1. The reception
of the Spirit.
2. The new birth.
3. Washing and
regeneration.
4. The seal and
the pledge of the Holy Spirit.
5. Eternal Life.
6. Justification
before God.
7. The
sanctification and fruits of the Holy Spirit.
8. Adoption in
the family of God.
9. Member of the
Body of Christ.
10. The
assistance and support of the Holy Spirit.
11. Satan loses
decisive and absolute power over the believer.
12. Important
Note on the Filling of the Holy Spirit.
13. The
equipment of the Holy Spirit for the service.
1. The reception of the Spirit
The Baptism of
the Holy Spirit is accompanied by the reception of the Spirit. The person
receives the Spirit as soon as he believes in Jesus Christ.
John 7:39
This
He said concerning the spirit that they that believed on him would receive;
because the Spirit had not been given until that moment, because Jesus had not
yet been glorified.
John 14:17
The
spirit of truth, which the world can not receive, because it neither sees it
nor knows it; you know him, because he dwells with you and will be in you.
1 Corinthians
3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelled
in you? If any man destroy the temple of God, God will destroy it; for the
sanctuary of God, which is ye, is holy.
2. The new birth
John 1:12
12 But as
many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
13 who
were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God.
John 3
5 Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of
the spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of
the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
8 The wind blowout
where thou wilt, thou hear his voice, but thou knowest not whence it cometh,
nor whither it goeth; so is all that is born of the spirit.
When receiving
the spirit the believer is born spiritually.
3. Washing and regeneration
There can be no
new birth if one is not washed inwardly by the Holy Spirit. This washing and
purifying operation is called regeneration.
Titus 3: 5
Not
by works of righteousness which he hath done, but according to his mercy, he
hath saved us by the regenerating and renewing washing of the Holy Spirit.
This washing is
not sanctification which includes the washing or regeneration of soul and body.
It is the washing of our spirit, in order to reestablish communion with God.
John 13
8 Peter
said to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus replied, "If I do not
wash you, you have no part with me."
9 Then Peter asked him, Lord, not
only the feet, but also the hands and the head.
10 Jesus said to him, "He
who has bathed needs no washing except his feet; as for the rest, it's all
clean. Now ye are clean, but not all.
4. The seal a the pledge of the Holy Spirit
The believer is sealed by the Spirit, being able to
be sure of his salvation, for this seal is a guarantee that we are children of
God.
The pawn speaks of a small sample of the glorious inheritance that we will
one day receive as children of God that we are, a pledge that the Holy Spirit
places in us when we believe in Christ.
II. Corinthians 5: 5
Now it was God
Himself who prepared us for this, granting us the surety of the spirit.
Ephesians 1
13 Whom also ye, after ye have heard the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise;
14
which is the surety of our inheritance, until the redemption of his
inheritance,
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the Spirit of God, whereby ye are
sealed unto the day of redemption.
5. Eternal Life
When one sincerely believes in Jesus Christ and is
baptized by the Holy Spirit, he receives the Eternal Life.
John 3:16
For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
hear my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, he
cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.
John 6:47 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 10:28 I give them eternal life; they shall
never perish, and no man shall snatch them out of my hand.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 5:
11 And this is the testimony: that God
hath given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
13 These things
have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto
such as believe in the name of the Son of God.
Eternal Life is an exclusive
gift of God's grace, which is received through faith in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and this does not come from you; it is the gift of God;
9 Not of works, lest
any man should boast.
Titus 3: 7
That, being justified by grace, we may become
his heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
6. Justification before God
Question:
What is
justification?
To put it simply, to justify means to declare righteous;
to make someone righteous before God.
Justification is when God declares
righteous everyone who receives Christ, based on the righteousness of Christ
being debited to the accounts of those who receive Him.
Although we can find justification as
a principle throughout Scripture, the main passage that describes justification
in relation to believers is
Romans 3: 21-26
But now, without law, the
righteousness of God, which is witnessed by the law and the prophets, has been
manifested, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all
(and over all) believers: for there is no distinction, by the grace of God,
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath purposed in his
blood, as a propitiation, through faith, to manifest his righteousness, having
God in the his forbearance, having left unpunished sins previously committed,
in view of the manifestation of his righteousness in the present time, so that
he himself may be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus".
