 Okay, so one basic question, so why are we studying about the work of the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts? No, why should we study about the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts? Work of the Holy Spirit. Sorry. To know more about, it's relevant. Okay. It's more in-depth, it's relevant. It's the the work of the Holy Spirit. Yeah, so why are we, you know, why are we studying this? How does it help us? There's a question, no. Like when you're studying anything, I'm sure in your subjects, you studied, you know, maybe trigonometry, calculus, then you're wondering how will this help us? You know, in daily life, will I actually use it? Pythagoras theorem. Right, sometimes you learn that and it's wondering algebra, will I ever use this in life? Right, so Okay, so Daniel says to be filled with the Spirit, Lucy says to strengthen us to walk with Christ. To receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, even we can be blessed. Yeah, so even we can be to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, okay. Okay, so this is the thing, you know, the New Testament Church we see the beginning of the New Testament Church and we are the Church in the New Testament. Yes or no? Yeah, we are the Church in the New Testament. Okay, and we know the Holy Spirit ministered in a different way in the Old Testament before the cross, right. We came upon people, people, assignments were finished and then, you know, he would come upon others. Now he ministers in a different way, same Holy Spirit, same power, everything, but he ministers in a different way. He moves in a different way, right. And the way he moved in the New Testament Church that we see in the Book of Acts is the same way he moves now. Okay, so for all of us to understand that this is what we have available for us or this is who we have available for us in our daily lives, in our daily lives, in our ministry, in, you know, in everything that we do, this is how I can interact with the Holy Spirit. This is what I can expect from the Holy Spirit. Okay, so I should not be closed to certain things that and say, okay, maybe the Holy Spirit will not do it in our day and time. No, this is a modern time. This is signs and advancement. Why should God move in that way? Well, Holy Spirit does. This is how he moved in the New Testament Church. This is how he moves in the New Testament Church, right. So what happens is when we study the working of the Holy Spirit, when we, when we learn about all the possible ways in which he works in the New Testament Church, we will open up our lives and we need to open up our lives and invite and say, Lord, you have your way, right. I'm opening up. I'm not being closed to the way you minister. I'm not being closed. You know, I'm opening up and what happens is it builds faith in us. Faith in what God can do. Faith in what God can do in us, what God can do through us, right. Because if you look at the book of Acts, all these were ordinary people, yes or no, right. Ordinary people, people who had limitations, people who had failings, ordinary people and the Holy Spirit worked in these ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Extraordinary works, right. So many times we think, oh, it happened then. That was lovely. Just think about it. Oh, Holy Spirit did them. What is it? Pavitratma, all those things he did. Today, you know, I'm just an ordinary person, right. Can the Holy Spirit, can negative things about the other person? Yeah, so we see that he brings correction. Yeah, so he can bring correction for the other person. Like we see in the life of David, Nathan, prophet Nathan was sent in order to correct, bring correction because, you know, to tell him of his faults and all that. So, yeah, the Holy Spirit can bring correction. But the way he brings correction is in a very edifying manner, right. So when I bring correction, I can do two things. I can just destroy the person and still bring correction. You know, I can do it very dishonorably. I can remove all dignity from that person and say, what you've done is the same. You are destroyed. I can bring that or tell them their faults in that manner. The other way to do that is how a father would. The father doesn't want to destroy the child, but the father wants the child to change correct so that the father can go beyond, so the child can go beyond even where the father went. So that's another way. That's why we see in 1 Corinthians 14 that prophecy, prophecy brings edification, exhortation and comfort. That's why we see that, you know. Prophecy brings, yes, it does bring correction, but it's always with that edification, exhortation and comfort. So it's with that spirit, spirit of the father, right. So, yeah, that's a thing, right. Okay, so, yeah, where were we? So this is why, you know, we need to study about the Holy Spirit so that it's not just an academic interest, right. Okay, in 1907, this is what he did. I remember the date and time. That's great, but we also, you know, open up our lives and say, Lord, what you did then, you do it now, right. What you did in that person's life, God, do it in my life. I'm opening up my life, I'm surrendering my life, you do it, right. So that is something that we will see. Okay, so Acts chapter 2 verses 38 and 39, right, we saw that. Let's go to Acts chapter 4 verses 8 to 12. Okay, Acts chapter 4 verses 8 to 12. The context is this. Okay, what has happened is this is again about Peter, Peter saying something. Now, Peter and John go to the temple, right, and there, they actually, you know, they minister to someone who was not able to walk since