Illustration for repentance and receiving the Holy Spirit: Take a bowl of dirty water (use a tea bag to discolour it) and use a sponge to soak up as much as possible. – We are like the sponge filled with dirty water; we are completely immersed in sin! But when we repent and turn to Christ, it’s like Jesus squeezes the dirty water out of us. (Squeeze the sponge.) Then Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to fill us (plunge the sponge into a bowl of clean water). We need to repent of our dirty water, do away with it by asking Christ to forgive us and wash us clean.