 Okay, good morning. So you are all part of the entering hour. Yeah, it's good right? Yeah. Okay, so let's pray then we'll start. Let's pray. Let's ask the Lord to speak to us. Father God, we thank you. Thank you for this day Lord. Thank you for you are our God. Thank you. Let you know our needs even before we ask them Lord. So we come before you right now. Lord, we pray that you would take care of all our needs according to your riches and glory. Everything, oh God. Lord, maybe strength in our bodies, peace in our minds, in our hearts. Lord, whatever it could be God, whatever things that are bothering us, things that are worrying us. Lord, we pray that you would do God exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can even ask or think or imagine. But according to the power of the Holy Spirit that is at work in us. So God, this morning as we come before you, we come expecting for the touch of the Holy Spirit. We come expecting Lord, the outpouring, the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Yes Lord, we thank you that it is our joy and privilege Lord to come into your presence. Lord, it's our joy and privilege, oh God, because you have made a way for us Lord to come to your presence, Father God, to receive grace. Father, we thank you for the grace that you're pouring out upon us. We thank you Lord. And I just pray for all beardiness, all tiredness, everything to disappear. Father God, we pray for God's sharpness in the Spirit. Lord, and that we may hear as the Spirit of God is speaking. And I pray that even as you speak to us Lord, we'll be quick to listen Lord and receive all that you are putting in our hearts. We thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We're sharing the notes for the on-man students and you all have your notes. So we'll continue with our journey. Yes, we have been looking at the book of Acts and we looked at a few verses. So we'll continue and then look at the rest of the verses also, which talk about the Holy Spirit. So every time we look at the book of Acts, we need to understand that this applies to us. That is one thing that we need to understand. It applies to us because we are in those times. We are in the time of the New Testament church. So this applies to us and the work of the Holy Spirit is very, very valid even for today. The way he moved in those times is valid for today as well. So it's exciting to study the book of Acts, exciting to see all that the Holy Spirit is doing and it's for us to say, Lord, do it again in our lives. So we learn a lot of things about the people, about the Holy Spirit, about the power of the Holy Spirit, about the various ways in which he ministered and so on. So now let's look at, I think we stopped at chapter 7. We saw chapter 75. Let's look at chapter 8, Acts chapter 8 and this is verses 10 to 20. So Acts chapter 8 talks about how, so this is what happens. After the death of Stephen, Stephen was martyred or killed for his faith. He was executed and after that there was a great persecution. People who were following Jesus were getting arrested, thrown into prison. And the person who did it was, who was it? Yeah, Saul became Paul. So he was the one who was actually going on a rampage, getting people, finding out if they were following Jesus and putting them into prison. And so a lot of people were actually running away from their homes, away from Jerusalem for safety. So one such person was Philip. So Philip ran away from Jerusalem and he goes to this area, region of Samaria. And as he's going there, he shares the Gospel. He preaches the Gospel, he preaches about Jesus. Now that is something that we, that is something that again stands out because he's actually been chased for his faith. People are persecuting. So he runs away, probably fearing his safety, fearing his life. But he goes to this region, Samaria, and there he again talks about Jesus. The very reason for which he is being arrested, he's being persecuted. He goes and he does the same thing. He preaches about Jesus. So we learned something about the faith of those disciples, the commitment of those disciples. Now when we look at Samaria, what happens is people come to know Jesus. People are getting saved. People come to know Jesus. And it says that there was a lot of supernatural things happened. People who were held in bondage, everything were delivered. The Bible talks about that. Then there was also one man who was into witchcraft. His name was Simon. They call him Simon the sorcerer. He was into witchcraft. So Simon was actually, he used to do a lot of witchcraft. So they used to, the people, they used to say this man is a great power of God and so on. This man is the power of, verse 10 talks about that. So they listened to him. Simon was an influential man. He used to do a lot of black magic, used to do a lot of witchcraft. So people respected him. They may be, they were feared of, afraid of him. They listened to him. So that is what verse says, they heeded him, verse 11. Chapter 8 verse 11. Everybody open your Bibles please or open your, because the note has the reference. But you keep your Bibles open, read it. Chapter 8 verse 11. And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. But when they believed Philip, as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. Then Simon himself also believed and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and was amazed seeing the miracles and signs that were done. So people believed, people were baptized. Now they are following Jesus. Simon himself, this sorcerer, he believed he was baptized. And not only that, but he followed Philip, he went along with Philip and he himself was amazed. Now here was a man who was used to seeing supernatural things. But it was supernatural things done by the powers of darkness. So he was used to it. So he himself was amazed seeing the things that were done in the name of Jesus. So he saw the power of the Holy Spirit. He saw the things that were done and says here that he was amazed. Verse 14. Verse 14, what happens is the apostles who are in Jerusalem, they hear this news. What news that people in Samaria have become followers of Jesus? So what do they do? They send Peter and John to meet with these people. So Peter and John come and this is what happens. Verse 14. Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to them who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet he had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. So here is also something that we learn. Now what happens when we receive, when we receive or when we become born again? What happens when we decide to follow Jesus, when we give our lives to Jesus? What happens to us? I think your book, Mark is down. What happens to us? We are born again. We are cleansed. Fast is taken up. Second Corinthians 5. The gifts of this Holy Spirit. Sorry, tell me again. We get the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We get the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Yeah. So we see that there is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Yes or no? So Holy Spirit indwells us and that is how he testifies to us that we are born again. He testifies to us and then we call God as our Father. So he witnesses to us that we are children or sons and daughters of God. He testifies. Nobody has to tell us. The Holy Spirit testifies to us, witnesses to our heart that something has changed. I am now the child of God. So that happens to us and that happens because of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Indwelling means he stays, lives inside of us. Then whenever we, let's say we do some things that are not pleasing to God and we try to go back to our old life, something happens within us which was not happening then. We feel convicted. We feel that I am doing something that is not right. So the Holy Spirit convicts us that we are actually doing something that is sinful, something that is displeasing God. We grieve the Holy Spirit. So all this happens because of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. In fact, we are born again, the Bible says, by the Spirit of God. That which is born of the Spirit is, we saw John chapter 3, Jesus explaining to Nicodemus, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. So born of the Holy Spirit, which means that birth that born again is cost by the, born again experience is cost by the Holy Spirit. So that happens. Now here, the apostles go and when, what do they do? They pray for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. And the Bible says that he had fallen upon, he had not fallen upon them. So there is a difference between we, between the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit and the outpouring or the baptism of the Holy Spirit. There is a difference. So both are not the same. So that is something that we see because these people are already followers of Jesus. They're already born again, right? And there's great joy. They've experienced signs, wonders, miracles and they have baptized, etc. But Peter and John come and then they lay hands on them, verse 17, and they received the Holy Spirit. So which means that they had the same experience which the apostles had in the sense that they were baptized in the Holy Spirit. So there is a difference between the Holy Spirit upon us and the Holy Spirit within us. In simple terms, yeah. Why did God design it that way? Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit, yeah. Why is there a difference? I really don't know. But the fact is, you know, and things like why water baptism? Why is there a declaration? It's a simple act. But why does the Lord place so much value on it to say that go, baptize them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Now with water baptism, we can say, okay, it's a willing act. I'm declaring, you know, it involves my will. Everybody sees, everybody knows. And it's symbolic of the cross. But when it comes to the Holy Spirit upon us, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, well, this is something that right from the time, Jesus, even before he started the ministry, right from the time John the Baptist announced about the Lord Jesus introduced, right from the time he's been talking about that, he says he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire, right? And the Lord Jesus said, you wait in Jerusalem till you receive the promise of the Father. And then in Acts chapter two, Acts chapter one is saying, wait in Jerusalem till you are an endued promise of the Father, till you are clothed with power on high. So which means that the Lord, after we become followers, after we receive him, the Lord wants every disciple to go through this experience to fill with his spirit, to fill with his power. And what I think someone says, like the gifts of the spirit being released and so on, right? So all that, the expression of the gospel with power, witnessing of the gospel with power, God wants us to receive this and walk in it. So it's his will. Yeah. Okay. So anyone can speak? Can I ask that question? Yeah. Just one minute. Again, I'm just looking at this question in the chat with someone else. Can anyone speak in tongues without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, right? So no. