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When does a person receive the Holy Spirit into his life? The New Testament teaches that the reception of the Holy Spirit is something that takes place immediately upon believing in Christ as Savior. There is no need to wait or plead for the Holy Spirit. All those who believe in Jesus instantaneously receive the Holy Spirit. This the Scripture makes clear.Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Galatians 3:2).The Bible says that a person could not be a believer without the Holy Spirit:
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts (Galatians 4:6).
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His (Romans 8:9).Furthermore, all Christians, no matter what their spiritual condition, are said to have the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth:
These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit (Jude 19).
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you (1 Corinthians 3:16).The church at Corinth had many spiritual problems, yet the Apostle Paul said every believer, those walking in the Spirit and those who were not, had received the Holy Spirit.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us (Romans 5:5).Therefore, we can conclude that a person receives the Holy Spirit upon believing for the following reasons:
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may know the things that have been freely given to us by God (1 Corinthians 2:12).
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