Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021705A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING. WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR 00:37 COMING TO YOU FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:42 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE JOINING US FOR OUR SABBATH 00:44 SCHOOL CLASS TODAY AND ALSO OUR MEMBERS AND VISITORS HERE AT THE 00:48 GRANITE BAY CHURCH, ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE, SABBATH AFTER 00:52 SABBATH, TO STUDY OUR LESSON TOGETHER. 00:54 OUR LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #5 DEALING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:58 ENTITLED THE BAPTISM AND FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - THAT'S 01:02 LESSON #5. NOW, FOR OUR FRIENDS JOINING US, 01:05 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF OUR LESSON, YOU CAN GO TO THE 01:07 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:11 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #5 AND STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:15 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA: ALL YOU HAVE 01:18 TO DO TO RECEIVE OUR FREE OFFER IS GIVE US A CALL ON OUR 01:21 RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER. THE NUMBER THERE IS 866-788-3966 01:27 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR THE BOOK CALLED UNDERSTANDING 01:30 TONGUES - IT'S OFFER #145. WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR 01:34 LESSON, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. 01:37 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME UP 01:39 FRONT AND WE'LL BEGIN BY PRAISING GOD. 01:46 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU HERE. 01:49 AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD, WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE 01:51 READY TO SING AND WE ARE TOO. SO OUR FIRST SONG YOU WILL 01:56 FIND ON #240 IN YOUR HYMNALS. IF YOU HAVE THOSE AT HOME, PULL 02:00 THEM OUT AND JOIN WITH US: FAIREST LORD JESUS - AND WE'RE 02:04 GOING TO DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS - #240. 02:09 (PIANO MUSIC) (SINGING) 04:27 >>IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SONG - WE DON'T SING IT VERY OFTEN, 04:29 BUT I WANTED TO DO THAT TODAY. AND THE NEXT ONE IS #175 - AND 04:35 THIS IS ONE THAT WE DEFINITELY DON'T SING VERY OFTEN, BUT I 04:38 GREW UP SINGING THIS ONE - IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES - #175 - NOW 04:43 THE GREEN GLADE RISES - AND WE WILL DO ALL FOUR STANZAS. 04:48 JOIN WITH US - #175. (PIANO MUSIC) (SINGING) 06:59 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US AND, UNTIL NEXT 07:02 WEEK, WE'LL SING SOME MORE. AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL 07:06 HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER FOR US. 07:11 >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 07:13 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, AGAIN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO 07:15 GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD AND, ONCE AGAIN, AS WE TALK 07:18 ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE ASK THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME 07:20 GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE STUDY ABOUT BEING FILLED 07:24 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WORK THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES 07:26 IN US. BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. 07:31 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR 07:33 ROSS - SORRY, I AM PASTOR ROSS (LAUGHTER) IT'S GOING TO BE 07:36 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR BATCHELOR, EXCUSE ME. (LAUGHTER) 07:39 >>NO, DON'T - COME HERE - COME BACK HERE, PASTOR 07:40 BATCHELOR (LAUGHTER). WHERE WERE YOU YESTERDAY? 07:45 >>I WAS IN INDIA SO I'M A LITTLE JET-LAGGED THIS MORNING, BUT 07:47 WE'RE GETTING THERE. >>GIVE US A MISSION 07:50 REPORT (LAUGHTER). >>YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING GOOD 07:53 THINGS IN INDIA AND THAT'S EXCITING. 07:54 I WAS OVER THERE - AFCOE'S GOT A TRAINING PROGRAM AND THEY'RE 07:57 TRANSLATING MEDIA, AND WE'RE PUTTING SOME STUFF UP AND 08:00 LOOKING AT SOME LAND FOR A TRAINING SCHOOL, SO A LOT 08:03 HAPPENING THERE. >>SO, WE'RE TRAINING LAY-PASTORS 08:06 - >>PRINCIPALLY WE'RE TRAINING BIBLE WORKERS THAT ARE ALREADY 08:09 OUT WORKING IN VILLAGES WITH CHURCHES. 08:11 SO THEY COME FOR SOME ADDITIONAL TRAINING, RESOURCES, AND ALSO 08:15 PRINTING BOOKS AND PREPARING THINGS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 08:18 >>YEAH. >>THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING. 08:19 >>THAT'S EXCITING. NOW, WHAT'S THE TIME DIFFERENCE 08:20 BETWEEN - WHERE IN INDIA WERE YOU? 08:22 >>I WAS IN MUMBAI, WHICH IS CENTRAL WESTERN PART OF INDIA. 08:28 >>WHAT, ABOUT A 10-HOUR TIME DIFFERENCE? 08:29 >>I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIME DIFFERENCE IS. I THINK 08:30 I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M AWAKE. 08:33 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND WE UNDERSTAND. 08:35 I THOUGHT WE'D SQUEEZE IN A LITTLE MISSION REPORT THERE. 08:37 IT'S ALWAYS KIND OF INTERESTING, EXOTIC WHEN YOU GO TO THE OTHER 08:39 SIDE OF THE WORLD. AND THAT'S WHY HE CONFUSED 08:43 ME FOR PASTOR ROSS. (LAUGHTER) SORRY, I COULD ASSUME 08:49 - GET A REAL KICK OUT OF THAT. WELCOME, FRIENDS. 08:52 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US HERE FOR SABBATH SCHOOL. 08:54 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR REGULAR ONLINE MEMBERS THAT ARE OUT 08:58 THERE. WE'VE GOT SOME MEMBERS OF THE 09:00 GRANITE BAY CHURCH SCATTERED AROUND THE WORLD. 09:01 NOW, YOU'LL NOTICE THE BACKGROUND IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT 09:04 AND THAT'S BECAUSE, HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH, WE ARE JUST 09:08 BEGINNING A SERIES THAT WILL LAST MANY WEEKS, DEALING WITH 09:12 THE LIFE OF DAVID. AND SO, YOU'LL SEE THE 09:15 BACKGROUND CHANGE, SOMETIMES WE'LL HAVE SOME DIFFERENT PROPS 09:17 RELATED TO THE LIFE OF DAVID, AND SO PEOPLE THAT TURN THE 09:22 BROADCAST - OH THERE IT IS - IT'S CALLED THE SHEPHERD KING . 09:24 YOU CAN TUNE INTO THAT - PEOPLE THAT TURN ON NOW HALFWAY THROUGH 09:27 SABBATH SCHOOL ARE GOING TO WONDER, 'NOW, WHAT'S GOING ON IN 09:29 THE BACKGROUND?' BUT - AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU, 09:32 AGAIN, THERE IS A BOOK GOING ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, 09:35 CALLED UNDERSTANDING TONGUES . THE REASON IS, OUR STUDY TODAY 09:39 IS DEALING WITH THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THERE'S A 09:43 LOT OF PEOPLE THAT EQUATE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 09:46 WITH SPEAKING IN TONGUES. AND I'LL TALK A 09:48 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS, 09:50 IT'S OFFER #145 - AND CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 09:56 866-STUDY-MORE - AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU FOR FREE. 09:59 PLEASE READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 10:03 OUR LESSON IS #5 TODAY, AS I MENTIONED, DEALING WITH THE 10:06 BAPTISM AND FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 10:09 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE, AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM JOHN 10:13 10:10 AND YOU CAN READ IT OUT OF YOUR LESSON. 10:15 THEY'VE GOT IT HERE FROM THE NIV AND - YOU READY? 10:19 JOHN 10:10, "THE THIEF COMES ONLY TO STEAL AND KILL AND 10:24 DESTROY; I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT TO 10:29 THE FULL." NOW, WE ALL KNOW THAT AS 'THEY 10:32 MAY HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT' - >>MORE ABUNDANTLY. 10:34 >>MORE ABUNDANTLY. >>YEAH. 10:35 >>AND THE LORD CAME TO GIVE US THE ABUNDANT LIFE. 10:39 AND THERE'S A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BAPTISM AND THE FILLING OF 10:43 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE ABUNDANT LIFE. 10:45 NOW, MAYBE I SHOULD BEGIN BY DIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION TO A 10:50 VERSE, I THINK MOST OF US KNOW, IN JOHN 3:5. 