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is for the purpose of releasing off tongues. Yeah. Yeah, sister. Go ahead, please. You have a question. Pastor, like I have received baptism and I was born again in 2006. Okay. But I don't remember that I have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit of fire. I'm sorry. Just tell me again, please. You don't remember? That I have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit of fire. I'm in the... How do I know that I have it because... Okay. So when John the Baptist talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, how Jesus will baptize you. He says he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. And he's referring, referring to the refining cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, right? And if you look back at your own life, I'm sure that there's been a journey of consecration, a journey of, you know, putting away or a journey of refining, which the Holy Spirit has brought about, right, in your own life. So that is what is referred to as, you know, that the Lord will baptize, Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. That is the refining, cleansing, purifying work of the Holy Spirit, right? And I'm sure you've experienced that. We may not have... I have a gift of tongue, not so much, little, but like I don't... I have a gift of healing when I pray. I know that I get healed, whom I pray, people are getting healed, you know, in the name of Jesus. Yeah. Like I didn't feel that experience faster. That's what I'm saying. Right. Like when people received and felt the experience at the same time, you know? Yeah. Maybe it is gradually, I'm not sure. Yeah, sure. So the thing is, we're going to learn about that when we study about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and we're going to take some time to learn about each of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the coming days. We're going to... that's part of the syllabus, part of the curriculum. So we're going to learn about that. And also we're going to learn... when we learn about the gifts of the Spirit, we are going to learn some interesting truths about the fact that these gifts are for everybody, right? And how the Holy Spirit is the one who holds these gifts. He's the one who has these gifts and He indwells us and He wants to release these gifts through us. So we're going to learn about that as well. And how... Thank you. Thank you so much. Right. Okay. So we see that, you know, the believers receive the outpouring or the baptism of the Holy Spirit when the Apostles come and pray for them. Okay. Now verse 18, okay, let's look at verse 18. We are in chapter 8, verse 18. Okay. So Simon saw, who's this Simon? Simon is the magician, right? He's a sorcerer. But he saw that through the laying on of the Apostle's hand, the Holy Spirit was given. He offered them money saying, give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit. Okay. So he saw that something supernatural happened. Okay. Now we don't know. He's saying, this Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the hands of the Apostles. So he's saying, I'll give you some money. Please give me this power also. Okay. So that on whom I lay hands on, they will receive the Holy Spirit. So his motivation was, you know, I want to do something for the people so that they will recognize me. Right. I want to lay hands so that they can receive the Holy Spirit and so on. Right. There was some, because earlier, people used to look up to him. They said, this man is a great power of God. Right. Now, all that was gone. They knew that there's a higher power. There's a greater power. And that's the power of the Lord, Jesus, power of the Holy Spirit. So, now, in a way, Simon wants to regain his influence among the people. Right. So he's saying, I want to lay hands. And so, so Peter rebukes him. Right. Peter says, your money perished with you because you thought the gift of God could be purchased with money. Okay. So, several things that we learned here. This baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift of God. Okay. And yes, it was through the laying on of hands of the Apostles. One valid way in which God baptizes, that is something that we learn, understand. What else do we understand? That something supernatural happened when these Apostles laid hands. Now, the Bible is not very clear. This passage doesn't say what happened. But, it was something that Simon noticed. Okay. So, Simon noticed that something supernatural happened when these hands were laid on. And so he says, I want this also. Okay. So, see, if he did not notice, if he did not see, if he did not, you know, probably it was a gift of tongues. Maybe they started speaking in tongues just like earlier. Right. We don't know. It's not mentioned. But something that Simon saw, Simon heard, so much so, it was, it was something unmistakable that he said, I'm going to give you some money. I'm going to give you this also. Right. Okay. So, that is something that we see. Then, Peter, the view of sin. Okay. Let's move on to verse 29. Okay. Verse 29. I'm just seeing whether we need to read any other verse before that. Okay. Verse 26. Let's read verse 26. Now, an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, arise and go towards the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So, here comes a message that Philip who actually came to Samaria, who preached the gospel, and a lot of things happened there. So, the angel of the Lord comes to him and gives him a message saying, you need to go to another place. Don't stay in Samaria. Go to another place called Gaza and go there. So, he obeyed. He goes. Okay. And what we see is verse 20. Let's read verse 27 onwards. So, he arose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of the Ethiopians who at charge of all her treasury had come to Jerusalem to worship. Okay. And was returning and sitting in his chariot he was reading the Isaiah, the prophet. So, he's reading the