Holy Spirit -06- The Gift to all Christians

The Gift to all Christians

There is a gift of the Spirit common to all Christians, hence this remains with the church today. This is conditioned on one’s obedience to the gospel. "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38). And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father" (Galatians 4:6) . "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you" (1 Corinthians 3:16) . That the Holy Spirit somehow dwells in the hearts of Christians does not admit of a doubt, but just how he dwells in us is the source of much controversy, for it is possible that we are not able to understand just how he dwells in our hearts. In fact we cannot tell how our own spirits dwell in us but unquestionably they do so. "But though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4:16) . So we accept the fact of the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit, without asserting dogmatically how he does it.