I disagree John chapter 20: 22 was before Pentecost and after Jesus rose from the Dead. The point is there is nothing g in scripture saying a Christian can be possessed by a demon. Therefore we can't assume it can be so.
yeah I can’t think of a single reference . The people mankind are filled with the spirit of The world and need to convert to Christ and be born of God
the thing is receiving the Holy Ghost up front is o my a deposit guaranteeing that if we repent and believe the gospel we’ll be saved. We still have to follow the spirit when we receive it t the first we grow up like children and follow after the word of spirit and life by which we grow d get stronger and walk better and straighter until all we know is following Christ our savior and Lord
it’s a life long process we’re undertaking. If we think back ten years were different now and ten years from now we’ll be wiser and better runners in the faith
first be held and comforted and nurtured then learn to crawl and trust the father , but then eventually we have to start learning to do this tommake our calling and election sure
“But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
Romans 8:11-14 KJV
it’s not just receiving the spirit but we have to start walking in him following after him learning from him and believing in him trusting his word
Notice how we receive the spirit first but then you see we’re always moving forward and growing andd being diligent
“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for
if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:”
2 Peter 1:3-10 KJV
we receive the spirit as a deposit up front before we have learned to walk in the spirit of we don’t don That part then we would be in the unfruitful group
“For
it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and
were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and
bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But
that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.”
Hebrews 6:4-8 KJV
“Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:
and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men
gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If
ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”
John 15:2-3, 6-8 KJV
We have to follow after the gospel just receiving the spirit and then living like we’re full of the worlds spirit isn’t gonna save us we have to start walking in our new Christian spirit