scroll. Right. Then, he went near and overtake this chariot. So, Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, do you understand what you are reading? And he said, how can I, unless someone guides me and he asked Philip to come up and sit with him and then what happens is Philip beginning at what this person was reading Isaiah, Isaiah 53. He begins to explain the Gospel about Jesus. So, this person, he receives Jesus as Lord and Saviour. There's some water there and he is baptized in that water. So, Philip gives him water baptism right there. So, all this started when Philip was obedient to that message from that angel saying, go from Samaria and go to this place called Gaza. Okay. For this one man, Ethiopia, the angel of the Lord actually sends him there. Okay. So, then it says that the spirit said to Philip, go and overtake this Sharia. Okay. So, the Holy Spirit spoke to Philip. Right. So, again, we studied about the Holy Spirit, how he is a person, not just a force, not just power, he is a person. So, which means a person can speak and we can understand. Right. So, we need to understand. We need to, you know, make that shift in our thinking that, yes, the Holy Spirit speaks and yes, as a person, as a believer, I can understand. We should not always keep saying, you know, I don't know what God is saying. I don't know what God is saying. No. Say, you know, I am someone who's born again and I have the Holy Spirit in me. Right. So, what did the Lord Jesus say? I am the sheep, good shepherd and you are the sheep. And my sheep, hear my voice. My sheep hear my voice. They know me and they follow me. John chapter 10. Right. My sheep hear my voice. So, which means that we as a sheep, we are able or designed, created to hear the voice of the shepherd. We can. Okay. So, we need to, you know, understanding and how he speaks and how I can understand it. Right. So, here the Spirit said to Philip, go over, take this chariot. So, Philip goes, he, either the Ethiopian notices him and then they have this conversation and from then on, this man becomes saved. Right. He becomes a Christian. Okay. So, something else also we see, verse 39, then we go down to verse 39. See, Philip has actually baptized him. Okay. Verse 38. Let's see, verse 38. So, he commanded the chariot to stand still and both Philip and the unit went down into the water and he baptized him. Verse 39. Now, when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away so that the unit saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing. Okay. So, what do we see here? Then he comes out of the water. The unit is, you know, he's baptizing and then he comes out of the water and what does he see? He doesn't see Philip. Right. He opens his eyes. He sees Philip is not there and the Bible says that the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away. Okay. Now, did we see that in the Old Testament? Something like this about Elijah, about it. Right. We saw that this man, I forget his name. Is it Obed? He has this conversation. Right. He says, so Elijah says, you know, go and tell, go and tell the King that you saw the prophet that I want to see him. He says, oh prophet, you know, I'll go and tell this. You know what kind of a man he is, but then the Spirit of the Lord will take you from here to some place where I do not know, then I will be in trouble because I would have told him the prophet is here and he will, you know, this man, because you are not here, I will get killed and so on. So he's very fearful. Right. So what we see is that they had this understanding that this, that God would do these supernatural works. Right. The Spirit of the Lord will do these supernatural works and according to his wish, according to his, you know, plan. Here is something we see that exact thing. He comes out of order. Philip is not there. So where is Philip now? Let's read the next verse. Verse 14, but Philip was found at Azotus and passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. So from Gaza, from that desert to that city called Azotus, he, he was, you know, he was supernaturally transported. Right. That is something that we see. Supernaturally, in an instant, it says that he was found preaching in the city of Azotus. He, he found him in the city of Azotus and he went about preaching in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. Okay. So that is something that we learn again about the Holy Spirit. That the Holy Spirit speaks, that the Holy Spirit understands what the real need of the person is and if we obey the voice of the Spirit, then there is effectiveness. There is fruitfulness. See, what would have happened if Philip said, okay, you know, I'm going to stay in Samaria. I'm doing ministry. Revival is happening. Let me just stay here. Of course, God would have used someone else, but Philip would not have seen the Ethiopian unit come to saving knowledge of Christ. Right. You had a question. That it is the will of God too. Yeah. Supernaturally transported in. Yeah. To do this. Yeah. Obviously. Yes. So it is the will of God to move this, you know. In fact, if you if you get an opportunity to hear a testimony about Brother Yun in China, Brother Yun, like he was actually the underground church, the persecuted church. He's written a book. There's a book called The Heavenly Man. Brother Yun, why you and and there he actually testifies about his experiences in ministry and so on. So, a couple of things that stand out is one is this where he says that he has to go climb like two mountains and then go to that village and it's nightfall. Sun is setting and it's a dangerous, you know, animals and so on. But he starts running towards one hill and he finds himself in front of in that village. So he writes about that as a, you know, supernatural