Hi, I'm
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I'd like to welcome
and invite you to join us
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in our study on the nine
gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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But before we study the last
three gifts of the Holy Spirit,
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we are going to take a look at
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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We have had many of our viewers
responding with questions about
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the Holy Spirit and
the gifts of the Spirit.
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The questions include:
Didn't I receive the Holy Spirit
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when I was born again?
Another key question is:
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How do I receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit?
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In addition, there is the
question: Do I need the baptism
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of the Holy Spirit in
order for the nine gifts of the
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Holy Spirit to
operate through me?
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Well, if you'll get
your Bibles and stay with us
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for the next half hour,
we'll endeavor to answer these
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questions and many
others for you on today's
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Heaven's Point of View.
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There are so
many misunderstandings
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surrounding the
baptism with the Holy Spirit,
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and we are going to clear
up several of those here today
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by God's grace and His Word.
First, there's the misconception
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that you receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
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when you are born
again. Second, some may believe
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they receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
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when they are water baptized.
Third, there are those who
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believe they must achieve some
plateau of spiritual perfection
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before they can receive the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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And then there are those
who believe that the baptism
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of the Holy Spirit is no
longer valid in this age.
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Well, in today's study we are
going to answer these questions
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and explain the proper
prerequisites and procedure
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for receiving the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Now this is simple. There
are two basic prerequisites
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for the baptism
with the Holy Spirit.
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First, you must be
born again. John 3:1-3 says:
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"There was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus,
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a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus
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by night and said unto Him:
'Rabbi, we know that thou art
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a teacher come from God -
for no man can do these miracles
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that Thou doest
except God be with Him. '
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Jesus answered
and said unto him:
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'Verily, verily I say unto
thee: except a man be born again
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he cannot see the
kingdom of God. ' "
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This is, this is the place here
where I want you to see this:
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It says cannot see the
kingdom of God before it says
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enter the kingdom of God.
If you are standing at the
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bottom of the Empire State
Building, just because you can
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see the top doesn't mean
you are there. Are you with me?
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What you have to do is you
have to enter all the way in
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and allow God to
do a work in you.
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It says: "Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom
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of God. " You must desire,
number two, you must desire
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the Holy Spirit. Oh,
desire, hunger and thirst!
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says: "Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst
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after righteousness "
for the might be filled?
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Unh unh! 'they
SHALL be filled. "
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God's not going to
force anything on us
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that we don't want. When we ask
Jesus to come into our lives,
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it's because we desire for
Him to be Lord of our lives.
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Not only will He not force
Himself on us - He cannot force
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Himself on us. We are
drawn by the Holy Spirit
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willing to give our lives
to Jesus, repent from our sins
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and allow Jesus to
forgive us and cleanse us
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from all unrighteousness.
This experience does involve
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the Holy Spirit, and
our salvation does include
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the Holy Spirit
because they are inseparable.
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We, as Seventh-day Adventists,
are a trinitarian church
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and therefore would never
attempt to divide the Godhead
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for separation.
However, there are times
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when we need to divide for
clarification and definition.
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When we separate the
Godhead for clarification,
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clarification, we begin
to understand the individual
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workings and the
ministries of all three.
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If you are born
again and you desire
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the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
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then YOU, my friend,
are ready to receive Him.
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Many people only consider water
baptism when discussing baptism.
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However, the book
of Hebrews tells us
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of more than one baptism.
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Hebrews 6:1-3 says:
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"Therefore, leaving the
principles of the doctrine of
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Christ let us go on unto
perfection - not laying again
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the foundation of
repentance from dead works
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and of faith for God of
the doctrine of baptisms. "
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Now I want you to hear this.
"Of the doctrine of baptisms,
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and of the laying on of
hands, and of the resurrection
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of the dead, and of eternal
judgment - and this will we do
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if " - what? -
"if God permits. "
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Now for many,
many, many who believe
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they receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
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when they are saved or
water baptized, please note
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that I did not say you did
not receive the Holy Spirit.
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You received the Holy Spirit!
