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We’ve been answering the question, “How do I get this baptism of the Holy Spirit?”
We’ve seen the promise of the Holy Spirit fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. For Jewish believers. Then, in Acts 10 the Spirit fell, in the same way, reports Peter, upon Gentiles: Cornelius, his family and close friends. The people with an inside track to God, ie, the Jews, and the heathens, the pagans. Eternal life in the power of the Holy Spirit is for everyone, my dear friend.
Luke 11 tells us to ASK for the Holy Spirit. Jesus promises us that our heavenly Father will NOT DISAPPOINT us – hallelujah! There’s another way you may receive this Holy Spirit, this power from on high as Jesus called Him.
We find it in Acts 8. In Samaria people were believing in Jesus! The early church leaders knew the importance of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and sent Peter and John to them, to these mixed race, mixed religion, halfbreed people! Verse 17 says they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Through the laying on of hands. Did you get that? Laying on of hands.
We find the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit again in Acts 19 when Paul encounters a dozen disciples in Ephesus. Verse 2 says, “And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” First Paul brings them up to date about the Lord Jesus Christ, and verse 5 says when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
That is true today, friends. While many may know something about the Holy Spirit, kind of, sort of, not many have experienced Him! This baptism, this promise of the Father is for you!
Receive and grow in the gifts of the Spirit, the charisma, the grace of our Lord. Yes, receive ALL God has to give you my friend! You won’t just barely make it through this life; you will thrive. I dare say, you will— COME ALIVE!
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