"A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth."

Proverbs 17: 8 KJV

Your credentials as a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ IS NOT a church membership, 
or a denominational membership, 
I want to be very clear about this.

Your credentials are not being part of a "Holy Christian Organization or a ministry."

But your credentials as a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit given to you by God Himself. 

They are your Armor if you will.

Edmund DeSoto
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Part One

If you think that you will enter God's heaven because you are a member of The Assemblies of God denomination or the Baptist Church, or even the Roman Catholic Church or Pentecostal Church, you need to and you better rethink your entire theology quickly. 

I have Good News for you.

Your entrance to heaven and your credentials as a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ IS NOT a church membership, or a denominational membership.

I want to be very clear about this. 

Your entrance to heaven and your credentials as a Christian cannot be guaranteed by EVEN ONE denomination in the world.

They simply cannot promise you entrance into God's heaven.

If you think this way then you are considered a CULT just like the Jehovah's Witnesses - WatchTower Society in Brooklyn New York and The Mormon Church in Utah.

These are big cults in the world that teach lies about the Bible.

These two cults have been deceiving people into burning hell now for almost two centuries. 

They claim that the only way to God is through them. That is a lie from the very pit of HELL.

But your entrance to God's heaven is through the LORD JESUS CHRIST and your Credentials as a believer of HIM are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit given to you by God Himself. 

They are a token, they are your Armor if you will.

Jesus said, " I am the WAY, I am the TRUTH, and I am the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6 KJV
 

When we receive the free Gift of Eternal Life, when we come to the realization that this Gift is indeed a "Free Gift" from God, then and only then can we become eligible for every single Gift that God has prepared and stored for us.

Not only are we entitled to the one and most important of all Gifts, the free Gift of Eternal Life, but we are entitled to the infilling of the Spirit of God or the baptism of His Holy Spirit.

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The scriptures declare in Leviticus 11:44 that God is Holy.
There we read the following. . .

"For I am the Lord your God: 
ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, 
and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: 
neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. "

You see, God is a Holy God. 
His Word is Holy and His Spirit is Holy.

Jesus when speaking to the Samaritan woman declared in the book of John 4:24 that. . . 

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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This is the reason why His Spirit is called the Holy Spirit of God and this is the Spirit that wants to invade our lives.

16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, then the veil is taken away.

17 Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, He gives freedom. 

18 And all of us have had that veil removed so that we can be mirrors that brightly reflect The Glory of the Lord. 

And as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.

Hebrews 13:8 declares that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

So if the Lord is the Spirit, then this Holy Spirit of God is Jesus Christ who in turn is the same yesterday, today and will be the same forever. 

We are entitled to receive Him today as a guarantee of our eternal inheritance.

This is the same Holy Spirit that convicts you and leads you into  Salvation, this is the same Holy Spirit that comes into your life at the moment of your redemption bringing the fullness of God which remains with you forever.

8- And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9- of sin, because they believe not on me;

10- of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11- of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

John 16: 8-11 KJV

This is the same Holy Spirit that manifests His Gifts after the Presence of God has come and invades your being at the moment of Salvation, producing the Power of God in your life.

We may not always understand what this means exactly, but one thing I know in the deepest part of my being, and that is that the more we get acquainted with Him and His ways, the more our relationship, our love and respect for Him grows. 

The deeper our understanding for Him grows, the stronger our love for our Master intensifies.

Only then do we come to a full realization or understanding of the Holiness that only exists in the fullness of knowing God.

The anointing or the Power of the Spirit of God in your life is the fruit of God's Glory in your life. God's Glory is the source, God's Power is the fruit, the result of the Glory of God. The Glory of God is Jesus in your life.

The Glory of God produces the Power of God, the Power of God is the manifestation of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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So when we see the Power of God being manifested, we must understand where it comes from. We must understand the source of it.

In the providence of the Holy Spirit of God, we find all the other Gifts that come along with the infilling of the Spirit of God or the baptism of His Holy Spirit.

It is His awesome Holy Spirit that imparts nine wonderful gifts to us once we receive Him as Lord and Saviour.

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These nine Gifts of The Holy Spirit are given freely to the Body of Christ and received by faith. . . 

"and are;

the word of wisdom; to another the same Spirit gives

the word of knowledge and it is given by the same Spirit;

to another faith by the same Spirit; 

to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 

to another the working of miracles;

to another prophecy; 

to another discerning of spirits; 

to another divers kinds of tongues;

to another the interpretation of tongues:

but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, 
dividing to every man severally as He will."

1 Corinthians 12: 8-11 KJV

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV