 Okay, so Salatoli's question, what about those who are not baptized in the Holy Spirit? Okay, I think there are a couple of questions, right? One of the questions, first question is, what's the difference between John's baptism and baptism of the Holy Spirit? So John, John's ministry, John the Baptist ministry was to point to Jesus, that was one of the things. He also preached baptism of repentance, right? He announced that the kingdom of God is at hand. He announced that they should repent from all the things that they were wrongfully indulged in, you know, indulging in, like, if you look at John chapter one, I think John chapter one and verses, yeah, verses 19 onwards talks about, you know, what he was doing. People are asking him, right, about his identity, who are you? He says, I'm not the Christ. And then are you prophet Elijah? They say no. He says no. And then he says, you know, this is the one I'm, make straight the way of the Lord. So he's preparing the people and, you know, kind of leading them to repentance. If you look at, I think Luke chapter one, or is it Luke chapter three, I looked at Luke chapter three. He talks about, you know, if you have two tunics, give to one looked up to three and verse 11. So, you know, he was asking them, he was telling them what they should not do, you know, about even tax collectors, tax collectors came and asked him, you know, teacher, what shall we do? Collect no more than what is appointed for you as 13 verse 14, and so on. So, so he, he was actually, you know, teaching this and the baptism that he did was in water. And so people would repent, you know, as a symbol, as a sign of their repentance that's saying that, okay, I no more, I don't want to live this sinful life. So it was, you know, something that the Lord Jesus also, you know, talked about and said, you know, you go preach the gospel baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. So, but John the Baptist did this, and so how different is it from the baptism of the Holy Spirit? I think we've seen it, right? We see that baptism of the Holy Spirit is about the Holy Spirit filling in, falling upon, being poured upon, and on a believer, filling that person with power, and, you know, we see some supernatural gifts released and expressed, the Holy Spirit expressing Himself through the believer in these ways, right? So that is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And that's how different it is from John's baptism, right? I hope that answers, you know, Zalitoli, the first question. Yeah. Right. And the second one is what about those who are not baptized in the Holy Spirit? Will they flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit like healing, words of knowledge, wisdom, etc.? Well, God can definitely, you know, move through, but we see that this is the biblical pattern that we see, you know, this is the biblical pattern that goes, they were filled with the Spirit and the Spirit enabled them and expressed Himself himself through them in these manners. In a believer, you know, can God speak or work through a believer? I believe it is possible, right? Work through a believer, maybe, you know, speak to a believer, give a prophetic word. Well, it is possible, but this is the biblical pattern, you know, there could be exceptions. You know, I've heard of people saying, you know, God, you know, speaks in these ways. But this is the biblical pattern. And also we must understand that, you know, like we see in Paul's case, you know, we don't see anything supernatural mentioned there, you know, but he was baptized in the Spirit. It says that he rose up and he was baptized. So, you know, when we, it could be something very simple as that, you know, as a person, you know, maybe not, you know, experiencing anything, but they are filled with the Spirit and eventually they, you know, start praying in tongues or the other gifts of the Spirit, you know, as they desire and cooperate with the Spirit. That's very important as well. So that is also possible. So the thing is, maybe, you know, your question, I kind of understand, you know, maybe that person feels that, okay, I didn't experience anything, you know, but I, but these gifts are being manifested, but I didn't experience anything. So that is possible, you know, people being filled and physically, you know, they didn't experience anything, but they are filled with the Spirit, right, because these, the Lord Jesus is the one who baptizes and we receive the baptism by faith, okay. So in simple obedience, we just believe and we receive and that's it, right. But it is available for everyone. These gifts are available for everyone. So we can desire and expect and there's nothing weird about these gifts. It's from God. So we know that he will not give us something that is harmful for us. You know, when we ask for a bread, we will not give a stone, you know, ask for a fish, he will not give us coffee and not a serpent. He's a good father. He gives good gifts, something that benefits us, builds us up and benefits the church, right. Okay. Does that help? Okay. Awesome. Okay. Any, any other questions based on what we've seen till now, what we've learned till now, any other questions? Okay. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. I just project this. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I just wanted to ask regarding the filling of the Holy Spirit as we were discussing, is it always followed by speaking in tongues or like it is just for those three instances as you have mentioned? Yeah. So we see the pattern, like in all five, we see that there was something, you know, with regard to tongues, we see at least in four cases, we can say for sure that, you know, there were tongues and of course in some area, we don't, we know, we don't know what happened supernaturally, but it was something supernatural. So we can infer that they ended up, you know, tongues was something which was common to all five. Now, let's say in today's, you know, let's say today's scenario, some as a believer and, you know, be a ministering to that believer and saying, okay, you know, this is something that God has for you, right? So would the person all, you know, pray in tongues then and there will maybe, maybe not, you know, sometimes there could be certain things, maybe certain, certain blockages, you know, sometimes, or maybe sometimes that person doesn't desire at all, or it could be another manifestation, it could be prophecy that happens first, right? The person begins to see something, you know, visualize or hear something. You know, vision or a word, word of knowledge that comes and person shares that. So that is possible as well, right? But the thing is, we need to, the reason I'm answering in this manner is that, you know, tongues is available for everyone. Not everyone, you know, begins to speak in tongues, but when we see in the Bible, we see that, you know, 90% or 95% we see clearly mentioned that, you know, tongues, it did happen, right? So there's no reason why we should not follow that same pattern or minister in that pattern, but we, you know, we need to also, you know, not make people feel guilty or condemn them if they're not praying in tongues, you know, they're not like second class believers just because, you know, they didn't start praying in tongues, you know, the God, they are, they are, you know, as valuable to them to God as another person who's not praying in tongues. So, so that's, you know, that's the thing. But there's no reason why a person should not desire and, you know, begin to speak in tongues when they're filled with the spirit. Yeah. So that's the thing. Yeah. Like, yeah, personally, I think when I look at my life, you know, I was filled in the spirit and I experienced the power of God, super naturally our God. And but I went on just worshiping him and that just me and another believer, we were just in prayer and we went and we just went on worshiping over and over and I think that went on for about, I don't know, two hours or three hours, just went on worshiping and, you know, singing and a lot of tears crying and confessing and so on. So I believe that that was something different, you know, I know that I was filled with the spirit of God experienced God in a powerful way, but I didn't really start praying in tongues then praying in tongues came much later when somebody actually taught from scripture saying, Hey, it's for you because still then I thought it's for everyone and everyone else and not me, you know, I wasn't against the idea of praying in tongues because a lot of my friends did pray in tongues. So it wasn't something that was, you know, that was afraid of or I didn't want to do anything like that, but I didn't really desire. And so we know that, you know, Paul talks about us desiring, expecting and and eventually walking, but we see, you know, like Cornelius is saying, sovereignly, the spirit of God being poured out and then people, you know, with that sense of expectancy, because they were all there waiting to hear, okay, we want to hear about God. He was there with that sense of expectancy, I want God, I want whatever God has for me and they were filled and they started praying in tongues. Same with the believers also, the disciples also 120, you know, they were in one accord, in prayer, desiring God, expecting, you know, for desiring or hungering after him and we see this happening. So yeah, that expectancy needs to be there. Okay, right. Okay, you know, if there are more questions, you know, you can always put it in that link, right? And I think a lot of questions are being answered, what we see in that link. But we will take some time to answer those as well, specifically, you can always put that. Okay. So about indwelling and baptism, you know, so we know that when a person receives the Lord Jesus, he or she, you know, the Holy Spirit comes and indwells, you know, there's no question about that, right? There's no question about that. We are able to call him our father, you know, able to, you know, when we are born again, we are able to call it's by the work of the Holy Spirit comes and indwells us. And we see some scriptures pointing to that, like, let's say Galatians four and verse six, and because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of a son into your hearts, crying out about father. Okay. So it's by the spirit that we cry out about father. It's by the spirit that we know that, you know, we have the sensitivity, that conviction, the sin and so on. It's by the spirit of God. Another verse would be Ephesians. Also, if you look at Ephesians chapter one, verse 13, 14, right, in whom you also trusted after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Okay. So Holy Spirit, you know, this seal, meaning it's like a signatory and an official seal of ownership. You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Verse 14, who's the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased position to the praise of his glory? Now that word guarantee means earnest or initial deposit, right? And like how we purchase something in EMI, you know, and you finish paying that EMI and then you get the full, I mean, you already have that, but then you become, you own it fully only when you, you know, finish that full payment. So here is like that initial deposit, Holy Spirit's presence in dwelling presence in us that, and then there will be the redemption, complete redemption of the purchase position, you know, there will