Before the time of Christ, God only anointed certain leaders, kings and prophets with His Spirit, but now His Holy Spirit is for all who receive the Lord! "And it shall come to pass that in the Last Days, saith God, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh." (Joel 2:28)
Ever since the Day of Pentecost, when the first disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, the Lord has made every single individual Christian responsible, directly, to the Holy Spirit. Now everybody can have the Holy Spirit and be led individually by the Lord. Now we can all enjoy Him together anywhere, everywhere, any time, all the time, in all His power and fullness, and we can all be reached equally, fairly and simultaneously through the communication of the Holy Spirit.
Everyone who receives Jesus as their Saviour is given a certain amount of the Spirit, but receiving a complete infilling, or "baptism" of the Holy Spirit is usually a subsequent experience to that of Salvation. This is why the Apostle Paul inquired of certain disciples that he met, "Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?" (Acts 19:2) If you are saved, this power from God is yours for the asking! (Lk.11:13)
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