The transformation is effected by the Holy Spirit whose descending is being prayed for in the epiclesis. |
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A new age has dawned, and the Holy Spirit has been poured out in a new way. |
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In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred. |
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Milton had become too rational and believed in a fiery jealous God rather than the forgiving Holy Spirit. |
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We commend him into your care and keeping now and forever more, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
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Each of us has received the Holy Spirit to witness to Jesus and to help spread the gospel. |
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Does the Holy Spirit and fire ever need to come down in our houses of worship? |
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Today there seems to be a movement of the Holy Spirit calling forth the anchoritic vocation once again. |
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The Holy Spirit even reveals things taught during Jesus' ministry but not recorded in any of the four gospels. |
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We simply must rely on God to give us divine revelation by his Holy Spirit. |
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The fits, trances and visions that attended revivalistic religion in this era were seen by many as evidence of the workings of the Holy Spirit. |
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We are asked to contemplate the vision of the Son at the right hand of the Father in glory and the Holy Spirit about to break forth upon us. |
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Christ is our intercessor at the right hand of the Father, and the Holy Spirit is the advocate in our heart. |
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What does all this suggest about the role of the Holy Spirit with regard to the liturgical life of the Church? |
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After the Resurrection and the Ascension of Jesus, the disciples were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. |
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The Holy Spirit advocates Jesus' case and cause to us just as Jesus advocates ours in the heavenly throne room. |
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The Holy Spirit came upon him at his baptism, consecrating him as the messiah. |
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Or, that those who talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit are one sandwich short of a picnic! |
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He is telling them to take care, because whoever he might be who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, he will never be forgiven. |
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Then the blessed Holy Spirit himself, and He, alone, will dominate, motivate, and control your life. |
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Continue to lead me and guide me in that way by the blessing of your Holy Spirit. |
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In Christ, we have been given every spiritual blessing, and the capacity to hear the Holy Spirit is one of those blessings. |
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This hope is the ultimate blessing of the Holy Spirit to a baptized people. |
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Whenever God manifests himself to sinful man through the Holy Spirit, it means condemnation for the flesh. |
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During this time he allows Jesus to soak up all of his sinfulness and depravity and then to fill him with the presence of Holy Spirit. |
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Thus, the decree of unpardonableness against the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit is eternal. |
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The Holy Spirit produces spiritual fruit in God's people that ensures a life of a kind that unsaved people can never understand or enjoy. |
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Because the Nazarenes chose their own grasp of Jesus rather than looking to the Holy Spirit for revelation and divine insight. |
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Gumbel, like all charismatics, insists that receiving the Holy Spirit is a separate act from conversion. |
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Now, as we begin this new year, we want to look at how all of us can meet the Holy Spirit in a new and deeper way. |
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So as we begin a new year, let's make it a point to meet with the Holy Spirit every day. |
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Did I really believe that God sovereignly saves sinners through the work of the Holy Spirit applying the truth of the Word? |
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This is a grave mistake since not all people speak in tongues because not all people are gifted by the Holy Spirit this way. |
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They believe that they speak in tongues because they have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and are filled with its power. |
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And in the Holy Spirit, that is the Paraclete who was given to us from God the Father through the Son. |
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. |
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So I have moved heaven and earth to make sure that I enter that theater with my mind open, empty, and willing to be filled with the Holy Spirit. |
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Let's listen carefully for the counsel of the Holy Spirit and train our eyes on the prize of the heavenly Jerusalem. |
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But the Holy Spirit wants to raise our minds to our heavenly Father so that we can look at him and delight in him, just as he delights in us. |
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We gather in cenacles as the apostles gathered with our Lady in the Upper Room in Jerusalem awaiting the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. |
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On the filioque controversy, Bulgakov demonstrates that the East did not have a formal theology for the procession of the Holy Spirit. |
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She was baptized in the 1980s and is now greatly interested in the charismatic movement of the Holy Spirit. |
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The Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, of God is the power of God that makes all things possible. |
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Two definite areas had to be dealt with by the Holy Spirit in order to prepare a Church for Christ's return. |
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Section 4 covers the way in which the Holy Spirit works in the lives of God's people. |
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Therefore the Trinity is the belief in God, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit all at the same time. |
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The Holy Spirit will then change your life by the power of the Word of God and by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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These texts establish the fact that demons are defeated and sent away by the mighty work of the Holy Spirit. |
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Christ Jesus himself, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is God, the all Holy One. |
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Christ is directed by the Holy Spirit, and Christ goes where the spirit leads Christ. |
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You must be very careful when you come against Satan's demons, let the Holy Spirit guide you. |
