(3) Made partakers of the Holy Ghost

This, at first sight, may seem alarming. What! Could any one not really a Christian be made a partaker of the Holy Ghost? Mark, it does not say, partaker of Christ and of the benefits of His work. It is the case of one who had entered within the circle of the Church of God, where the Holy Ghost is, and who being there, participated of the Holy Ghost with those who were there. Even unconverted children brought up in the blessings of the Christian faith, attending the various privileges of their parent’s faith, partake with them of the Holy Ghost, though the marked difference of Jew, Gentile, and Church of God, does not so evidently exist in our days. It is a question of privilege. And he who apostatized from this great privilege had cut himself off from all hope of blessing, for there was no blessing outside the Church of God.