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S. Michael Houdmann
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The apostle Paul clearly taught that we receive the Holy Spirit the moment we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. First Corinthians 12:13 declares, "For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one ...
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Joseph (Joe) Smith
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We receive the Holy Spirit when we're born again. If we don't have the Holy Spirit within us, we don't belong to Jesus Christ. Romans 8:9 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And we all need to remember that we're made alive (as was Jesus) by the Holy Spirit. 1 Peter 3:18.18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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