 He's definitely speaking to an audience who does not know the Lord Jesus and they're all looking at Peter and John and then they're looking at the miracle that has been done and they obviously don't know the Lord Jesus. But here Peter is saying, this is what you need to do. You need to repent, change your ways, be converted. And he says that times of refreshing, times or seasons of refreshing might come from the presence of the Lord. And I know that we are a group of people who know the Lord, who received him as Lord and Savior, but I believe this is applicable to us as well. If there are some areas where we need to repent, repentance we know it doesn't just mean saying to the Lord, I'm sorry Lord, but it means that there's a decision that you make a decision to turn away, you make a decision to forsake those things that are maybe displeasing to him. It could be an attitude, it could be a motive, it could be an act, it could be anything, it could be some stronghold in the mind. But this is what it is, repent and be converted meaning and be changed and the Lord's promise is that times of refreshing, seasons of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord. Now what is holding us back from experiencing that season of refreshing? It's that we are not repenting, we're not making that change, we're not making that decision and saying, God, I just want to put these things away. But the Lord's intent is that we experience times, seasons of refreshing from his presence. So his presence is very unique, his presence is powerful, his presence is personal and his presence is refreshing. I'm sure if you ever spend time with a good friend, you're just talking and he's talking and you're talking and then suddenly you realize, oh wow, three hours have gone, where did time go? You're not been looking at the clock, you've not been looking at the watch, but then three hours just went because you just wanted to be there and such is the presence of the Lord or probably even more than that is the presence of the Lord and seasons, times of refreshing come from his presence and all those need that refreshing. So we're just going to spend some time just praying and saying, God, these are areas that I need to change. These are areas that I need to repent, but I need to make a decision and say, God, I'm going to change, I'm going to forsake and the Lord promises that times of refreshing will come from his presence. So let's do that. Let's just pray, take some time to talk to the Lord personally, what is on your heart and each of us, there could be maybe a attitude, maybe some kind of an act, some kind of a motive and the Holy Spirit is shining his light and he's pointing at those very things, not in a condemning manner, but in a convicting manner so that we would take that step and say, okay, I change, I forsake and the Lord wants to fill that space with his refreshing with this presence. Let's pray, Father, we thank you. In your one words, just pray to the Lord, pour out your hearts to the Lord, say, God, this is where I am, that these are things that need to change within me. Yes, Lord. Yes, I'm gone. Just tell the Lord, Lord, I change from this, God, I make a decision, God. So what God says, if we are willing, he gives us the ability, meaning ability for what, ability to change, ability to forsake, ability to stay away, ability to even take on certain things. So repenting doesn't mean just always forsaking, but which means that we need to take on some things, maybe something that the Lord wants us to do instead of what we are doing. So it means to take on certain things and so repentance is that also saying, oh, God, I've been hesitating, I've been resisting to take on these things. It could come in the form of maybe a responsibility, a calling, certain steps that we need to take. Even that is repenting, saying, God, yes, I take on these things, God. I commit to this, Lord. So as we do that, what have God declared the times of refreshing? Father, God, we come before your presence, Father, God, as we are, Lord, Lord, we thank you for speaking to our hearts, God. And Lord, even as we, Lord, make those decisions, God, make those choices, Father, God, to either, Lord, change and forsake or to change and take on, God, as an act of repentance, Lord, Lord, we thank you that you promised that times and seasons of refreshing come from your presence, God. We just pray that you would pour out your spirit and immeasurably, oh, God, of different manner, God, a great manner, God, even today, Lord, for us, Lord, right now, God, let our hearts be refreshed, Father, God, that our bodies and minds be refreshed, oh, God, in your presence, so, Father, God, yes, Lord, whatever is hindering us, oh, God, I pray, whatever is bothering us, Lord, we pray, we'll be taken away, we'll be broken. Lord, whatever is keeping us ensnared and changed, oh, God, let it be broken, Father, God, and what limits are there, barriers are there, ceilings, oh, God, that we have put on ourselves, Lord, let it be broken, Lord, even today, Master, yes, Father, God, we thank you, we say yes to you, Lord Jesus, we say yes to you, Lord Jesus, yes, oh, God, we thank you, we thank you, Lord, we thank you for your work, deep work in our hearts, Master, we thank you that you love us, we thank you that you're leading us, God, from where we are to where we should be, Lord, we thank you for empowering us, oh, Father, God, we thank you for, Lord, assuring us of your presence, Father, God, we thank you for assuring us of