 If you ever think about it, when you just listen to people who tend to talk about this issue of baptism of the Holy Spirit, a lot of times you're going to, well, first of all, you're going to see a lot of disagreement. Let's just be clear about that. You're going to see a lot of disagreement. And there's two sides of the ledger. There are those that have a certain view about it on the charismatic Pentecostal side. And then you've got those that are on the non-charismatic Pentecostal side. It's not that everyone on the non-charismatic Pentecostal side are cessationist because this really isn't a issue of cessationism or continuationism. That's not really what it is. What this really is, honestly, when we look at it, this is an issue of salvation. This has everything to do with salvation because it's what is promised. We get into a real big hissy fit, a tissy, because of this term, baptism of the Holy Spirit. The problem is the Bible doesn't use that term an awful lot. It's used, baptized in the Holy Spirit. There are, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, then it's mentioned again in John. I'm sorry, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, then it's mentioned again in John. Just a little bit of a difference. And then we see it again in Acts. The question is, though, when we look at it, it really doesn't say a whole lot as we're looking into it, what it is. So the question's got to be, what is this baptism of the Holy Spirit? No, it is opposition. Thank you so much for the super chat. As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and pull up a couple of passages. Let's go to John 1.30. This is where John is asked, why then do you come baptizing? And he says, just so, and he says, this is the reason why Jesus is being baptized. I didn't know him, but that, now he didn't mean that he didn't know who Jesus was because he's his cousin, but he didn't know. He wasn't totally sure. He wasn't fully sure. But the one who sent him, that is God, said that the one that you see, whom you baptize and the Spirit descended upon him like a dove, that's him. And so John gives this explanation as to why he baptizes. And then he makes a statement in John chapter one, verse 31. He says, I did not recognize him, but so that he might be manifested to Israel, I came baptizing in water. So now John is contrasting his baptism in water with this that Jesus is going to do. Now, he says in Matthew, Mark and Luke that I baptize you with water, but there's one who's coming after me, who was before me, who you will prefer before me, who's mightier than me. And he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit and fire. So there's a contrast between what John has done versus what Jesus is going to do. John's baptism is not a baptism that saves, but is it a baptism that shows that, listen, I've messed up, I want to change. It is a baptism of repentance showing that I have repent and I've changed my ways. But there's a problem with their baptism with John's baptism. John's baptism doesn't come with power. John's baptism comes kind of with a good idea, a good thought, but there's nothing internally to compel them, to keep them, to control them, to move them, are you with me? But then John compares that with or contrasts with Jesus' baptism, which is a baptism of the Holy Spirit. So let's pull it back up. He says John 32 says, first 32 says, testified saying I have seen the spirit descending as a dove out of heaven and remained upon him. Look what he says. I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, he upon whom you see the spirit descending and remaining upon him. This is the one who, look what he says, baptizes in the Holy Spirit. And so this word for in the Holy Spirit, look over to the right is An Numari, which is whenever you baptize something, and you all need to know this, the key identifying mark of every believer, and we're going to prove this, but the key identifying mark of every believer is the Holy Spirit. You are known as a Christian by having the Holy Spirit. If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you're not a Christian. We're going to look at that in a second, and that's part of the problem with some of the people's understanding or misunderstanding. And I've got two classic cases of misunderstanding I'll go to in just a second. But when you baptize something or dip something, the word this user, you all heard this before, we'll just go real quickly. The word baptiso means to dip or to emerge to put into something. And so the way this works, thank you, brother, renewed mind ministries. When you baptize something, for example, the example I use is if you baptize or dip a white cloth in red dye, then when you bring that white cloth out of the red dye, how does the white cloth look? Just like the red dye or with the qualities of what it was baptized or dipped into. The same as to be with us when we are baptized or dipped or immersed into the Holy Spirit. We are to come up with the qualities of the Holy Spirit. Perfectly, no. As long as we're on this planet, as long as we've got this flesh, we certainly will not have the exact same qualities or perfectly like the Holy Spirit. But there should be some resemblance to some degree of us with the Holy Spirit in us. Are you with me? Now the question is, oh, well, okay, Corey, so John baptizes in water. Jesus baptizes in the Holy Spirit. What does that mean? Jesus makes a statement. Jesus makes a statement. Let's go to it in John chapter. Here it is. John 20. John chapter 20, verse 22, Jesus makes a statement. Actually he says he commands something to happen. He states something's going to happen in John chapter 20, verse 22. He says when he said this, that is Jesus to the disciples, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. Now he did not give them the Holy Spirit at that time, okay? They did not receive the Holy Spirit at that time. This is a command, a forward looking to them receive the Holy Spirit. We know that because in Acts 1, Jesus sees them and what does he tell them? He says, and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Well, wait a second. If they had already been baptized in the Holy Spirit or received the Holy Spirit, then Jesus wouldn't tell them that you're going to receive the Holy Spirit. So it hadn't happened yet, but he's just telling them, looking forward that they are going to receive the Holy Spirit. And of course they do. Now here's the important part. Let's go back a little bit. Recall, Jesus tells them though, before Jesus is getting himself ready to die. He's getting himself ready to go on the cross and he's starting to prepare them and he tells them something. He says that the Holy Spirit, Mac the messenger, you had mentioned that it just started, brother. He said, when did they just, when did they start? It just started. He tells them that the Holy Spirit, the comforter is going to come. And when he comes, what is he going to do? This is why it is important to also understand kind of the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives and these spiritual gifts. Matter of fact, we got a little bit of time. We have a little bit of time. You know how I know we got a little bit of time? I know we got a little bit of time because some of you guys are Cowboys fans and you need something to take your mind off that wonderful game last night. And some of you guys are coach fans who are just relishing in the fact that my coats are back. That being stated, let me go ahead and drink a little bit while I go to the to the screen. This is very important. Looking forward