The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
By
Kenneth E Hagin
Chapter 1 My Pentecostal Experience ................................................................................... 6
Raised From the Bed of Sickness.......................................................................................... 6
MARK 11:23,24 .................................................................................................................. 7
God Is Not Nervous! .............................................................................................................. 7
The Baptism in the Holy Spirit................................................................................................ 8
The Work of the Holy Spirit in the New Birth .......................................................................... 9
The Work of the Holy Spirit In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit ............................................... 10
‘Tarrying’ Is Not a Formula For Receiving the Holy Spirit..................................................... 10
Any Believer Can Receive the Holy Spirit ............................................................................ 11
Biblical Example of Believers Receiving The Holy Spirit Without Tarrying........................... 11
Why Wait To Receive a Gift? ............................................................................................... 12
The Ephesian Disciples........................................................................................................ 14
The Samaritan Christians..................................................................................................... 14
Saul of Tarsus...................................................................................................................... 14
The Sending End or the Receiving End? ............................................................................. 15
The Holy Spirit Gives the Utterance ..................................................................................... 16
Chapter 2 The Holy Spirit in the Denominational Church .................................................. 17
Denominational Differences Don't Matter............................................................................. 20
The Holy Spirit: God's Promise to You................................................................................. 20
The Holy Spirit Is a Person .................................................................................................. 21
Extreme Teachings in the Church........................................................................................ 22
Does One Receive the Fullness of the Holy Spirit in the New Birth? ................................... 22
The Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Rivers of Living Waters ....................................................... 23
The Same Holy Spirit in the New Birth As in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit ......................... 23
Speaking in Tongues Is Not The Evidence of the New Birth................................................ 24
New Wine: A Type of the Holy Spirit .................................................................................... 25
Born-Again Samaritans Were Filled With the Holy Spirit...................................................... 25
The Holy Spirit: God's Giving vs. People's Receiving .......................................................... 26
The Ministry of Laying On of Hands..................................................................................... 26
Did the Baptism in the Holy Spirit 'Pass Away' With the Last Apostle? ................................ 27
Chapter 3: Two Separate Experiences: Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit .... 28
The Samaritans Born Again Under Philip's Ministry............................................................. 29
First Scriptural Witness ........................................................................................................ 30
Second Scriptural Witness ................................................................................................... 30
Third Scriptural Witness ....................................................................................................... 30
The Samaritans Received the Holy Spirit............................................................................. 31
Evidence the Samaritans Received The Holy Spirit ............................................................. 31
Two Separate Experiences: Saul's Conversion and Baptism in the Holy Spirit ................... 32
Saul's Conversion ................................................................................................................ 32
Chapter 4 The Holy Spirit Within: His Indwelling Presence............................................... 35
God For Us, With Us, and In Us........................................................................................... 36