The Holy Spirit
Acts 19:2
[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."
Whether you hold that these are OT believers being incorporated into the Body of Christ or unbelieving disciples of John who believe in the need to repent and be baptized but did not know the Person they're supposed to believe in due to one thing or another (Acts 19:4), the fact remains that these disciples are ignorant of the Spirit. Whether they mean they did not know the Holy Spirit exist or they knew Him but never heard of the outpouring in Acts 2,8 and 10, the fact remains the same: the Holy Spirit is The Forgotten God of the Bible. Most of us have no problems calling The Father as God; many believe Jesus is God (I certainly do) yet more people believe The Spirit is not a Person but a mere influence or power. That is unfortunate since both OT and NT showed a very busy God working on behalf of man, especially believers. The Bible reveals He is a Person for He has mind, emotion, will; He forbids, permits, gifts, baptizes them, grieves, quenched; OT texts referring to God are used of Him; Godly attributes are ascribed to Him; and direct statements of the Bible ascribed Deity to Him. May this series introduce you to the Person most involved in our spiritual work for as Church saints we cannot live the supernatural life without the supernatural power available to us because of the indwelling Spirit, Eph 1:13-23.
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