WHY DID THE GREAT COMMISSION END? DID THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF THE MIRACULOUS END ALSO?

(Staying In Touch With Biblical Reality)

Part 5: Repent, Baptized Gift of the Holy Ghost (Spirit)

Greetings Brethren,

Peace be unto you. I lean not on my own understanding. I also advise you my beloved to do the same. For man in his midget and wicked distortion of the Word comes to beguile with his temporal and fatal wisdom. Heed not flesh but heed and follow the Spirit.

Peace and Love, Carl Patton a willing slave of almighty God writing for the FreedomJournal 1 March 2006 in the year of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

In the name of God, Master of the universe, Ruler of the earth.

It is for sure that the Holy Spirit has a great impact on the will of the Great Commission. However some seem to think (believe) that the Holy Spirit as willed by God through Christ to the Apostles still exists among the Brethren. However to determine all things of this life and beyond we advise you my Brethren to look to the Bible.

We turn now to Acts and the time the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost.

Acts 2:38. “Then Peter said unto them, 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.”

In this verse we find a command and a promise. Repent means to turn away from an unrighteous cause and choose a righteous one. Be baptized means to be buried in water (see Acts 8:38). Meanwhile the gift of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) was the promise. This meant that the Holy Ghost was to be given. This did no mean that the Holy Ghost was to give something to anyone because the Bible does not say the Holy Spirit is a giver.

We also note that in Acts 10:44-45 the terms Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost are used in the same sense. In this verse we do not find what the gift was or when was it to be given. Act 19:2 reveal that men did not receive this Holy Ghost simultaneously with repentance and baptism. (See acts 8:14-17 for additional clarity).

Meanwhile the people of Samaria had been baptized just as Peter commanded, yet they had not received the Holy Ghost until the Apostles came and laid hands on them. So when Peter made the promise in Acts 2:38 he meant that if they would repent and be baptized they would be entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost whenever an Apostle laid hands n them. (We advise the reader to read and study this entire chapter especially verses 38-47).

Cont. Part 6: The Holy Spirit Brings Things To Their Remembrance.

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