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How can you be certain that you actually have the Holy Spirit within you?

Here are seven major things that happen when the Holy Spirit enters you. Number one, you feel

secure in your salvation. Now let me stress this point. Go to Romans chapter 8, verse 9, but you are not

controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the spirit if you have the spirit of God

living in you. And remember that those who do not have the spirit of Christ

living in them do not belong to him at all. So as a born again believer, you already have the Holy

Spirit. So it's not that you have to perform to a certain degree in order to receive the Holy Spirit.

It's that at salvation, you already receive the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit helps you

to ultimately perform. Ephesians chapter one makes it clear that the Holy Spirit seals you in

your salvation. Let's read verses 13 and 14. And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth,

the good news that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, there's the moment he came to

identify you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God's

guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his

own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him. So here we see that the Holy

Spirit within you is God's guarantee of salvation. Now this doesn't mean that you'll never have

moments of doubt. This doesn't mean that the enemy won't attack your mind every now and then with

accusation. He may tell you things like God has rejected you or the Lord has abandoned you or the Holy Spirit has left you.

But the Holy Spirit within us sends us a different message. Look at Galatians chapter 4, verse 6 now.

And because we are his children, so there is the precursor. We're already his children. God has sent the

spirit of his son into our hearts. So as children of God, we have the

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