33) Again, I apologize for causing a dispute but this is something laid on my heart and I must let it out. I understand this thread was about the evidence of the Spirit, so you those who are interested read Acts 2 on the day of pentecost, Acts 10 at Cornelius's house, and Acts 19 on the road to Ephusus. You will see what happens to the believers when they are Baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit then enables them to do things they could not do before. (Acts 2:4) Please explore this and ask God do reveal the truth of this subject to you. Grace and peace in Christ, Eli |