to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, what the Holy Spirit is going to do in us. He says, when the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the father that is the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father, he will testify of me. Now it's very important that you understand this and we see this when we look at how spiritual gifts are used in the body of believers going forward. The spirit is going to testify. Now, it doesn't say exactly how the spirit is going to testify, but he's going to testify of one person. He's not going to testify of the spirit. The spirit is not going to testify of himself. He's not going to testify of a generic God because we see that right. We see people walking around saying, I love God and God bless you and God this and God that, OK, well, which God are you talking about? And do you mean it? But when you say that name, Jesus, as the song says something about the name of Jesus, it it it does something to you on the inside. It develops a fire for some people. It's a comforting fire for some people to burn like a figure trigger. Jesus, they want to break something. Well, that's what the Holy Spirit is going to do. He in you is going to want to testify of Jesus, meaning what he's done or what he's done in your life. So that's why I don't I don't say that it has to be a certain type of testifying or witnessing. Again, somebody's witness is different than the next person. Somebody might want to get out on the middle of the street, not the middle of the street, but on the corner and go to proclaiming. Hey, if that's how the spirit moves you, some folks might just pass a note off to somebody, pass a track off somebody, somebody's going through something and just kind of pray for you and mention to them what God has done. So reason why a lot of times we got a lot of issues in our lives, why God doesn't let everything bad pass because you need to have something one to build you to get you closer to him. But three also that you can have something in common with the person who's struggling so you can identify with him. Like we got a high priest who identifies with us as well. He didn't go through all the things. Jesus was never addicted to anything. And so he can't say, you know what, I know what it's like to struggle with lust or to struggle with alcohol addiction. No, but he understands he had these same physical frailties that we have as human beings. And so that's one of the reasons. But however you do it, there should be some sort of witness either as to what he's done in your life or just what he's done for everyone's life. So now that being stated, the Holy Spirit's ministry in you is to magnify Jesus. Are you with me? That's the Holy Spirit ministry in us. And Paul says for us to fulfill our ministry as he's speaking to Timothy to do fulfill our ministry, do your work as an evangelist. And so everything that you do is going to be evangelistic in nature. Are you with me? So he tells them to be his witnesses. Then it acts one. What does he do? Reiterates it again, but saying the Holy Spirit is going to come upon you. So that he's been telling them about about this Holy Spirit. And then I'm pretty sure they're not totally aware of how this is going to work. Because at that time, no one has ever had the Holy Spirit come upon them and to remain no one. Now there have been people who have the Holy Spirit on them for time, but never to remain and to fully indwell them, to be baptized into the Holy Spirit. Who's going to do that? Jesus. How so? By the profession of your faith. You are then Jesus puts you in the Holy Spirit. You receive the Holy Spirit. If you don't, well, then Jesus, you were not telling the truth. We weren't telling the truth, or at least your word wasn't telling the truth when it says that you will baptize us in the Holy Spirit. So some sort of way to be a believer. Jesus is going to immerse us in the Holy Spirit. Now, some folks dipping doesn't look like others. Some folk their walk after it like this person was just just born out of the Bible. Other people like he ain't getting it yet. She ain't really got it yet. She ain't always saved it. He ain't he ain't quite saved it, right? We that that happened. Some folks, they're they're demonstrable or they're their outward appearance in their walk. Summer like they look like they're up here, some like they're down here. But that's not for us to worry about. As long as they're moving in the same direction than praise God. So we don't know what it looks like. This baptism of the Holy Spirit looks like. Although Joel did say, gave the illusion, gave the gave the scriptures to say in Joel two that at some time in the future, God is going to pour out his spirit upon all flesh. And the word for all in the Hebrew is the same as Greek, but it doesn't mean all always everybody. No, it mean it can also mean each or every. And so in this case, each different type of people. It's always been God's desire. God's plan to bring in everybody, not everybody, period, but every type of person. OK, young, old, rich, poor, Jew and Gentile. And then those folks that are in between Jew and Gentile. We'll talk about them in a second. So let's go to acts. Did I put it up on the screen? Oh, there it is. There it is. I'm sorry. That's not it. Actually, I typed over. Let me let's type it in. I want the square and just read it. Acts one, eight, you already know it anyway. Probably you could probably quote it anyway. But let's put on the screen. He says, Jesus says to them, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And this is important. This is this is extremely important right here, guys. Mark this down. He says, you shall be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and even the remotest part of the earth. Now, keep that in mind. We'll come back to that. But I want to play our dear friend. Can't call him a brother, because honestly, I don't know. I it's hard to determine. And I have stayed in the past. I don't think that he is a brother, but I might be wrong. I don't I don't know that he actually is a Christian. There are people that are holding down the position of pastor who are not Christian. I'm probably in no, I know in no position to make that make that claim. But he just doesn't seem he didn't. He doesn't seem to have a clue, but I could be wrong. I could be wrong. And so, you know, you know, our professed brother, the one who claims to be our brother, that is Mike Todd. He is confused about the Holy Spirit. He's confused about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the feeling of the Holy Spirit. But in this case, he's speaking of he's kind of conflating the two. But he's really speaking upon the baptism of the Holy Spirit. How do you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit by faith? When everybody just put your hands out like you're getting ready to receive a gift, just close your eyes. Just black out everybody else right now. It doesn't matter who else is there. God has a gift for you. And it's the gift of the Holy Spirit. And I'm just going to pray. And if you want, if you want the gift of the Holy Spirit, if you want to be able to have access to these gifts and have evidence in your life, I'm going to ask you in just a moment. I mean, just in your. Now, before we go, go forward, people do this thing that they're just. You see this again a lot in certain types of churches where they want you to, hey, let's come down and receive the Holy Spirit where? Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Even if you believe in this second feeling and so forth, which we'll get to that. But if you believe that you're wrong, but the issue is this, you don't see a lot of churches asking people to just to come and place their faith in Christ. Instead, they're wanting to receive the Holy Spirit. It's as though we're selling the Holy Spirit. The most important thing is the Holy Spirit. Oh, did you ever get saved? Did you ever put place your faith in Christ? You see that an awful lot. Who wants to come and see the Holy Spirit? At a church service, what you want to ask is who wants to place their faith in Christ? Because if you are doctrinally correct, you know that placing your faith in Christ means you get the Holy Spirit. You get the water with the wet. You cannot have Christ without the Holy Spirit. You just don't, especially if you have a triune view of the deity of Christ. But anyway, let's continue yourself. Even out loud, I want you to ask the Holy Spirit to feel you. Yeah, that's all we're going to do. We're going to ask the Holy Spirit to feel us from the top of our heads to the soles of our feet. And we're going to ask him. I feel I feel the presence of God, wherever you are, whether you're watching this live on rebarkast, the Holy Spirit is there. And he's coming with nine gifts and so much more that he wants to give you. And if you're watching and you've been filled with the Holy Spirit, but you want you want a fresh feeling of the Holy Spirit, you know, he said he's coming with nine gifts. Mike Todd, if he is saved, really needs to sit instead. He really he ought to just ask someone to come take over his church while he just goes back and study. Wouldn't it be good if there were people who had a kind of a charismatic attitude who were also doctrine sound? That'd be good. There are people who have the ability to make conversation interesting, but don't sacrifice truth for interesting. Don't sacrifice what the Bible says for what moves people. And that's what happens. It wouldn't just be good if Mike Todd actually understood the scriptures. He's come with nine gifts. OK, Mike. You want to be endowed and empowered? You want that due to miss to come back to your life? I want you to ask him. You can prophesy. It said we all can prophesy. All nine of these gifts are usable for the edification and the Holy Spirit can allow the fruits of the spirit to be evidence to everybody around us. What happens sometimes is people tend to think that the getting getting the Holy Spirit is to get the gifts of the spirit. And that is to get these things, these outward manifestations, one to be used to bless you, to benefit you. And we see that happening a lot where people are not selling the Holy Spirit but selling the Holy Spirit, selling the gifts, selling what it can do for you, selling the benefits in sales. You can talk about the features or you can talk about the benefits. For example, if I'm talking about a car, I can talk about the features of the car. This car has heated seats. This car has power windows, power locks. Some of y'all remember back in the day when they first started putting in power locks and so forth. Well, that's the feature. But the benefit is that you don't have to lean all the way over to to unlock the door. The benefit of the heated seat is that it's cold. It can just warm you up or now cool you off the benefits. And so now what we're doing is we're selling the benefit of the Holy Spirit. And the way we do that is we twist what's meant by receiving the Holy Spirit. So it's some kind of goodie bag and then, hey, you dip your hand into it, you can get all kinds of stuff coming out. And so this is one of the reasons why he just he just honestly, guys just should not be a pastor. And if you see someone like him, I would say my suggestion is to run. Although we know that those are the kind of churches that are going to fill up 10 times over, they'll have two, three, four, five different campuses. I'm not against churches having extra campuses. That's what I'm talking about. But if you can't do it biblically, then you don't need to be doing it at all. And he says something that is just it doesn't take a whole lot of understanding of the word to figure this out that he's wrong, but listen to this. Father, I thank you. I thank you that today you would fill us with the Holy Spirit from the top of our heads to the soles of our feet. The same way that you did in Matthew, the same way you did in Mark and Luke and John in Acts, the same way you did with the disciples in the upper room, the same way, Father, God, you did it in Samaria in Acts eight. Father, I'm asking you right now that you would fill us with your Holy Spirit. Did you catch that? He said the same way you did in Matthew, Mark, look at them. They weren't filled in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Mike Todd, they weren't. I just thought that was just interest like just take your Bible that you're supposed to be proficient at and just read it. Now, someone like a Robert Morris comes with a little bit more cloud, a little bit more ability to go for the scriptures. As a matter of fact, Robert Morris used to be considered a sound preacher, a sound teacher. He did. As a matter of fact, I think it was 2007, 2007. There was a voice of truth conference. I believe that's what it was called, voice of truth conference here in the Metroplex and a lot of pastors showed up proclaiming the truth of the Gospel. And they were doing what you see on YouTube a lot. They were calling out false teachers. They called out the T.D. Jakes of the World. Yeah, they did. They called out Joel Osteen. They called out those kind of people for having these bad doctrinal stances, this bad teaching. But sometime in between then and now, he he he's kind of gone a little bit left, not a little bit. He has gone some different different directions. Remember, this is the guy that platforms and puts up and promotes Todd White. Yeah, that that's him. And it I'm thankful. It looks like it looks like that that his attendance at the church might be dropping, which might be a blessing because less people are being exposed. I'm not sure I do see some of the the videos of his where the place isn't as full or as packed as it used to be. Maybe that's God moving. But I want to cover something that he brings up. He does not believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit happens at salvation. So let's listen to him. For as yet he had fallen or baptized, immersed none of them. They laid they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. OK, let me just remind you that the title of message is receiving the Holy Spirit. Many, many believers have been saved and water baptized and have not received the Holy Spirit. Let me ask. OK, so he says many, many believers have been saved and water baptized, but not received the Holy Spirit. And we're going to talk about how he he looks at this particular pattern. But I think he's wrong. I don't think you can be a believer without the Holy Spirit. We'll get to that in a second. But what he's done is he's he's reading and he's kind of picking this up in Acts, Chapter eight, in Acts eight, we see he says it's thriving. OK, you know what? And that that makes sense. Where's it? The thing is that makes sense. That makes sense. I could imagine because when you say things that tickle ears, then folks are going to show up. It's just that the videos that I've seen seem to have a lot of empty space. But it could be a teaching night. Who knows? I don't know. But anyway. He's in Acts eight and he's he's bringing up the fact that these are believers in in Samaria. They have believed but