post #13. Why do you think I asked you???
When you accept Christ....at that very second you were filled and sealed by the Holy Spirit!
John 14:17.....
“He shall be in you”
1 Corth. 6:19.....
“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
It is impossible to be born again and to become a child of God without the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.
John 3:3-8.....
“That which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of Spirit is Spirit; except an man be born of water (the washing of the word of God) and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
Titus 3:5............
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration [i.e., rebirth], and renewing of the Holy Ghost [the Spirit’s on-going work in the new life of the believer".