What the Bible says about the Threefold Relationship of the Holy Spirit with Men, pt. 1

INTRODUCTION
"Let us return to the Lord. Let us seek again to be baptized into the Holy Spirit and into the fire, and we shall yet again behold the wonderful works of the Lord," Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening.

The Bible describes three different relationships of the Holy Spirit with men. In the Gospel of John, Jesus Himself describes two of these relationships. "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever -- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” (John 14:15-18).

In the book of Acts, Jesus Himself describes for us the third relationship, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (Acts 1:8).

We believe that all men, in order to know the salvation that is offered through Jesus Christ and experience the full life promised in the Bible, must experience these three relationships with the Holy Spirit Jesus spoke of.