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“The Christian life is life in the Spirit,” writes John Stott. “It would be impossible to be a Christian, let alone to live and grow as a Christian, without the ministry of the gracious Spirit of God. All we have and are as Christians we owe to him.” The Holy Spirit continues to be at work around the world, as evidenced by numerous renewal movements. Yet much confusion and controversy remain...

Let me seek to elaborate what I have tried to show earlier. What happened on the Day of Pentecost was that Jesus ‘poured out’ the Spirit from heaven and thus ‘baptized’ with the Spirit first the 120 and then the 3,000. The result of this baptism of the Spirit was that ‘they were all filled with the Holy Spirit’ (Acts 2:4). Thus, the fullness of the Spirit was the consequence of the baptism of the Spirit. The baptism is what Jesus did (pouring out the
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