have not received the Holy Spirit. Now, before I go back to him, let's give kind of a little backdrop. Let's let's before we get there, let's go to Acts two. The Bible says and people think that there is this process. That is there in salvation in Acts, excuse me, in Acts two. On the day of Pentecost, you know, the story, the Holy Spirit comes in and it feels the room where the disciples are. Now, let me just say it again, because somebody's going to say this. It is not 120 people in the upper room. OK, we've covered that before, but it's not. It's just the disciples, the apostles there. The reason why we have them there is because this is how God starts the church. They are the foundation with Jesus being the chief cornerstone. Well, no, I keep hearing 120. No, in Acts one, it tells that there are about 120 disciples of Jesus. It did not say they were all together. Then it mentions, though, that they were that the disciples and the women were together in the upper room in Acts one. Then it goes on further. And this is a different day in Acts two, on the day of Pentecost. And it's just the 12. We know so because later on, it says Peter stood up with the other 11. It's only 12 there, and that's how God is going to start. He's going to start off with them and then there are they are going to lay hands or give validity to others receiving it. And so what happens is let's go to John. I mean, Acts chapter 12, I mean, chapter two. Matter of fact, after it happens, let's let's start off right there in verse 14. But Peter, taking a stand is that they receive the Holy Spirit and they're out there speaking in these languages. He's taking a stand with the 11, raise his voice and declare him. So there you see that it's not 120. It's easier with other 11 men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you and give heed to my words for these men are not in drumming, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel. And it shall be in the last day. God says that I will pour forth my spirit on all and the word for all is Pessiah, which is all each or every. In this case is each of other folks representing mankind and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and so forth. So now that's what happens. Now, remember in Acts one. Who did Jesus say they were going to receive the Holy Spirit and be witnesses to? He said, you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea. So who's he speaking to? To men of Judea. Everybody in Judea. Listen up. So those are the Jews. OK, then after that, he says to Jews, to the to Jerusalem and Judea. Then to Samaria. Now here. We've got people who are coming who are from all over these Jews and from different different parts of the region. And they're hearing the gospel in their language. And then they believe and then they receive the Holy Spirit. And I want to drop down and I want to read this passage because this passage gives a lot of people problems and it should not. Acts chapter two verse verse 38 verse 37. Let's say now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles again just those 12 brethren, what shall we do? By the way, if anyone ever asks, does the Bible ever call someone brother or brothers who's not brothers? The Bible ever call someone brother or brothers who's not a believer. He just did. He's calling them brothers with their not brethren just yet. Right. Anyway, let's continue. He says, brethren, what shall we do? Peter said to them, repent and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sin and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. OK, remember, we cover this before this exegetical usage of these words where you use one. I'm sorry, not one. You use two or three terms or words to convey something. It's like you say this and this. But what you mean like like in John three, five, when you use the water in the spirit, he says the water, he's not using two elements. He's not speaking two elements to be born of. He says, be born of water that is the spirit or that is or namely the spirit. That's the exegetical usage in this case in John three, five, the exegetical use of God. Again, if it sounds confusing, go to Google type in ep exegetical and then it'll give you different examples and you'll see, OK, just like when we say Lord and savior or a great God and father. OK, it's not two different people are great God. That is our father or Lord. That is our savior. Who is our savior? Our Lord, namely our savior. Are you with me? And so we have this exegetical usage here. And so in when he says repent, he's not giving three different things to do. He's not saying believe, then get water baptized, then receive the Holy Spirit. That is not the case. As a matter of fact, Robert Morris believes that and he's going to state that and we're going to go to a couple of scriptures to prove that that's not actually true. Because if it is true, then we should not be able to find a scripture that demonstrates something different. OK, there is no at this time, this little set pattern, believe, get water baptized, then receive the Holy Spirit and bam, you're safe. That's not how that works. OK, all that's required for salvation is believe. The baptizing part is the exegetical uses of the word baptism, which is to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. That happens. Let's continue. Let's go back and read it. He says, Peter said, and then repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and in doing so. This is how you read this. And in doing so, you will receive the Holy Spirit. It's not that you get baptized and then after you baptize, the Holy Spirit comes upon you. No, because we're going to see a passage where the Holy Spirit comes upon them and they get baptized. This is not a water baptism, though it's not forbidding water baptism. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not going against water baptism. I'm not speaking against it, but that's just not what this part is saying. He's just saying, as you repent this belief, as you believe, you are automatically, your faith automatically gets you baptized into the Holy Spirit and you receive the Holy Spirit. I'm going to prove that in just a second. So he says, for the promise is for you and your children and for all who are afar off as many as the Lord our God will call to himself. So Jesus told them to go and wait for the promise. Well, here it is. So everyone that believes is going to receive the Holy Spirit. Now we get to Acts chapter eight. What's happening in eight? And this is where it gets, this is where it gets gooder in acts eight. The Samaritans are now in play here. Now I want to give a brief little history of the Samaritans in John chapter four. Jesus makes a statement that I need to go to Samaria. Why? What now? They've all, we also see an account of them going to Samaria and they're not receiving the message. They don't receive the message of the gospel or what Jesus is preaching. And the reason is because they're upset Jesus has got to focus towards Jerusalem. Remember the problem here we have is that the Jews and the Samaritans, they butt heads. They don't like each other. Right? It's this oil and water. They don't like each other. The Jews can't stand the Samaritans. Samaritans can't stand the Jews. As a matter of fact, historically speaking, Samaria, the Samaritans, they kind of are not that they are, but they were in, Samaria is in the part of the northern kingdom where you had this split between the north and the south and Judah was the south and then Israel was the north. Well in the north was where the Samaritans are. And so there's this interbreeding, this intermixing between these Jews and other pagans, other people. And so there's part of the issue there. And so Jews don't like Samaritans. Samaritans don't like Jews. We see when Jesus is talking to someone who's not a Jew and Jesus makes a statement should the dogs receive the children's bread and she's like well even the even the dogs receive the crumbs. And so if you weren't a Jew, tough for you as far as the Jews felt. So that was this big issue. So another time Jesus goes to Samaria, he says I must go to Samaria and he meets the woman at the well and he's telling what's going to happen even with these Jews. You guys don't know what you worship but the time is going to come when you will. He's speaking forward. Jesus also speaks about the Gentiles. We'll get the Gentiles in just a second but he speaks about the Samaritans. And so when they didn't receive when they didn't hear the message the first time James and John want to say shall we call down fire? Well, no, we're not going to call down fire. Get somewhere. And then when Jesus speaks to the woman at the well the people come and they like yeah we believe that you are on the side. Now how much was their faith? We're not totally sure. And so I won't comment on that at this moment but now in Acts we see Philip going down to Samaria and they believe the gospel. They believe the gospel. The problem is though the Holy Spirit has not yet fallen upon them. So now I want to kind of give that so now we can pick up where Robert Morris was speaking up. Let me ask you something. Did you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Yes or no? They would help me because I pastor all of you and I'd like to know, okay, fine. Did you receive Jesus? Yes. It means you opened your heart to him and you said Jesus you can be the Lord of my life and you can run my life and I will receive everything you have. Yes. Okay. Why would you not receive the Holy Spirit? Why would you not say to him, I want you? Now that didn't even make sense. Now I get what he's saying. You received Jesus and okay now to be doctrinally straight, we're not saying we receive him. Really, he's receiving us. But I get what he's saying. I'm not going to argue that point. But what person places their faith in Christ to receive all of Christ and don't want, don't even think about the Holy Spirit? We all know about the Holy Spirit. Especially now. And so he's making the point. Why would you just receive Jesus? You should also want to receive the Holy Spirit. Well, we did. But he believes though that if you receive Jesus, if you are born again believer, if you believe and have faith, that's part of it. But then the next thing is you have to receive the Holy Spirit. Now this isn't a charismatic. Well, I don't know. Maybe we might be leaning more charismatic. I know in the Church of God and Christ we have what's called these little tearing services where you'll come after you say, who knows, you might have been saved 20 years, 10 years, who knows. And you'll come and eat typically an evening service and tarry for the Holy Spirit. And it's usually on a Sunday and wait a second. We got to come back next Sunday. First didn't receive the Holy Spirit. Come back and tarry next week. Why can't I tarry on Tuesday at 3 p.m. or Wednesday at 2 in the morning? I got to do it on a Sunday at 6 p.m. at 6 p.m. evening service. But anyway, let's let Robert Morris finish. As well to lead me, to guide me, to help me, to direct me, to help me be the husband and father I need to be. I receive you, Holy Spirit. And obviously it's because we think we've already received him that when we receive Jesus, we received him. That's what we think. And I understand that when we get saved, the Holy Spirit does come to live inside of us, but Jesus wants to baptize us with the Holy Spirit, anoint us with the Holy Spirit. Now, in this part, I'm not playing the whole thing for the sake of time. He's bringing that out because of what happens in Acts 8. So let's go to Acts 8. And I want you all to remember what's happening and who the key players are. So let's go to Acts 8. There it is, Acts 8, 14. Now, when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen upon any of them. They had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. They began laying... Okay, before I go there. So now, here's what's happening. Philip has gone down to Samaria. They believe. Do you all know, you all tell me if you know. Help me out in the chats. Who is Philip? Does anybody know who Philip is? Now, it's the apostles in Jerusalem who hear this and they dispatch. Who? Who do they dispatch? So who Philip is and who they dispatch? Those are two important pieces of information. Philip is not a Jew. He's a Hellenistic Jew. So they wouldn't consider anything of Philip and he's not an apostle. But what do they do? They dispatch Peter and John. Why is it important that they dispatch Peter and John? Well, the church at this moment, the church is centered in Jerusalem. That's the epicenter at this moment. And so they send Peter and John. Peter and John go down and they lay hands on the Samaritans. Now, before I move forward, let me just explain. There's a video coming about what it means to lay hands on. Lay hands on isn't always a physical laying on of hands. It is almost just giving approval and bestowing something. It's not as though that Peter and John were down in Samaria and they said, all right, guys, we need two lines. I need a line right here and a line right there. Come on, keep the line straight so we can lay hands. That's not what happened. You're coming, Bob. Lay hands on Bob. All right, you're good. Holy Spirit falls on him. That is not what's happening here. They come and they actually give validity. They lend credibility. They see it. They bestow this. And what happens is the Holy Spirit falls upon them. Why is it important that the Holy Spirit falls on them while under the auspice, under the washful eye, under the laying on of hands of the bestowing of Peter and John? These are apostles. Why is that important? Remember, they don't like each other. They don't like each other. So what happens if they say, hey, yeah, if Samaritan has received the Holy Spirit, what are the Jews going to say? No, they didn't. The Jews were amazed that anybody else was going to see that. They get amazed even when the Gentiles received it because they think it's just for them. And we have to be told that salvation is for the Jews first and then the Gentiles, they got to remember that it's also for the Gentiles. Jesus brings this up as well. We'll come to that part in John 10. And so, and it's always been that way. They just didn't pay attention. It's almost like it's been a covered mystery. It's a mystery to them, although God spoke about it previously. Now, so when they say, yeah, even the Samaritans, our Jewish cousins have received the Holy Spirit, it's Peter and John who say so. So what could the Jews at the Church of Jerusalem say? No, we don't believe you. Well, wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Y'all do realize it was under our hands, under our preaching, under our watchful eye that you also received the Holy Spirit. So they didn't send some light waste. They sent Peter and John. So when Peter and John say these people have received the Holy Spirit, no one's going to doubt that. So now what Robert Morris is trying to say is that because they didn't receive the Holy Spirit immediately, then there is a second act to occur. No, remember, acts is not a prescription of how salvation occurs. It's a description of what's