|
Re: Why Does God Give the Baptism of the Holy Ghos
Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
The baptism in the Spirit produces godliness in us.
Galatians 5:22-23 (New International Version)
But the fruit (end-result, culmination) of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
Acts 1:8 (New International Version)
8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
|
My thoughts, too. Also, doesn't it say somewhere that the Holy Ghost is the power of the resurrection or something like that? I can't remember the exact quote, but I've heard it preached that if you don't have the Holy Ghost, you will not be resurrected.
__________________
"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
|
Threaded Mode
