Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern day believers live out the teachings of the First Century Church.

This podcast is part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard.

Dr. Bernard has dedicated his life to studying the Bible and helping believers apply its message to their daily lives.

In Apostolic Life in the 21st century, Dr. Bernard answers your questions about what the Bible teaches and how those

teachings apply to everyday life. Thank you for joining us for this broadcast.

One is Pentecostals believe and teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

evidence by speaking in other tongues, is necessary for salvation.

We believe that every person who genuinely repents, genuinely believes the gospel,

is going to have this experience.

And those of us who've been around a one as Pentecostal Church for a long time,

we've seen probably in some cases many people who have come into the church and receive the

baptism of the Holy Spirit, maybe the very first time that they ever came to church or shortly thereafter.

But then if you've been around a while, you've probably also seen some people that it just

seemed like for whatever reason,

they really struggled to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. I'm sure that you encountered that throughout

your ministry, especially during your time as a church pastor in Austin. When that would happen,

when you'd encounter somebody who just really seemed like they couldn't break through, weren't receiving

the Holy Ghost for some reason.

What advice or counsel did you offer them? What have you seen that has kept people from receiving the Holy Spirit?

And how did you approach that with people when that was the case?

Well, to answer this question, let's start with the basics. God does want everyone to receive the Holy Spirit. And there are only two conditions

in the scripture for receiving the Spirit. First of all, faith and second of all, repentance.

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