We are justified (declared righteous)
at the moment of our salvation. Justification does not make us righteous, but
declares our righteousness.
Our righteousness comes from putting
our faith in the full work of Jesus Christ. His sacrifice covers our sin,
allowing God to see us as perfect and without any blemish. Because of the fact
that as believers we are in Christ, God sees the righteousness of Christ when
He looks at us. This achieves God's requirements for perfection; therefore
He
declares us righteous - He justifies us.
Romans 5: 18-19 sums up this concept very well:
For as by one offense came the judgment
upon all men for condemnation, so also by one act of righteousness came grace
upon all men unto the righteousness that gives life, for as by the disobedience
of one man many have become sinners, so also through the obedience of one man
many will become righteous.
Why is this pronouncement of justice so
important?
Romans 5: 1
Therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
It is because of
the justification that the peace of God can rule in our lives. It is because of
the FACT of justification that believers can have the guarantee of salvation.
It is the FACT
of justification that leaves God to begin the process of sanctification, the
process by which God makes reality in our lives the position we already occupy
in Christ.
This point was
taken from the gotquestions
7. The sanctification and fruits of the Holy Spirit
When the Holy
Spirit baptises a person, it receives the Spirit, is born again and is sealed;
from there the Spirit begins to operate in her the work of sanctification.
The
work of sanctification includes the conversion of the past life, in which the
person gradually decides to abandon the old sinful habits and begins to know
and to grow in the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
At the same time, this person,
already a believer, gradually integrates into a local Church until he becomes
an effective member in the Church, the living body of Christ.
Romans 6
19 I
speak as a man because of the weakness of your flesh. As you have offered your
members to the bondage of uncleanness and wickedness to wickedness, so now
offer your members to serve righteousness for sanctification.
22 But now being
freed from sin, being made servants of God, you have your fruit for
sanctification, and eternal life;
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
1 Thessalonians
4
3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you should separate
yourselves from fornication;
4 That every one of you may know to possess his
own body in sanctification and honor, 7 because God did not call us to
uncleanness, but to sanctification.
1 Thessalonians
5:23
The same God of peace sanctify you in everything; and may your spirit,
soul, and body be preserved blameless and blameless at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
8. Adoption in the family of God
In the midst of
this succession of experiences following the baptism of the Holy Spirit, one
receives the revelation that was adopted in the family of God.
In this way, the
Holy Spirit witnesses to her spirit that she is a child of God, giving her the
paternity of God, so she can say: Abba, Father.
Romans 8
14 For
all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 For you did not
receive the spirit of bondage, that you might live again in fear, but you
received the spirit of adoption, on which we cry: Abba, Father.
16 The spirit
itself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.
9. Member of the Body of Christ
When one accepts
Jesus Christ and as a consequence is baptized by the Holy Spirit, he is
immediately immersed by the Holy Spirit in the mystical body of Christ - the
Universal Church.
A believer may
not immediately become a member of a local church, but by drinking of the
Spirit he immediately becomes a member of the body of Christ - the Universal
Church.
1 Corinthians
12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews, or
Greeks, or slaves, or freemen. And to all of us it was given to drink of one
Spirit.
10. The assistance and support of the Holy Spirit
God knows that the convert is a person full of
fears and weaknesses and that he needs the support of the Holy Spirit in order
to advance in the Christian life and to know the will of God in everything.
Romans 8:26
Likewise also the spirit assistes us in our weakness; because we
do not know how to pray as it should, but the same Spirit intercedes for us
with groanings that can not be uttered.
11. Satan loses decisive and absolute power over the believer
Colossians 2: 14-16
Having struck the card that was
against us in her ordinances, which was contrary to us in some way, and took it
out of the midst of us, nailing it to the cross. And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made them public, and triumphed over them in
himself.
The text under analysis begins by telling us that Jesus Christ crossed
out the debt note that was against us.
What debt was it against us? Debt was our sin, and
we could never repay it.
