Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed?

"And it came to pass that Paul came to Ephesus and found certain disciples: and he said unto them, 

Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed?" 

ACTS xix. 1-2.

There is a twofold Christian life. 

The one is that in which we experience something of the operations of the Holy Spirit, just as many did under the old covenant, but do not yet receive Him as the Pentecostal Spirit, as the personal indwelling Guest, concerning whom we know that He has come to abide permanently in the heart. 

On the other hand, there is a more abundant life, in which the indwelling just referred to is known and the full joy and power of redemption are facts of personal experience.

It will be only when Christians come to understand fully the distinction betwixt these two conditions, and discern that the second of these is in very deed the will of God concerning them, and therefore a possible experience for each believer; 

when with shame and confusion of face they shall confess the sinful and inconsistent elements that still mark their life: 

that we shall dare to hope that the Christian community will once more be restored to its Pentecostal power.

- Andrew Murray, The Full Blessings of Pentecost, How it is to be taught