birth. Okay, and that's, we see in Acts chapter 3. Okay, they go to this person who's unable to walk. It says he was lame from his mother's womb, which means that when he was born, he could not walk. And he's about 40 years, I think, right, so old. And yeah, I think that's, let me see if he's, what is the age? Yeah, I think he's around 40. I'm not sure. One of the verses mentioned that. So anyway, so they go and they, you know, they minister healing and he's healed in the name of Jesus. And now chapter 4, they're arrested and they are standing before the leaders of the church, rulers of the people. They're standing before them and they're asking, why do you do that? By what power do you do these things? Okay, verse 8, let's read. Then Peter filled with the Holy Spirit said to them, rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if this day we are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected, you know, and yeah, I think we can stop there, right? And then he goes on to say, salvation is no other name except in Jesus, right? So several things we see here. Okay, so they're asking the question by what power has this been done? Okay, so here verse 8 says, Peter filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay, now what happened in Acts chapter 2? Was Peter filled with the Holy Spirit? Was he baptized in the Holy Spirit? Yes, he says here that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. So which means we learn that, yes there is one baptism of the Holy Spirit, right, which releases the gifts and so on, but there are many infillings of the Holy Spirit and that's why, you know, in scripture we see that exhortation, be filled with the Spirit. Do not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit. So we can be filled with the Holy Spirit multiple times, many times and we ought to just ask him and say, Lord fill me, right? So Peter filled with the Holy Spirit, he tells them very boldly, it is because of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Okay, this is Jesus' work, by him this man stands before you whole. Okay, so very boldly. The thing is we should understand that those who are called or those who are following Jesus, you know, after this, this major persecution, the religious leaders, they were always against anyone, you know, because they got Jesus crucified and they were against anyone teaching or doing things. So they arrested and they're saying, how do you do this? How did this happen? Okay, now one thing to understand is that here's Peter. Now if you look at, you know, Gospels, what did Peter do when these religious leaders took Jesus? And you remember that that night, you know, he was betrayed and everything. So he was taken, he was cursed, and the same religious leaders, actually same characters are there. It's not too long ago, right? So the same people are there and it's the same, maybe Peter could even recognize some of those people who are there, but it's a different Peter, right? So when we read about what happened to Peter and the Gospels, who asked, there was a servant lady, right? She came and said, hey, I saw you with Jesus. I saw you with Jesus. I remember you saw you with Jesus. And he refuted that. He says, I don't even know Jesus. Yeah, I don't even know Jesus. And if you read through, he says, it says that he started, you know, cursing Peter, same Peter, he started cursing and he's, you know, shouting and he's saying, I don't know, you know, you're lying. I don't know this person. I don't know Jesus. And he's betraying or denying Jesus. He's saying, I don't know this person. Who is this Jesus? I don't know. And here it seems like a very different Peter. And the only difference we can say is that he's filled with the Holy Spirit. Something has happened to him. And the Lord promised that when you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you will witness with power. So the first thing that we see here is he's filled with boldness. He's not afraid of his life. There he was afraid of his life. What will happen to me? What if they hurt me? What if they kill me? And so he says, I don't know Jesus. He's filled with the Holy Spirit. And here he doesn't care. He doesn't care. You know, same people who are saying, you know, and this is what he says, you know, he says, in the name of Jesus, you know, whom you crucified. You guys crucified that same name, the authority and the power in that name this person is made alive. And verse 12 he says, there is salvation in no other name except in Jesus. Very clear, very categorical. Okay. So verse 13, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived they were uneducated, untrained men, they marveled and they realized that they had been with Jesus. Okay. So when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we read about the fact that the Holy Spirit makes Jesus real to us, right? He takes off orders of the Lord and he teaches. He exalts Jesus in our lives. That's what he does. Right. So here he's filled with the Holy Spirit. He's talking with so much boldness. They realize, hey, these guys are not trained. They are uneducated. And here is that they are quoting Scripture, you know, verse 11. This is the stone which was rejected by the builders, which had become the chief cornerstone. Right. So that's, that's from the Old Testament, from one of the Psalms. And then he's like, wow, who are these guys? Right. And they realize that they have been with Jesus. Okay. So that, you know, that should tell us something, you know, when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit, there is transformation. There is change. There is hope. Our