your power, oh, God, in our lives, Master. Lord, we pray even today that even as we open our hearts, God, we pray that you would speak to us, Lord, speak to us in ways that only you can, oh, God, speak to us, Lord. Okay, you know, last class, we studied about hearing the voice of the Lord, right, hearing the voice of the Spirit, so we're just going to take some time to, spend some time to do that, right, intentionally, press in to do that, and say, Lord, you speak, Lord, give us a word, give us a burden, Lord, whatever it is in, whatever way you want to do that, maybe through a word, maybe through something visual that you're prompting, maybe something that you're impressing upon our hearts, but God, today, this morning in prayer, we are asking, we are seeking you, God, we are seeking you first, God, we are putting you first, oh, God, we are seeking you with all sincerity, Lord, and Lord, we pray that you would impress upon our hearts, speak to us, direct us, guide us, Lord. Now, let's take some time to do that. Thank you, God, thank you, Lord. Just be mindful of what the Spirit of the Lord is doing, He is quickening a scripture, maybe is doing anything, any of that thing, but just be mindful of that, and in His presence, there is fullness of joy, maybe there's a release of joy in your heart, maybe there's a release of unexplainable peace, a peace that passes understanding, so just be mindful of that and receive that. Let's be in a receiving mode today, right now, say, God, I receive from you, I receive from you, God, even as I give my heart to you, Lord, I receive from you, Jesus. And those of us who are online, I just want to request you to do the same, right? Take some time, wherever you are, just to seek the Lord, say, oh, God, with all intensity, with all fervency, and say, Lord, you speak, oh, God, Thank you, Lord. Yeah, just do that with a hunger, with a passion, you know, and even if you're feeling down in your spirit, just stir yourself up, say, I stir myself up, I position myself in His presence, I position myself in the presence of the Lord, and to receive, I prepare my heart to receive, Thank you, Father, God, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Yes, Lord, we just want to thank you. Thank you for all your work in our hearts, your work in our lives. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you're the God of the here and now, real and authentic God. You're the one who speaks in the here and now, God. We just want to thank you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your assurance, God. Thank you for drawing us to your side, Lord. May we continue to walk with you by your side. Lord, always aware, Father, God, that you are speaking to us, that you're drawing us, that you have good things in store for us. We thank you. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Okay, I just want to open up this time. If there's anything that you sensed, anything that maybe for the class, maybe for someone here and online class, same thing. If there's a scripture that was quickened to your heart, something that you saw, you can just put it on the chat so that I can share it here with the in-person class also. So anything at all, you can share. Anyone, anything, what you sensed, what you felt impressed in your heart. Yeah, to do that. Yeah, Rinchen, you want to share something? No. If it's something personal, then you don't have to, but then if it's something that you feel that, go ahead. Okay, so it's a mirror and then light shining on a mirror and then reflected. And yeah, so Rinchen shared that saying that she, you saw this, you sensed this. You saw, something visual, mirror, light shining on the mirror, light dispersing and message being that, okay, the way I've shown my love to you, you share the love with others. Praise God. Anyone else? Yeah, so, Prince. Okay, so this is something that you saw or sensed, you heard. Okay, so this is Prince here. So what he heard in your heart, right? It's a cup that we, for the cup to be, a cup needs to be overflowing, but for that, one is to take away what is hindering or to take away what is, what we have already filled in that cup so that he can fill and the cup can overflow. Okay, so yeah, praise God for that. Sometimes we put, it's like, we say, okay, please serve and we just do that. But then if we put our hand there, it's people can't actually pour in and sometimes we do that, our own attitude, all sincerity we want, but then we're doing something, we are either fearful, we're either afraid, our attitude. So we actually, without knowing we do that, right? Yeah, so yeah, this is a reminder of that. Okay, anyone else? Take that hand off, right? Okay, praise God. Anyone else? So it need not be something visual, okay? Sometimes with the, oh, I didn't see, like, oh, Ranshan, sorry, like Ranshan said or like Prince, I just felt something and I'm not even sure whether it's God or not. How can I share? Please share. Okay, anybody feeling like that? St. Francis? Nothing, okay. Who else? Vijay, Anand, Sheera, trying to recollect the names, Vimal, right? Then Nishant, Nikhil, Nikhil, Srirada, Nina, anyone, online folks? Okay, yeah, something here. Let me just read out from Jachin Joel, okay? I'm so much thankful to God for his love. I was filled with the Holy Spirit and his presence was around me in my home. God broke the barriers within my heart and I'm determined to live the way he wants me to live, reflecting his love for me to those around and even to people who do not accept