Holy Spirit we can ask for spiritual gifts and the power to work. We have no
influenced by them. But a person who has the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is able to turn the atmosphere in accordance with his atmosphere. May we all receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit so that we may be atmospherechangers!
5. Can have the power to work. In our receiving the outpouring of the Holy Spirit we can ask for spiritual gifts and the power to work. We have no power without the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but with it we come into possession of the power to work for God. This makes a great difference. If we are to have power to serve, we must have the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Some Questions and Answers Question: Can the indwelling Spirit be visible to others as is the outpoured Spirit?
Answer: When you believe in the Lord, you receive the indwelling Spirit. This you know, though it is unknown to other people. The Holy Spirit indwelling us is the work of God. He cannot be seen by men. But when the Holy Spirit falls upon man, people can readily see the manifestations thereof.
Question: Does Acts 8 mention the Holy Spirit indwelling men? Answer: No, it only makes reference to the Holy Spirit coming upon men.
Question: Acts 19 records the twelve saints in Ephesus who had received the baptism of John yet had never even heard of the coming of the Holy Spirit. When Paul arrived there, he questioned them whether they had received the Spirit when they believed. They answered, "Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given" (v.2). Would they perish in their present condition?
Answer: Theological students might answer "they would perish," for they had not yet heard about, or received, the Holy Spirit. Therefore, at that moment they must be considered among the lost. But I say, they were saved, they would not have perished. You might ask, then, how they could be saved without their having the Holy Spirit. Well, we know they already had faith. Paul merely pointed out to them that the baptism of John they had earlier received was inadequate because it was only "the baptism of repentance, [John] saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus" (v.4). That was why they had not received the Holy Spirit and not because they had not believed on Jesus. Indeed, Paul did not even raise the