[metmom]

I already gave you the verses in post 43.

They’re as clear as can be.

There’s nothing left to explain it any better if you won’t accept those.

If you don’t have the Holy Spirit in you, then you don’t belong to God. End of story.

[LearsFool]

If you don’t have the Holy Spirit in you, then you don’t belong to God.

What does it mean to have the Holy Spirit in you?

Does the Spirit dwell in the disciple the same way faith does (2 Tim. 1:5)? The same way God dwelt among the children of Israel (2 Cor. 6:16)? The same way the word of Christ dwells in the saints (Col. 3:16)?

Is it anything like this?...

"Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." - John 14:23

"Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed." - John 8:31

"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." - John 15:4

"And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." - 1 John 3:24

Is it an indwelling like this?...

"Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not...Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." - Rom. 7:17-19, 20