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What I said was you
don't receive the baptism
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with the Holy Spirit - and
there is a huge difference.
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Now we are going to look
at some simple explanations
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that will be backed up by
God's Word - the B-I-B-L-E.
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These scriptures and
explanations should explain why
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this is not scriptural
that you receive it when you are
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saved or
baptized, water baptized.
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We are going to examine three
different types of baptism.
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Each of these three
baptisms has three factors.
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Each one, each
baptism, has three factors
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and these factors are:
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Factor 1 is the baptizer.
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Factor 2 is the object.
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Factor 3 is the element or
what they are baptized into.
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First we will look
at being born again
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or what is commonly referred
to as being saved or salvation.
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This is the first
baptismal event in the life
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of the new believer.
But according to scripture
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it's not the only one. I
Corinthians - take note of
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these scriptures. Take notes
if you are there with a pencil
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or pen in your home. I
Corinthians 12:13 says:
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"For by one Spirit "
CAPITAL S there - this is
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referenced to, almost
every commentator will tell you
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that its a
reference to the Holy Spirit.
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"So by one Spirit " - the
Holy Spirit - "are we all "
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- here is this word -
"baptized into one body. "
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What body is it?
It's the body of Christ.
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"Whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free
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and have been all made
to drink into one Spirit. "
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Now this
scripture plainly tells us
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that when you are born
again, saved, that the baptizer
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is the Holy Spirit.
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The object that's being
baptized is the new, born again
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believer, and the element that
they are being baptized into
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is the body of Christ.
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Now next we are going
to look at water baptism.
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Please take note that all
three factors are constant
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and do not change. However,
the pesons representing the
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baptizer and the
element do change.
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says this: "He that
believeth and is baptized
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shall be saved, but he that
believeth not shall be damned. "
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This is water baptism.
The baptizer in water baptism
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is the New Testament
church or your pastor.
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The object that is
being baptized stays the same.
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It's you - the new believer.
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But the element they are
being baptized into changes
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and it is water.
This is water baptism.
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The word used for baptism in
these scriptures is baptiso -
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which means to
immerse, submerge, or dip into.
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When someone is buried,
they are lowered into the grave
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and then covered up
completely. In the same manner,
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the Holy Spirit
submerges us into Jesus
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when we are born again,
and the pastor submerges us
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into the baptismal
pool at our water baptism.
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It is a complete and
total being put into.
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Now the next baptism is the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Once again, please take
note that all three factors
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remain the same - but the
baptizer and the element change.
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In this next text,
John the Baptist is speaking
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and it is accepted that
he is referring to Jesus.
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says: "I indeed baptize
you with water unto repentance
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but He that cometh
after me is mightier than I -
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whose shoes I am
not worthy to bear. He "
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- this is talking about Jesus
- " shall baptize you with the
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Holy Ghost and with fire. "
Now this is the true baptism
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with the Holy Spirit. In
the baptism with the Holy Spirit
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the baptizer
changes and it becomes Jesus
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who is doing the baptism. The
object that is being baptized
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is still the same.
You've been born again,
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you've been water baptized,
you're ready to go on with God,
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the new believer - but the
element that they are being
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baptized into also changes.
Jesus baptizes you into the
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Holy Spirit. Now let's review
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what we have just
learned in our lesson today.
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First, when you are born again,
the Holy Spirit is the baptizer
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and puts you into
the body of Christ.
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This is accomplished
in the spiritual realm.
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First is when you are
born again. Remember now,
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the first thing is you
have got to be born again.
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The baptizer is the Holy Spirit.
The object being baptized: you,
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the new believer. The
element that's being baptized
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into is the body of Christ.
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When you are water baptized,
the New Testament church
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with your pastor
officiating, is the baptizer.
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It puts you into the
water in the baptismal pool.
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Then, when you are baptized
with water, the baptizer
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again becomes the local church.
The object is the new believer
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and the element you are
being baptized into is water.
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When you are baptized,
though, with the Holy Spirit,
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the baptizer becomes Jesus
and the element we are baptized
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into is the Holy Spirit.
