I can't say what the official doctrine is about this for all Pentecostal denominations, but the A/G, the largest denomination globally has a position paper which addresses the role of the Spirit in salvation. The believer receives the seal of the Spirit at salvation, it teaches, and should be baptized with the Spirit as well.
Enow seems to think of this idea as some kind of great heresy. But reading through Acts, is it any less reasonable of a position than to say one is baptized with the Holy Spirit at salvation? Do all receive empowerment like we read of in Acts? In two passages in Acts, the Spirit falls on believers after they accept the Gospel and are baptized.
It is a great heresy because Paul says it is a great heresy when he exposed the lie by reminding believers of the tradition we have been taught as to when the only time we had received the sanctification of the Holy Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 2:[SUP]13 [/SUP]But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:[SUP] 14 [/SUP]Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.[SUP]15 [/SUP]Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Now let us discuss what I think you are referring to in Acts in support of that lie, since you did not give an exact reference.
Acts 19:1-7 is not applicable to that lie because Paul happened upon disciples of John the Baptist's; not believers in Jesus Christ. Paul had to tell them about Jesus as being the One that John the Baptist was preaching about; then they believed in Him because then they got water baptized in Jesus's name and THEN they had received the promise of the Holy Spirit.
They never had the Holy Spirit before because they were not believers, let alone disciples of Jesus Christ.
Acts 8th account does not apply to support that lie because Luke testified that the Holy Spirit was not in any of them until Peter & John had come down.
Acts 8:[SUP]14 [/SUP]Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:[SUP]15 [/SUP]Who, when they were come down, prayed for them,
that they might receive the Holy Ghost:[SUP]16 [/SUP](For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)[SUP] 17 [/SUP]Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
They were not saved until they had received the promise of the Holy Spirit. So you cannot treat that as a two event of receiving the Holy Ghost either with salvation.
In Acts 4th account, you need to follow from the first verse.
Acts 4:1And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,[SUP]2 [/SUP]Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.[SUP] 3 [/SUP]And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.[SUP]4 [/SUP]Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand....
Later on after the two that were released, those people that heard the word and believed was the company the two released, went into. When they had heard Peter & John of their account with the Jews in authority, it was these new believers that prayed. Evidence is how they responded after they had prayed as changed lives in sharing everything.
Acts 4:[SUP]23 [/SUP]And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.[SUP] 24 [/SUP]And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:[SUP]25 [/SUP]Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?[SUP] 26 [/SUP]The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.[SUP] 27 [/SUP]For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,[SUP] 28 [/SUP]For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.[SUP]29 [/SUP]And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,[SUP] 30 [/SUP]By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.[SUP] 31 [/SUP]And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. [SUP]32 [/SUP]And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, [SUP]35 [/SUP]And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
So The Holy Spirit did not fall on Peter & John "again" in that place BUT on these now new believers praying that they would be great witnesses like Peter & John. The changed lives afterwards proves that they were new believers that never had the Holy Spirit until that moment when they were saved.
There is no incident where believers already having the Holy Ghost, are receiving the Holy Ghost again.
There are reports by Luke of being filled with the Holy Ghost to signify HOW the disciples were speaking or doing the things that they did so that readers knew that they had done so as led by the Spirit and not by their will or their own power.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-15 reproves the lie that any saved believer can receive the Holy Ghost again. Believers read the extra supernatural experience into scripture in the Book of Acts the way they are doing with tongues with no interpretation, and yet their misapplication does not line up with the truth plainly written in the epistles to the churches.
There is only one hope of our calling and thus one baptism with the Spirit ( Ephesians 4:4-6 )
There is only one drink of the One Spirit that we ALL have been baptized by ( 1 Corinthians 12:13 )
The born again of the Spirit is the salvation moment Jesus spoken about to Nicodemus in John 3rd chapter.
Anyone not having the Spirit of Christ is none of His and thus not saved until they do; Romans 8:9
Having the Holy Spirit in us is having eternal life that we are saved by trusting Jesus Christ; Ephesians 1:11-15
We are complete in Christ and therefore we are Spirit- filled at our salvation as a testimony that we are saved.
Colossians 2:[SUP]6 [/SUP]
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:[SUP] 7 [/SUP]Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
[SUP] 8 [/SUP]Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.[SUP]9 [/SUP]For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.[SUP] 10 [/SUP]And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
There is no receiving the Holy Spirit again apart from salvation. It is a real event, but it is a lie, and not of Him at all.