What is it, and how do you test you have the right one.
How to receive the Holy Spirit... I believe there are seven steps in receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, so read out of the devotions of William Seymour and in metaphor of the Hebrew temple...
1 . Outer Gates - Faith - Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. - Romans 3:28
2. The Alter - Salvation - Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: - 1 Cor 5:7
3. The Laver - Sanctification - Conforming oneself to some righteous believers standard.
***The Inner Temple = Inner Sanctification***
4. The Table of Shewbread - The reading and meditation of God's word.
5. The Lampstand - Acquiring the proper E/c2... E (energy, motivation) / c2 (faith, hope, charity, joy)
6. The Alter of Golden Incense - Prayer and praise - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; - 2 Chronicles 5:13
***The veil is what divides the Inner temple from the Holy of Holies***
7. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit - The Ark of the Covenant - For sixteen years Smith Wigglesworth preached that he had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, when in fact he had received a direction of the spirit. He explains that it was though he was on the outside of the Garden of Eden looking in. But after he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it was as though he had regained access to the Garden of Eden, with the Holy Spirit serving as the fiery sword keeping evil out while he tasted of the good of the Lord. The anointing enabled him to regain the paradise lost so many years ago. Though his title was that of a plumber, the baptism and anointing of the Holy Ghost enabled him to launch a world wide ministry! It is the delight of God to pick up nobodies and fill them with his power!
In which, William Seymour, the architect of this doctrine issues the following warning... “Whenever the doctrine of the baptism in the Holy Ghost will only be known as the evidence of speaking in tongues, that work will be an open door for witches and spiritualist and free loveism. That work will suffer because all kinds of spirits can come in.”
William J. Seymour was a godly man, and an important link within the Pentecostal outpouring.
However, I don't think he was right on everything.
I have problems with that "tabernacle path to receiving the Holy Ghost."
But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.The Holy Spirit is a Person. Not an impersonal "it".
Jesus promised that every genuine child of God could ask, and would receive the genuine Holy Spirit from his Father.
Those who are not born-again children of God do not have this guarantee.
That said, the Holy Spirit is first of all, HOLY. He is not comfortable in a person who does not want to remain holy before the Lord.
And the Holy Spirit will always testify of Jesus Christ, that He is the genuine begotten Son of God, come in the flesh.
Draw near to God with all the heart. Shun every type of sin. Pursuing God with all the heart will make evil spirits uncomfortable.
Meditate on the Scriptures constantly.
He who seeks after God with all his heart, will find Him.
And when you are overwhelmed by the Spirit of God, there will be no question who He is.
But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.
Who can actually tell?
But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.
Who can actually tell?
The belief in the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost) as one of the persons of the Holy Trinity is about as basic and ancient a belief as we have. If you're talking about gifts of the HS or other uses of the word "Spirit" then we have something to discuss. But not the Holy Spirit himself.But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.
Who can actually tell?
The Holy Spirit use to really have an active part in the old Cripple Creek camp meeting in Wythe County, Virginia. I am working on a video to restore the memories....William J. Seymour was a godly man, and an important link within the Pentecostal outpouring.
However, I don't think he was right on everything.
I have problems with that "tabernacle path to receiving the Holy Ghost."
The Holy Spirit use to really have an active part in the old Cripple Creek camp meeting in Wythe County, Virginia. I am working on a video to restore the memories....
Camp Meeting in Virginia around the old, Methodist Episcopal Church South mourners bench! Dear to me is this chapter of the book because I experienced so much of the wonderful things the author talks about in this work! The Life of George Clark Rankin and beginning on page 239...
I passed my examinations and that year I was sent to the Wytheville Station and Circuit. That was adjoining my former charge. We reached the old parsonage on the pike just out of Wytheville as Rev. B. W. S. Bishop moved out. Charley Bishop was then a little tow-headed boy. He is now the learned Regent of Southwestern University. The parsonage was an old two-and-a-half-story structure with nine rooms and it looked a little like Hawthorne's house with the seven gables. It was the lonesomest-looking old house I ever saw. There was no one there to meet us, for we had not notified anybody of the time we would arrive.
