Dig Deeper - Acts Chapter 19: Did You Receive the Holy Spirit?
Let's did deeper into the first few verses of Acts chapter 19.
Acts 19:1-3 Paul arrives in Ephesus, finding some disciples and asks them if they received the Holy Spirit when they believed. They respond that they had not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit and that they did receive John's baptism.
So these are followers of John the Baptist but did not have the full picture. (That the coming the Messiah had come in the person of Jesus who was crucified for our sin, raised on the 3rd day, seated at the Father's right hand, and returning. And that Jesus brings the Holy Spirit to believers)…
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