10:53 IN JOHN 3:5 JESUS IS TALKING - IN CHAPTER 3, WHO'S HE TALKING 10:58 TO? JOHN 3:16, WHO'S JESUS TALKING TO? 11:02 >>NICODEMUS. >>NICODEMUS, SO JOHN 3:5, HE'S 11:05 STILL TALKING TO NICODEMUS. AND HE SAYS HERE, 11:08 'MOSST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE 11:11 IS BORN OF THE WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE IS GOING TO HAVE A 11:15 HARDER TIME ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' 'HE MAY FIND IT A 11:20 LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' 11:24 IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS? "UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF THE WATER 11:28 AND THE SPIRIT," - SPIRIT BIRTH - "HE CANNOT" - SO BEING BORN OF 11:34 THE SPIRIT, IS THAT OPTIONAL FOR THOSE WHO ARE BOUND FOR HEAVEN? 11:39 OR IS IT AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY? >>NECESSITY. 11:42 >>ACCORDING TO JESUS, WE MUST BE BORN OF THE SPIRIT. 11:45 NOW, IN A LOT OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES - OUR CHURCH IS SIMILAR 11:49 - WE MEASURE A PERSON'S CONVERSION BY THE DAY OF THEIR 11:52 BAPTISM. WHICH BAPTISM, WATER 11:54 BAPTISM OR SPIRIT BAPTISM? >>SPIRIT. 11:56 >>WE TYPICALLY THINK, 'WHEN WERE YOU BAPTIZED?' 11:58 AND WE SAY, 'THAT MARKS THE BEGINNING.' BUT IF YOU HAD TO DO 12:04 WITHOUT ONE OR THE OTHER - NOT THAT YOU SHOULD DO WITHOUT 12:07 EITHER - WILL THERE BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN WHO MAYBE WERE NOT WATER 12:11 BAPTIZED? >>YES. 12:13 >>WILL THERE BE ANYONE IN HEAVEN THAT IS NOT SPIRIT BAPTIZED? 12:18 THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU DON'T HAVE HIS SPIRIT, YOU ARE NONE OF HIS. 12:22 WE MUST BE BORN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 12:25 SOME PEOPLE THINK THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A NEW 12:28 TESTAMENT TEACHING - IT'S A PHENOMENON THAT HAPPENS AT 12:31 PENTECOST. THE BIBLE DOESN'T 12:32 TEACH THAT EITHER. YOU FIND THE SPIRIT FROM 12:34 BEGINNING TO END IN THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW, THE SPIRIT OF GOD 12:38 MOVES UPON THE FACE OF THE WATER. 12:40 THERE THE SPIRIT IS INTEGRAL IN THE FORMATION OF LIFE IN THE 12:44 BEGINNING AND IT SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, 12:46 'COME'' AT THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE. SO THE 12:48 HOLY SPIRIT IS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, AND EVEN THE FILLING, 12:51 OR THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT IS FOUND ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 12:55 JUST A FEW EXAMPLES - WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL OF THEM - GO 12:58 TO JUDGES CHAPTER 6, VERSE 34. AND HERE IT SAYS, "BUT THE 13:03 SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON; THEN HE BLEW THE 13:07 TRUMPET," - HE WAS BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT. 13:11 2 CHRONICLES 20:14, "THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON 13:15 JAHAZIEL THE SON OF ZECHARIAH, THE SON OF BENAIAH...IN THE 13:19 MIDST OF THE ASSEMBLY." IT'S ONE OF THE PROPHETS BACK IN THE 13:21 DAYS OF JEHOSHOPHAT - THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM. 13:25 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF WHEN MOSES WAS BEING 13:28 OVERWHELMED WITH ADMINISTRATING THE KINGDOM AND GOD SAID, 'LOOK, 13:32 I WANT YOU TO BRING THE 70 ELDERS, AND YOU NEED TO DELEGATE 13:35 - BRING THEM TO THE TABERNACLE AND I WILL TAKE OF THE SPIRIT 13:39 THAT IS ON YOU AND PUT IT ON THEM.' IT ALMOST MAKES IT SOUND 13:43 LIKE, YOU KNOW, MOSES HAS GOT THIS SPECIAL FORMULA AND 13:46 GOD'S GOING TO TAKE MOSES' FORMULA AND PUT IT ON THE ELDERS 13:49 - KIND OF LIKE WHEN GOD SAID HE TOOK THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH AND 13:52 PUT IN ON ELISHA, IT'S ALL A TYPE OF HOW GOD TAKES THE SPIRIT 13:57 OF JESUS AND GIVES GOD THE SPIRIT TO US. 14:01 >>AMEN. >>BUT HERE, HE GOES ON AND HE 14:03 SAYS THAT THESE SEVENTY ELDERS ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY 14:08 SPIRIT AND THEY PROPHESY. IT'S ALMOST LIKE A MINI EXAMPLE 14:12 OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH PENTECOST. YOU NOTICE, JESUS HAD THE TWELVE 14:16 APOSTLES AND THEN HE ALSO HAD AN ADDITIONAL SEVENTY THAT 14:20 HE SENT OUT, RIGHT? MOSES HAD THE TWELVE PRINCES OF 14:24 ISRAEL, AND THEN HE HAD THE SEVENTY ELDERS. 14:26 SOME INTERESTING NUMBERS - THEY WERE ALL SPIRIT-FILLED. 14:30 AND SO, ALL THE WAY FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - ONE MORE 14:34 - LIKE I SAID, THERE'S MANY, MANY I COULD GIVE YOU. 14:36 EZEKIEL 11:5, "THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD FELL UPON ME, AND 14:40 SAID TO ME, 'SPEAK!'" - OF COURSE, HE'S - PROPHETS 14:42 OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HAD THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 14:46 NOW, IS HAVING THE HOLY SPIRIT THE SAME AS BEING BAPTIZED WITH 14:54 THE HOLY SPIRIT? THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. 14:58 DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT COME IN VARYING DEGREES? 15:03 I, YOU KNOW, IN PREPARATION FOR STUDIES AND SERMONS, I READ 15:08 OTHER MATERIAL - OTHER BOOKS - LISTEN TO OTHER MESSAGES BY 15:11 OTHER PREACHERS. AND, IN PREPARATION FOR THIS, 15:15 I HEARD THE MESSAGE OF ANOTHER PASTOR I'LL NOT NAME AND HE SAID 15:18 THAT, 'EVERY CHRISTIAN, AT THE POINT OF CONVERSION, IS BAPTIZED 15:22 IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.' I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND THOUGHT ABOUT IT - 15:25 HE MADE SOME ARGUMENTS, AND I JUST RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 15:29 I BELIEVE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN VARYING DEGREES BASED 15:33 UPON WHAT THE NEED IS. >>AMEN. 15:35 >>DID THE APOSTLES HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN JESUS SENT THEM OUT 15:40 TEACHING AND PREACHING DURING - WHILE CHRIST WAS ALIVE? 15:43 THEY WERE CASTING OUT DEVILS. IF IT WASN'T THE HOLY SPIRIT, 15:46 WHAT WAS IT? LET'S HOPE IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT. 15:49 IN THE UPPER ROOM, WHEN JESUS BREATHED ON THEM, AND IT SAYS 15:56 THAT HE BREATHED ON HIM AND HE SAID, 'RECEIVE YE THE 15:58 HOLY SPIRIT' - THEY HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT THEN, BUT THAT 16:04 WASN'T THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 16:08 AND SO, YOU SEE A NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE - IT 16:11 WASN'T THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE IF THAT WAS THE 16:13 BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THAT'S IN THE UPPER ROOM, WHY 16:17 DOES JESUS SAY, 'NOW DON'T GO ANYWHERE. 16:19 WAIT IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU RECEIVE POWER FROM ON HIGH. 16:23 SO, WHAT HAPPENED AT PENTECOST, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO DAVID AND 16:28 SAMSON AND THE SEVENTY ELDERS IS A SEPARATE FILLING OF THE HOLY 16:33 SPIRIT - AND WE'RE GOING TO GET MORE INTO THAT A LITTLE LATER 16:36 ON. SO NOW, THAT'S JUST OUR INTRODUCTION TO THIS SECTION. 16:39 WE'RE GOING TO GO TALK ABOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND - 16:44 LET'S START WITH JOEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE 28 - JOEL 2:28 AND 29, AND 16:52 HERE THE PROPHET SAYS, "AND IS SHALL COME TO PASS AFTERWARD 16:54 THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH; YOUR SONS AND YOUR 17:00 DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, 17:04 YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS. 17:06 AND ALSO ON MY MENSERVANTS AND ON MY MAIDSERVANTS I WILL POUR 17:10 OUT MY SPIRIT IN THOSE DAYS." SO, DOES GOD DISCRIMINATE THAT 17:15 ONLY PROPHETS AND KINGS GET THE HOLY SPIRIT? 17:18 DO YOU HAVE TO BE A JUDGE OF ISRAEL, LIKE SAMSON, TO GET THE 17:20 HOLY SPIRIT? NO, HE SAYS THAT THERE'S A SPECIAL OUTPOURING OF 17:25 THE SPIRIT THAT WOULD HAPPEN ON ALL BELIEVERS. 