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Then next, when you are
baptized with the Holy Spirit,
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hang on here with
me, the baptizer is Jesus
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according to Matthew. The
object that's being baptized
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is still you but the element
they are being baptized into
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is the Holy Spirit.
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Now let's get back to the third
group of people we discussed
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in the opening
of today's program.
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The ones who believe we
must reach a certain level
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of spiritual maturity before
you can receive the baptism
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of the Holy Spirit. This
teaching is unscriptural.
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Along with this false teaching
is the practice of tarrying
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for the Holy Spirit -
which is also unscriptural.
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Now, let's look at the
error of tarrying teaching.
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This is where certain
Pentecostals say that you
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must tarry for the Holy Spirit
the same way the disciples did
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on the Day of Pentecost.
The reason the disciples were
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tarrying at Pentecost
was that the Holy Spirit was
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not yet given.
John 7:37-39 says:
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"In the last day, that
great day of the feast,
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Jesus stood and cried
saying 'If any man thirst,
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let him come unto Me and drink.
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He that believeth on Me
as the scripture hath said
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out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. '
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But this He spake of the Spirit
which they that believed on Him
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should receive" - now get
this - "for the Holy Ghost
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was not yet given because
Jesus was not yet glorified. "
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The Holy Spirit was poured
out on the Day of Pentecost
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and has never been
removed from that day until now.
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Just to prove it according
to the Word of God says:
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"And I will pray the
Father, and He will give you
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another Comforter that
He may abide with you. "
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For summer vacations? No,
through Christmas holidays?
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How about Easter? NO!
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"That He may abide with you
forever. " Isn't that wonderful?
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We do not receive the baptism by
tarrying, or crying, or begging,
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or pleading. We have
complicated the gospel
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Jesus only
preached two messages.
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One of them was come here
and the other one was go there.
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says: "And I say unto you,
ask and it shall be given you;
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seek and you shall find;
knock and it shall be opened
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unto YOU. For
everyone that asketh receiveth
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and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh
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it shall be opened.
If a son shall ask bread
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of any of you that is a father,
will you give him a stone?
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Or if he ask fish, will for
a fish give him a serpent? "
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I don't think so. "Or
if he shall ask an egg,
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will you offer him a scorpion?
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If ye then being evil
know how to give good gifts
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unto your children, " WOW...
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"how much more
shall your Heavenly Father
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give the Holy Spirit
to them " - it's simple -
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That do what? "that ask Him. "
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We receive the Holy Spirit
simply by asking the Father
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for the Holy
Spirit. There is a however
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something that must
accompany the asking,
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and that something is faith.
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We must receive the Holy Spirit
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the same way we
accept God - by faith.
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We receive the Holy Spirit
the same way we receive Jesus
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and that is by faith!
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Galations 3:2, I love
what it says in the Amplified.
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It says: "Let me ask
you this one question.
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Did you receive the Holy Spirit
as a result of obeying the law
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or doing its works? Or
was it by hearing the message
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of the gospel and believing it?
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Was it from observing a law
of rituals or from a message
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of faith? " I think it
was from a message of faith.
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The only reason for anyone
not to receive the baptism
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of the Holy Spirit is that he
or she has not been born again.
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John 14:16:
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"I pray the Father and He
will give you another Comforter
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that He may abide
with you forever - even the
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Spirit of Truth whom
the world cannot receive
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because it seeth Him
not. " Now get this, OK?
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The world can't
receive the Holy Spirit.
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That's the only reason for
you not being able to receive
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the Holy Spirit is
not being born again.
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It goes on to say:
"Neither knoweth Him,
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but ye know Him, for He dwelleth
with you and shall dwell in you"
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The world, the lost,
cannot receive the Holy Spirit.
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However the world,
thank God, thank God,
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However the world, the sinner,
can receive Jesus as Lord
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and Saviour and then,
when you make Jesus Lord,
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you are now ready to receive the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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There is no specific order
of the second or third baptism.