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Its first occurrence was on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit started the body of Christ. |
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They preached to you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who was sent from heaven. |
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Jesus in physical form returned to heaven at the end of his stay on earth, but when he left he sent his Holy Spirit to take his place. |
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John was merely the last to be given to write about it as the Holy Spirit guided him. |
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Led by the Holy Spirit, we can go to Jesus and ask him to free us of the things that bind us. |
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If you are a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit resident in you. |
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The conclave opens with a Mass of the Holy Spirit, including a key homily stressing the particular challenges facing the next pope. |
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Feminist theology, for example, gets more space than Christology, more than Trinity and Holy Spirit combined. |
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The Holy Spirit is the actual personal love of the Father for the Son and of the Son for the Father, their unity, itself hypostatic. |
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The Holy Spirit is as much the Spirit of Christ as he is the Spirit of God, the Father. |
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This scripture is used to prove that the disciples received the Holy Spirit prior to Pentecost without speaking in tongues. |
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For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. |
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Remember that this self-discipline is the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and only those who are already saved are so indwelt. |
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We believe that the Scripture is from beginning to conclusion the very word of God, inerrant and inspired by the Holy Spirit. |
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This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination. |
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But when the Goddess was invoked by the priestess, I felt what I had always experienced as the Holy Spirit come down. |
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In it the Epiklesis invokes the Holy Spirit over the assembled congregation, but not on the elements. |
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So how can we cooperate with the Holy Spirit to receive this pliable heart? |
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That inward spiritual satisfaction is found in the filling of the Holy Spirit. |
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In so doing, our lives will be nourished by the Holy Spirit and we will thereby produce much fruitage. |
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Filled with the Holy Spirit, he proclaimed God's faithfulness and prophesied great blessings over his son. |
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It also implies faith in the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit is the power of God released among us by the glorification of Jesus. |
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The process ends with faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, spiritual rebirth and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. |
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They have no understanding of the gospel, no knowledge of God's free grace, and no experience of the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. |
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It is saying that the Holy Spirit will speak clearly to you through the Scriptures, beginning when you are effectually called. |
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The distinguishing trust of the Society had always been the free and independent influence of the Holy Spirit. |
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Firstly, revival cannot be separated from evangelism, and in fact the giving of the Holy Spirit has everything to do with evangelism and witness. |
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However, we will continue to be unlike Christ in terms of his essential glory as God the Son, a glory he shares exclusively with the Father and the Holy Spirit. |
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The oil poured on David's head by Samuel became a vehicle through which the blessing of the Holy Spirit was released in his life to equip him for his task as king. |
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Pentecostals believe that every child of God should be his own minister, imbued directly with the Holy Spirit and the gift of speaking in tongues. |
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How can I be indwelt by the Holy Spirit and yet be possessed by demons? |
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And we confess the living Holy Spirit, the living Paraclete. |
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Come, Holy Spirit, and enkindle in my heart the fire of God's love. |
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While it gives people a sense of commonality and familiarity, it also keeps them from seeing the bigger picture and being responsive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. |
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The eucharistic epiclesis in its classical form is a potent indicator of the deeper question concerning the relation of the Holy Spirit to the liturgy. |
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This was the oil they used to anoint kings and priests, and that upon John the Baptist anointing Jesus, Jesus sees a vision of God, and the Holy Spirit descends on him. |
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Opposing all forms of Arianism, which denied Christ's divinity, Athanasius taught that Christ the Son, and likewise the Holy Spirit, were of the same being as God the Father. |
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If we have not extinguished the paschal candle on Ascension, we may do so during the reading from Acts as the Holy Spirit roars through the assembly. |
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The reign of Christ begins with the Ascension, even as the witness of the church will soon be inaugurated by the sending of God's empowering Holy Spirit. |
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They are depicted as descending by themselves, or with the dove of the Holy Spirit, or with the incarnate Christ Child enmeshed among the luminous striations. |
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As you stand firm in whatever trials you are facing, the Holy Spirit will be present with you to enlighten you, to strengthen you, and to draw you closer to himself. |
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He mentioned that people who are energized by the Holy Spirit to the extent that they can speak in tongues also have an energized personal spiritual life. |
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What joy, then, when the dovelike Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost. |
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It is still used in the ceremony of confirmation, where a bishop, priest, or minister lays hands on the confirmand and prays for them to receive the Holy Spirit. |
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But an even more pertinent question would be whether the theses lead up to any sort of tract or treatise concerned with the Holy Spirit and nothing else. |
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As the evangelist most preoccupied with the formation of the church, Luke emphasizes the importance of the bestowal of the Holy Spirit in both his gospel and Acts. |