Think of taking a young bride to that sort of a mansion! But she was brave and showed no sign of disappointment. That first night we felt like two whortleberries in a Virginia tobacco wagonbed. We had room and to spare, but it was scantily furnished with specimens as antique as those in Noah's ark. But in a week or so we were invited out to spend the day with a good family, and when we went back we found the doors fastened just as we had left them, but when we entered a bedroom was elegantly furnished with everything modern and the parlor was in fine shape. The ladies had been there and done the work. How much does the preacher owe to the good women of the Church!
The circuit was a large one, comprising seventeen appointments. They were practically scattered all over the county. I preached every other day, and never less than twice and generally three times on Sunday.
I had associated with me that year a young collegemate, Rev. W. B. Stradley. He was a bright, popular fellow, and we managed to give Wytheville regular Sunday preaching. Stradley became a great preacher and died a few years ago while pastor of Trinity Church, Atlanta, Georgia. We were true yokefellows and did a great work on that charge, held fine revivals and had large ingatherings.
The famous Cripple Creek Campground was on that work. They have kept up campmeetings there for more than a hundred years. It is still the great rallying point for the Methodists of all that section. I have never heard such singing and preaching and shouting anywhere else in my life. I met the Rev. John Boring there and heard him preach. He was a well-known preacher in the conference; original, peculiar, strikingly odd, but a great revival preacher.
One morning in the beginning of the service he was to preach and he called the people to prayer. He prayed loud and long and told the Lord just what sort of a meeting we were expecting and really exhorted the people as to their conduct on the grounds. Among other things, he said we wanted no horse- trading and then related that just before kneeling he had seen a man just outside the encampment looking into the mouth of a horse and he made such a peculiar sound as he described the incident that I lifted up my head to look at him, and he was holding his mouth open with his hands just as the man had done in looking into the horse's mouth! But he was a man of power and wrought well for the Church and for humanity.
The rarest character I ever met in my life I met at that campmeeting in the person of Rev. Robert Sheffy, known as "Bob" Sheffy. He was recognized all over Southwest Virginia as the most eccentric preacher of that country. He was a local preacher; crude, illiterate, queer and the oddest specimen known among preachers. But he was saintly in his life, devout in his experience and a man of unbounded faith. He wandered hither and thither over that section attending meetings, holding revivals and living among the people. He was great in prayer, and Cripple Creek campground was not complete without "Bob" Sheffy. They wanted him there to pray and work in the altar.
He was wonderful with penitents. And he was great in following up the sermon with his exhortations and appeals. He would sometimes spend nearly the whole night in the straw with mourners; and now and then if the meeting lagged he would go out on the mountain and spend the entire night in prayer, and the next morning he would come rushing into the service with his face all aglow shouting at the top of his voice. And then the meeting always broke loose with a floodtide.
He could say the oddest things, hold the most unique interviews with God, break forth in the most unexpected spasms of praise, use the homeliest illustrations, do the funniest things and go through with the most grotesque performances of any man born of woman.
It was just "Bob" Sheffy, and nobody thought anything of what he did and said, except to let him have his own way and do exactly as he pleased. In anybody else it would not have been tolerated for a moment. In fact, he acted more like a crazy man than otherwise, but he was wonderful in a meeting. He would stir the people, crowd the mourner's bench with crying penitents and have genuine conversions by the score. I doubt if any man in all that conference has as many souls to his credit in the Lamb's Book of Life as old "Bob" Sheffy.
