So here's a question. Can the Holy Ghost be with you before you're saved? Because I always felt
feelings of being warned about different events in my life. So I think she's referring to like
maybe feeling like God's leading or present with her in her life even before she was saved.
And the answer I would give to that is you know in Hebrews chapter one it talks about the angels
and it says are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be I
hope I'm not messing this up for them who shall be the heirs of eternal life. I don't know. I don't
know why I feel like I'm quoting that wrong. I might need to look that up. But anyway the point
is that you know I believe that God already knows who's going to be saved. I mean from the foundation
of the world God already knew exactly who is going to be saved and who's not because He knows
all things from the beginning. And so I do believe that God's you know looking out for people that
are going to be saved like that the guardian angels are not just for those that are saved
but even for those who will be saved. And let me read the verse because I don't maybe I quoted it
right maybe I quoted it wrong but I'm not sure so let me just read it.
But to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies
thy footstool are they not all ministering spirits that is the angels sent forth to minister for them
who shall be heirs of salvation. So I mean that's the way I've always read that is just that you know
those who shall be heirs of salvation the angels are ministering spirits for them. So like that's
why like you know let's say someone died young or something you know I think God you know
well let me put it this way I've been out soul wanting before and people tell me like oh I almost
died and I barely survived. I think God was looking out for you for me and some and they're
an unsaved person then sometimes I'll say that person well yeah God probably was looking out
for you because he wanted you to live up to this point right now when I could give you the gospel
so that you could be saved right now you know. So God could protect an unsaved person look out for
them you know kind of guide circumstance in their life because he knows they're going to get saved
down the road. Does that make sense? I don't know if somebody else wants to jump in and give their
thoughts. Yeah I think that's a good point. I recently preached on Calvinism and I think that
you know when you interpret Romans chapter 9 about how God gives mercy unto whom he's going to give
mercy and hardens who he's going to harden that's based on his foreknowledge of them believing
but it I think a clear verse just to answer the question is the Holy Spirit working in
unsaved people is the fact that when Stephen's preaching he says you do always resist the Holy
Ghost so therefore you know the Holy Ghost was trying to win over these Jews and was working
they just literally resisted it so I think that God is trying to draw the whole world and is
trying to draw every single person and works in their lives I mean he reigns on the just
and on the unjust and so he's going to work in everybody's life to some degree but especially
the saved. The saved are going to get a lot of extra mercy and grace and you know the apostle
Paul talks about being a pattern to them which should believe after so you know he got a lot of
grace and mercy from the Lord to be a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Jesus
Christ so I think that's you know I agree with you on Hebrews chapter 1 verse 14.
Yeah and just to add to Pastor Shelley there and John 16 it talks about the Holy Ghost or
the comfort of coming and he's going to reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of
judgment and so you know the Holy Ghost is working there kind of like you were saying with you know
they're resisting the Holy Ghost so the Holy Ghost is trying to reprove them of sin but I do agree
you know it's kind of like Cornelius I use Cornelius a lot out soul winning especially
with people that grew up Christian and you're trying to convince them hey you were wrong
but you I'm not saying that you don't know anything you because sometimes people get into
that pit of like I don't want to admit that I don't know anything about the Bible and I'll
say well you know Cornelius was a good man he was trying to seek after God but he wasn't saved
you know and he needed someone to show him how to get saved and I believe that God was
you know he had sent an angel to tell him to go send for Peter and so I think that's a great
example of God looking after somebody that needs to get saved and you know don't know what to do.