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Finally, he invoked the Holy Spirit directly for aid and understanding. |
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It's blasphemy to speak impiously against God, the Holy Spirit. |
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Anyone can utter the words, of course, but unless the Holy Spirit indwells a person they cannot say such things as a sincere expression of true worship. |
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Moreover, he indicts his accusers for blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. |
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Under the new covenant we have the born-again experience, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the body and blood of Christ, and the ministries and gifts of the Holy Spirit. |
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The Holy Spirit is the power of God and not a separate being with a separate consciousness. |
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He lists the apostolic body and the Holy Spirit as both being efficient and formal causes of the Church. |
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You can inflame more souls with the fire of the Holy Spirit than you can with marshmallow fluff. |
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Some homilists rely on the Holy Spirit exclusively and just wing it on the weekend with results that aren't necessarily inferior. |
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The restoration of the epiclesis to the liturgy that invokes the Holy Spirit, identifies the Spirit as the sacramental agent. |
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The invocation of the Holy Spirit on the female ordinand mirrors that spoken over men, with minor alterations to do justice to gender. |
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Such protagonism really is a lack of confidence in the one main protagonist at work in the world, and I repeat again, that is the Holy Spirit. |
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Charles Fox Parham, who associated glossolalia with the baptism in the Holy Spirit. |
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However, a specific experience of baptism with the Holy Spirit may not be requisite for experiencing such gifts. |
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In his view, faith was a free work of the Holy Spirit and could, therefore, not be forced on a person. |
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His thoughts have guided much subsequent discussion on the procession of the Holy Spirit and the atonement. |
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They seek to understand God's will for the religious community, via the actions of the Holy Spirit within the meeting. |
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It is believed that the Holy Spirit guides the Church through the decisions of the entire council, not one individual. |
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Christ sends the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father, and the Holy Spirit forms Christ in our hearts, and thus God the Father is glorified. |
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The Holy Spirit, then, is the infallible guide for the Church to the interpretation of Scripture. |
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Two chains represent the human and Godly nature of the Son, one chain for the Father and one chain for the Holy Spirit. |
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The bread and wine are believed to become the genuine Body and Blood of the Christ Jesus through the operation of the Holy Spirit. |
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Brethren members believe that these assemblies are the result of an independent movement of the Holy Spirit in India. |
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Spiritual gifts are received as a result of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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As the revival unfolded Roberts is said to have depended increasingly upon what he considered the guidance of the Holy Spirit. |
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There are Pentecostal believers who have claimed to receive their baptism with the Holy Spirit while being water baptized. |
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Pentecostals expect certain results following baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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Pentecostals understand the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge to be supernatural revelations of wisdom and knowledge by the Holy Spirit. |
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This personal cleansing prepares the believer to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. |
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There he taught that speaking in tongues was the scriptural evidence for the reception of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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He taught that the baptism with the Holy Spirit was a third experience, subsequent to conversion and sanctification. |
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Trinitarianism held that God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit were all strictly one being with three hypostases. |
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The specific event which is commemorated at Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is described in the Acts of the Apostles. |
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We do not believe in the teaching of the Trinity, in which the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three parts of a single being who is God. |
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Unlike the Latin Church, the Byzantine Rite uses leavened bread, with the leaven symbolizing the presence of the Holy Spirit. |
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He rewrote each article of the Creed to express the character of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit. |
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In ordination, the Church affirms and continues the apostolic ministry through persons empowered by the Holy Spirit. |
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As part of this covenant, God promises to give the elect the Holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe. |
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Salvation is granted to individuals by means of the word of God and the Holy Spirit, who persuades them to believe and obey. |
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The confession states that it is the work of the Holy Spirit and is ordinarily accomplished by the preaching of the word. |
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This was because authority had to be obeyed even if it were wrong and needed to be remedied by right reason and the Holy Spirit. |
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Holy Scripture is not a dead letter, but rather, the power of the Holy Spirit is inherent in it. |
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Lutherans believe the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. |
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The hymns linked in with the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. |
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But, in reality, it is God the Holy Spirit who convicts us of our deep need of redemption and renewal. |
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I decided to listen to my grandfather's advice for forest firestorms and apply it to the Holy Spirit firestorm in my life. |
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Congar located the Holy Spirit and the hierarchy in both the efficient and formal causes of the church, though in different ways. |