17:28 WHEN IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE? IS THAT FUTURE OR PAST? 17:32 >>PRESENT. >>PRESENT? DID IT ONLY HAPPEN IN 17:37 THE PRESENT? THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT? 17:40 LOOK WITH ME IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 - ACTS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14 - "BUT 17:47 PETER, STANDING UP WITH THE ELEVEN, RAISED HIS VOICE AND 17:49 SAID TO THEM, 'MEN OF JUDEA AND ALL WHO DWELL IN JERUSALEM," - 17:52 IT GOES ON TO SAY, "...THESE ARE NOT DRUNK AS YOU SUPPOSE, SINCE 17:55 IT IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY. 17:57 BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL: 'AND IT SHALL 18:03 COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS,'" - IT'S FUN WHEN YOU HEAR ONE 18:06 BIBLE SCRIPTURE QUOTING ANOTHER BIBLE SCRIPTURE - "'AND IT SHALL 18:09 COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS, SAYS GOD, THAT I WILL POUR OUT 18:12 MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH; YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL 18:16 PROPHESY, YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL 18:19 DREAM DREAMS. AND ON MY MENSERVANTS AND ON MY 18:22 MAIDSERVANTS I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT...AND THEY SHALL 18:24 PROPHESY.'" SO AT PENTECOST, WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT 18:27 ONLY POURED OUT ON THE TWELVE APOSTLES? WHO RECEIVED THE HOLY 18:32 SPIRIT AT PENTECOST? HOW MANY WERE IN THE UPPER ROOM? 18:37 A HUNDRED AND TWENTY IN THE UPPER ROOM. 18:40 SO YOU'VE GOT THE TWELVE - ACTUALLY TEN TIMES TWELVE IS ONE 18:43 TWENTY - ARE RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT. 18:46 IN THE LAST DAYS, IS IT ONLY THE 144,000 THAT ARE SAVED? 18:52 OR DO THE 144,000 HAVE A SPECIAL WORK TO 18:55 GET A GREAT MULTITUDE READY? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 19:01 SO IT WASN'T JUST THE DISCIPLES. IT WASN'T JUST MEN. 19:05 THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED ON EVERYONE WAY BACK 2,000 YEARS 19:08 AGO. AND SO, GOD IS OFFERING HIS 19:11 SPIRIT TO ALL PEOPLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MINISTRY. 19:15 NOW, DID THE LORD ONLY POUR OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT ON WOMEN AFTER 19:20 JESUS, DURING THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? 19:23 OR WERE THERE PROPHETESSES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 19:25 SO THIS WAS NOT A NEW THING THAT WOMEN SHOULD RECEIVE THE HOLY 19:29 SPIRIT. SO WHAT IS JOEL TALKING ABOUT - 19:32 'IT'LL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS'? 19:35 WELL, YOU KNOW, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT JOEL IS DESCRIBING, NOT 19:39 THAT THERE WOULD BE INDIVIDUAL CASES OF, NOT ONLY APOSTLES AND 19:44 PROPHETS AND COMMON PEOPLE RECEIVING THE SPIRIT, BUT IT 19:48 WOULD COME IN A TSUNAMI. SEE, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS COMPARED 19:52 TO RAIN. IN THE - AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS 19:58 STUDY - IN THE HEBREW AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT, THEIR 20:04 CLIMATE, THE CROPS WERE SPROUTED WITH THIS REAL GOOD RAIN. 20:12 NOW, THOSE OF US THAT ARE HERE IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA, THOSE 20:17 WHO DON'T KNOW, GRANITE BAY IS A SUBURB OF SACRAMENTO. 20:19 CAN I SAY THAT? AND WE'RE NOT EVEN IN GRANITE 20:21 BAY, WE'RE IN ROCKLIN, SO NOW YOU'RE REALLY CONFUSED. 20:25 BUT IN THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA, WE JUST HAD - I HOPE - IS 20:28 THE DROUGHT OVER? HELP ME. 20:29 >>IT'S OVER! >>DOES IT FEEL LIKE IT'S OVER? 20:33 WHEN YOU WALK AROUND OUTSIDE AND YOU SINK INTO THE MUD UP TO YOUR 20:35 KNEES, YOU HOPE THE DROUGHT'S OVER. 20:38 SO WE JUST HAD A REALLY GOOD GULLYWASHER, BUT THE THING THAT 20:41 YOU NOTICE AFTER ONE SUNNY DAY - IT WAS BEAUTIFUL YESTERDAY - ALL 20:44 THIS STUFF SPROUTED. ALL THE GRASS CAME UP. STUFF SPROUTED. 20:48 I WAS OUT PLANTING FLOWERS YESTERDAY. 20:49 AND THEY WOULD HAVE HEAVY RAINS IN THE FALL THAT WOULD THEN 20:56 SPROUT THE WINTER CROPS OF WHEAT AND THEY WOULD GET SMATTERINGS 21:00 OF RAIN ALONG THE WAY, AND THEN THERE WOULD BE A LATTER RAIN 21:03 WHERE THEY WOULD GET A HEAVY RAIN IN THE SPRING AND RIPEN UP 21:06 THE CROPS JUST IN TIME FOR THE HARVEST AND PENTECOST WAS WHEN 21:10 THEY HAD THAT HARVEST AFTER THE LATTER RAIN. 21:15 AND SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT POURING OUT THE SPIRIT, HE'S 21:18 TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING MORE THAN THE SPRINKLING. 21:22 IT'S A POURING OF THE SPIRIT THAT'S HAPPENING HERE. SOMEONE, 21:26 IN A MOMENT'S, GOING TO READ FOR ME JOHN 1:33 - DAN'LL HAVE THAT, 21:30 OKAY? I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 3:5 - ACTUALLY, I ALREADY READ THAT 21:33 - MARK 1:8 IS WHAT I'LL READ. JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, "I INDEED 21:37 BAPTIZED YOU WITH WATER, BUT HE" - THE ONE WHO COMES AFTER 21:41 ME - "WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." 21:44 NOW JESUS SAID YOU MUST BE BORN OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT OR 21:48 YOU CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 21:50 LET ME SAY A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT: YOU'RE GOING TO RUN INTO - 21:54 IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY - YOU'RE GOING TO MEET CHRISTIANS WHO 21:56 READ THAT VERSE 'BORN OF THE WATER; BORN OF THE SPIRIT' - 21:59 THEY SAY 'BORN OF THE WATER' MEANS HUMAN BIRTH - WHEN A 22:03 BABY'S BORN IT'S IN AN ENVELOPE OF WATER AND THE WATER BREAKS 22:06 AND USUALLY THE BABY IS BORN SOON AFTER THAT - YOU HOPE. 22:10 AND THEY SAY, 'UNLESS YOU'RE BORN OF A WOMAN AND OF THE 22:13 SPIRIT, YOU CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM.' ANYONE ELSE RUN INTO 22:16 THAT BEFORE? HEARD THAT STUDY? A LOT OF CHURCHES - YOU HAVE, 22:21 YEAH - A LOT OF CHURCHES TEACH THAT. 22:23 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE 22:25 THAT WOULD REALLY BE STRANGE TO SAY. 22:28 HOW MANY OF YOU OUT THERE WERE BORN OF A WOMAN? 22:32 SO WHY EVEN MENTION IT? I MEAN, IT'S EVERYBODY, RIGHT? 22:35 NOW, THESE DAYS, THINGS ARE CHANGING, BECAUSE - A LOT OF 22:38 STUFF HAPPENING IN THE LABORATORY - BUT, TYPICALLY, 22:41 EVERYBODY'S ALREADY BORN OF A WOMAN; WHY EVEN SAY THAT? 22:44 HE'S TALKING ABOUT UNLESS YOU WERE BORN OF THE WATER - GOING 22:46 TO JOHN THE BAPTIST - THAT'S A CHOICE YOU MAKE - BORN OF THE 22:49 SPIRIT IS A CHOICE GOD MAKES. YOU CAN CHOOSE THE DATE OF YOUR 22:53 WATER BAPTISM, BUT GOD ONLY CHOOSES THE DATE OF 22:56 THE SPIRIT BAPTISM. AND, HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT 22:59 SOMETIMES THE SPIRIT BAPTISM HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME 23:03 AS THE WATER BAPTISM? GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. 23:07 >>JESUS. >>CHRIST. 23:09 HE WAS BAPTIZED IN WATER, SPIRIT - SAME TIME. 23:12 SOMETIMES THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN WATER AND THEN LATER THE HOLY 23:16 SPIRIT. GIVE ME A CASE OF THAT. THE APOSTLES. 23:22 THEY WERE PROBABLY BAPTIZED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST, BUT THEY WERE 23:24 BAPTIZED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST. 23:27 AND THEN, SOMETIMES PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AND 23:32 LATER BAPTIZED IN WATER. YOU CAN READ WHERE CORNELIUS AND 23:40 HIS FAMILY - PETER'S PREACHING - THEY'RE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY 23:42 SPIRIT AND HE SAYS, 'WOW, YOU'RE GETTING THE CART AHEAD OF THE 23:44 HORSE. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BAPTIZED - PETER DIDN'T REALIZE 23:47 IT CAN HAPPEN ANY WAY GOD WANTS IT. AND HE SAID, 'WHO CAN FORBID 23:50 WATER THAT THESE SHOULD ALSO BE BAPTIZED IN WATER? 23:53 AND SO, WE CAN'T CHOOSE WHEN GOD DECIDES TO POUR OUT THE SPIRIT, 23:58 BUT IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO PLEAD FOR THE SPIRIT? 24:03 SHOULD WE BE ASKING FOR THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT? 24:06 IF IT'S ESSENTIAL FOR OUR SALVATION TO BE BORN OF THE 24:08 SPIRIT? YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE CHILDREN 24:14 OF ISRAEL ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND, THEY WENT THROUGH THE SEA. 24:20 PAUL TELLS US, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10, THAT'S A TYPE OF WATER 24:23 BAPTISM; AND THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE FIRE. 24:27 NOW THEY HAD TO MAKE A DECISION TO GO FORWARD AND GO THROUGH THE 24:30 SEA. GOD IS THE ONE WHO SENT THE PILLAR OF FIRE. 24:33 SO THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THIS PILLAR OF FIRE THAT GOD SENT, 24:37 AND THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA. 24:40 A SYMBOL - BEFORE THEY GOT TO THE PROMISED LAND, THEY NEEDED 24:42 BOTH BAPTISMS, RIGHT? THE WORLD WAS BAPTIZED IN WATER, 24:48 ACCORDING TO 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, THE WORLD WAS BAPTIZED IN WATER 24:52 IN THE DAYS OF NOAH - WASHED FROM ITS SIN. 24:57 IT WILL BE BAPTIZED IN FIRE BEFORE JESUS COMES - OR, WHEN 25:01 JESUS COMES - BAPTIZED IN FIRE, AND THEN GOD MAKES A NEW EARTH. 