TibiasDad
Active Member
“you will receive (λήμψεσθε) the gift of the Holy Spirit” is a future tense verb. This means the gift comes and is received after repentance, baptism, the public expression of belief, and then forgiveness of sins!Peter is obviously exhorting new regenerate babes. Receiving the holy Spirit there is not regeneration or being born again, that has already occurred.
There is no life without the Holy Spirit indwelling the heart! To think otherwise is to expose either your extreme bias or absolute ignorance.
Doug