me. His power will enable and sustain me. Thanking God for his assurance and supernatural peace I receive now. Praise God. Thank you, Joel, for sharing that. Thank you, I really appreciate it. Okay, maybe two more minutes and then we'll jump right in, anyone? Sheera, anything? Oh, okay, okay. So whenever we, you know, of course, when we pray, we pour out our hearts, right? We tell the Lord what we want. We tell the Lord who he is, right? And also, we can take time to be mindful of what he is putting in us. It's a communication is always two ways, right? So it's a two-way lane. It's never one way, right? So we can be mindful of that and say, okay, God, what are you telling me? What are you speaking to me? Because the Lord wants to do that, right? Okay, so like what I saw was like something like a reverse rain, you know, rain always comes from top to bottom, like top down, from the sky to the earth. And then there's a lot of things here on the earth, right? So, but I saw something like a reverse rain in the sense, even as all of us were like praying, you know, quietly, softly, like going up like rain, something like a, like reversing a video, no? Like, like up like rain. So I just saw that, like things going up to heaven. And then the Lord, and I was just thinking, and the Lord responding to that with his, the rain of his presence, you know, but receiving and then, you know, sending the rain of his presence. And also sense that God bringing to maturity certain things in people's lives, like bringing to maturity, bringing to completion, you know, not all aspects of our lives, but some aspects of our life. And the Lord doing that, he sends that. Okay, anyone else? No. Okay, let's, let's go right into today's class, right? So today, online students, I've actually uploaded two books, A Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Wonderful Benefits of Praying in Tongues. So you can download that on your, you know, on your personal devices and so that you can access it. And others, you have the books here, physical copies. No, not yet. Okay. Okay, you may have it on top. You can, you know, pick it up later between the two classes when you have a break. But anyway, let me just, so, yeah, so we'll use content from that, both, both written by Pastor, Pastor Ashish, right? So this is about the whole aspect of baptism with the Holy Spirit, right? So we need to understand that from a point of, okay, what, what does the Bible say about baptism of the Holy Spirit? Okay, we've, you know, and, you know, coming from charismatic backgrounds and all that, we've always heard this, but it's, it's good to, you know, study and see what does the Bible talk about it, scriptural background for it, right? What it is and what it's not, so we know the difference. And also, why, why baptism of the Holy Spirit, right? And, you know, we're going to look at that. And we're also going to look at, you know, what does it result in? Okay, what do the Lord intend for us when he said, okay, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, you know, you'll just see the promise of the Father. What do the Lord intend for us? And, and, you know, some of those things, right? And also about praying in tongues and so on, why tongues and all that. So, so let's look into that. So first of all, the Lord, it was John the Baptist who, when we see in Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11, okay, you can turn there. Yeah, of course, you can follow in the notes also, you know, some of those things are there, but in the book, it's a little more sequential. Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11, okay, so this is what John the Baptist says. He says, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing hand fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing flow and gather his wheat into the barn and he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Okay, so this is something that we see where John the Baptist who is actually baptizing people in water, he says, okay, this is what I'm doing. I'm baptizing you people in water and this is the baptism of repentance, a sign of that, but there is one who's coming who's mightier than me. He's referring to the Lord because the rest of the chapter talks about that and where he says, you know, he, the Lord Jesus comes and then, you know, and all that we read the rest of the chapter. So here, he's talking about this baptism and he's talking about how the Lord Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit. Okay, so it's a different kind of a baptism. And what we need to, you know, be mindful of is this, he says this, you know, when you consider this phrase, verse 11, I indeed baptize you with water, but he is coming after me, he's mightier than I, who sandals I'm not worthy to carry, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Okay, so that word baptize, baptize, means to immerse, okay, to immerse completely. And people who actually were, you know, dying of garments, right? So they would use that dying of garments meaning, okay, if you want to, you know, take a white garment and then make it into a different color. So there would be a liquid, right? Liquid color, liquid dye, they would immerse that garment completely in that dye. And when it comes out, it comes out in a different color. You know, it could go in white, but it come out red or whatever. So, so immerse completely that the picture, that's the picture. So baptize, meaning immerse completely. So baptize with the Holy Spirit. So in the