The Love Of God Has Been Poured Out In Our Hearts By The Holy Spirit

Now hope does not disappoint,

because the love of God

has been poured out in our

hearts by the Holy Spirit

Who was given to us.

Romans 5:5

            This subject, the Trinity, is important for Christians to come to an understanding, as there are many, who teach and preach another gospel. I personally have not taken this subject lightly because I have been led away in the past to another teaching in regards to God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. I had to take the time to study and think upon this doctrine as to its truthfulness in Scripture and not some man–made doctrine. It is my prayer that these blogs have given you understanding and led you to Scripture for you to examine, study, and pray, so you too have peace and security and have the ability to defend your faith. How important is this doctrine on the Holy Spirit? Paul makes this very clear: "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." (Romans 8:9-11). Here is an important fact: If you are not indwelled by the Holy Spirit, that means you have been baptized by the Holy Spirit; you are not saved! How much clearer do you need for you understanding? Paul adds: "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God" (Romans 8:14). Paul further adds: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). To the Corinthians who were abusing there understanding of the Holy Spirit by introducing things that were not of God: "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19)? In Paul’s second letter (possibly the third), said: "Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a deposit" (2 Corinthians 1:21-22). Much of what is being taught and preached by those who are steeped into miracles, and works; i.e., running through tunnels of fire, going about looking to heal someone, speaking in gibberish noises, as though this is being “Christian” have this from Paul: "This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain? - if indeed it was in vain. Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3:2-5)? What is lost by such things that are not Scriptural is the fact that none of this is Scriptural and the fact that the Gospel is what people need to hear, and to experience, to be sealed, to know that their redemption is secure. How? "In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory" (Ephesians 1:13-14). Some will reject these blogs, and remain in ignorance due to the fact that they “feel” godly, as though they were doing things for God, this is wrong: "Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 4:8). The Holy Spirit that indwells a believer teaches us as we read what God has revealed to us in His word: we know and are assured of our destiny to be forever with God, not from what we do, rather by faith; "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1 John 2:20).

            It should be settled, the matter corrected where the matter is not found to be Scriptural. The Bible corrects, and settles the matter those false teachers. Scripture is plain, and clear, and we should be peaceful in our understanding that all believers have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and are permanently indwelled by Him and their conversion: therefore, there is no “Second Baptism.” How then can the Pentecostals, and the Charismatics say that the faith of the children of God are not baptized by the Holy Spirit and do not have God’s blessings? How far, and how dark, and removed, from the truth in Scripture and how mistaken they are, and telling us to pray and to seek what we already have. How much more evidence does one need to understand the Holy Spirit and His work in the children of God? Christians everywhere testify to the power and the work that God has done by His indwelling in them by the Third Person of the Trinity; the Holy Spirit. Not by some outward, and so–called manifestations, rather by the change in their lives, and the changes in their priorities.

            How discouraging it is to be told that when you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ that you need more, a “Second Baptism” of the Holy Spirit; that you need to speak in some gibberish noises, and to be told that you are fully empowered by God, by the Holy Spirit. If you are caught up in some group that teaches false doctrine, in error, leave. Find a Church that teaches the Bible.

Final note: I am not saying that a person caught up in error are not saved; salvation comes God. I am not saying that their experiences are not real to them and that they honestly believe that it is from God. Yet, the New Testament does not support their claims. Nowhere in the Bible are believers instructed to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A Christian, one who is truly converted to Jesus Christ has: "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power."  It is be the grace of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and a change in our personal lives that is our assurance that we are one of God’s children: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Romans 12:1-2)

                        But God be thanked that

                                    Though you were

                        Slaves of sin, yet you obeyed

                                    From the heart that

                        Form of doctrine to which

                                    You were delivered,

                        And having been set free from sin,

                                    You became slaves of

                        Righteousness.

                                                Romans 6:17–18

                        You are loved by God: Go in peace

                        Richard L. Crumb