be, we will receive glorified bodies and that's the completion of that whole salvation process, the redemption, right? So, so, so the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, what is difference, right? The Holy Spirit indwells us. And, but the thing is in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he is upon us, he fills us and just going down to, yeah, John chapter four and verse, so he fills us and so that we can be witnesses and he can display his power through us and it can be a blessing for others as well. Now the Lord Jesus, he explains that, you know, in John chapter four, in the conversation with the woman at the well, we see this John chapter four, 13 and 14, Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, referring to the well, the physical water, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life. Okay, so he's referring to this water, being in the believer like a fountain and springing up into everlasting life, producing everlasting life. John chapter seven, verse 37, on the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink, he who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow the rivers of living water. Okay, there in John chapter four, verse 14, it's talking about a fountain of water. Okay, the material, you know, we see it's the same. The way it ministers is different. There's a fountain and springing up to everlasting life and that person will never thirst again. Right. John chapter seven, he says that out of his heart will flow rivers of living water, but this he spoke concerning the spirit was 39, whom those believing in him would receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. You see the pattern, right? So Jesus glorified, you know, from dying on the cross, buried, rising again, being glorified and ascending and then the Holy Spirit will come, being poured out, people who receive and he will flow out like river and then we know what happens to a natural river. Natural river brings life and it's a blessing to those around civilization spring up wherever the river flows, agriculture and so on. So the the Lord Jesus is talking about the fountain as well as the as well as the river. Okay, so the difference is this that the river flowing out of the believer is the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, touching other people, ministering to other people. So the purpose we see is different indwelling presence. It's the truth, baptism again. It's very equally true, different purpose and different measure. We know the measure of water through a fountain and we know it's different from the measure of water just flows out of a river and it is the same Holy Spirit. There's a different measure and there's a different purpose. Okay, okay, you can actually go through. There are some other questions, you know, what about 1 Corinthians 12, you know? He's talking about baptism into the spiritual body, right? Because sometimes these questions come, you know, didn't we all already receive the Holy Spirit? You know, why is there a need for another, you know, account or another encounter in this manner? Well, the Bible says so the early church preached, they taught it and they led people, prayed and ministered to people to receive that, the early church taught that. Plus, the Lord Jesus Himself, you know, taught about that, about the fountain, about the river, so different means and different purposes, so we see that. So there could be, you know, questions of that nature. You know, what about us being baptized into the body? 1 Corinthians 12 talks about that. So there Paul specifically says that we are placed in the spiritual body of Christ. When we believe in Christ, we are placed in the spiritual body of Christ, okay? So, yeah, Zalitoli asked about baptism of John. So, you know, there could be three baptisms. One is baptism into the body of, spiritual body of Christ. We are placed, baptized, and the reference is 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 13. Then baptism in water, right? You believe, you repent, you believe, and you're baptized in water, and it symbolizes being dead to yourself and being alive in Christ. You know, you are buried in sin, and you are erased again to life, newness of life, and you identify with the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, what we see in Romans chapter 6, right? Then Holy Spirit baptism, which is the work of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit being, filling the believer, clothing the believer with power, and expressing himself through the believer in the signs, wonders, and miracles, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So, you see, we see these differences, okay? So, you know, Zalitoli asked the question, right? Should there be tongues every time? Well, the thing is, we see that's a common recurrence, and we, let's study some more. He learned some more about this gift of tongues, and there's another publication, which is Wonderful Benefit of Speaking in Tongues, which you could download, which talks about the tongues, right? Okay, then the other question could be, you know, is that the only evidence? Okay, I think that's something that we would ask, no? Like, how do I know, okay, is a person filled with the Spirit? Now, here, this person is not speaking. This person is speaking. There are two people here. Now, can I say that one is filled, the other one is not? Well, we can't make that thing, but we also do know that a strong evidence to suggest that, from what we saw, you know, all these instances in the Book of Acts, that praying in Tongues is one of the initial, initial gifts, right? The common gift that is released through the Holy Spirit, released by the Holy Spirit in a believer, right? So