Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is a better understanding that the Gift of the Holy Spirit, is just that, it's a gift.
The Baptism in the Spirit is a gift, not an achievement. Nobody is superior to anybody else just because God baptises them with the Spirit. There is no room to talk about two classes of Christians, those who have been baptised in the Spirit and those who have not. The gift is for everyone, even if they have not yet collected it. “ God has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3). No matter how many sons a rich man has they all sit equally as his sons at the table.
However, we are exhorted to take advantage of what is available. Jesus said we should ask, seek and knock to obtain the Holy Spirit (Matthew 7:7), while Paul encouraged us to “ be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). I like what I see in Acts 1: Jesus told the apostles (v.2) to “wait for the gift the Father promised” (v.4). But by the time we get to 1:15, there are 120 believers who have come together and are filled with the Spirit. They all wanted to get in on the act! Peter didn’t object like Joshua, who objected when some received the Spirit in Moses’ camp. Instead, he said, “ The promise (that is, the Holy Spirit) is for you and your children and for all who are far off – for all whom the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39).
