I was reading a Bio about Oswald Chambers and he described when he was at Bible College, he heard a minister talk about the Holy Spirit and Chambers went back to his rooms and asked for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and following it he says the next four years, it was only the overruling grace of God, and some kind friends that kept him out of a mental hospital!! He says that the sense of his own depravity, vileness and bad-motivedness was terrific. God was he says taking him by the light of the Holy Spirit and his Word through every ramification of his being. This was after he had responded to God's call to the ministry and when he was in training. He eventually came through, but during it he was thinking either christianity was a fraud, or he had got the wrong end of the stick.
Oswald Chambers was Baptized in the Holy Spirit – Bethel Cornerstone
Many years ago, in my teens I went with family to a church service after having not been to church for a while. I began to think afterwards about receiving the Holy Spirit, and it seemed to me at that time it was very simple, just a matter of asking and receiving. I thought myself a christian, and had thought I was for several years, but that I was maybe a bit backslidden. If I recall correctly when I sought the Holy Spirit, God took me back to the Cross, to the Atonement. It seemed like I had not received the Atonement. I thought I knew all about salvation and christian doctrine and was saved. But it seemed like I hadn't received the Atonement.
So i want to ask how does one receive the Atonement? I thought I knew about and had believed in Jesus dying for my sins. I'd been told not to expect feelings, that salvation wasn't a feeling.
I was reading another book on the Holy Spirit by HP Barker and he talks about the cleansing of a leper in the old testament, Leviticus 14:14-17, where it says about applying first the blood of a lamb to the ear, the thumb and, the big toe, then oil in the same manner.
I have read theology book after book, and many other books and I seem to be no further on, or even sure I am a christian?
Oswald Chambers was Baptized in the Holy Spirit – Bethel Cornerstone
Many years ago, in my teens I went with family to a church service after having not been to church for a while. I began to think afterwards about receiving the Holy Spirit, and it seemed to me at that time it was very simple, just a matter of asking and receiving. I thought myself a christian, and had thought I was for several years, but that I was maybe a bit backslidden. If I recall correctly when I sought the Holy Spirit, God took me back to the Cross, to the Atonement. It seemed like I had not received the Atonement. I thought I knew all about salvation and christian doctrine and was saved. But it seemed like I hadn't received the Atonement.
So i want to ask how does one receive the Atonement? I thought I knew about and had believed in Jesus dying for my sins. I'd been told not to expect feelings, that salvation wasn't a feeling.
I was reading another book on the Holy Spirit by HP Barker and he talks about the cleansing of a leper in the old testament, Leviticus 14:14-17, where it says about applying first the blood of a lamb to the ear, the thumb and, the big toe, then oil in the same manner.
I have read theology book after book, and many other books and I seem to be no further on, or even sure I am a christian?
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