it is an evidence, yes, but at the same time, we also know that there could be other gifts as well, right? So when we minister, we just ask the believer to say, okay, in what other words, what other ways is the Holy Spirit leading? Is He showing you something? Is He speaking to you something? Is any scripture being quickened? Is He showing you any picture, anything visual? Is the Holy Spirit prompting you? Is there a conviction of something? So in many ways, right? But we also encourage the believer to speak out what are the words and what is that utterance that the Holy Spirit is putting in your heart, you speak it out in faith. And what would be helpful is to, I think this happened the other day in the second year classroom, like we were talking about, I think it was at the beginning of the class, we were just talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit for some reason and say, for those of you who are not received, why don't you just go ahead and pray in tongues? Why don't you just go ahead and speak in tongues? And what is helpful is to understand that, these are words are sounds, words are sounds, and you think of it that way. The here is a drawing of the Holy Spirit, a prompting of the Holy Spirit to make a certain, or speak a certain word, in other words, it is a sound. You pronounce or you give voice to a sound. Because it's an unknown language. It could be a language of the earth, or a known language of people, or it could be a heavenly language. So go ahead and make that, whatever the prompting is, go ahead and speak it out, or even sing it out. So one person started praying in tongues for the first time, we just started speaking and then just came as a flow and then of course, mics were on mute, so he testified later saying that, yes, for the first time I started praying in tongues. So it's a thing. This is open, this is for all believers, tongues are an evidence. So there's no reason why we should not encourage ourselves or others to receive, as we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. For God to lead us in that as well. And we see that we need to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not going to force. He's not going to force it upon us. He's not going to take control of our minds and of our will. That is, he's given it to us. We are free moral agents that the choice is asked to make. But when you sense that he's putting in these words in your heart, you speak it out in your spirit. You sense these sounds in your spirit, you speak it out. Now that's the way to do it. Any questions? Okay, I thought I heard some. Somebody's mic being unmuted. Okay, I think that's Isaac. Okay, let's just continue. Okay, here are some more questions. Okay, do I have to tarry or do I have to wait to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Okay, so now, because we read in the Lord Jesus said, you know, you wait, you tarry in Jerusalem till you are filled with power. Okay, so should we tarry, you know? So, you know, in the church, there are the traditions of tarrying in prayer, right? Waiting and believing God will do it, but then not immediately, right? So we need to wait and maybe a week or three days or week or whatever. And then, you know, that kind of belief was there in the church. We need to wait, we need to tarry. Well, the thing is, the Lord can do it immediately, right? And the Lord did it immediately in all the instances that we saw there. We see in Samaria, we see in Saul, we see in Paul ministering to the 12 disciples at Ephesus. So we see that it happens immediately, right? We see it happening immediately. So there's no reason why it should not happen immediately. So we can believe God. We don't have to tarry and wait and so on that. And the tarrying is, you know, for the disciples. And it happened on the day of Pentecost, right? So they had gathered for the feast, for the harvest festival and it happened on the day of Pentecost. So that was the reason why Jesus said, you wait and not many days from now, you will be filled, accept the one. He says that. The other question could be, you know, do I need to have hands laid on me? Okay, should somebody lay hands on me and pray so that I receive the Holy Spirit, let's receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and pray and tongues and so on. Well, we see Peter and John laying hands. We see Ananias laying hands. We see Paul laying hands and praying. But we also see Peter just preaching and right before him, there's a sovereign more of God. The Holy Spirit fills the people and they start praying in tongues. So we know that both can happen, okay? Like laying off hands. Well, if there are, there's no one to lay hands and you're just alone in your room, you can just pray, believe God, to fill you with the Holy Spirit and you can by faith begin to start praying in tongues as well, just on your own, right? So it is possible. For me, that's how it happened. Like a friend prayed once and he taught us and then he prayed and nothing happened. But then I was actually riding my bike. I was working with this company. I was going to visit a client. I was riding the bike in Bangalore traffic and I don't remember the exact route also. It was a road called Cabin Road and I was going there and right there in traffic, I started praying in tongues. I was wearing a full mask helmet and so on. So, well, you don't need to have hands laid on. You don't need to have people singing hallelujah, hallelujah. You don't need to have any of that. It's just you believing, you don't need to be in church. You can be at home. You can be in the kitchen. You can be anywhere. The Lord will fill you and you can begin to start praying in tongues. Okay. Then the other question is, do I need