Hi and thank you., Why small fonts to big to small to big. I pray just saying no offense please but making parts of a verse bigger and bolder is you telling us what you believe not what that verse is really saying. Some of what you posted has context. Something came before it and after. So whos showing us you or the sweet holy Spirit? You are. I understand what your saying but sin or not we were made in the image of God. I think you just looking at the flesh. Like Christ talking to His own "you being evil know how to give good gifts how much more will your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask" ooh did you ask?
But that verse He said you being "evil" yet in the same sentence said " will your heavenly Father" . Satan is called the god of this world yet he is no god anyway not here to debate the image.
Anyway to the OP amen.. to think to know God is a spirit. We know what image, likeness means. It goes for me far deeper then that.
“So whos showing us you or the sweet holy Spirit?”
the scripture is the holy ghosts word the scripture shows us
The difference in the scripture and someone’s opinion or interpretation is important
“We have also a more
sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
knowing this first, that
no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV
the scripture is actually Gods word , many people claim to speak for God but won’t agree with scripture. It’s the scripture that teaches us about the holt spirit and how to receive the holy spirit
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jesus who the gospel is all about his spirit is the holy spirit
“And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus,
he gave up the ghost.”
Luke 23:46 KJV
“And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”
Galatians 4:6
The holy spirit spoke and preached the gospel already sent it to all people and said “ anyone that believes will be saved “
“Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying,
the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22 KJV
At that point Jesus begins to preach this
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Luke 4:18-19, 21 KJV
In other words the Holy Spirit is who preached the gospel
“Now after that John was put in prison,
Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
Mark 1:14-15 KJV
the way to receive the Holy Spirit is
like the Bible says not like I say or anyone else but like what is written for anyone to read and believe
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
“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. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
Acts 2:38-39 KJV
“Yea, and
all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of
the covenant which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Unto you first
God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.”
Acts 3:24-26
Its much more simple it’s as simple as hearing what e new testament says and believing it who shares it or reads it the self or hears it in a pew at church is insignificant it’s whether we hear what’s really there or a version of man’s design
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