1 Thess. 4:8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Paul wrote here "gives" in present, active, participle, masculine, singular, accusative. God who is giving His Holy Spirit? Would that be a better translation instead?
John 1: 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
baptizes: present, active, participle.
oh who are we to limit the Lord, as to put him in the box, to place him in the past. so often our understanding is that He baptized with the Holy Spirit, aorist. But He works in present active participle. Oh what fool we are not to seek His work and face in the present active participle way. Lord, fill us, give us your Holy Spirit, continually, ongoingly.
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