Reference Scripture: Acts 2:1-4, 'Coming Of The Holy Spirit'
The Holy Spirit was given on the Day of Pentecost. Believers become living souls and enter into eternal life through the activity of the Holy Spirit and the Christ of Faith, through their spiritual bodies. God's gift of eternal life is spread throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, CIVILITY and following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery. Eternal life is available to all people, in all religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups, who choose to follow the way that the Holy Spirit opened to eternal life, as revealed in the historical Jesus.
The Apostle Paul in today's Epistle 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 assure readers that in the body of the risen Christ of Faith, there is one Lord, the universal indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith. Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based gifts and spiritual fruit are given to believers for creative transformation, effective witness, kingdom living and kingdom building through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, throughout our planet earth.
God controls the numerous workings and operations of Spiritual gifts and Spiritual fruit in the body of the risen Christ of Faith. The Christ-centered spiritual gifts include the intellectual gifts of wisdom, knowledge and faith for instruction in the body of Christ. The fruit of the Spirit are manifestations of the Christ of Faith’s character through faith and God's grace, in the believer life.
The Holy Spirit empowers the members of the body of Christ, to express and fully manifest the nature, attributes and character of the incarnate and orbed risen Christ of Faith, in kingdom living, here on earth, as it is in heaven. Spiritual gifts and spiritual fruit are activated and empowered by the same Holy Spirit, Who facilitated the incarnation of the Christ of Faith in the historical Jesus, his conception, birth, life, ministry, passion, death, resurrection, ascension and second coming (Acts 9:1-9).
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