At the close of that year in casting up my accounts I found that I had received three hundred and ninety dollars for my year's work, and the most of this had been contributed in everything except money. It required about the amount of cash contributed to pay my associate and the Presiding Elder. I got the chickens, the eggs, the butter, the ribs and backbones, the corn, the meat, and the Presiding Elder and Brother Stradley had helped us to eat our part of the quarterage. Well, we kept open house and had a royal time, even if we did not get much ready cash. We lived and had money enough to get a good suit of clothes and to pay our way to conference. What more does a young Methodist preacher need or want? We were satisfied and happy, and these experiences are not to be counted as unimportant assets in the life and work of a Methodist circuit rider.
What is it, and how do you test you have the right one.
"It" is God and it is manifested by fruits like love, peace, joy, patience, long suffering, self control, etc. If that is what is exuding from you AND your desire is to worship and please only the Creator... then I would say you have the right spirit.What is it, and how do you test you have the right one.
"It" is God and it is manifested by fruits like love, peace, joy, patience, long suffering, self control, etc. If that is what is exuding from you AND your desire is to worship and please only the Creator... then I would say you have the right spirit.
The Holy Spirit will ALWAYS glorify the Lord Jesus and no other .But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.
Who can actually tell?
We really do need to know God personally, and beware of wolves that come in sheep's clothing. Inwardly they are ferocious wolves (Matthew 23:4-11, 2 Timothy 3:6).But there's so many different groups of Christians, all that guarantee the correct spirit of God.
Who can actually tell?
"What is it" As in how does the Holy spirit operate.Who? not what or it, is the Holy Spirit ?
What does the Bible say about the identity of the Holy Spirit? Simply put, the Bible declares that the Holy Spirit is God.
The Bible also tells us that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, a being with a mind, emotions, and a will.
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 Jn 5:7
The fact that the Holy Spirit is God is clearly seen in many Scriptures, including (Acts 5:3-4). In this verse Peter confronts Ananias as to why he lied to the Holy Spirit and tells him that he had """not lied to men but to God"""
It is a clear declaration that lying to the Holy Spirit is lying to God. We can also know that the Holy Spirit is God because He possesses the characteristics of God.
Example, His omnipresence is seen in (Ps 139:7-8) """Where can I go from your Spirit"""? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there
Then in (1 Cor 2:10-11) we see the characteristic of omniscience in the Holy Spirit. """God has revealed it to us by his Spirit""". """The Spirit searches all things""" """even the deep things of God"""
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”
Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
(THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID; SEPARATE FOR ME BARNABAS & PUUL FOR A WORK """I""" "HAVE CALLED THEM FOR"!)
He The Holy Spirit speaks again in (Acts 28:25
He The Holy Spirit can be blasphemed against (Matthew 12:31 &32
He The Holy Spirit is lied to """and called God""". (Acts 5:3-4
He The Holy Spirit teaches in (John 14:26
He The Holy Spirit possesses a mind, emotions, a will, thinks and knows (1 Cor 2:10
He The Holy Spirit can be, by us, grieved (Eph 4:30
He The Holy Spirit guards us (2 Tim 1:14
He The Holy Spirit helps & intercedes for us (Rom 8:26-27
He The Holy Spirit makes decisions according to His will (1 Cor 12:7-11
He The Holy Spirit Comforts & Counsels (Jn 14:16, 26, 15:26
He The Holy Spirit seals & "gives us the earnest"
("Earnest" means down payment. (11 Cor 5:5
He The Holy Spirit seals & "gives us the earnest" (11 Cor 1:22
("Earnest" means down payment
He The Holy Spirit seals us (Eph 1:13
(WHATS THE "GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION"? PLACING YOUR FAITH IN THE SIN ATONING DEATH, BURIAL & RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
He The Holy Spirit "guarantees" our salvation (Eph 1:14
(YOUR SALVATION WAS SEALED & IS GUARANTEED BY GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. AT THE MOMENT YOU PLACED YOUR FAITH/BELIEF/TRUST IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST)
The Father sent the Son, the Son sends the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit points back to the Son & the Son glorifies the Father