temperament changes. Our temperamentally we are transformed. Of course, we need to cooperate. But Peter chose to, you know, just cooperate with the Holy Spirit, led by the Holy Spirit. Then another thing that we notice is the Lord Jesus told them. Right. In that day, you will, when you are taken, when you're taken before rulers of this world, don't premeditate about what you're going to say. Or in that hour, it will be given you what you should speak. You remember that? Right. So when the Lord was teaching about the Holy Spirit, he said this, he said to his disciples, you know, you will be persecuted. But when you are persecuted, when you are taken before the people who are persecuting you, don't have to analyze, think, premeditate what you're going to say. It will be given to you what you will say. And we see here, Peter's filled with the Holy Spirit. And this is the second time in short, in a short time, he's filled with the Holy Spirit. And he is saying some things. He's quoting from Scripture again. Earlier, he was quoting from Joel chapter two years, quoting from Psalms. And then he's saying, you know, this is about Jesus. And we see that prophecy also coming through, or that what Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit, coming through. Right. That when they are persecuted, it will be given them what they should speak. And they, yeah. Okay. Daniel's question, so Daniel D is different from Daniel Oliver, is it? Okay. Do we have to speak in tongues to be saved? No, we don't have to speak in tongues to be saved. Okay. And Romans 10, nine is the answer. What should we do? What must we do to be saved? And also Acts chapter two was 39 is the answer, 38, 39 is the answer. Okay. Okay. Then we go on to Acts chapter four was 31. When they, when they prayed. So what happens is, you know, this, this is something that happens to them, Peter and John, and they are arrested and they are asked, you know, interrogated. And they say, they testify with great power and bold as they testify and say, this is what the, this is how he was, this is how he was healed. Right. Then they go back to their friends, they go back and they tell them all that the chief priest said, said, and the elder said, said, and they start praying. Okay. So they go back home, they go back to their friends after this incident, and they tell them, you know, this is what happened. We were arrested, they told us not to speak in the name of Jesus. But, you know, we, this is what we did. And, and everybody starts praying. Okay. They start praying versus 23, 24 onwards, right, is the prayer. Everybody gets together and they pray verse 24, Acts chapter four, verse 24. Okay. Onwards is the prayer. Verse 31 says, when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And they spoke the Word of God with boldness. Okay. So this is what happened. They prayed. Yeah, regarding Peter. So when we read about baptism of the Holy Spirit, we see that it's an experience which results in the release of the gifts of the Spirit, you know, and release of the power and so on. And it's for every believer. When we see that baptism is a one time thing that you are baptized with the Holy Spirit and the new experiences. But we see that infilling or filling of the Holy Spirit happening multiple times in the lives of the disciples. Like we read just now, chapter four, twice we see they're filled with the Holy Spirit. So which means that, you know, when we will actually go into the depths of this, when we study about that is the Holy Spirit. But when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit, it is right to say that we are filled with the Holy Spirit. But every time we are filled with the Holy Spirit, it would be incorrect to say that we are baptized with the Holy Spirit. But every time we are baptized, so what is the difference? The baptism, so we can say maybe it's the first time that we are experiencing, you know, as a believer, as a disciple of the Lord, that the Holy Spirit gives us that experience. So maybe we can say it is the first time and we are filled with the Holy Spirit. But there are multiple times when we are filled with the Holy Spirit and not necessarily say we are baptized. I think it's a, we look at it some more, right? Yeah. Okay. So yeah, see, yeah, in just to follow up with the answer, if you actually read, there are five places in scripture in the book of Acts, where it talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, five places where we read that believers who trusted in Jesus are baptized in the Holy Spirit. Acts after two is one, Acts after eight, Acts after nine, Acts after 10, Acts after 19, five places. In all these places, it talks about people who became believers and then they are baptized with the Spirit. Yeah, they, they fall, they, and it's, it's like the first time, first time occurrence in all these places. But we also see Paul saying, be filled with the Spirit. He's telling the people who are already filled, who are already following Jesus. So, so my answer is based on that. Okay. Okay. So let's move on. So from this, we understand that, you know, this baptism of the Holy Spirit, it results in transformation. Here is a man who denied Jesus and here is a man who's testifying about Jesus. Right. Something happened before and after. It's a different Peter, because he has had this whole experience of being baptized, being filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay. Okay. Let's move to Acts after five. Okay. Acts after five, we see something happening here and we read about who the Holy Spirit is. We read about the deity of the Holy Spirit. Right. Acts after five, it talks about Ananias and Sapphira. Okay. Maybe we won't read through the whole thing. I'll just pick out the verse. Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple. Okay. So just a background to that. People who are actually selling off property and giving that money to the disciples to distribute to everyone who has need. Okay. So people have need. They say selling it. Now I have this money. So why don't you give it to people who have need? Because they were doing that. So this couple Ananias and Sapphira, they do the same thing, but there's a difference. Right. They, what they decide is they sell something and they say, okay, I don't want to give this whole thing. Right. I'm going to keep back. But they, in the way they did it, they pretended as if they were giving the whole thing. Okay. That was the only mistake or only difference. Right. They gave money, but they did it as if to show that this was the entire money which was, which came from the sale of the land. But they knew that they were actually keeping back a part of it. Okay. So that's the background. So we see here verse three, Acts chapter five and verse three. Okay. Acts chapter five and verse three. But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? Okay. So what has he done? Did he speak a lie? He acted something. He did something which was lying to the Holy Spirit. Okay. So he's saying, Satan has filled your heart and you, you lied to the Holy Spirit. Verse four said, while it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not your own control? Why have you conceived this in your heart? You have lied to, you've not lied to men, but to God. Okay. So he's saying, you have lied to the Holy Spirit. You have not lied to men, but to God. Okay. So God, the Holy Spirit, you have lied to right now. Okay. And then something terrible happens. Ananias falls down dead. Then after some time, Safira, his wife comes, the same thing. Right. Verse nine, Peter said to her, how is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door and they will carry you out. Okay. So he says that and then Safira also falls down and there's a great fear. So now certain things that we observe here is how did Peter know? Right. How did Peter know? They brought money, they kept it and said, Peter, please use it, please distribute it. This is all the money that we got when we sold our land. Right. They must have said that. So how did Peter know that they kept part of it? Again, it was revealed by the Holy Spirit. Because Peter very clearly says that you have not lied to man, but you have actually lied to God. Right. So God knows the intents of our heart. Yeah. Question? Yeah. I can't see the scriptures. I've only seen it for Acts four through eight. Can you move it up on the notes? I'm sorry? I said, I can't see the verse that you were reading, Acts five on the notes. Can you move it up? Oh, okay. And also too, I have another question. When I printed this out, it didn't have all the scriptures. Did you modify this? Just one second, Shani. Yeah, you can see the scripture. Yeah. Go ahead. What was the second question? When I printed this out a couple weeks ago, I just have a list of scriptures. They're not, they don't have the actual scriptures in it. Did you modify this? Yeah. This is, I just updated it so that we could, so I could upload this as well. Okay. Yeah. I just, I just thought it would be convenient for us to go through instead of turning in. So, yeah. Okay. Diksha's question, Diksha here, you asked, okay. If we got Holy Spirit one time, then why are we sometimes unable to feel the work of the Holy Spirit in our life? Does the Holy Spirit leave us? Okay. The answer is no. We don't, the Holy Spirit does not leave us. That's for sure. Like we can, we can say, okay, how do you say that for sure? Right. Because he has come to indwell us, several scriptures. We looked at it, but then let's, let's look at that, those scriptures again. We go to John chapter 14. Okay. John chapter 14 and verses 15 and 16. If you love me, keep my commands, commandments. And I will pray the Father and He will give you another helper that He may abide with you forever. Okay. So verse 16 is very clear. The Lord is talking about how the Holy Spirit will come and abide with us forever. So that's one. Another verse that we can go to is in Ephesians chapter 1, Ephesians 1. It says, in Him, one and verse 13, in Him 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. That's verse 14. Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of His glory? So it's talking about what does that verse mean? That means that you were sealed with the Holy Spirit, you have the presence of the Holy Spirit, indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. He is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, which means until the final redemption. The final redemption is when we receive glorified bodies. Now we have gone against spirit. Mine needs to be renewed, consecrated as we live our life. The final redemption is when our bodies are glorified. We receive glorified bodies until that final redemption. So He's saying, hey, this is the guarantee. The Holy Spirit is our guarantee until that time. So Holy Spirit, He will not leave us, but the thing is when we, let's say we sin, we willfully sin, commit acts of sin, then we are unable to hear the convicting work of the Holy Spirit. We feel the grief. Holy Spirit is greed. And the thing is, our own works of the flesh, our own voice of the flesh, if you want to call it that, actually drowns out the voice of the Spirit. So He doesn't leave us. He's very much there. Okay, what