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Originally Posted by Justin
Romans 8:9-11; (NIV) Emphasis are mine.
9 You (Spirit filled church in Rome, they had heard and obeyed Acts 2:38), however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God (Holy Ghost) lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ (Holy Ghost), he does not belong to Christ. (Meaning if you do not have the Holy Ghost, you do not belong to Christ.)
10 But if Christ is in you (Holy Ghost), your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you (God's Spirit, aka, the Holy Ghost), he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. (In other words, if you have the Holy Ghost, you will have immortal life, aka, go to heaven)
Let me clarify; just because someone has the Holy Ghost doesn't guarantee them entrance to heaven, Paul said we must endure to the end.
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Isn't the Holy Ghost at work in their lives at the moment of conviction, faith, and repentance? Three steppers appear to think that the Holy Ghost comes into the picture when one is baptized with the Spirit. Not so. The Holy Ghost is received into someone's life by faith as they hear the Word, come to faith, are convicted of sin, repent of sin, seek to be water baptized, and then baptized with the power of the Spirit.
It's all the work of the Holy Ghost in one's life from start to finish.
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