25:06 THE WORLD DOESN'T GET TO HEAVEN UNTIL IT GOES THROUGH A 25:09 WATER/FIRE BAPTISM. SO, JOHN THE BAPTIST IS SAYING, 25:14 'I BAPTIZE IN WATER, BUT THE ONE WHO COMES AFTER ME, HE'S GOING 25:17 TO BAPTIZE YOU IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE.' NOW, WAS 25:19 THERE, LITERALLY, FIRE AT PENTECOST? 25:24 >>THERE WERE TONGUES OF FIRE. >>YEAH, WHY DID GOD 25:26 CHOOSE TONGUES OF FIRE? WHERE DID GOD TAKE THE COAL - 25:33 REMEMBER THE STORY OF ISAIAH'S CONVERSION? WHEN ISAIAH'S 25:35 CONVERTED, WHERE DID GOD TAKE THE COAL? 25:38 HE PUT IT ON HIS LIPS, YEAH. AT PENTECOST, WHAT WAS THE 25:43 EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAD BEEN FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? 25:48 IT WAS THEIR SPEAKING AND THEY SPOKE IN A SUPERNATURAL WAY WITH 25:52 LANGUAGES THEY HAD NOT FORMALLY KNOWN OR STUDIED. 25:55 THEY WERE SPEAKING IN TONGUES SO GOD GAVE THEM TONGUES OF FIRE TO 25:58 SHOW THAT THIS WAS A GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 26:01 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US 1 JOHN 33. 26:05 >>"I DID NOT KNOW HIM BUT HE WHO SENT ME TO BAPTIZE WITH WATER 26:08 SAID TO ME, 'UPON WHOM YOU SEE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING AND 26:12 REMAINING ON HIM, THIS IS HE WHO BAPTIZES WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." 26:17 >>SO HERE YOU HAVE JOHN; GOD IS GIVING HIM A SIGNAL. 26:20 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS THE ONE THAT WILL BAPTIZE WITH FIRE 26:23 - I'VE NOT BAPTIZED WITH WATER - YOU WILL SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT 26:26 DESCEND ON. GOD GAVE, YOU KNOW - I MEAN, USUALLY YOU FEEL THE 26:29 SPIRIT, BUT HE SAID, 'I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING VISUAL TO LOOK 26:31 AT.' PENTECOST IT WAS TONGUES OF FIRE. 26:34 WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, WHAT WAS THE VISUAL SIGN OF THE 26:37 SPIRIT? >>A DOVE. 26:39 >>NOW, WE NEED SOMETHING VISUAL BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A 26:41 SPIRIT - HE'S INVISIBLE - AND SO HE'S COMPARED, AS I MENTIONED 26:45 BEFORE, TO WATER. YOU KNOW, THERE AT THE WELL JESUS TALKED 26:49 ABOUT THE OVERFLOWING THE SPIRIT AS LIVING WATER, AND IT WAS A 26:54 DOVE AT HIS BAPTISM. IT WAS FIRE AT PENTECOST. 26:58 HE TOLD NICODEMUS IT'S LIKE WIND THAT BLOWS. 27:01 AND SO, GOD GIVES US DIFFERENT SYMBOLS, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S HARD 27:04 FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE HOLY SPIRIT. SOMETIMES THE SPIRIT'S 27:08 LIKENED TO OIL. OIL WAS POURED UPON THE PRIEST 27:11 TO ANOINT HIM - OR TO THE KING AND THE SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM. 27:16 LUKE 3:16 - NOW, THERE'S THREE PLACES WHERE - FOUR PLACES - 27:20 WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST TALKS ABOUT - HE MAKES IT REALLY 27:22 CLEAR, 'I BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER BUT SOMEONE ELSE IS COMING TO 27:25 BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 27:27 LUKE 3:16, "JOHN ANSWERED, SAYING TO ALL, 'I INDEED BAPTIZE 27:31 YOU WITH WATER; BUT ONE MIGHTIER THAN I IS COMING, WHOSE SANDAL 27:35 STRAP I AM NOT WORTHY TO LOOSE. HE WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH 27:39 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE." - AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID JOHN 27:41 IS THE GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS, BUT COMPARED TO JESUS, 27:44 NO PROPHET IS WORTHY. AND THEN YOU READ IN ACTS 27:48 1:5, IT SAYS, "FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YOU 27:54 SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW." 27:57 NOW, CHRIST IS TELLING THEM, 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE BAPTIZED 28:00 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOU NEED THE WATER BAPTISM; 28:03 YOU NEED THE SPIRIT BAPTISM. YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT 28:09 WHEN - I DID EVANGELISM AS A - OH, I STILL DO EVANGELISM, BUT I 28:12 WAS A CONFERENCE EVANGELIST FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND EVERY GOOD 28:16 PRESIDENT, WHEN YOU GET DONE WITH A MEETING, HE WANTS TO 28:21 KNOW, 'WELL, WAS IT A SUCCESSFUL MEETING?' 28:23 YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE PAYING A PASTOR TO BE A FULL-TIME 28:25 EVANGELIST, YOU'VE GOT TO PRODUCE FRUIT. 28:27 HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE FRUIT? WHAT DO THEY THINK - WHAT DO YOU 28:30 THINK THE PRESIDENT WILL ASK THE PASTOR? 28:32 >>HOW MANY BAPTISMS? >>OR THE EVANGELIST? 28:34 HOW MANY BAPTISMS WERE THERE? THAT'S THE CRITERIA - AND THAT'S 28:36 APPROPRIATE. WHAT OTHER GAUGE YOU GOING TO USE? 28:39 BUT I'VE NEVER YET HAD ANYONE SAY, 'HOW MANY WERE BAPTIZED IN 28:42 THE HOLY SPIRIT?' BUT HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? 28:47 IT'S HARDER TO MEASURE, ISN'T IT? 28:49 THAT. BUT IT'S CRUCIAL AND WE NEED TO 28:53 BE PRAYING FOR THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT. 28:56 YOU KNOW, JESUS, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT YOU COULD, 28:59 SPECIFICALLY, ASK FOR, HE SAID, 'IF YOUR CHILD IS HUNGRY AND HE 29:03 ASKS FOR A PIECE OF BREAD, WILL YOU GIVE HIM A STONE?' 29:07 AND THE DEVIL TOLD JESUS, 'TURN THE STONES TO BREAD.' HE SAID, 29:11 'IF HE'S HUNGRY AND HE ASKS FOR A FISH,' - YOU KNOW - 29:15 'WILL YOU GIVE HIM A SERPENT?' 'IF HE ASKS FOR AN EGG' - LUKE 29:19 MENTIONS ONE ADDITIONAL ANALOGY, HE SAYS, 'IF HE ASKS FOR AN EGG 29:23 WILL YOU GIVE HIM A SCORPION?' I MEAN, WHAT PARENT WOULD 29:26 SAY, 'OH, YOU WANT AN EGG? HERE, I'LL MAKE SCRAMBLED 29:27 SCORPIONS THIS MORNING.' YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO YOUR 29:30 CHILDREN. AND HE SAID, 'IF YOU, THEN, 29:33 BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN' - 29:36 THEN HE TELLS US WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR - 'HOW MUCH MORE WILL 29:39 YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE THAT ASK?' 29:44 SO WHAT'S THE ONE SPECIFIC THING THAT JESUS MENTIONS, THAT WE 29:48 SHOULD BE PRAYING FOR? >>THE HOLY SPIRIT. 29:51 >>THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING - IT'S PART OF MY PRAYER 29:53 EVERY DAY, IS THAT GOD'LL GIVE ME THE HOLY - HOW DO YOU RESIST 29:55 TEMPTATION? HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO SAY? 29:58 I MEAN, YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE YOU. 30:02 AND WE NEED THE FILLING OF THE SPIRIT. 30:05 NOW, IN THE LAST DAYS, WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE MUCH MORE 30:11 ABOUNDS, DO YOU AGREE? DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY THAT? 30:14 I HOPE YOU AGREE - IT SAYS THAT. AND SO WHERE THERE'S - DOES 30:19 THE DEVIL GIVE HIS SPIRIT IN DIFFERENT DEGREES? 30:22 ARE THERE VARYING DEGREES OF EVIL? 30:24 >>YES. >>DO WE SEE AN INCREASE? 30:27 DOES IT SAY, IN THE LAST DAYS, 'EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS WILL WAX 30:29 WORSE AND WORSE'? THEN, IF THERE'S EVER A TIME 30:34 WHEN WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT MORE, WOULDN'T IT BE NOW? 30:37 WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 30:40 AND THEN, OF COURSE, ACTS 11:15 - HERE, PETER'S DESCRIBING WHAT 30:46 HAPPENED AT CORNELIUS' HOUSE AND HE SAYS, "...I BEGAN TO SPEAK, 30:50 THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL UPON THEM, AS UPON US AT THE BEGINNING. 30:54 THEN I REMEMBERED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW HE SAID, 'JOHN 30:57 INDEED BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE 31:01 HOLY SPIRIT.'" NOW, I WANT TO PAUSE HERE AND I'M GOING TO 31:04 INJECT - I THINK I'VE GOT TIME - A LITTLE STUDY EXPLAINING THE 31:09 GIFT OF TONGUES. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME, 31:12 PERSONALLY, BECAUSE WE'RE TEACHING, OF COURSE, 31:15 ADVENTIST SABBATH SCHOOL. MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED 31:18 IN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH. ANYONE COME FROM A 31:19 PENTECOSTAL BACKGROUND? I SEE A FEW HERE, YEAH. 31:25 I DIDN'T COME FROM A PENTECOSTAL BACKGROUND, I CAME FROM A PRETTY 31:27 MUCH ATHEIST BACKGROUND, BUT AFTER I BECAME A CHRISTIAN - I'D 31:30 NEVER HEARD OF ADVENTISTS, I WORSHIPED WITH CHARISMATIC 31:32 CHRISTIANS. AND THEY WOULD ALWAYS SAY, 31:37 'HAVE YOU BEEN FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT?' 31:39 AND WHAT THEY MEANT BY THAT WAS, AS EVIDENCED IN THE SPEAKING OF 31:43 TONGUES. 