if the person backslides? Okay, question, we can know what is happening inside through the Holy Spirit. That's right. Then what if the Holy Spirit, what if the person backslides? Yeah, so we are talking about that situation. We are talking about a believer who backslides, he or she commits a sin knowingly, unknowingly. Backslides meaning, they are actually, they are living as if they are not following Jesus. They are living as per the world, but they made a commitment to follow Jesus. Now they are dabbling in sin and they are living a life that is not honoring, God honoring. Yes, the Holy Spirit is drawing them back, is convicting them. They are living a miserable life because they do those things and they are not happy. They're committing acts of sin, maybe it gives them momentary pleasure, but they're not happy because they are convicted by the Holy Spirit. And it's a miserable life. It's not a happy life. And the Holy Spirit is there to bring them back. He's working in them. He's talking to them. Every time they hear a message, every time they got sent some people to pull them back, to draw them back to Jesus, to draw them back to live that life again. Sometimes it's just a week, sometimes it's a month, sometimes it's years. So yeah, even if a person backslides, the Holy Spirit works, brings them back. Now, of course, if the person continues to walk willfully in sin or reject Jesus, completely reject Jesus, well, they can come a point where they're completely rejecting and there's no other hope for them. There's no going back. It is possible they can do that. The person can come to that place, but we don't know. We can't say, oh, that person. Once he was saved, now he's not. We can't say that. Only God knows that. You're not feeling in the sense your senses are not aware of the Holy Spirit. That's what you're saying. Certain times we feel the tangible presence of the Holy Spirit. When we talk about the presence of the Holy Spirit, presence of God, God is omnipresent. He's there. The Bible also talks about the fact that where two or three are gathered, the Lord Jesus said, I am there and they're missed. So we have the promised presence of God. We have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. So he convicts us, we feel the joy of the Spirit. He bears the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, love, joy, peace, patience, conviction from sin. So we feel that. That is also the presence of the Holy Spirit. And at times, like maybe in times of worship, maybe we are praying in the Spirit and engaging, reading the Word, we feel the tangible presence of the Holy Spirit. But you know in your heart, God is here. God is here and maybe you're worshiping and you're praying and you feel in your heart, wow, God is here. It's so close. That's the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes the presence of God is so strong and so real that you can't even say anything. Sometimes it's just tears. You don't know why. Maybe it's just laughter and joy bubbling up and you don't know why. But it's the presence of God. It's so strong. So we feel all that, you know, all that is true. It is the presence of God. Sometimes there is not the tangible manifest presence of God. But that does not mean that the Holy Spirit has left. He is there. And the promise of the Lord is that He will stay with us forever. Okay, how do we immediately obey when the Holy Spirit is guiding us, things to do or don't? And or later realize, yet, but okay, I'm just trying to understand your question, Lucy. How do we immediately obey when the Holy Spirit is guiding us, things to do or don't? Or later realize the Holy Spirit told me not to do it, but yet I did. Okay, so the thing is in hindsight you realize, God told me I should obeyed and I didn't. Or maybe, and then you reap the consequences of that decision. You know, you feel that okay, maybe today I need to do this. And then you didn't do it, but then later you realize that was actually Spirit of God speaking. So it's a journey. Okay, so it's a journey. So the next time when you feel the same thing in your heart, saying that, okay, maybe that's God's Spirit saying, speaking, go ahead and obey. So do it and yes, you will see the fruit of it. So it's a journey. It's a relationship. Walk with God is not a formula, but it's a journey. It's a relationship. So we get to understand, we get to learn, we get to have clarity about how He speaks to us and how He leads us. Okay, I hope that helped. Yeah, Lucy. Okay, yeah. So also, you know, your question could be, we're going to learn about how the Holy Spirit works in the life of a believer. Your question could be, you know, how do I know this is the voice of the Holy Spirit? Right. So that's where the whole thing of having the word in our heart, because He will agree with the word. Right. And how the, how we grow in our understanding of the word and when He quickens the word, we know it in our heart and sometimes we need to put away the things of the flesh, right? Maybe our own fears prevent us from doing certain things or maybe our own desires draws into doing certain things and we think, okay, God wants me to do this, right? It's our own desire. So we will know what is of the flesh, what is not of the flesh and the Word of God, Hebrews 412 says that the Word of God is living, alive, powerful and quick and sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing even to the division of soul and spirit. The intense thoughts of the, you know, what is in our mind and the intense of the heart. So the Word of God will be the discerner. So it's, we need to be filled with the Word of