happening and there's a reason why. It's not that everyone got the Holy Spirit, because what was happening was here, was this. Unlike today's church, we all can say we have the Holy Spirit. We all can say we're saved and, you know, what do we say, a pair of lips would say anything. But back then there was some validity to it. And you didn't just say that. So when you said that you were Christian, it was taken a little bit more serious. When you were saying that you were a follower of Christ and you have the Holy Spirit, that was taken a little bit more seriously. You didn't just, you didn't make, first of all, your life was in many cases on the line. But the issue was, am I going to be a second class citizen or the same sort of Christian citizen as the Jews? Well, the Samaritan is okay, fine. The Samaritans received the Holy Spirit, that's fine. Okay, fine. At least there are Jewish cousins. Okay. They're half Jewish, half dog, right? That's how the Jews felt like. They're half Jewish, half pagan, half Jewish, half Gentile. Fine. It's the Jewish part that allows them. Okay, fine, we'll go with that. But that's not how Robert Morris has seen this. Now, there's another group will skip over. No, I can't skip over it. Jesus says that you'll be my witnesses to who? To the Jews, to Jerusalem and Judea. That's the who? Jews. Then he says, you'll be my witnesses in Samaria. That's the Samaritans. We're here in Acts 8. Then he says unto the rest of the world, that's the Gentiles. Remember in John 10, Jesus says that I have sheep of another fold, these Gentiles. They will hear, they will follow. And so now the gospel is going to the Gentiles. Let's go to, let's go to Acts 10. I don't know why I didn't type it in first. Let's go to Acts 10. I think I want to start in, I think I want to start in, let's start in verse 39. Peter is speaking. They're speaking to the Gentiles. He says verse 39, we are witnesses of all the things that he did as Jesus did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put him to death by hanging him on the cross. God raised him up on the third day and granted that he become visible. Not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God. That is to us who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead. And he ordered us to preach to people and suddenly to testify that this is the one who has been appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. Now, remember Jesus said, when you receive the Holy Spirit you are going to be my witnesses. In John 15, he says it again in John, I mean in Acts 1. And so what do we see here? He's verifying that he ordered us to preach the people and to testify there's a word that this is the one. Verse 43. He says, of him all the prophets bear witness that through his name everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sin. That's important. Everyone who believes receives forgiveness of sin. Okay, I see what you said, Latanya. Now, look at this part. Here's the important part. Verse 44. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. And here it is, guys. And all the circumcised, that is the Jews, the Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed. Why were they amazed? Because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also for they were hearing them speak with tongues, with languages exalting God. So now, they believed and then they received this baptism of the Holy Spirit. They received the Holy Spirit. That's important. Remember, they believed, then they received the Holy Spirit. What do they do after they receive the Holy Spirit? Very important because it interrupts their thought. It interrupts this belief that there is a set pattern. Look what he says. Verse 46. For they were hearing them speaking with languages and tongues and exalting God. Verse 47. Surely no one can refuse the water and needs to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did. Can he? And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay a few days. So now what happened? They believed and were baptized in the Holy Spirit. Then they went and got baptized in water. So we cannot say that belief, then water baptism, then the Holy Spirit baptism. No, that's what happened here. Okay. By the way, when did they become believers? Well, when were they saved? When they believed and they received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not going away from them. They're not losing their faith if they didn't get water baptized. But he says, is there anything stopping you off from getting water baptized? Let's go ahead and get baptized. They have believed and received the Holy Spirit. Then that happens. And so he's going to make this point. And by the way, he skips over this verse in his message. He goes to Acts 19 and he brings out or fleshes out something that I don't think he should in Acts 19, but let's just listen to him speak about Acts 19. Now watch what Paul said in verse two. This is paramount to our message this week. He said to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? So he comes to disciples and he says to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Okay. If you received the Holy Spirit when you believe, why would the greatest apostle who ever lived ask that question? So he's wrong because he's trying to say that you don't receive the Holy Spirit when you believe. Why would Paul ask that question? Well, Paul's asking that question because that's what's happening now. Now when you believe, you're going to receive. Why is that the case? What has happened is every people group now has received the Holy Spirit. Obviously the Jews received it, but then the Samaritans received it, and then the Gentiles received it. So what could no one possibly say? No one could possibly say that the Holy Spirit is meant just for us. It's just us who get it, not these Samaritan dogs, not these Gentile fakers. No, it's all of us. There are no second class citizens. So they encounter these disciples that we believe to be our disciples running around the countryside saying, Repentance, kingdom of heaven is at hand. And they said, to which baptism did you receive? And look what they say. Matter of fact, let's go to John 19. Not John 19. Acts 19. Did I put it up here? Yeah, here it is. Acts 19. It happened. Verse one, while Paul was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus and found some disciples. He said to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? They said to him, no, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit. Now he tries to make the point that wait a second, a lot of us are the same. But no, now back then it's possible that these people at that time didn't even know that there was such things, the Holy Spirit coming upon them. Okay? But now we do know this. We know about the Holy Spirit. You have nine Christians who know about the Holy Spirit. Let's continue reading. He says, and he said, into what then, verse three, were you baptized? And they said into John's baptism. Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling people to believe in him who was coming after him, that he is in Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they began speaking with these tongues and prophesying. There were all 12, in all, about 12 men. And so he believes that there is now a pattern being formed. Thank you, Sir John. He says there is a pattern. Do you see the pattern? People in the New Testament got saved, they got water baptized, and then they got baptized in the Holy Spirit. This is all through the book of Acts. We were at Acts 1, Acts 8, and Acts 19. Well, if we go to Acts 13-12 or Acts 13-48, we don't see that pattern. And we just read in Acts 10, when the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit, it wasn't that pattern. So it cannot be that that is a prescribed pattern. What's happening again is that we've got the foundation of the church happening. At the founding of the church, now we've got these people who have already been told to repent and be baptized for the remission of their sin, what John was doing. And so you've got their running into people who did just that. John was not preaching about, hey, you guys need to receive the Holy Spirit. That wasn't his message. And we know that there is no need or there is no command, so to speak, or requirement to be baptized in water in order to be saved, because Paul says, I didn't come baptizing. I can't preach the gospel. Wait a second. Well, if being water baptized is necessary, then Paul would have done that as well. So now, he is incorrect in stating that this baptism is a second thing. As a matter of fact, let's pull up what... Let's go to Acts... I'm sorry, not Acts. Let's go to Romans chapter 8. I want to read this passage to tell you that it needs to be clear. If you are a believer and you do not have the Holy Spirit, then you're not a believer. That makes sense. You must have the Holy Spirit in order to be a Christian. There is no such thing as being a Christian without having the Holy Spirit. Let's go ahead and read some scriptures. Let's start in Romans 8-9. However, you are not in the flesh. He's speaking of believers. You are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If indeed, the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. Do you hear that? If you don't have the Spirit of Christ in you, you do not belong to him. Let's continue. Verse 10. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is alive because of righteousness. So you do have the Holy Spirit in you. But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So you do have the Holy Spirit. Let's drop down to verse 14. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. And he says, For you have not received the Spirit of slavery, leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba Father. So to be a believer, to be a Christian, you've got this new Spirit. You've been adopted into the body and you can now call him Father, Daddy, Papa, Abba. That's the point. Are you with me? Someone says that the NASB Bible is trash. You could prove that point if you wanted to. If your family's life depended on the point, you could make that point. I just happen to see that. Sometimes people just have this desire to say stuff without thinking. I'm sorry, brothers. I'm not sure who you are. I won't put you on the screen and put you on blast. But sometimes you guys say things and don't realize how these scriptures come together. Now you're talking about the NIV again. But I'm pretty sure this is a person that is probably King James Version only and the King James Version is fine. King James Version is absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Bible. The NIV is a word for word, not a thought for thought. I'm sorry, it's a thought for thought, not a word for word. So it's giving a different type of translation. NASB, ESB. Those are probably too close to the scriptures. And I'm saying that because what happens is this. Going through this, people have a tendency of just spouting feelings without listening. Because I'll say something and someone will say, and someone will say, but what about, I just covered that. It typically happens, it typically happens when I'm going over spiritual issues and folks who just, they're just setting in like, well, no, okay, well, you didn't hear what I just said. What about this verse? I literally just covered that verse. I literally just covered that verse and for the person who says, yeah, I need to educate myself. When you want to have this conversation, matter of fact, we'll just read the Greek. We'll just read the Greek. It's the Greek trash. So anyway. So why say this? Because people will tend to just hear something but not pay attention. This is literally how God is bringing about the body of Christ together. He brings the body together. Again, we are put in all of us into one body. Before I go there, I want to keep making this point. I want to keep making this point that if you do not have the Holy Spirit, if you do not have the Holy Spirit, you are not a believer. Let's go to what Jesus says. Let's see. Let me see. Let's go. I think it's John 7. Yeah, John 7. 39. All right, let's go to it. But this he spoke of the Spirit whom those who believed in him were to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. By the way, this should make it clear. This should make it clear. Here's a time where these folks believe but they hadn't received. Now it wasn't a second thing, but just the Spirit just hadn't been given. Why hadn't the Spirit been given at this point in time? Why? Well, because the Holy Spirit is going to come after Jesus's death. Remember guys, remember, Jesus's death does something. Can anyone tell me? I'm just, listen, we're students of the Bible. Can anyone tell me in the chats why it was necessary for Jesus to pay with his life? Why he had to die? Because that's also the reason why the Holy Spirit is not coming until Jesus's death. But his death must take place. God has at this moment an Old Covenant in play. Jesus is to fulfill it, to perfect it, to complete it, to end it. He does that with what the Old Covenant system of atonement requires. That is, there must be this shedding of blood to be the perpetuation of all these people's sin, of those who believe. Then though, this blood ratifies the New Covenant, and again, we've covered this as far as who it pertains to, but it also blesses us as well, benefits us. This New Covenant cannot take place until the death of a person who has enforced it, who has put it together, that being Jesus. And so when he dies, here comes the Holy Spirit. And so those who have placed faith in Him, then the Holy Spirit comes. And it comes in this pattern, in this one, because the pattern that we see is that it happens if Robert Moritz won't speak of the pattern, it happens first to the Apostles, then it happens to the Jews, then it happens to the Samaritans, then it happens to the Gentiles. That's the pattern. And then from now on, all of the believers, whoever believes, will receive the Holy Spirit once you believe, at that person believed. Now, I want to go to a passage. This is 1 Corinthians to prove that every believer has the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 13. For by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether slave or free, we were all made to drink of one spirit. Let me read it again. For by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body. Now, he does something that I need to explain this, because if you were to listen to him, he's going to say something that might be a little bit confusing. I want to go over this on the screen. I don't want to get too technical, but I want you to see this. This word that's used here is the word N. So, matter of fact, let me just do this for the person who believes the NASB is trash. Let's just see if he thinks that the Greek is trash. I want you to all see this. He says, Caigar and Hanna, Hanny, Numati, which is N for, this is kind of the rough rendering, N, this word N, if you look on the right side of the screen, this word N, it can be translated as N by or with. What is called is the the dative of means, because the Numati is in the dative, which is