'DO YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES?' 31:46 AND THAT USED TO CONFUSE ME BECAUSE, WHEN I FIRST HEARD 31:50 THAT, I HAD ALREADY READ A LOT OF THE BIBLE. 31:52 I'D NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT MEANT YOU 31:55 HAD TO SPEAK IN TONGUES. I ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD TONGUES WAS 31:58 ONE OF MANY GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT AND THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY 32:02 YOU KNOW IF A PERSON IS SPIRIT-FILLED BASED ON 32:05 THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. YOU KNOW IF A PERSON IS 32:07 SPIRIT-FILLED BASED ON THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. 32:11 AND WHAT IS THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT? 32:12 >>LOVE... >>LOVE, JOY, TONGUES, PEACE - 32:14 NO, I THREW THAT IN THERE. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT, BUT A LOT OF 32:18 MY CHARISMATIC FRIENDS, THEY MADE IT SOUND LIKE, 'DO YOU 32:22 SPEAK IN TONGUES? THAT'S THE PROOF YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY 32:24 SPIRIT.' A PERSON CAN FAKE 32:25 SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND THEY'RE NOT SPIRIT-FILLED. 32:29 NOW, I DON'T WANT TO BE VERY UNKIND, BUT SOME OF US REMEMBER, 32:34 ABOUT A DECADE AGO, THERE WAS A RAFT OF TELEVANGELISTS THAT 32:39 WOULD OFTEN SPEAK IN TONGUES ON TELEVISION AND THERE'S A LOT OF 32:42 SCANDALS, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, OF THESE TELEVANGELISTS - THEY 32:46 WERE, YOU KNOW, PROSPERITY PREACHERS, AND THEY WOULD FLAUNT 32:50 THEIR WEALTH AND THEY'D SPEAK IN TONGUES ON TV AND THEY WERE 32:54 CAUGHT, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, LIVING IMMORAL LIVES. 32:59 BUT THEY COULD PROVE THEY HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE THEY 33:01 SPOKE IN TONGUES. BUT WHAT ALWAYS SURPRISED ME IS THAT WHEN 33:06 THEY TRAVELED OVERSEAS THEY HAD TO HIRE A TRANSLATOR. 33:10 (LAUGHTER) IT'S TRUE! 33:14 YEAH, THESE EVANGELISTS THAT WOULD ALWAYS SPEAK IN TONGUES ON 33:16 TV AND THEN, AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO MOCK THEM, BUT, 33:20 YOU KNOW, THEY JUST START BABBLING INCOHERENTLY. 33:22 THEY SAID, 'THIS IS THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WE'RE 33:24 SPEAKING IN A HEAVENLY ANGELIC LANGUAGE NOBODY UNDERSTANDS.' 33:26 THEY, OSTENSIBLY, HAVE THE GIFT OF TONGUES, BUT WHEN THEY 33:29 TRAVELED TO SOUTH AMERICA OR RUSSIA OR INDIA, THEY HAD TO 33:33 HAVE A TRANSLATOR TO HELP THEM PREACH. 33:35 WELL, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON THE APOSTLES, THEY DIDN'T 33:37 NEED A TRANSLATOR. ONE OF THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT 33:42 WAS TONGUES - IT'S ONE OF THE GIFTS. 33:44 BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT EVIDENCE YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S NOT 33:46 TONGUES, IT'S LOVE, JOY, PEACE - AND I'LL GET INTO SOME OF THE 33:51 OTHER CRITERIA HERE IN A MINUTE. EVERY TIME SOMEONE WAS FILLED 33:55 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY SHARED THE WORD. WHY DOES GOD 34:00 GIVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT? TO SPEAK IN TONGUES? 34:03 'I WILL GIVE YOU MY SPIRIT AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES.' SO 34:06 WHY DOES GOD BAPTIZE WITH HIS SPIRIT? 34:09 >>TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. >>TO WITNESS. 34:11 NOW, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 34:13 THIS COMES UP A LITTLE LATER. BEING FILLED - WITH THE HOLY 34:15 SPIRIT - OH WAIT, LET ME SEE A COUPLE MORE THINGS. 34:17 THERE ARE THREE EXAMPLES - HOW MANY? 34:20 >>THREE. >>THREE EXAMPLES OF SPEAKING 34:21 IN TONGUES IN THE BIBLE. DID YOU KNOW THAT? ONLY THREE. 34:25 IF YOU WENT TO CHARISMATIC OR PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, YOU WOULD 34:28 THINK THAT THERE'S A THOUSAND, BUT THERE'S THREE EXAMPLES. 34:31 THEY'RE ALL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - ACTS CHAPTER 2, ACTS 10, WITH 34:34 CORNELIUS, ACTS 19. IN ALL THREE CASES, WHEN THEY'RE 34:39 FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY ARE SPEAKING WITH MULTIPLE 34:42 LANGUAGE GROUPS PRESENT AND IT'S FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHARING. 34:45 THOSE LISTENING KNOW WHAT IS BEING SAID. 34:49 THE BIBLE SAYS, IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, 'WE DO HEAR THEM IN OUR OWN 34:52 TONGUES WHERE WE WERE BORN, SPEAKING ABOUT THE WONDERFUL 34:55 WORKS OF GOD.' ANOTHER PLACE IT TALKS ABOUT - THEY MAGNIFIED 35:00 GOD. ANOTHER PLACE IT SAYS 'THEY 35:01 PROPHESIED' - THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE SAYING. 35:04 ALL THE TIMES THEY SPOKE IN TONGUES THEY WERE - THE WORD 35:07 'TONGUES' JUST MEANS 'LANGUAGES' - THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS IN THE 35:09 ORIGINAL AND EVERY EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE - THE WORD THERE, FOR 35:12 TONGUES, MEANS 'LANGUAGE'. IT DOESN'T MEAN SOME 35:16 SUPERNATURAL GIBBERISH. IT ALWAYS MEANS 'A LANGUAGE' 35:20 AND, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14, WHERE PAUL TALKS ABOUT TONGUES - 35:23 PAUL TALKS ABOUT TONGUES IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14, BUT NOBODY'S 35:26 SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN THE PASSAGE. 35:29 HE'S EXPLAINING HOW TO DO IT WHEN IT HAPPENS. 35:32 SO, THERE'S ONLY THREE EXAMPLES OF IT HAPPENING. 35:34 AND IT'S INTERESTING: PAUL ONLY SPEAKS ABOUT TONGUES THERE IN 1 35:37 CORINTHIANS - MARK MENTIONS, AT THE END OF THE GOSPEL, JESUS 35:42 SAID, 'YOU WILL SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES.' JESUS SAID ONE OF THE 35:46 SIGNS IS YOU WILL SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES.' THE APOSTLES 35:48 WERE GIVEN THE ABILITY TO SPEAK IN OTHER LANGUAGES FOR SPREADING 35:51 THE GOSPEL. AND PETER NEVER MENTIONS IT. 35:57 JAMES NEVER MENTIONS IT. JOHN NEVER MENTIONS IT. 36:01 YOU WOULD THINK THAT IF IT WERE ESSENTIAL TO YOUR SALVATION AND, 36:04 FINALLY, IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, WHAT DOES A CHRISTIAN DO? 36:08 FOLLOW CHRIST. WHERE DOES JESUS SPEAK IN TONGUES? 36:12 I'VE BEEN IN SOME CHURCHES WHERE I HEARD THE PASTOR WAS SO 36:14 DESPERATE TO HAVE JESUS SPEAKING IN TONGUES SOMEWHERE, THEY TOOK 36:17 WHERE IT SAYS, 'CHRIST IS ON THE CROSS' AND HE SAYS, 'ELOI, ELOI, 36:21 LAMA SABACHTHANI' AND THEY SAID, 'SEE, JESUS IS SPEAKING IN 36:25 TONGUES.' I SAID, 'NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING. 36:28 THE BIBLE - THE GOSPEL WRITER THERE IS TELLING YOU WHAT JESUS 36:31 SAID IN HIS REGULAR LANGUAGE, BUT BECAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW 36:35 THAT THE WORDS SOUND LIKE ELIJAH, YOU'LL KNOW WHY THE 36:39 ROMAN SOLDIERS MISUNDERSTOOD.' THEY DIDN'T SPEAK VERY MUCH - 36:42 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS CALLING FOR ELIJAH BECAUSE HE SAID, 'ELOI, 36:46 ELOI', WHICH WAS SIMILAR TO ELIJAH'S NAME. 36:50 JESUS NEVER SPOKE IN TONGUES IN THE BIBLE. 36:52 THERE'S NO RECORD OF HIM SPEAKING IN ANY OTHER LANGUAGE. 36:56 AND SO, TO SAY YOU DON'T HAVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 36:59 UNLESS YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES, IS TO IMPLY THAT JESUS WAS ANOINTED 37:02 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AT HIS BAPTISM, BUT HE DOESN'T SPEAK IN 37:05 TONGUES. SO YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL 37:08 ABOUT MAKING A DOCTRINE OUT OF THAT. NOW, DO I BELIEVE IN THE 37:11 GIFT OF TONGUES? ABSOLUTELY. IT IS ONE OF THE GIFTS. 37:15 DO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE GIFTS ARE LISTED, IT'S ALWAYS AT THE 37:17 BOTTOM OF THE LIST. BUT SOME CHURCHES HAVE 37:20 TURNED THE LIST UPSIDE DOWN. SO, ANYWAY, MOVING ALONG - BEING 37:24 FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT - EPHESIANS 5:18 - NOW SOMEONE'S 37:27 GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, LUKE 1:41, OKAY? 37:32 EPHESIANS 5:18, "AND DO NOT BE DRUNK WITH WINE, IN WHICH IS 37:36 DISSIPATION; BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT". 37:40 YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO A LIQUOR STORE - LIQUOR STORES USED TO 37:43 SAY 'WINE AND SPIRITS'. WHY DO THEY CALL THEM SPIRITS? 