God. There need to be a rich deficit in the Word of God. And that's always a safeguard and also a reference point to be led by the Spirit of God. Right. Okay. So let's move on to the next one. So we read about Ananas and Sapphira. We see that Peter knew because of the leading of the Holy Spirit and speaker. I mean, Peter spoke these things. God, the Holy Spirit, you know, he knew these things. So when we lie, we lie to God, Peter says, you know, you're lying to God and so on. Okay. Yeah. Shani? Yeah, I just want to clarify. I know you were saying earlier, when, when you, you were saying that when somebody is in sin, that the, that's your flesh is drowning out the voice of God. Is that what you said? I'm sorry. Does it mean again? When you, when you, when you were talking about in terms of people, you know, being in sin and hearing from God, you were saying that, I know you sin, you're sin, you're able to hear from God, but you say that when, when somebody's in sin, that their flesh is drowning out the voice of God. I thought that's what you said. Oh yeah. Right. So, so the question was, you know, does the Holy Spirit leave us and, you know, and we, because we're not feeling the presence of God and we think that we're not hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit and that's because our own appetites of the flesh, the things of the flesh are so strong. Right. And it tends to drown out, you know, our own willful things, our own, you know, our mind is completely filled with carnal things that it seems to drown out the gentle prompting, the leading of the Holy Spirit. So then we might come to the conclusion that, hey, maybe the Holy Spirit is not there, but He is there. He's speaking to us. For example, you know, in Romans chapter 8, I think we read about the carnal man. The carnal man cannot hear the things of God, you know, Romans 8 and verse 6, it says, to be carnaly minded is death, to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it's not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. Okay. So what is a carnal mind? It's a fleshly mind. It's a mind which is on the things of the flesh rather than on the things of the Spirit. So it could be a believer. Right. He could be a believer. She could be a believer, but the mind is carnal because the mind is so filled with fleshly things or given to the appetites of the flesh. So that is what I share. Right. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Shall we move on to the next one? Any questions? You had a question? Okay. Okay. So let's look at Acts chapter 6. Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenist because the widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Then the twelve summoned the multitude of disciples and said, it is not desirable that we should leave the Word of God and serve tables. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom whom we may appoint over the business, over this business, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. Okay. So early church administrative problem. Right. So they're saying, okay, some people are not giving the food and these are these Greek speaking widows. And so they have a problem against the, you know, Hebrew speaking people. And then they're saying that, hey, our people are getting neglected. The widows there are getting neglected. And so Peter says, you know, instead of us, I'm sorry, not Peter, the disciples, so they say that instead of us getting into this, we want to appoint seven people who can actually look into this matter. Right. And look at the quality attribute they say is, first of all, they say men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. Okay. Men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. So these people were selected, there were seven of them. The names are mentioned there. And it says, you know, Stephen and Philip and all the others, they were men of faith, of good reputation and full of the Holy Spirit, which means there were people who have baptized in the Holy Spirit and full of the Holy Spirit. You know, I was just thinking, you know, how do you know a person is full of the Holy Spirit? Right. Is there some indicator, some fuel tank shows, you know, full empty? How do you know? It's by the works which follow. Right. So it says here about Stephen, he was a man full of faith. How do you know as a man of full of faith, it comes out in the speech. It comes out in the action. Right. Maybe he's facing a difficult time. How can you say he's a man full of faith? He's saying, hey, I'm trusting in God. No problem. I'm trusting in God. I'm not going to be swayed by this. I'm trusting. I'm not going to run away. I'm trusting in God. Right. Similarly, a man who's full of faith. And, you know, when you go to verse eight, okay, we are in Acts chapter six, we are looking at verse eight. And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. Okay. He was full of faith. He was full of power because he was full of the Holy Spirit. And his ministry testified to that, that he was a man of faith, he was a man of power because the Holy Spirit says that he did great signs, great wonders among the people. And if you look at Stephen's life, we see that they could not resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. Okay. Let's look at verse 10. Okay. Verse eight onwards, it says that he did great things, signs wonders among the people. Verse nine says that they arose some people from the synagogue. Verse 10 says that they were not able to resist. Right. Resist what? Resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. Which means they were not able to resist