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The first baptism must
be when you are baptized
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into the body of Christ
and when you are born again
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and receive salvation. Now
let me share some simple truths
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to receiving the baptism
with the Holy Spirit, OK?
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No. 1: You must desire the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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You must be born again before
you can receive the baptism
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with the Holy Spirit.
And simply you must ASK
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for the Holy Spirit to be
baptized with the Holy Spirit.
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You must ask and
receive Him also by faith.
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Listen to this statement.
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Powerful, from the
Acts of the Apostles 50.2:
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Listen to how
Ellen White admonishes us
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to receive the baptism
with the Holy Spirit. Powerful:
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Now, let's look at
the last three gifts
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from the 12th
chapter of I Corinthians.
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These are the gifts of
healings, the gift of faith,
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the gift of
miracles. These are the gifts
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that my heart cries out to
be established in our churches.
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These gifts are the GIFTS TO DO.
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Power gifts, as
Jesus and the apostles did.
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These are the gifts
our pastoral staff need
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when we receive a prayer call
for a six-month old baby girl
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named Mary who had just
been diagnosed with cancer
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in both eyes and you
want to do more than just
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comfort her parents. First,
the gift of healings - pleural.
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The gift of healings are
extensions of God's covenant
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name Jehovah-raffa
- the Lord our Healer.
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The gift of healings are
God's way of healing all manners
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of sicknesses and
diseases that afflict humanity.
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A good example would be:
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It says: "And Jesus
went about all Galilee
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teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel
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of the kingdom and
healing " some manner?
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No, not some manner, "ALL MANNER
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of sickness and all manner
of diseases among the people.
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And His fame went
throughout all Syria
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and they brought
unto Him all sick people
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that were taken with
diverse diseases and torments
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and those possessed with devils
and those which were lunatics. "
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Man, we can clean
the hospitals out!
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We can the insane assylums out,
the mental institutions out!
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We can clean them out
if we were moving this.
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It says: "and those that had the
palsy - AND HE HEALED THEM! "
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The remant church
will need all these gifts
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as God begins to
pour out the Latter Rain.
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It will be our
God-given responsibility
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to allow the
gifts of the Holy Spirit
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to operate through us to
bring souls into right standing
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with Christ. The
gift of healings refers
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to the supernatural
healing without human aid.
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It is a special gift to
confront specific afflictions
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and diseases. The healing can
come through the touch of faith.
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"Is any sick among you?
Let him call for the elders
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of the church and
let them pray over him,
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anointing him with oil
in the name of the Lord.
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And the prayer of
faith shall save the sick.
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and the Lord shall raise him up
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and if he have
committed any sins,
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they will be forgiven him.
" Now, the key to this passage
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is the person who is
sick is to call for the elders
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not the other way around.
Healing can also come by the
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speaking the word of
faith. Powerful scripture:
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says: "Now when He
had end all of his sayings
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in the audience of the people
He entered into Capernaum.
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Anc a certain centurion's
servant, who was dear unto him,
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was sick and ready to die.
And when he heard of Jesus,
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he sent unto Him
the elders of the Jews,
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beseeching Him that He
would come and heal his servant.
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And when they came to Jesus
they besought him instantly,
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saying, That he was worthy
for whom He should do this:
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For he loveth our nation and
he hath built us a synagogue.
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Then Jesus went with him,
and when He was now not far
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from the house, the centurion
sent friends to him, saying
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unto Him, 'Lord, trouble
not thyself: for I am not worthy
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that Thou shouldest
enter under my roof:
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Wherefore neither thought I
myself worthy to come unto Thee
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but say it in a
word, say in a word,
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and my servant shall be
healed. For I also am a man
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set under authority,
having under me soldiers,
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and I say unto
one, Go, and he goeth;
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and to another,
Come, and he cometh;
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and to my servant, Do
this, and he doeth it. '
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When Jesus heard these
things, he marveled at him,
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and turned him about,
and said unto the people
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that followed
Him, 'I say unto you,
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I have not found so great
faith, no, not in Israel. '
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And they that were
sent, returning to the house,
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found the servant
whole that had been sick. "
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Now healing can also take
place when the presence of God
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is being
manifested. Mark 6:56 says:
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"And whithersoever He entered,
into villages, or cities,
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or country, they laid the sick
in the streets and besought Him
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that they might touch if it were
but the border of his garment:
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and as many as
touched Him were made whole. "
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The Bible speaks of
the gifts of healings
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because there are
three major types of healing.