Greek, you know, that word, that proposition with can be translated as in or off or by. So, you know, so sometimes we get a little bit caught up in those, you know, in the usage of the words, you know, baptize with, how can you say baptize in or baptize by being baptized off the Holy Spirit. You know, the thing is that the Greek actually usage can be translated into all these ways in English. Okay, so baptize with, baptize in, you know, you don't have to be troubled. You know, it's the same thing. So it's a baptism off the Holy Spirit. Okay, so John the Baptist announced this and he said the Lord Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. So he's talking about the baptism. He's talking about an experience. He is talking about what the Holy Spirit would do. And he says that it is the work of cleansing, right, fire, just like how fire burns says he will do this, right, it's a work of cleansing. Okay, then the Lord Jesus also said something like this, you know, when you go to Luke chapter 24. Okay, Luke chapter 24 verse 48. Okay, let's look 24 verses 48 and 49. Okay, it says you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. Okay, but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. So John is here when you see the Lord is saying, okay, you wait for the promise of my father and you wait in Jerusalem till you are endued or filled or surrounded with power from on high. Okay, then let's turn to Acts chapter 1. Okay, Acts chapter 1 verses 4 and 5, okay, Acts chapter 1 verse 4. And being assembled together with them, okay, he commanded them. Who commanded them? Jesus. The Lord Jesus commanded his disciples not to depart from Jerusalem. Now this is after the resurrection. Not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father which he said, you have heard from me for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Okay, so he's referring to, he's using this phrase promise of the Father. And he says, okay, you have heard from me. You have heard me speak about this. Okay, so when did they hear him speak about this during his earthly ministry? Right, during his earthly ministry, the Lord. And where do we see that? The Lord speaking to them and talking to them about the promise of the Father. Right, where do we see that in the Gospels? Anyone? Huh? Yeah, where do we see in the Gospels where the Lord Jesus talks about this promise of the Father? Of course, one we see in Luke chapter 24, verse 48-49, but he says, this promise of the Father which you have heard from me, where else did he speak? Yeah, in the book of John, in the Gospel of John, the Lord Jesus makes several references to the Holy Spirit, about the Holy Spirit. Right, starting from John chapter 14, he says, I will pray the Father, 14 and verse 16. I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever, the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because, you know, several references, like verse 16 talks about that. And then we go down to verse 25, 26, 27, right, it talks about the Holy Spirit and several other places. So he's reminding them the promise of the Father which I actually, you heard from me, and he's saying, this is what will happen. You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now, but wait in Jerusalem. So even before that, what has happened is the Lord Jesus, we read about this in Matthew chapter, sorry, where's that reference? John chapter 20, right, the Lord's, you know, after the resurrection, he meets them and he breathes upon them, he breathes upon them and he says, receive the Holy Spirit. So here he's saying, you will receive the promise of the Father, you will be endured with power on high, you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And after his resurrection, he's, you know, he's breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. So something is happening right in the lives of the believers, they've been receiving from the Lord. You know, many things have been, exciting things are happening. So we can see that, okay, they, after his resurrection, they receive the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. They were born again, right. For them to be born again, the Lord Jesus has had to be, you know, had to die and rise again, right. He rose again, he defeated sin, he, you know, destroyed the body of sin. So now that, you know, the body of sin in their life, sin has no hold over them, no power over them that has been dealt with, okay. And he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. So they have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Now these are followers of the Lord Jesus, right. Then he says, you wait, you wait and then I will baptize. So the purpose of the Lord to baptize them was to be this, that they will have power to witness, okay. So we need to understand why baptism, why at all baptism, what is the objective. This is the intention that his disciples, his followers of the Lord Jesus, you and I, will have power, will be in, will be clothed with power to witness, okay. So that's the intention. Second one, what John the Baptist said, that he will do the work of refining. He will do the work of refining. He'll burn away the chaff, he'll gather the wheat. There is, you know, like how fire refines. Therefore, the baptism also, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there is a work of refining, there's a work of cleansing. There's a work of purifying that happens. Okay, so it's twofold, right. So what is the objective? One is to receive power in order to