Do All Christians Have the Holy Spirit?

The written version of this teaching is on its way. In the meantime, watch it here.

Receiving the Holy Spirit, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit--whatever you call it, there is a lot of confusion around this subject. Unfortunately, the most prominent voices come from those who lack the Holy Spirit. The general consensus by "main stream" Christianity is that everyone receives the Spirit automatically if they believe in Jesus.

This false notion renders the power of the Holy Spirit to no effect in many people's minds. There are multitudes of professing Christians that have never heard from Jesus, felt His Spirit, nor operated in any of the gifts of the Spirit. Yet instead of seeking earnestly after this connection with our Father, they are lead by dead religion pastors (who also have not heard from Jesus nor been called by Him) to believe the Holy Spirit experience is basically imperceivable and that the Bible is our only connection to God.

There is a real indwelling of the Holy Spirit that God may choose to bless us with following our repentance. This can occur immediately or at a future time. It is powerful and undeniable. Indeed this is our personal connection to Jesus. Read the bible and see how the receiving of the Holy Spirit was an undeniable event to the early church. Exercising the gifts of the Spirit was also a normal part of church participation.