like the indirect object for us in English. It tells us this is the means by which we were all put into this body. Jesus baptized us into the body, I mean into the Holy Spirit, and so thus by being baptized by Jesus into the Holy Spirit, we've been dipped into the Holy Spirit, the Spirit then places us into the body. So by that means the Holy Spirit, he places us all in the body, which is why I said earlier, that the identifying mark of a Christian, of a believer, of the person in the body is the Holy Spirit. And so let's go back to what he says, for by one spirit we were all baptized. Now, look over here, the word for for baptized is a baptistemang, which is this is look at the bottom left hand corner, this is the plural heiress passive, the plural heiress passive, which means all of us plural heiress in the past passive, it was done to us. We didn't do it, no man did it, it was done by none other than God. Are you with me? That's very important. He says whether, Jew, eti hudiom, which is Jews, eti helenes, which is the Greek, eti douloi, which are servants or slaves, eti elepheroi, which are the free people, are all those in the spirit we have been baptized. Where is my King James Version buddy, who thinks this is, I'm messing with you, I'm messing with you. I'm sorry, I'm picking on you. I got my eye, I told you, my eye on this screen, my eye on that screen, my eye on the camera and my eye on the chat, and so I saw that and just, okay, this person needs, I gotta deal with you while I'm going. I'm like the guy that is cheering for my team at the same time, rooting against the Cowboys. I can do two things at once, amen? So, everybody, all of the believers, not one single person escapes this, every single person according to Paul is baptized into the spirit. What does that mean? That neccess, and we already know who does it is Jesus. Well, how so? Because of our faith in Christ. So what does that mean? That means that if you are a believer, you've been a believer for five years, you've been baptized in the Holy Spirit. If you have been, I got this one, I said Korea, seven eyes. If you are a believer for five days, you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Five hours, five minutes, you've been baptized. What about the person who has been a believer for one second? He says all. He says all. Somebody said, can I start reading verse 11? I'll start reading verse 11. I'm not sure what you want to get out of verse 11, but one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually just as he wills. For even as the body is one and yet has many members and all the members of the body, although they are many, our one body also, so also is Christ. So by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Greek, whether slaves or free, we were all made to drink of one spirit. Okay. So I read those first two passages. So if a person is a believer one decade into their belief, one day, one hour, one minute or one second, the point is all of us have been baptized at that moment. The reason why you don't have it at that moment in Acts is because we're transitioning. It was previously before the death, the resurrection and the ascension. If you died, even if you happen to have died in Christ between his death, after his death, or before his ascension, you didn't go to be with the Father immediately, you go immediately to be with the Father. There was a course correction, so to speak. There's this new dispensation being laid out. And so now, instantaneously, when you believe that's why Paul makes a statement, the statement was not made in Acts, the statement was made by Paul to those in Corinth. And so I hope this is in some way been beneficial to kind of see what the actual baptism of the Holy Spirit is. It's just simply Jesus upon your profession of faith, him baptizing you in the Holy Spirit. Not to be confused with the feeling of the Holy Spirit. That is a continual thing that we have to continue to do as he says in Ephesians chapter 5. We do that, we want that. That's a continual thing. And instantaneously, though, is that we are baptized immediately. That's a good question. Did the thief on the cross have the Holy Spirit? No, he did not. He could not have. He just had faith. The reason why? Because the Holy Spirit had not yet, just like you said in John 7, had not been given as of yet. And so, but it was his faith that saved him. Amen. So, and Latanya said that I'll, I may need, what did you say Latanya about going over, not going to do it now, but you mentioned about going over issues of salvation. By the way, guys, there's the reason why, you know, I might say something four or five or 10 or 15 times, because there will be people that are new, who hadn't heard it, who might have some questions. There are some people who've been here and sometimes folks act like, I haven't said that before, they haven't heard it. Like, what about, I literally just said that, but it's okay though, because how long did it take you or me to get it right? And so we have to be patient. We have to be long suffering, right? Sometimes folks might not quite get it. Can you be saved being Baptist? Sure, you can be saved by anything, as long as you place your faith in Christ. Someone said this is a little off topic, but if the Lord our God is one, why is oneness a damnable heresy? Thanks. They're not speaking of that oneness. They're speaking of something, they're speaking of how God is one, but one minute he is to use a pun, one minute he's God. This is what they call modalism. There's different variations, because everybody that's a oneness, that he might understand it, and there are different branches, there are different ways that it works, just like with Baptists and Methodists and so forth. But just the basic way is one minute he's God, the Father, the next minute he's a son, the next minute he's old. And it's almost, or there are some oneness who believe that Jesus is not the Father. I mean, not the Father, not God. And so depending upon, it's got to the point to where it doesn't matter what you claim, what a person is, there are just so many different beliefs and so forth. But the reason why it's a damnable heresy is because of what they do with the deity of Christ. And he is, there's only one Lord, and he is in Jesus is it. Paul washes his view of the gospel. I need to know what that is. Can I show you how I used to speak in tongues, like everybody else? Exactly the way everybody else. It sounded just like everybody else and they'll come and say, well, I don't know what you're saying, Levi. I have no idea what you're saying, Levi. Why don't you give me a call and tell them what you're saying. I have no idea what you're saying. That's my buddy from high school. But my tongue sounds like everybody else. So they come back and say, Cory, you never spoke in tongues. You never had. Okay. Sounded just like you. So, which is, which is really funny. If you say that I've never experienced a Holy Spirit and I sound an actor just like you. What's that say about you? Anyway, so guys, I want to thank you. If that, I hope this helps. The people on the cross only had, only had to believe that Jesus was the Christ. So why is there division amongst Christians if we all believe that? Well, listen, if you believe that, if you believe that, then what happens is the spirit comes in and he begins taking over. He begins growing you. So, all right guys. So I've got to run. I've got to go watch some, some Dallas Cowboy highlights from yesterday. I'm playing. I'm playing. I love you. I love you all. I will see you all twice on tomorrow. God bless.