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Salem Markus Purba
The words Jesus has spoken to us are Spirit, the life-giving Spirit (John 6: 63).
The Holy Spirit is just like a fire, having potents of good and evil, life and death (Mathew 12: 30-37).
Gene Coleman
Salem Markus Purba, as I read scripture references you reported, I don’t get the exact same understandings. We can agree “spirits” can be both good and evil, but the Holy Spirit is only good and never ever evil. Correct?
Gerritt Schuitema
Listen to a sermon called ‘washed with fire’ by Leonard Ravenhill.
Let the Holy Ghost tell you exactly how the Spirit is like a fire, through the mouth of a powerfully filled man of God who has since gone on to be with the Lord. This sermon should tell you all you need to know.
I warn all who like their ears tickled, this sermon turns the heat up and it is about John the Baptist.
Do yourself a favor, LISTEN TO IT, and may our Lord breathe on you while you do, and fill you with that same Holy Fire, that same Holy desire. May we all, be washed with Fire, that many might escape that great and dreadful fire on that final, dreadful day when God comes to judge the living and the dead.
God bless you all