to be baptized in water? What is the order? I believe, repent, I believe, get baptized in water and then be baptized by the Holy Spirit. Is that the order? Because I'm not baptized in water, can I be baptized in the Holy Spirit? Well, the thing is we see in the case of Saul, we see in the case of Peter ministering in Cornelius house. In both these cases, it was all altar. We see that they believed, they started praying in tongues and then Peter saying, why should I forbid water? So that can happen also. So there's no set pattern. Right? Yeah. Okay. Does tongues always have to be understood? Okay. Now we're going with little more details about the gift of tongues. We will study in detail when we look at gift of tongues. But just to answer this, you know, there is the gift of, when it comes to the gift of tongues, there is the known language or, you know, in a sense, the person praying in tongues does not know the language. But it is a language that is already in use on the earth. For example, it could be like, like me speaking, let's say Nepali or me speaking in Nagamese. Now I know that's a language, which is, yeah, so Avadesh, yes, right, laying on our hands by the pastor. Wonderful. Yeah. So there are known, you know, that I know that that's a language already used by people, but I don't know the language. I've not learned the language. And so, you know, if I start speaking in Nagamese, now that would be, that would be it, right? That would be a language that I'm speaking on the earth, but which is already on the earth, but I don't understand it. Okay. So I don't understand it. So the thing is that when we see an acceptor too, we see that in the reactions, you see that they were all saying, hey, they are speaking in our language. They're talking about the wonderful works of God. So they were earthly languages. But also in the same passage, you see that some were saying that, you know, they are drunk. They are drunk. They are mocking them. Okay. And we also see in 1 Corinthians 13. Okay. So maybe you can turn there. 1 Corinthians 13 and verse one, Paul says, though I speak with tongues of men and of angels. Okay. So what is he saying? Here we know that he's actually talking about the gifts, gifts of the spirit. Okay. In Acts chapter 13, he's not talking about love, though he's going to talk about love, but it's in the context of the use of the spiritual gifts. Okay. We should always understand that because many times we see 1 Corinthians 13 being read out, being preached on in weddings, you know, most of the times, right? In weddings. And then we realize, okay, this is a chapter on love. Yes, it is. But the context is about the use of gifts. Okay. How a believer, how the church should have love in ministering the gifts. Okay. So, so yeah, he says, though I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have becoming, I have become sounding brass or a clanging symbol. Okay. So he's talking about tongues of men, earthly language, tongues of angels, heavenly language. Okay. So it is possible that I could be speaking in earthly language or I could speak in heavenly language. And Paul also says, you know, when I speak in a tongue, my understanding is unfruitful. Okay. Where does he say that? He says, sorry, yeah, let me just look at that verse. Yeah. One Corinthians 14 and verse 14. Okay. One Corinthians 14 and verse 14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. So Paul is saying, you know, I pray in tongues, but you know, I don't understand it. Okay. But there is something that is happening that is edification. Okay. So you don't understand. So which means that it's a heavenly language. Okay. So it is possible. So many times we say, you know, I need to understand what I'm praying. Yes. The Holy Spirit will give you interpretation. And that is called the gift of interpretation of tongues, you know, whether for the tongues that we speak ourselves, or maybe for, you know, someone else who maybe he gives an utterance in tongues and then there is the interpretation. Okay. So that's the thing. Okay. Now we need to understand that there are varieties of tongues, different kinds of tongues. And we will be learning about this. You know, I just want to mention it. Tongues for personal prayer. Right. Which means that I pray in tongues and I'm being built up edified. One Corinthians 14. And it says verse two. It says, Okay. Verse four. So in our personal prayer time, you just praying and you do that. Okay. Then we see tongues for interpretation. Okay. Again, we see this in chapter 14 and verse 15. He says, you know, I will pray with the spirit. I will also pray with, sorry, not chapter verse five. Sorry. I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied. But he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets that the church may receive edification. So there is the tongues for interpretation. Right. So I pray in tongues and I give an utterance in tongues. I, you know, let's say I, right now I speak in tongues. Okay. And there is the interpretation. Okay. There's into following the, you know, the, maybe a couple of sentences in tongues. There is the interpretation. And I speak and I interpret that in English and saying this is what God says. You know, and that, you know, sometimes prophecy works that way and prayer, you know, tongues intercession also. So there are different kinds of tongues. Tongues as a sign to the unbeliever. Right. That like we saw in Acts chapter two, they all prayed. They all spoke with tongues. They were other Jews who were there from different language, you know, speaking different languages. They understood suddenly, oh, this, this is my own language. And they are talking about the wonderful works of God. And they're all Galileans. And then they draw near Peter praise. And they, and they get saved. Right. As a sign for the unbeliever that something is, you know, supernatural and it draws them to God. Okay. Okay. So here's another question. Did Jesus speak with other tongues? Okay. So Jesus is our example. But did Jesus speak in tongues? Now, the thing is we, we don't see a direct reference. We don't see a reference saying that, you know, Jesus spoke in tongues. We don't see that. But we see him manifesting the other gifts. Okay. But we do see that, you know, that portion that we saw this morning in our mentoring session in Hebrews, which I think John referred to. Which one was it? John Hebrews five is it? Five seven. Yeah. Five seven, right? Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death and was hurt because of his godly fear. So it talks about how Jesus prayed with vehement cries and tears. And so with groanings, vehement cries and tears he prayed. So that's all we see about the description of how he prayed. So we don't know. And but we know that God manifested, you know, the signs and wonders and miracles, everything. You know, we see in Hebrews two, which says that how can we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Hebrews two and verse three. How can we neglect so great a salvation? Which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him. He's spoken by the Lord, confirmed to us those who heard him. God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders, various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will. Okay. So applicable to the Lord ministering, applicable to the disciples. Ministering as well. Okay. Now, there are other questions. Can the devil understand when we speak in tongues, et cetera? You can you can look it up. You know, you can go through it. But I just want to move to this section on, you know, to pray and to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit, to pray and receive. So first thing that we need to understand is not, it's not the pastor. It's not the brother, sister, who's laying hands and praying, who is, you know, giving, you know, in a way giving these gifts, whatever. It is the Lord Jesus who baptizes us. Yes, he will use a human vessel, a human agent or a servant. But it is the Lord Jesus who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. Okay. John was very clear. He said, there's coming after me. One was greater than me. Who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire? The Lord Jesus himself said, you wait and you will be endured with power from on high. So it is the Lord Jesus who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. Right. So we, whom do we look to? Whom do we ask? Whom do we put our faith in? In the Lord Jesus. So when we ask him and when we pray to him, he pours out, he baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the gifts. Right. So that is something that is central. That is something that we put our faith in. And this is a rock solid foundation. Okay. It is the Lord Jesus who is the baptizer. And so we look to him. Okay. Second thing, and you know, you are a believer. Right. You believe in the Lord Jesus and you are praying to him. And as he pours out his spirit, you can pray in tongues. Now, you know, I prayed in tongues many years after I got filled the spirit. Right. Many years because I didn't really venture out in faith. I had a, I did not have the understanding. Right. So it is many years. I think maybe even eight years after I became a believer that I started praying in tongues, but it need not be so for others. Right. So as a believer, you're a candidate for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And you are a candidate for the release of the gifts, which gives, which belong to the Holy Spirit because he comes and he indwells and he baptizes. So you can pray with other tongues as well. And you know, in Mark chapter 16, the Lord Jesus commissioning, the disciples, we see in Matthew 28 as well, in Mark 16, specifically about, you know, these signs shall follow then that belief. In my name, they will cast out demons, the divils. They shall speak with new tongues. So what is the candidate? What is the qualification? Those who believe. That's the only thing. It's not like so many years of experience. Or you know, so many good things. Or so much of knowledge of scripture. Nothing at all. It says, these signs will follow those who believe. Right. That's the only thing. Believe in who? Believe in the Lord Jesus. Right. Received in us. Lord and Savior. So it involves taking that step of faith. Okay. It's a gift. So we receive. There's no performance. It's a gift, free gift. So we receive by faith. Okay. In fact, Paul, when he's writing to the Galatian church, he in fact rebukes them. He says, in several things, you know, you've started in the spirit. Now we want to, you know, continue on in the flesh and so on. And here, you know, Galatians 313 says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. Now, the reason he redeemed us is that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Okay. The promise of the Spirit. Right. The promise of the Father. The gift of the Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit. You know, one and the same. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit. And what does it require? Faith. That you believe. Right. So sometimes people have fear because they have seen, you know, maybe certain, I don't know, certain people behaving in a strange way, weird way. So they, you know, they, right from childhood, there's a fear. You know, I don't want that. Right. But then we need to understand to whom are we praying and who is the one who baptizes? Who is the one who blesses? It's the Lord Jesus. No one else. Right. So we did not have any fear. Right. Sometimes we'll have fear. You know, like I think I shared once, right. There's this friend of ours who, who believe that, okay, what if what I'm praying is not of, you know, the Holy Spirit, but of the evil spirit? Fears like that. Well, we are asking the Lord to fill us. And he's the one who baptizes. He's the one with all the authority. So, you know, he will not make a mistake. The Holy Spirit, evil spirit. Yes, can there be counterfeit? Yeah, of course. But for the ones who are being controlled by the evil spirit or given themselves to the Holy, to the evil spirit, they are the ones who manifest in these kind of counterfeits. Right. The, you know, speaking in tongues as controlled by the evil spirit. So we don't have to worry about that. Yeah. So we are asking the Lord. And yeah, the other thing is sometimes we plead and ask God, you know, big God, God, please do it, Lord, do it, Lord. You know, I'm just asking you, begging you, please, I will be a good boy. I'll be a good God. You know, we don't have to convince God. We don't have to, you know, plead with him. We just have to thank him and, and believe and, and to see. Okay. Here's, we have a question from Isaac. Can someone be filled with the Holy Spirit? Without being baptized. Okay. So I guess you're talking about water baptism. If you're referring to that, yes, a person can be like we saw in the case of Cornelius's household, where believers were baptized in the Holy Spirit. They started praying in tongues and then Peter leads them to baptize them in water. Right. So yes, it is possible if you're referring to water baptism. Right. But otherwise, being the infilling of the Spirit, the baptism of the Spirit, you know, one and the same. We see that, you know, in Acts chapter two, referring to baptism being referred to as being filled with the Spirit. Okay. Okay. Then we see that the Holy Spirit gives the language, but we must speak. Like the other thing is that the Holy Spirit is the one who who gives us a language, who gives us the words, words we know are made of sounds and so we pray that out. Okay. A simple prayer is this. Okay. Here is something that we can pray. Dear Lord Jesus, I'm a believer. I ask you to baptize me with the Holy Spirit so that I can receive power to be a witness for you. Heavenly Father, I ask in Jesus' name, please pour out your Spirit on me as you promised you would do in the last days. By faith, I now receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is now upon me and all his gifts are resident with him in me. Thank you, Lord Jesus. And because I'm a believer, I now speak with new tongues as the Spirit gives me the ability. I expect the flow of all other gifts of the Spirit through my life. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Welcome, Holy Spirit. A simple prayer that you can pray in the quietness of wherever you are and begin to pray in tongues. So, okay. We'll stop here and I just want, you know, us to pray for a moment. And for those of us who have not yet started praying in tongues, you know, take that step of faith, right? Even as we pray and ask the Lord to fill us with the Spirit, to baptize us with the Holy Spirit. For those of us who are not yet, you know, maybe you desire it and you've not yet started, you can take that step of faith and understand that you can speak only one language at a time, right? So, if you're praying in a known language or thanking God in a known language, you know, you're saying, thank you, Lord. Praise you. Like, give thanks. And it's a known language. I'm praying in English. So, you stop and the words that you are sensing in your heart, okay, in your Spirit, sounds that you're sensing in your Spirit. You know, there will be a stirring. There will be a sensing in your Spirit. Just like how we saw, you know, the Holy Spirit speaks to us in our Spirit. You give voice to that and loud enough so that you can hear, loud enough so that you can hear and you'll begin to pray other tongues. It's as simple as that. So, let's pray. I think we have, oh, we have already 10, 50. Okay, let's pray and then we'll, I'll just lead you in that prayer. Father God, I just thank you, God. We come before you now in faith and we call upon your name, Lord. Lord, you are the baptizer and so, Lord, I ask that you will baptize us with your Holy Spirit, each one of us with your Holy Spirit right now and may the gifts of the Spirit be released in us. And I just pray, God, that those who have not yet begun to start praying in tongues will begin to do so even as you give them utterance, Lord. We thank you. Fill us, Lord. Fill us, oh, God. We thank you, Lord Jesus. Now just begin to thank Him. And you might feel something. You may not feel anything. That's fine. Just go ahead and thank the Lord and say, Lord, I thank you for filling me with your Holy Spirit. I thank you, Lord, for filling me with your Holy Spirit. And for those of you who have not yet began to pray in tongues, maybe you can just take a step of faith and if it's possible, just take a step of faith and speak out, pray out in tongues as the words that you sense in your spirit, just speak it out. Sometimes it could be just one syllable. Just no problem. Speak it out. Babies start out by speaking in one syllable. So no problem. Right? Just speak out that syllable in faith. And then the language would continue to expand as you begin to pray in the spirit and continue in the Lord. Okay. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you for this time. In your word, in your presence, Lord, we thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So I'm sure you might have more questions. We'll catch up next class. Okay. Thank you. God bless. See you.