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First, there is
physical healing.
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Diabetes, blindness,
cancer, deafness, and so on.
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Then there is emotional healing.
00:22:04.83\00:22:06.38
Jealousy, worry, discouragement,
and other destructive attitudes.
00:22:06.48\00:22:10.52
Then there is spiritual healing.
00:22:10.63\00:22:11.80
Bitterness, greed,
guilt - things that will just
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wear you down. Although there
are three main types of healings
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there is much diversity
with the gifts of healings.
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While one person might
have the gift of healing
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to rid of person of cancer,
perform a creative miracle,
00:22:26.46\00:22:29.45
another person might have
a diversity of the same gift
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to correct depression problems
or remove a root of bitterness.
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Also, according to Mark 16:17-20
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the gifts of healings are
available to all believers
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who believe. Mark 16 says:
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"And these signs shall
follow them that believe:
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In my name they
shall cast out devils,
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they shall speak
with new tongues,
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they shall take up serpents;
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and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them.
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They shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall recover.
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So then after the
Lord had spoken unto them,
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He was received up into heaven,
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and sat at the
right hand of God.
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And they went forth,
and preached everywhere,
00:23:02.81\00:23:04.81
the Lord working with
them, and confirming His word
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with signs following. "
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He had been there so
long, lying beside the legendary
00:24:03.73\00:24:07.69
pool along with all the sick and
frail that were waiting around
00:24:07.79\00:24:10.90
Bethesda pool for
the angel to come.
00:24:11.00\00:24:13.83
He knew his chance of reaching
the water before anyone else
00:24:13.94\00:24:17.16
was almost out of the question.
Nevertheless, he had been sick
00:24:17.26\00:24:21.82
for 38 years and was desperate
despite knowing the facts
00:24:21.93\00:24:26.58
about the pool.
There was only one pool;
00:24:26.68\00:24:29.51
there would only be one
angel to stir the water -
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and no one knew
when it would happen.
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He was conscious of the
fact that he had to be the
00:24:35.28\00:24:38.42
first person in the water.
He had to be the first because
00:24:38.53\00:24:42.11
there would only be one healing.
00:24:42.21\00:24:43.96
His problem was insurmountable
because he knew his affliction
00:24:44.06\00:24:47.99
would detain any speedy
movement toward the pool.
00:24:48.09\00:24:52.20
He was dreadfully aware
that the other people would not
00:24:52.30\00:24:56.20
help him into the water lest
they forfeit their opportunity
00:24:56.30\00:24:59.29
to be healed. Even
as he surveyed Bethesda,
00:24:59.39\00:25:02.87
the source of recovery
for him, he was overwhelmed
00:25:02.97\00:25:07.78
with thoughts of despair.
>From the despair of his
00:25:07.89\00:25:12.59
deathbed he heard a
voice speaking to him.
00:25:12.69\00:25:14.57
Looking up, he saw
someone standing in front of him
00:25:14.67\00:25:17.92
looking down with
compassion in His eyes.
00:25:18.02\00:25:20.94
What was it the
man had said to him?
00:25:21.04\00:25:24.18
Did He say 'wilt
thou be made whole? '
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He responded, 'Sir, I have no
man when the water is troubled
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to put me into the
pool. But while I am coming
00:25:31.35\00:25:33.58
another steppeth
down before me. '
00:25:33.68\00:25:35.14
The stranger spoke again
with authority and declared:
00:25:35.24\00:25:39.92
'Rise, take up
thy bed, and walk. '
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He didn't know exactly
why he reacted so quickly
00:25:42.53\00:25:45.57
without questioning this
man, but he got up anyway.
