There is a breath that animates (or makes alive); “and man became a living soul.” Then there is a breath that quickens (connects to, or energizes eternal life).
[Genesis 2:7; John 20:22]
After the fall, man, though animated, was now “dead” (separated from God) in trespasses and sins; but, after being “saved (from the curse of sin) by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ,” man became a “new creation;” whose “life is now hid, IN Christ, IN God.” [Eph 2:8; 2 Cor 5:17; Col 3:3]
Those that Christ was “IN” the Spirit came “upon” to anoint/(or smear with oil); to bring us into an abiding relationship with the Spirit.
[Pastor; Acts 1:8; John 14:16]
For this purpose, Jesus came to baptize/immerse/fill/endow us with the Holy Ghost.
[Pastor; Matt 3:11; Lk 24:49]
ThenSingsMySoul:
ENDOW ME, ENDOW ME,
ENDOW ME, ENDOW ME, LORD
WITH THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST!
[The Clark Sisters]