37:47 BECAUSE A DIFFERENT SPIRIT COMES OVER A PERSON WHEN THEY DRINK. 37:51 IT'S NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. AND, WELL, I WON'T DO MY ALCOHOL 37:57 SERMON RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'S BAD NEWS. 38:00 PAUL, HE SAYS, IF YOU WANT TO CONTRAST NIGHT AND DAY, DON'T BE 38:05 DRUNK WITH WINE' - WRONG SPIRIT - BAD SPIRIT - 'BUT BE FILLED 38:09 WITH THE GOOD SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF GOD.' ACTS 13:52, "AND THE 38:14 DISCIPLES WERE FILLED WITH JOY AND THE HOLY SPIRIT." 38:19 THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS JOY. JESUS CAME TO GIVE 38:21 US AN ABUNDANT LIFE. ROMANS 8:9, "BUT YOU ARE NOT IN 38:25 THE FLESH BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF INDEED THE SPIRIT OF 38:28 GOD DWELLS IN YOU." NOW - SO THE SPIRIT DOESN'T JUST 38:30 COME IN A LITTLE WAVE, BUT HE WANTS THE SPIRIT OF GOD 38:32 TO COME AND DO WHAT? DWELL IN US. 38:35 SO WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP YOU'VE GOT THE SPIRIT; WHEN YOU WAKE UP 38:37 YOU'VE STILL GOT THE SPIRIT. THAT'S WHY DAVID PRAYS, IN PSALM 38:40 51, HE KNEW THAT HE HAD SINNED AND HE REMEMBERED WHEN SAUL 38:45 PERSISTED IN SIN, GOD TOOK THE SPIRIT AWAY FROM SAUL. 38:50 IT'S LIKE THE SPIRIT LEFT SAMSON. 38:51 HE DIDN'T KNOW THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAD DEPARTED AND HE WAS 38:54 WEAK. THE SPIRIT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM 38:57 SAUL AND DAVID SAID, 'LORD, TAKE NOT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME.' 39:01 AND SO WE WANT THE SPIRIT TO DWELL IN US. 39:05 NOW, IF ANYONE DOES NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NOT HIS. 39:11 HOW IMPORTANT IS IT? YOU DON'T BELONG TO CHRIST 39:13 UNLESS YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 39:15 WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR IT EVERY DAY. 39:16 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US, PLEASE, LUKE 1:41. 39:20 >>"AND IT HAPPENED, WHEN ELIZABETH HEARD THE GREETING OF 39:23 MARY, THAT THE BABE LEAPT IN HER WOMB; AND ELIZABETH WAS FILLED 39:28 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." >>YEAH, JUST EVEN AT THE HEARING 39:31 OF THE VOICE - THE BABE IS LEAPING IN HER WOMB. 39:38 YOU NOTICE THAT WORDS SEEM TO GENERATE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 39:43 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON CORNELIUS, WHAT WAS HAPPENING - 39:48 WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? 39:50 HE WAS LISTENING TO THE WORD. WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON THE 39:56 DISCIPLES IN EPHESIANS - MATTER OF FACT YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK 40:00 THERE - NOT EPHESIANS, IN ACTS - THEY WERE EPHESIAN BELIEVERS. 40:02 IT'S IN ACTS 19 - GO TO ACTS 19, VERSE 1 - THIS IS ONE MORE 40:08 EXAMPLE OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 40:10 "AND IT HAPPENED, WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH, THAT PAUL, 40:13 HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER REGIONS, CAME TO EPHESUS. 40:16 AND FINDING SOME DISCIPLES" - THIS IS ACTS 19:1 - NOW I'M IN 40:19 VERSE 2 - "HE SAID TO THEM, 'DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN 40:23 YOU BELIEVED?'' NOW, NOTICE, THE FIRST THING 40:24 PAUL ASKS THEM WHEN HE FINDS DISCIPLES. 40:27 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. 40:30 THEY HEARD ABOUT JOHN - THE PREACHING OF JOHN - THEY WERE 40:32 BELIEVERS. "HE SAID TO THEM, 'DID YOU 40:34 RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED?' SO THEY SAID TO HIM, 40:37 'WE HAVE NO SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE IS A HOLY 40:40 SPIRIT.'" THEY HAD MISSED SOME SERMONS, THAT'S FOR SURE. 40:44 "AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'INTO WHAT THEN WERE YOU BAPTIZED?' 40:46 SO THEY SAID, 'INTO JOHN'S BAPTISM.' THEN PAUL SAID, 'JOHN 40:49 INDEED BAPTIZED WITH A BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING TO THE 40:52 PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHO WOULD COME AFTER HIM, 40:56 THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS.'" - WHO WOULD BAPTIZE THEM IN THE 40:58 SPIRIT, RIGHT? - "WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY 41:01 WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. 41:03 AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS ON THEM, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME 41:06 UPON THEM, AND THEY SPOKE WITH TONGUES AND PROPHESIED." 41:10 - THEY HEARD WHAT THEY WERE BELIEVING - AGAIN, THERE'S 41:11 SEVERAL GROUPS - LANGUAGE GROUPS HERE, PRESENT. 41:14 PAUL PREACHES TO THEM ABOUT JESUS, LAYS HANDS ON THEM, AND 41:17 THEY'RE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 41:19 YOU'LL OFTEN SEE THAT IT HAPPENS IN THAT SEQUENCE. 41:23 NOW, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BAPTIZED? 41:26 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT AND I PROBABLY SHOULD 41:28 HAVE STOPPED EARLIER AND SAID, 'WHAT IS BAPTIZE?' 41:31 WHAT DOES THE WORD 'BAPTIZE' MEAN? 41:33 >>IMMERSE. >>COME ON, YOU'RE - 41:35 YOU'RE GOOD PROTESTANTS. BAPTISTS UNDERSTAND BAPTISM. 41:42 WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES THAT UNDERSTAND THAT. IT MEANS 'TO 41:45 DIP; TO SUBMERGE; TO IMMERSE' BAPTIZO - YOU CAN SAY THAT WORD. 41:50 IT'S GREEK BUT YOU CAN SAY IT, BAPTIZO - IT MEANS 'TO SATURATE; 41:53 TO IMMERSE; TO PLUNGE UNDER' - SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT 'BAPTIZED 41:58 IN THE HOLY SPIRIT' - IT'S NOT A SPRINKLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 42:04 DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT BRING CONVICTION? 42:07 >>YES. >>SO BEFORE A PERSON'S EVEN 42:09 CONVERTED, ISN'T THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN THEIR LIFE? 42:12 >>AMEN. >>TO CONVICT THEM OF SIN? 42:14 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN GUIDE AND COMFORT. 42:19 GOD'S SPIRIT WORKS IN PEOPLE IN VARYING DEGREES. 42:21 WE'RE TALKING HERE ABOUT THE FULLNESS - WHERE YOUR CUP 42:24 OVERFLOWS WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE YOU ARE SUBMERGED IN THE 42:27 SPIRIT. SO YES, IT COMES IN DIFFERENT DEGREES. 42:31 AND, AGAIN, I'VE BEEN READING YOU DIFFERENT VERSES. 42:33 HERE'S ONE FROM MATTHEW 3:11, JOHN SAID, "I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU 42:37 WITH WATER...BUT HE WHO IS COMING AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN 42:42 I, WHOSE SANDALS I AM NOT WORTHY TO CARRY. 42:44 HE WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE." 42:47 NOW WHAT DOES WATER DO? >>SOAKS. 42:52 >>CLEANS. DO YOU USE WATER TO CLEAN? 42:57 WHAT DOES FIRE DO? YOU EVER BOIL WATER? 43:02 TO PURIFY? DOES FIRE CLEAN? IT DOES. FARMERS UNDERSTOOD THAT. 43:07 THEY'D CLEAN THINGS - THEY'D PURGE THINGS WITH FIRE. 43:12 SO THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN DIFFERENT DEGREES. 43:15 THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED ON THE DISCIPLES IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 - 43:19 SO WAS THAT THE LAST TIME THE DISCIPLES RECEIVED THE HOLY 43:22 SPIRIT? NO? YOU GO TO CHAPTER 4 OF ACTS IT 43:26 SAYS THEY PRAYED AND THE PLACE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED WAS SHAKEN 43:28 AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND 43:30 THEY SPOKE IN TONGUES. NO, IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. 43:34 IT DOES SAY THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY 43:36 SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD. THEY DIDN'T NEED TONGUES THEN 43:40 BECAUSE EVERYONE THERE SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE. 43:43 SO, HE'S - THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE PURPOSE 43:46 OF SPEAKING THE WORD OF GOD. BUT, DO YOU NOTICE, THE 43:49 DISCIPLES WERE FILLED AT PENTECOST, BUT IT WASN'T THE 43:51 ONLY TIME THEY WERE FILLED. SO, THERE CAN BE DIFFERENT FILLINGS 43:56 OR BAPTISMS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEN YOU - WHEN YOU GET 44:04 MARRIED AND YOU PLEDGE YOUR LOVE TO YOUR SPOUSE, YOU MIGHT FEEL A 44:10 SURGE OF ROMANCE AND PASSION AND ADORATION, BUT IT MAY NOT ALWAYS 44:20 FEEL LIKE THAT. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T 44:23 LOVE THEM ANYMORE. AND WHEN GOD BAPTIZES YOU WITH 44:27 THE HOLY SPIRIT, IT IS THE SEALING OF A COVENANT. 