As a Christian how do we know that the Holy Spirit is living in us?
If we love or accept Jesus Christ more, the Holy Spirit resides in the temple of the body as an electric force.
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"How does anyone know they have the Holy Spirit"...........
A CHANGED LIFE!
The Bible teaches that anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior receives God’s Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation:
Ephesians 1:13-14........
“In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory”.
To be a Christian is to have the Holy Spirit living in you: Romans 8:9.........
“You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him”.
So what do we now know?????? If you have, by faith, received Christ as your Savior, then you have the Holy Spirit. Acquiring the Holy Spirit happens at salvation. All true believers possess the Holy Spirit as a seal marking them as a child of God.
Since YOU have stated that YOU have believed upon and accepted the Lord Jesus as the Christ then YOU now have the Holt Spirit IN YOU.
YOU then as a believer live by faith not needing to see anything to validate what you have already said you did!!!!
To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be empowered and controlled by the Spirit, to experience renewal, obedience, boldness to witness and share the gospel, and freedom from the power of sin.
Now allow me to say to you with out any malice, you are free to believe that the Holy Spirit is an "electric force" if that makes you feel better...........However I must say to you that the Holy Spirit is a
PERSON and not a force, and someone has given you some bad teaching.
You see.......A mere force could not be the spiritual legal advocate for Christians, who aids them in times of trouble or encourages Christians—only a living being could do this.
Notice, also, that Jesus called the Holy Spirit
another Helper. Just as Jesus acted as the disciples’
paraklete or Helper, so too does the Holy Spirit act as our Helper today. As our Helper, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things and brings to our remembrance all that Jesus taught in John 14:26.
He also bears witness about Jesus as told to us in John 15:26-27.
How could
another Helper
like Jesus be an inanimate object or a FORCE??????
Furthermore, how could an inanimate object teach or bear witness? Notice how Jesus also explicitly called the Holy Spirit a “he,” rather than an “it.”