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Ask a QuestionFor all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?”
He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came from his mouth. And his face was like the sun in all its brilliance.
From the throne came flashes of lightning and the rumble of thunder. And in front of the throne were seven torches with burning flames. This is the sevenfold Spirit of God.
I will come down and talk to you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is upon you, and I will put the Spirit upon them also. They will bear the burden of the people along with you, so you will not have to carry it alone.
Even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message.
Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.
And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.
A glad heart makes a happy face; a broken heart crushes the spirit.
Then John testified, “I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon him.
The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me.
Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life?
And whenever the tormenting spirit from God troubled Saul, David would play the harp. Then Saul would feel better, and the tormenting spirit would go away.
And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
Trustworthy messengers refresh like snow in summer. They revive the spirit of their employer.
For Jesus had already commanded the evil spirit to come out of him. This spirit had often taken control of the man. Even when he was placed under guard and put in chains and shackles, he simply broke them and rushed out into the wilderness, completely under the demon’s power.
They were completely amazed. “How can this be?” they exclaimed. “These people are all from Galilee,
the Spirit, the water, and the blood - and all three agree.
Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”
This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God.