00:25:45.67\00:25:49.21
He got up and
immediately he was made whole
00:25:49.31\00:25:51.93
and he took up
his bed and he walked.
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And as he walked
away from the pool
00:25:53.92\00:25:55.79
with his sleeping
bed under his arm,
00:25:55.89\00:25:57.70
he was confronted by the Jews
and told that it was unlawful
00:25:57.81\00:26:01.17
to carry his bed on the
Sabbath. He answered them,
00:26:01.31\00:26:03.95
He that made me
whole, the same said unto me,
00:26:04.05\00:26:06.70
"take up thy bed and walk.
" He remembered the question
00:26:06.80\00:26:10.03
the man had asked. He remembered
what the man had told him to do
00:26:10.16\00:26:13.24
and he knew he was healed.
He knew he no longer needed
00:26:13.34\00:26:17.08
the pool, he no longer
needed the people's help,
00:26:17.19\00:26:19.72
and he knew that
his problem was gone.
00:26:19.82\00:26:21.61
He also knew that the
first thing he was going to do
00:26:21.72\00:26:23.67
was go into the
temple and worship God
00:26:23.78\00:26:25.38
because it was the
Sabbath. And it had been years
00:26:25.48\00:26:27.43
since he had been there.
This is where he found out
00:26:27.53\00:26:29.85
that the Saviour
at the spa was Jesus.
00:26:29.95\00:26:31.90
He departed, found
the Jews, and told them
00:26:32.00\00:26:33.64
it was Jesus that
had made him whole.
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It was Jesus - not the
pool - which healed him
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of 38-years' infirmities.
It was Jesus - not the people -
00:26:37.55\00:26:40.40
that helped him. As
he headed toward his home
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.63
and family, he pondered
everything that had happened.
00:26:42.73\00:26:45.70
He had looked to several
different things for his source
00:26:45.90\00:26:49.24
when in actuality this source,
the entire source of all things,
00:26:49.34\00:26:54.78
was Jesus Christ - and
this is all that he needed.
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You know, when we get to
the point to where we are moving
00:26:59.53\00:27:04.41
and manifesting the
gifts of the Spirit,
00:27:04.51\00:27:07.55
we'll understand that
there was nothing supernatural
00:27:07.66\00:27:13.48
about that pool -
nothing supernatural...
00:27:13.58\00:27:15.71
until Jesus walked on the scene.
00:27:15.82\00:27:17.80
Then, supernatural took
place and he was healed.
00:27:17.90\00:27:22.13
There are people out
there sick, afflicted, and dying
00:27:22.23\00:27:27.29
going off out into
eternity that need not do this
00:27:27.39\00:27:31.53
because we have not
yet come into the truth
00:27:31.63\00:27:34.28
of the gifts of the
Spirit. We need them.
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.25
Why? I said earlier
00:27:36.35\00:27:37.76
for the protection of the
church to give us the authority
00:27:37.87\00:27:40.23
of the believer over
every work of the enemy.
00:27:40.33\00:27:43.58
When we begin to
lay hold of the truths
00:27:43.68\00:27:46.56
of the gifts of
the Spirit of God,
00:27:46.66\00:27:49.46
embrace them and pull them
into our heart, and allow Jesus
00:27:49.56\00:27:53.38
to receive all the glory for it,
00:27:53.48\00:27:55.01
we are going to see
people saved, healed, set free,
00:27:55.11\00:27:59.80
delivered, and
living their lives
00:27:59.90\00:28:03.01
for our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
00:28:03.11\00:28:05.08
This is what I
desire. Is it what you desire?
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Because it's what God desires.
00:28:08.00\00:28:10.30
On our next
Heaven's Point of View,
00:28:30.65\00:28:32.28
we are going to be
looking at the last two
00:28:32.38\00:28:34.22
gifts of the Spirit:
the charisma gift of faith
00:28:34.32\00:28:38.29
and the charisma
gift of miracles.
00:28:38.39\00:28:40.32
It's going to be very
exciting. Check your 3ABN World
00:28:40.42\00:28:42.79
for the dates and
times; I'll see you there!
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