In this teaching, we will consider the question: When Do You Receive the Holy Spirit? Specifically, we will be investigating whether believers receive the Holy Spirit WHEN they believe – making receiving synonymous with believing; or whether believers receive the Holy Spirit AFTER they believe – making receiving subsequent to believing.
There are basically two views on this matter – the traditional Evangelical view and the traditional Pentecostal view. I’ll present these two views and a third view – which is a comprehensive view agreeing with certain aspects of the truth in both of the traditional views.
