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If you are applying His commandments to mean also keeping the sabbath day, then how can any one get the promise of the Holy Spirit when you have to keep on keeping it?
John 14:[SUP]15 [/SUP]If ye love me, keep my commandments.[SUP] 16 [/SUP]And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;[SUP] 17 [/SUP]Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
If you read from the beginning of that chapter, then you can see what that commandment is that He is repeating over and over again to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit at your salvation.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me....[SUP]10 [/SUP]Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.[SUP]11[/SUP]Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. [SUP]12 [/SUP]Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,...
In context, Jesus is not talking about all His commmandments in order to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit, but the repeated commandment to believe in Him to receive.
John 14:[SUP]15 [/SUP]If ye love me, keep my commandments.[SUP] 16 [/SUP]And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;[SUP] 17 [/SUP]Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
If you read from the beginning of that chapter, then you can see what that commandment is that He is repeating over and over again to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit at your salvation.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me....[SUP]10 [/SUP]Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.[SUP]11[/SUP]Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. [SUP]12 [/SUP]Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,...
In context, Jesus is not talking about all His commmandments in order to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit, but the repeated commandment to believe in Him to receive.