Let’s speak about the Third Person of God.
The Holy Spirit.
He is God.
God is Three.
God is One.
That means when we obey God, we obey All Three Personages, right?
Or do we just obey God the Father’s word? Or God the Son’s words?
If we do not receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit which is the Third Person of the God-head, that Jesus left here to come live in us and that Jesus commanded believers everywhere in all the world to receive, we’ve disrespected and disregarded the Third person Of God Himself!
Many churches are struggling in our day, because they have not welcomed, but have rather quenched Him. In not inviting Him, He is rejected. Jesus said if we don’t receive Him, we reject Him. There is no middle road with God. All in, not mixed up with the world, or all out.
This is serious in our day, serious!
Rejecting God, leaves one’s with only one eternal option.
The Spirit was given to human men so they could represent God well, by looking and acting as He does.
That cannot be accomplished by good deeds ever. It is an inward supernatural work of those who have willfully invited His Spirit into their natural beings. Humans are not good alone, not righteously or eternally good. With Him, all is possible. With Him is life.
Baptized, is covered in every area. Saturated is a better definition. It starts with being filled, then one must continually welcome and stay full and filled with the presence of God at willful welcome. One day a friend can be welcomed and another day not, each day is different. Today is the Holy Spirit welcomed in your life, to speak to you, change you, make you a new life image of Christ?
God is expecting us to come together with others who welcome His Spirit with whole hearts of love. He is waiting to pour His presence upon a bunch of people all desiring all of Him, Father Spirit and Son.
It was a command of Jesus the Son, not an option among believers to receive Him.
To have God alive in each person who invites Him to be. In the OT God choose. In the NT God told us how to choose, we choose or not.