transportation. He writes about that and also he also writes about another thing about the prison doors being opened, how he finds himself out of a prison when the communist regime puts him in prison, just like how Peter has that experience like where the angel opens the door, doesn't door, he comes out. So these couple of things he writes about and so we know that it's not something that we see very frequently but yes, they've got so desires, they see these things happening. So how do we know that we are baptized in the Holy Spirit? Are there any signs of proof to know? So how do we know that we are baptized in the Holy Spirit? We will be studying again, we will be studying very detailed manner about baptism of the Holy Spirit but to give a very short answer, yes the tangible proof is that the Holy Spirit fills a person with power, there is change within. The Holy Spirit also releases the gifts within so that is also another thing that we see. Well sometimes I would say we don't have the words for it, sometimes we experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit and we don't have the words to explain it maybe and so we think that maybe I was not baptized but we've already been baptized in the Holy Spirit, so we will know, we experience the presence of God we experience the power of God so these are I would say two things we experience the presence and power and the gifts of God being released in us these are some of the some of the factors or some of the signs that we can say yes, I've been baptized yeah okay let's see okay so does it help any other question follow up okay, so let's look at Acts chapter 9 this is about Saul, very interesting Acts chapter 9 and verse 17 Acts chapter 9 and verse 10 we see God speaking to Ananias so Ananias so what happens is Saul is on the way to Damascus he has an encounter with Jesus he falls off a horse or whatever animal he was riding, he falls off and he has his encounter, he's unable to see okay, so Jesus tells him you go and wait and there's another man who will come and you will be told what to do, that's the instruction so Paul goes and he's not able to see for three days he's just waiting verse 10 says now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias and to him the Lord said in a vision so the Lord gives instruction to Ananias to go to Saul and to pray for him so verse 17 is when Ananias goes there obeying obeying that instruction and Ananias went his way and entered the house and laying his hands on him he said brother Saul the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit so now when we consider Saul now something happened to Saul when he had that encounter okay when he fell off he asked the question who are you Lord he falls off I don't know whether he's got up then he fell to the ground he's on the ground I think and he heard a voice Saul why are you persecuting me and he said who are you Lord there itself one changes happen and then the Lord introduced himself he said I am Jesus whom you are persecuting arise and go into the city told what you must do so now Saul who's been persecuting the church he obeys Jesus so he's become we can say he's become a believer he obeys that instruction and he goes there he's waiting three days he doesn't eat he doesn't drink it says that he's been really literally fasting and he's waiting there then Ananias comes and this is what he says the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight so he's unable to see that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit look at the verse after that says immediately they have fell from his eyes something like scales and he received the sight at once and he arose and was baptized so Ananias goes with that one simple thing that he needs to do go pray for him and lay hands on him and pray and two things happen he's able to see and he's also received the Bible says he was baptized he receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit so that we see happening there then something happens immediately verse 19 immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues that he is the Son of God so this man who was going to Damascus in order to attack the Christians put the Christians in prison he has this encounter he's filled with the Holy Spirit it says verse 20 immediately he preached that Jesus say you know what I was wrong Jesus is the Lord we need to follow him he's preaching Jesus then everybody was amazed they were saying hey how can this be then another verse is that verse 31 chapter 9 and verse 31 says the churches throughout all Judea Galilee and Samaria had peace and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied so now here's Paul he's filled with the Holy Spirit and here the persecution that has stopped that he was actually carrying out against the church and it says here that they walked in the comfort of the Holy Spirit they walked in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit and the church grew church grew so we see all this happening and it's something that happens around the life of Paul the work of the Holy Spirit let's look at Acts chapter 10 now Acts chapter 10 is about Peter what the Holy Spirit does in and through Peter that is what we see in Acts chapter 10 so Acts chapter 10 what happens is Peter is in the house of Tanner and he's visiting there then he has he sees a vision he's in a trance he sees a vision and God speaks to him and asks him to go to this house so what he says is arise therefore go down with them doubting nothing for I have sent them let's read Acts chapter 10 verse 19 Acts chapter 10 verse 19 it says while Peter thought about the vision the Spirit said to him again we see the Holy Spirit speaks Holy Spirit is giving explanation about the vision that he