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<div class="SSN_title">"THE NEED OF THE SPIRIT"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. PAUL'S QUESTION: "HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT SINCE YOU BELIEVED?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. King James translation made before Baptist doctrine became so strong.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Baptist doctrine asserts the fullness of the Spirit is given to the believer at conversion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is no separate or subsequent experience such as "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The believer only needs to appropriate what he already possesses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The R.V. reads "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Either translation assumes a work of or a relationship to the Holy Spirit beyond believing faith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If the receiving of the fullness of the Spirit was automatic with believing faith, question is absurd.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Paul should just question "are you believers?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Note their own subsequent experience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Verse 5, They were baptized in the name of the Lord, Jesus."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT PROMPTED PAUL'S QUESTION?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The text itself does not declare.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Perhaps a lack of spiritual dynamic.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. No real spiritual vibrancy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Faith without fervor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Jesus told His disciples, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit...."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Some believers possess a greater excitement and enthusiasm for the Lord than others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. I have met some Christians who were very dull. No life, no dynamic.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Perhaps Paul observed a lack of agape love. "For the fruit of the Spirit is love."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They showed no real love for spiritual things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They could get far more excited talking about baseball scores than talking about Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The question, "What have you been doing lately" could generate an explosion of excitement.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The question, "What has the Lord been doing, in your life lately", produces a strained silence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus is not the chief interest of their life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Their love for the things of the world exceed their love for Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. It could be they were lacking in real joy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is one of the marks of agape love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WOULD PAUL BE PRONE TO ASK THAT QUESTION IF HE MET YOU?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Does your life evidence the fullness of the Spirit?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Is there a torrent of living water flowing forth from your life?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If not, why not?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Paul took measures to correct the situation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You should take measures.</div>
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