44:30 YOU MAY NOT ALWAYS FEEL IT, BECAUSE WHEN GOD FILLS YOU WITH 44:34 THE SPIRIT, IT'S FOR A JOB YOU HAVE TO DO. 44:37 LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER - MAYBE A CRUDER EXAMPLE. 44:39 WHEN WAS SAMSON FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT? 44:43 WHEN THERE WAS A BATTLE TO FIGHT. 44:47 GOD DID NOT GIVE SAMSON SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH TO KILL A 44:51 THOUSAND MEN WHEN HE DIDN'T NEED TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN. 44:55 HE DIDN'T GIVE HIM STRENGTH TO KILL A LION WHEN HE DIDN'T NEED 44:57 TO KILL A LION. BUT IT SAYS, 'WHEN A LION 44:59 ROARED, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME ON HIM AND GAVE HIM THE 45:03 STRENGTH FOR THE BATTLE THAT DAY.' SO YOU MAY BE WALKING IN 45:08 THE SPIRIT NOW - I HOPE YOU ARE - AND GOD WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH 45:13 THE SPIRIT AS YOU NEED THE POWER TO DO THE WORK OF GOD. 45:17 WHATEVER YOUR GIFTS ARE, HE WILL EMPOWER YOU FOR AS THE NEED 45:20 COMES. SO THE DISCIPLES, IT CAME IN WAVES, AS THEY NEEDED IT. 45:25 THERE'S ANOTHER TIME WHEN PAUL WAS SPEAKING AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 45:29 CAME UPON HIM - WELL, LET ME SEE HERE, ACTS 9:17, "AND ANANIAS 45:40 WENT HIS WAY AND ENTERED THE HOUSE; AND LAYING HIS HANDS ON 45:42 HIM HE SAID, 'BROTHER SAUL, THE LORD JESUS, WHO APPEARED TO YOU 45:45 ON THE ROAD AS YOU CAME, HAS SENT ME THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE 45:48 YOUR SIGHT AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.'" WHY WAS PAUL 45:52 FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT? BECAUSE GOD SAID, 'I'M GOING 45:55 TO SEND YOU OUT PREACHING. AND THEN HE WAS 45:58 BAPTIZED AFTER THAT. YOU NOTICE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT 46:02 CAME TO PAUL AFTER HE SPENT DAYS PRAYING. 46:05 NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU WANT THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT? 46:08 HOW DO YOU GET IT? ACTS CHAPTER 2, 46:12 THE DISCIPLES WERE PRAYING. ACTS CHAPTER 4, WHEN THE PLACE 46:16 WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED WAS SHAKEN - DID YOU READ? 46:20 YOU GO AHEAD. IT'S YOUR - WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 46:23 HIM DO ACTS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 31 - HOW DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT COME? 46:29 >>"AND WHEN THEY HAD PRAYED, THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED 46:32 TOGETHER WAS SHAKEN; AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY 46:35 SPIRIT, AND THEY SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD WITH BOLDNESS." 46:39 >>NOW I ALREADY ALLUDED TO THIS, BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, WHEN 46:41 THEY PRAYED. ACTS 2, THEY PRAYED - HOLY SPIRIT. 46:45 ACTS 4, THEY PRAYED - HOLY SPIRIT. PAUL PRAYED - HE SPENT 46:49 THREE DAYS PRAYING - HOLY SPIRIT CAME. SO THE SPIRIT OF GOD COMES 46:54 IN RESPONSE TO PRAYER. WHAT ELSE BRINGS 46:55 THE HOLY SPIRIT? PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD. 46:59 ACTS 2:37, "NOW WHEN THEY HEARD THIS," - THE APOSTLES WERE 47:03 PREACHING - "THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART, AND SAID TO PETER AND 47:06 THE REST OF THE APOSTLES, 'MEN AND BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 47:09 THEN PETER SAID TO THEM, 'REPENT, AND LET EVERY ONE OF 47:12 YOU BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION 47:16 OF SINS; AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." 47:20 NOW, I BELIEVE THERE'S A DIFFERENCE HERE. 47:23 PAUL SAYS, AT PENTECOST, TO THE GENERAL CROWD THAT IS LISTENING, 47:27 'IF YOU REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND YOU ARE BAPTIZED, YOU ARE GOING 47:30 TO GET THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT.' IS THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT THE 47:33 SAME THING AS THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT? 47:36 I DON'T THINK SO. THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT IS AN 47:39 ALL-SATURATED FILLING OF THE SPIRIT. 47:42 THERE'S A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS GIVEN TO EVERY BELIEVER. 47:45 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE FORGIVEN WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED IN 47:49 WATER? >>BY FAITH. 47:51 >>BECAUSE GOD SAID SO. HE SAID, 'REPENT, BE BAPTIZED, 47:56 IF YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO CLEANSE 47:59 YOU FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.' HE SAID IT; I BELIEVE IT. 48:02 ISN'T THAT WHAT IT MEANS? RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH? 48:05 SO, HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU GET THE HOLY SPIRIT AT BAPTISM? 48:10 SAME WAY. HE SAID IT. YOU BELIEVE IT, YOU RECEIVE IT. 48:15 HOW DO YOU GET PEACE AFTER YOU'RE BAPTIZED? 48:16 BECAUSE GOD MADE A PROMISE THAT I'M FORGIVEN. 48:18 I BELIEVE HIS PROMISE; THAT BRINGS GREAT PEACE TO ME - THAT 48:21 MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN. I FEEL BETTER BECAUSE I BELIEVE. 48:26 YOU SEE, WE ALWAYS GET IT BACKWARDS. 48:28 WE WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING AND THEN WE START BELIEVING. 48:29 GOD SAYS, 'NO, YOU BELIEVE AND THEN YOU START TO FEEL 48:31 SOMETHING. SO, HOW DO YOU RECEIVE 48:35 THE HOLY SPIRIT? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE 48:36 BAPTISM - THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 48:39 GOD PROMISED; YOU BELIEVE IT, AND THEN YOU EXPERIENCE IT. 48:45 AND YOU WILL NEED IT, BECAUSE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 48:48 MAY BE FOR PROCLAMATION; THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO 48:51 LIVE THE LIFE. AFTER JESUS IS BAPTIZED, HE 48:55 GOES IN THE WILDERNESS AND HE'S TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. 48:57 WHY DOES JESUS NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT THERE? 49:00 TO PREACH OR TO WALK A VICTORIOUS WALK? 49:04 AND SO, THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT IS GIVEN TO EVERY BELIEVER SO 49:07 THAT YOU CAN LIVE THE LIFE. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 49:10 IS TO DO THE WORK IN A SPECIAL WAY. 49:13 NOW, I BELIEVE THAT MANY OF HIS HERE HAVE THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT 49:16 - I'D LIKE TO BELIEVE YOU ALL DO. 49:18 IT MIGHT BE PRESUMPTUOUS FOR ME TO SAY THAT, BUT I BELIEVE THAT 49:21 WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED AND YOU MAKE THAT DECISION, GOD GIVES 49:24 YOU THE GIFT AND THAT GIFT IS MANIFESTED DIFFERENT WAYS. 49:27 SO, I NEED TO MOVE ALONG HERE. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO 49:31 READ FOR ME 1 JOHN 2:4 - JUST A MOMENT, I'M GOING TO 49:34 FIRST READ ACTS 5:32. WHAT IS THE CONDITION FOR 49:38 RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT? OBEDIENCE. 49:42 ACTS 5:32, PETER SAYS, "AND WE ARE HIS WITNESSES TO THESE 49:46 THINGS, AND SO ALSO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN TO 49:52 THOSE WHO OBEY HIM." NOW, IS THAT A DEEP, MYSTICAL 49:55 THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT? >>NO. 49:57 >>"THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN TO THOSE THAT OBEY HIM." 49:59 OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND? 50:03 LET ME READ ANOTHER ONE, JOHN 14:15, JESUS SAID, 50:06 "IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." 50:09 EVERYONE KNOWS THAT PART - KEEP READING - GO THROUGH VERSE 17, 50:14 "AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER, 50:18 THAT HE MADE ABIDE WITH YOU" - FROM TIME TO TIME? 50:21 - "FOREVER - THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT 50:24 RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT NEITHER SEES HIM NOR KNOWS HIM; BUT YOU KNOW 50:28 HIM, FOR HE DWELLS WITH YOU AND WILL BE IN YOU." 50:30 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. 50:33 I WILL PRAY THE FATHER AND HE WILL SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT.' 50:35 NOTICE THE CONNECTION - KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS - BECAUSE GOD 50:37 DOESN'T WANT TO GIVE THAT POWER TO SOMEONE IN REBELLION BECAUSE 50:40 YOU'LL MISUSE THE POWER. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 50:43 >>IT'S A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. IT'S A PERSON OF THE SPIRIT. 50:47 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ 1 JOHN 2:4. 