The expression "scratch" in the original
Greek is the same as to erase, to clean (expressions similar to those used in
the following texts Revelation 7.17; 21.4.
So that's exactly what Jesus did, erased, cleaned,
scratched out our debt note. He passed a sponge and left nothing behind.
Continuing our analysis, we note that the "ballot was against us."
This ballot was the Law.
All the Law of Moses was against us. The Law did
not require redemption - Only condemnation.
As the Law was against us, because
through it we would never reach salvation, the Lord Jesus "took it out
from among us." Hallelujah! So that we would not remain under his curse.
And he nailed it to the cross. Hallelujah! That's
right. Jesus Christ stuck our bill of debt which was the Law on the cross of
Calvary.
The Lord Jesus Christ crucified that which brought guilt, condemnation
and death. (Romans 3: 19,20; 6:23; 8: 3; 2 Corinthians 3: 4-11; Ephesians 2:
14-16).
But the sacred text also tells us that the Lord
"robbed principalities and powers." Hallelujah!
To strip is to deprive of possession, to take away
by force. Jesus overcame a great battle, waged on the cross of Calvary, and
then, having been victorious, emptied the devil with all his powers, taking
from him the strength of his evil claws. In this way the Devil was stripped of
his power to transgress the Law, to accuse, condemn, and kill man through sin.
Hallelujah!
That's right.
Jesus Christ
stuck our bill of debt which was the Law on the cross of Calvary.
The Lord Jesus
Christ crucified that which brought guilt, condemnation and death. (Romans 3:
19,20; 6:23; 8: 3; 2 Corinthians 3: 4-11; Ephesians 2: 14-16).
But the sacred
text also tells us that the Lord "robbed principalities and powers."
Hallelujah!
To strip is to
deprive of possession, to take away by force.
Jesus overcame a
great battle, waged on the cross of Calvary, and then, having been victorious,
emptied the devil with all his powers, taking from him the strength of his evil
claws. In this way the Devil was stripped of his power to transgress the Law, to
accuse, condemn, and kill man through sin. Hallelujah!
The Devil can
still tempt believers, but no longer has decisive and absolute power over
believers, as before they were believers, for this power was taken away by the
work of Christ on the cross.
12. Important note on the Filling of the Holy
Spirit
Ephesians 5
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is dissolution, but be filled with the
Spirit.
The Baptism of
the Holy Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit are two distinct operations.
All people in
conversion receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and only then begin to seek
the Filling of the Spirit, but the filling should consequently be the desire of
the believer, right after the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Of course, like
all doctrines, the filling should be taught to the believers and in this way
these knowing of this operation will be encouraged to seek the filling in their
day to day.
There are
certain conversions in which the person in converting, receiving the baptism of
the Holy Spirit can have a very filler experience.
This may be the
case for people suffering from drugs, alcohol, prostitution and other serious
problems, where the person needs a very large release operation at the time of
conversion, and the Holy Spirit has to fill it in a special way so that this
release takes place in the person's life.
So that the
person right from the beginning of the conversion can say NO to such an
addition.
But basically,
the operations of Spirit Baptism and Spirit Filling are two distinct
operations.
Believers
baptized by the Holy Spirit must daily seek the filling of the Spirit
To be filled
with the Holy Spirit is an imperative of the Word of God imposed on believers
and Churches.
Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with
wine, wherein is dissolution, but be filled with the Spirit.
Before I start talking about what I
think the imperative "fill you with the Spirit" to say, leave me what
this does not mean.
First
Paul is not
saying that believers should fill themselves with something they do not have.
All believers have the Holy Spirit, whom they received at the time of
conversion. Paul is saying that believers should be filled by the Holy Spirit
they already have. In other words, believers are to leave the Holy Spirit who
dwells in them, to take more and more possession of their lives, to fill them
and to bring them to fullness in fullness.
Second
Paul is not saying that
believers should be baptized by the Holy Spirit. For all believers were
baptized at the time of conversion. Paul is simply saying that they must
"fill themselves with the Spirit" who already dwells in them, for he
baptized them at the moment.