the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. They were not able to resist the things that he was speaking. It made so much sense. Right. It made so much sense. It was in line with scripture that they knew because they were people from the synagogue and it made sense. They were not able to resist. So what did they do? They said, okay, we need to finish him off. This talking and reasoning is not helping because we're not able to, you know, resist that. What he speaks seems to be the truth. Right. And not only that, but his speaking is also accompanied by some supernatural things which we cannot deny. Okay. So they decided to blaspheme, they decided to say things against him, false charges. So it says, verse 11, then they secretly induce men to say, we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God. False charges. Then they actually, you know, they got him martyred. Right. Got him executed. So we read about that in chapter seven. Okay. Okay. What is the fruit of the Holy Spirit? Okay. Fruit of the Holy Spirit is the work of the Holy Spirit in our life. You know, fruit just means the result. Okay. What is the outcome? The end result. So when we say fruit of the Holy Spirit, Galatians five is a good place to go. Galatians five and verse 22, yeah, talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. So which are all attributes, characteristics of God himself. Right. So the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, verses 22 and 23. Okay. If you read the verses before that, it talks about the works of the flesh or the fruit of the flesh. Meaning, if you indulge in the flesh, if you resist the work of God, what are things, some things that can happen? You know, it talks about, you know, works of the flesh, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions and all those things, jealousies. Then when you look at verses 22 and 23, it talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit, resulting in bringing all this in the life of a believer, like who co-operates, who co-works with the Holy Spirit. Right. I hope that helps viking. Okay. Fine. So let's move on to chapter seven, chapter seven, just a reference, verse 51, what Stephen says. You know, Stephen is saying, you is talking to the people who have arrested him and he's saying, you always resist the Holy Spirit. Okay. Galatians 5, 22 and 23. Shani, the verse on the fruit of the Holy Spirit, verse 22 and 23. Okay. Okay. So Acts chapter seven was 57, 51 and 51, these are words of Stephen. Okay. So Stephen is addressing those people who have arrested him and they are just ready to actually execute him. So he's talking to them and then he says, you stiff and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. Okay. As your fathers did, so do you. Okay. So what is the truth that we learn? Holy Spirit is all powerful. Yes or no? Oh yes, he's God. He was over the waters. He, you know, he's, his Holy Spirit power or, you know, he's all powerful. It's not about creation. We see that. But you and I can resist the Holy Spirit. So it just blows our mind, right? This is God. Can't he just force me to do the right things? Can't he just, you know, just program me in such a way that I do only the right things? No. Because he's given us free will or the ability to say yes and the ability to say no. And God wants us to say yes to the right things. God wants us to say no to those things which, which are not good. But it is in our hands. It is, you know, he's given us the ability to choose what is right. So he's saying you resist the Holy Spirit, which means there is a choice, right? Even for us, there's a choice. We can either, what is the opposite of resisting, surrendering, yielding, right? Accepting. So we can either yield, work, cooperate, collaborate with the Holy Spirit or we can resist the Holy Spirit. That's the reality. So it means that, you know, if God wants me to do something, you know, God, God will make me do, no. He will always give you a choice, right? He will always give us a choice. He will always prompt us, convict us, maybe through people encourage us. But it's weak. We need to understand that, hey, I can resist, right? So I need to be careful. So Stephen is saying, you resist the Holy Spirit. You always resist the Holy Spirit. Verse 45, sorry, verse 55, talks about how being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed to heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. So he has this, he has this vision or he has, his eyes are open and he sees the glory of God. He sees Jesus standing next to the Father at the right hand of the Father. And it talks about that. So the reality of heaven, the reality of the triune God, right? All that, because the Trinity is mentioned there, right? Verse 55 says, He was full of the Holy Spirit. Heavens were open. He saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father. So we see the three persons of the Trinity in that one verse. And we studied first chapter, okay, right? Okay, so I think we'll stop here and then we'll continue with the rest of the verses. So what I'd encourage us is to read through, okay? There are several references from chapter eight on to chapter 23, is it? 21, sorry, 21. Okay, so just read through that so that in the next class we can just mention these and yeah. Okay, thank you online students. God bless. See you guys next time. Thank you very much, sir. God bless. Bye. What verses did you want us to read for next week again? You can read the rest of the scriptures that are mentioned in the notes, starting from chapter eight. What are the scriptures I mentioned there? Okay, thank you. Okay.