50:50 >>"HE WHO SAYS, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND DOES NOT KEEP HIS 50:54 COMMANDMENTS, IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM." 50:58 >>SO, DOES GOD GIVE THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE THAT 51:02 SAY, 'I DON'T INTEND TO BE FULLY SURRENDERED AND OBEY'? 51:07 HE WANTS US TO BE WILLING TO OBEY. 51:08 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT IF SOMEONE SLIPS AND FALLS OR THEY 51:11 MAKE A MISTAKE, THAT GOD WITHDRAWS THE SPIRIT 51:15 IMMEDIATELY? NO, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S TRUE. 51:18 FIRST OF ALL, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE THERE TO CONVICT. 51:20 DAVID SINNED IN A BIG WAY WITH BATHSHEBA AND HE SAID, 'TAKE NOT 51:25 YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME.' THE HOLY SPIRIT LED HIM TO 51:28 REPENTANCE WHERE HE SAID, 'I HAVE SINNED.' DID PETER HAVE THE 51:34 HOLY SPIRIT AFTER PENTECOST? >>YES. 51:37 >>DID PETER MAKE A MISTAKE IN SHOWING PARTIALITY TO THE JEWISH 51:41 BELIEVERS? DID PAUL HAVE TO REBUKE HIM FOR THAT? 51:43 AND THERE WERE PROBABLY OTHER THINGS AS, YOU KNOW, THINGS 51:45 RECORDED IN THE BIBLE. WAS PAUL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? DID 51:48 PAUL HAVE A SERIOUS ARGUMENT WITH BARNABAS ABOUT WHETHER OR 51:51 NOT MARK SHOULD GO ALONG? HERE THESE TWO APOSTLES ARE 51:54 READY TO SLUG IT OUT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AGREE. 51:57 THEY'RE GOING TO GO TALK TO OTHERS ABOUT THE LOVE OF JESUS 51:58 AND THEY CAN'T GET ALONG WITH EACH OTHER - THEY ARGUE ABOUT 52:01 MARK - AND THEN PAUL LATER SAYS HE WAS WRONG, THAT MARK - HE 52:06 SAYS, 'SEND MARK, HE'S PROFITABLE TO ME IN THE GOSPEL.' 52:11 AND SO, THEY WERE HUMAN, BUT THEY WALKED IN THE SPIRIT. 52:15 THEY KEPT SHORT ACCOUNTS WITH THE LORD WHEN THEY SINNED, THAT 52:18 THE SPIRIT WOULD CONVICT THEM AND THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY 52:20 REPENT. AND GOD SAYS HE WILL ABIDE WITH 52:24 YOU - THE SPIRIT ABIDES WITH YOU - BUT A WILLINGNESS TO OBEY. 52:29 1 JOHN 3:24, "NOW HE WHO KEEPS HIS COMMANDMENTS ABIDES IN HIM, 52:34 AND HE IN HIM. AND BY THIS WE KNOW THAT HE 52:37 ABIDES IN US, BY THE SPIRIT WHOM HE HAS GIVEN US." 52:42 A WILLINGNESS TO OBEY - THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS WE KNOW. 52:45 IF A PERSON SAYS, 'I'M SPIRIT FILLED' AND THEY'RE LIVING IN 52:47 REBELLION - PROBABLY NOT. AND THE REASON THAT GOD GIVES US 52:52 THE SPIRIT IS TO PROCLAIM THE WORD - FOR WITNESSING. 52:55 ACTS 1:8, "BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS 52:58 COME UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME". 53:02 LUKE 24:48, "AND YOU ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. 53:06 BEHOLD, I SEND THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU;" - HE SAYS, 53:09 'I'M GIVING YOU THE PROMISE SO YOU CAN BE MY WITNESSES.' 53:12 ALRIGHT, SELF-CENTERED LIVING VS. 53:14 CHRIST-CENTERED LIVING IS THE LAST SECTION HERE. 53:18 AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO READ WHAT IT SAYS IN GALATIANS 53:21 5:16, BECAUSE THIS IS SO CLEAR. 53:23 I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH VERSE 26, "I SAY THEN: WALK IN THE 53:27 SPIRIT, AND YOU SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH. 53:31 FOR THE FLESH LUSTS AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST 53:34 THE FLESH;" - THEY'RE NOT GETTING ALONG WITH EACH OTHER. 53:36 THEY'RE CONTRARY TO ONE ANOTHER. THERE'S AN ENMITY BETWEEN THE 53:41 SPIRIT AND THE FLESH - BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE 53:45 WORD AND THE WORLD. "BUT IF YOU ARE LED BY THE 53:49 SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW." - 53:50 YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE PENALTY OF THE LAW IF YOU'RE SPIRIT LED - 53:53 "NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE EVIDENT, WHICH ARE: ADULTERY, 53:57 FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LEWDNESS, IDOLATRY, SORCERY, 54:00 HATRED, CONTENTIONS, JEALOUSIES, OUTBURSTS OF WRATH, SELFISH 54:05 AMBITIONS, DISSENSIONS, HERESIES, ENVY, MURDERS, 54:08 DRUNKENNESS, REVELRIES, AND THE LIKE;" - HE SAYS THIS IS NOT AN 54:11 EXHAUSTIVE LIST - 'AND THINGS LIKE THIS' - "OF WHICH I TELL 54:14 YOU BEFOREHAND, JUST AS I ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT 54:17 THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF 54:20 GOD." - THERE'S TO BE AN OBEDIENCE IN 54:22 THE LIFE - "BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT" - BY CONTRAST - "IS 54:28 LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, 54:33 FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL." 54:35 - BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND YOU 54:38 LOOK IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13 AT THE DESCRIPTION OF LOVE, THERE'S A 54:42 LOT OF OVERLAP THERE WHERE PAUL DEFINES AND DESCRIBES LOVE - 54:48 "AND THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH ITS 54:51 PASSIONS AND DESIRES. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET 54:55 US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT. LET US NOT BECOME CONCEITED, 54:58 PROVOKING ONE ANOTHER, ENVYING ONE ANOTHER." 55:02 AND ONE LAST VERSE I'LL GIVE YOU HERE, AND THIS IS ROMANS 8:6, 55:07 "FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH, BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY 55:11 MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS 55:15 ENMITY AGAINST GOD; FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF 55:17 GOD, NOR INDEED CAN BE. SO THEN, THOSE WHO ARE IN 55:20 THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. BUT YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH BUT 55:23 IN THE SPIRIT, IF INDEED THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU. 55:27 NOW IF ANYONE DOES NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NOT 55:31 HIS." SO I CLOSE WHERE I STARTED. 55:34 IS BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT AN OPTION OR, AT LEAST HAVING 55:40 THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT? - IT'S NOT OPTIONAL, IT'S MANDATORY. 55:44 IT SAYS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, YOU'RE NONE OF 55:46 HIS. WE NEED TO PRAY THAT WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 55:49 IT'S LIKE - IT SAYS THERE IN ZECHARIAH, 'I PRAY FOR RAIN IN 55:53 THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND THE LORD'LL SEND FLASHING 55:55 CLOUDS.' WE NEED TO BE ASKING FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT 55:58 IN OUR DAY, AMEN? >>AMEN. 56:01 >>I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS, IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO GET OUR 56:04 FREE OFFER, THERE'S A BIG CONNECTION BETWEEN BAPTISM IN 56:08 THE SPIRIT AND WHAT PEOPLE OFTEN MISUNDERSTAND ABOUT TONGUES. 56:11 WE'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU THIS BOOK THAT HELPS CLEAR IT UP. 56:13 IT'S CALLED UNDERSTANDING TONGUES - THAT MEANS 56:16 UNDERSTANDING THE SUBJECT OF TONGUES. 56:17 IT'S OFFER #145 - CALL AND ASK FOR THAT OFFER. 56:22 IT'S - THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 56:27 866-STUDY-MORE. YOU CAN EVEN READ IT FOR 56:29 FREE ONLINE IF YOU'D LIKE. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE LOOK 56:33 FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 56:36 (MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, WOULD YOU WIN SOULS IF YOU COULD? 56:42 WELL, YOU CAN. 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YOU'LL BE SURPRISED; THERE ARE 57:30 PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S 57:32 HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS. 57:35 JESUS SAID, 'THE HARVEST IS TRULY GREAT, BUT THE LABORERS 57:38 ARE FEW. SO PRAY THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST WILL SEND 57:42 LABORERS OUT INTO HIS HARVEST.' YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM. 57:46 SO I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO JOIN US AND BE PRAYING FOR THE 57:49 UPCOMING PROPHECY ENCOUNTER MEETINGS. 57:51 FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK OUT WWW.PROPHECYENCOUNTER.COM AND 57:57 WHO KNOWS, YOU MIGHT BE REVIVED IN THE PROCESS. (MUSIC) 58:07 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT 58:09 AFBOOKSTORE.COM. 58:12 (MUSIC) |
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