“Those that Jesus confessed that he did not know them could not have recieved the holy ghost. If they had recieved the holy ghost then he would have known them for he would have shed it upon them.”
we receive the Holy Ghost by Gods gift to a believer but after we receive the Holy Spirit we can’t live as servants to sin just receiving the Holy Spirit isn’t where this ends
“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.”
Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV
We can receive the Holy Spirit and then reject him and not hear and follow we have to actually walk in the spirit not receive it and then go on living as we did before when we receive the Holy Spirit we should all take this very seriously
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
What we do and say and how we live is all being done while God is present with us. What we do good or evil is being done in his sight in his holy presence when we won’t repent even as his word is convicting our hearts were stifling and putting out the flame of the spirit
“But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ( believing the word of God does that )
and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:20-26, 28-32
Pauls teaching us that we have to change from our old ways and teaching us to actually start doing these things
it matters what we do we can actually grieve and offend the holy ghost just like osrael did when they sacrificed to false gods in his temple now we are the temple the holy place where God dwells among us . If we keep serving Satan it’s not going to end well when we commit sin we are doing what Satan wants us to do it sounds harsh but that’s true we need to see our actions for what they are
it’s more important once we believe how we live than before we hear the gospel and believe because God comes to dwell in and with us permanently he’s witnessing it all and it’s our role to follow the new spirit me leave the old behind we have to not only say we’re reborn but have to actually let him reform us otherwise we’re not going to have any excuse one day of why we choose serving sin over Jesus and Gods Will we can serve the world and our own lists and perish or find and follow Gods Will and live
we receive the Holy Ghost by Gods gift to a believer but after we receive the Holy Spirit we can’t live as servants to sin just receiving the Holy Spirit isn’t where this ends
“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.”
Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV
We can receive the Holy Spirit and then reject him and not hear and follow we have to actually walk in the spirit not receive it and then go on living as we did before when we receive the Holy Spirit we should all take this very seriously
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
What we do and say and how we live is all being done while God is present with us. What we do good or evil is being done in his sight in his holy presence when we won’t repent even as his word is convicting our hearts were stifling and putting out the flame of the spirit
“But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ( believing the word of God does that )
and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:20-26, 28-32
Pauls teaching us that we have to change from our old ways and teaching us to actually start doing these things
it matters what we do we can actually grieve and offend the holy ghost just like osrael did when they sacrificed to false gods in his temple now we are the temple the holy place where God dwells among us . If we keep serving Satan it’s not going to end well when we commit sin we are doing what Satan wants us to do it sounds harsh but that’s true we need to see our actions for what they are
it’s more important once we believe how we live than before we hear the gospel and believe because God comes to dwell in and with us permanently he’s witnessing it all and it’s our role to follow the new spirit me leave the old behind we have to not only say we’re reborn but have to actually let him reform us otherwise we’re not going to have any excuse one day of why we choose serving sin over Jesus and Gods Will we can serve the world and our own lists and perish or find and follow Gods Will and live