had can anyone say what is the vision that he had Peter what vision did he have yeah so the timing is perfect he's very hungry Peter is hungry he's waiting for lunch he's prepared and he wanted to eat so they were making it ready then he has a trance then he sees the vision so transmitting he's you know he's there but he loses sense of what is happening physically and he sees this vision it's a big sheet comes out comes down from heaven like a big top sheet and in that sheet all kinds of animals are there and as a Jewish person he's not supposed to eat some of those animals they had very strict dietary laws this is something that you can eat you can't eat no prawns no crab you can't eat all those no pork so but this sheet comes and here's the voice Peter arrives to eat so three times it comes and he says no no it's not good for me to eat that I can't I'm a Jewish person and the response is what God has cleansed you must not call unclean or common what God has cleansed so something like that happens he has his encounter this was done three times and Peter's wondering what does this mean so he has this encounter he has this vision he's wondering what does this mean hearing this voice I'm seeing this thing then the Spirit spoke to him the Holy Spirit spoke to him it says in verse 19 the Spirit said to him behold three men are seeking you arise therefore go down go with them doubting nothing for I have sent them so he does that he goes with them and they go to the house of Cornelius who's a Roman is he a Centurion a Roman Centurion so they go to the house of Cornelius now in Cornelius house everybody's waiting they're waiting to hear what Peter has to say about God that's what they're waiting so Peter begins to Peter goes there he begins to preach he begins to preach the gospel and this is what we see verse verse 44 right go down to verse 44 so Peter is just giving this message you know he's sharing about Jesus he's sharing how God anointed Jesus who went about doing good he was crucified and so on right so verse 44 while Peter was still speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word which means that people are hearing people are listening to what Peter's saying they're already expectant they're all you know very sincere they want to know they want to know about who God is etc they're just waiting there and Peter goes there tells them about Jesus shares about Jesus which means that they something happened to them in their heart it says here while Peter was still speaking these words he was still you know preaching the message the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word and those of the circumcision meaning those Jews who believed in Jesus who are with him they were surprised they were astonished he says why because they heard these people pray in tongues so these were non-Jewish people Gentiles so till then the gospel was only preached to Jewish people they could have been from different nations but the gospel was preached to only Jews people who were actually you know following Yahweh so now Peter sees this hey these Gentiles these non-Jewish people they are also received the gift of the Holy Spirit God has poured out the Holy Spirit upon them and each one of them they are all speaking in tongues so verse 46 for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God then Peter answered and he said can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have just as we have they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have so Peter sees this and he says I think why don't we just get them baptized in water now it's not like if you have a wrong understanding first I should be baptized in water only then I will be filled with the Holy Spirit this changes all that that order is not true sometimes people might say you must believe you must be baptized and then you will be filled with the Holy Spirit not necessary here people believed in Jesus they are filled with the Holy Spirit and then they are baptized in water the order is changed so that is something that we see so Peter says something very important here he says they heard these Gentiles these Gentiles they have received the gift of the Holy Spirit just as we have so which means accepted to all the apostles all the disciples they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit right and here at chapter 10 Peter is making this observation hey they have also received the gift of the Holy Spirit in the same manner how we received so he stayed there for a few days and so on so now we know that Jewish people have very strict laws they would not they would isolate themselves distance themselves from someone who is not a Jew they would not stay in their house they would not eat a meal with them now all that was broken all those things right so here Peter actually stayed with them he fellowshiped with them and so on so he goes back and then people are very very upset right the apostles who are there they are upset and they are saying how can you go how can you we heard that you stayed with you know this non-Jewish person and you how can you do that so in act chapter 11 Peter is explaining that is also recorded for us so Peter is explaining in act chapter 11 verse 12 the spirit told me to go to doubt nothing so six people were there we entered the house verse 15 he says as I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us he fell upon them as upon us at the beginning verse 16 then I remembered of the Lord how he said John indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit so Peter everything is coming together now yeah this is what the Lord said and this is what happened even as I was speaking you as I was ministering to them right okay we will take a break here and then we will come back