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Lean hard on his promises and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you as to whether, when and how to renounce your gangstership. |
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The Holy Spirit is now the Spirit of Christ as it was once known by the title of the Spirit of God. |
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According to the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary. |
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The outpouring of its life in the service of humanity is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which Christ has first of all inpoured. |
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At Pentecost, the Apostles are believed to have received the Holy Spirit, preparing them for their mission in leading the church. |
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Pentecostalism is a movement that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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Lutherans confess that Scripture is united with the power of the Holy Spirit and with it, not only demands, but also creates the acceptance of its teaching. |
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As gifts freely given by the Holy Spirit, they cannot be earned or merited, and they are not appropriate criteria with which to evaluate one's spiritual life or maturity. |
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Rather than holding a purely symbolic view, Calvin noted that with the participation of the Holy Spirit, faith was nourished and strengthened by the sacrament. |
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Tongues as the initial evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit and in individual prayer serves a different purpose than tongues as a spiritual gift. |
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Charismatic or Pentecostal congregations may spontaneously feel led by the Holy Spirit to action rather than follow a formal order of service, including spontaneous prayer. |
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Quakers sit quietly until moved by the Holy Spirit to speak. |
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For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Savior Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water. |
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This liturgical action becomes a profound and concrete witness to Apostolic Succession, ecclesial unity, and the operation of the Holy Spirit in each local Body of Christ. |
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It is, in effect, a hallmark of one's status, much as glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, became a hallmark of the descent of the Holy Spirit for Pentecostals. |
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The addition of power from God through connectedness with the Holy Spirit results in a quantum leap in our ability to accomplish the will of God in our daily lives. |
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On January 1, 1901, after a watch night service, the students prayed for and received the baptism with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. |
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In his view, the unity of the faith coexisted unparadoxically with heterogeneity of custom because the one church was governed and regulated by the one Holy Spirit. |
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Simpson believed that Pentecostal tongues speaking was a legitimate manifestation of the Holy Spirit, but he did not believe it was a necessary evidence of Spirit baptism. |
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It was clear that what we had heard in the classroom took on new life with the help of caffeine and snickerdoodles, and no doubt, the Holy Spirit. |
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Urban refused but commissioned him to prepare a defence of the Western doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit against representatives from the Greek Church. |
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The Eucharistic Prayer includes the epiclesis, a prayer that the gifts offered may by the power of the Holy Spirit become the body and blood of Christ. |
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It has been characterised as Arminian theology with an emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit to bring holiness into the life of the participating believer. |
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Some Friends express their concept of God using various phrases including the inner light, or inward light of Christ, the Holy Spirit or other phrases. |
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They think a new Pentecost is afoot, in which the Holy Spirit brings millions the good news of salvation in the hereafter and real blessings in the here and now. |
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The red on the flag symbolises the blood shed by Jesus Christ, the yellow for the fire of the Holy Spirit and the blue for the purity of God the Father. |
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The Holy Spirit maintains the unity and consistency of the Holy Tradition to preserve the integrity of the faith within the Church, as given in the Scriptural promises. |
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Paulus Faraj Rahho was seized when leaving a Lenten service at Mosul's Church of the Holy Spirit, the scene of last year's shooting of a priest and three sub-deacons. |
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I believe that this holy Trinity exists with separation of persons, and one person is that of the Father, another that of the Son, another that of the Holy Spirit. |
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It is all that subsists by itself and which has not its being in another, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all being uncreated. |
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The authority is not ecclesiastical, and interpretation is not restricted to clergy, but is open to whomever the Holy Spirit chooses to reveal it. |
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Fire signifies the Holy Spirit and frankincense the good deeds. |
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As baptism is a person's participation in the death and resurrection of Christ, so Chrismation is a person's participation in the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. |
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On the contrary, we thankfully acknowledge that these ministries have been manifestly blessed and owned by the Holy Spirit as effective means of grace. |
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We believe the Father and the Son are separate beings with separate consciousnesses and that the Holy Spirit is not a conscious being but instead the power of God. |
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When the fog lifted that evening, a strange light was seen playing about the dome of the Hagia Sophia, which some interpreted as the Holy Spirit departing from the city. |
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For you predict the future and publicly declare that you do so by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit when you should be reprehending vice and praising virtue. |
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Baptism with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues are not generally required, though Pentecostal converts are usually encouraged to seek these experiences. |
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Pentecostals define it as a definite experience occurring after salvation whereby the Holy Spirit comes upon the believer to anoint and empower him or her for special service. |
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They think I've miracled the dogs, as the Eucharist miracled my mother. That I, Bonne, am pulsing with holy spirit. |
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The holy spirit, by his grace, lithes and turns out heart to God. |
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