witness, be a witness, right. Second one, purifying, cleansing work as believers, right. The Lord cleansing us. So the objective is that, okay, purifying also so that we can be witnesses, okay. So when we turn to the book of Acts, we see several instances, starting from Acts chapter 2, in the early church where the disciples had gathered, several instances or several situations where people were baptized with the Holy Spirit. Okay, people were baptized with the Holy Spirit and we need to know that, okay. What happened when they were baptized? What were the, what was the situation? Who are these people? How do they, you know, how were they baptized with the Holy Spirit? Okay, so we need to know that. So we're going to look at that, okay. Let's look at Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2, I'm sure you've read this many, many, many times. Acts chapter 2 verses 1 to 4, okay. When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly they came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, right. So this is what happened. So something very supernatural, something, you know, something amazing and it's like you see something happening in the environment itself, atmosphere itself. They came a sound from heaven, rushing mighty wind, it filled the whole house. They were divided tongues of fire on each head. It's like, you can, can you just imagine, you know, like, okay, here everything is closed. There's not much ventilation and all that, fans are not on. But then there's a sound of a mighty rushing wind filling the whole, a whole room and on top of that, something that we can see, tongues of fire, claims of fire on each person's head and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Now, this is what the Lord Jesus said. He didn't say, okay, you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit. He said, you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit, okay, and they were all filled. So which means being filled with the Holy Spirit, being baptized in the Holy Spirit is the same thing, like the, it's used interchangeably here, right. Okay, so we see that they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. So they began to speak in other tongues, meaning they began to, you know, speak in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance, okay. So they were being clothed with the Holy Spirit, they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they were speaking in other languages, other tongues and as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance, which means that the Holy Spirit gave them the words and they spoke it out, okay. So they spoke in other tongues. Now, it was a harvest festival, the feast of the first fruits, feast of Tentecost, everything was, you know, happening one after the other. And we see that in Jerusalem, people had come to celebrate this feast, people from the surrounding regions who spoke, you know, other languages, they were all there. And when this happened, they were amazed, you know, we see different reactions, somewhere amazed, they marveled, how can this be? Now these are Jews and they're speaking my language, right. It's as if I suddenly started speaking in Telugu and Anand is like, wow, buster. What do you say in, how do you say in Telugu, wow. Okay, you see like, oh, I'm amazed, you know, you're speaking Telugu fluently, how can this be, you know, I know that you don't know the language, but then how did this happen? So that's the same reaction, they marveled, right. They were amazed, they were also perplexed, meaning troubled, how can this be? How is this happening? What is this due to? And some of course, they heard the languages and then they said, these people are drunk, right, they were, they just mocked, they ridiculed, they made fun of them and said, they are drunk. So it sounded like that, it sounded like, okay, some drunk people speaking it sounded like that, it sounded, you know, so everything was happening at that time. And this is what we see and we see this in Acts chapter two. You know, let me just read that, right. How is it that we hear verse eight, how is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born, Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya, adjoining Cyrene, you know, Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs, we hear them speaking in our own tongues, the wonderful works of God. Verse 12, so they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, whatever could this mean, others mocking said they are full of new wine. Okay, so this was the reaction and it's, it is recorded for us here. So when all this happened, Peter stands up, Acts chapter two, 14 to 18. Peter stands up and he says something. He addresses the crowd, but Peter standing up with the leaven, raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words, but these are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. So he's referring to another incident or another prophecy that was made by the prophet Joel. He's referring to the Old Testament scriptures, the scriptures of those times. And he's saying, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last day, says God, that I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall see, shall dream dreams. And on my men servants and on my maid servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. Okay, so prophesying is to speak forth as inspired by the Holy Spirit. There are very many elements to it prophesying. But simply put, it is this, God speaking to man through man, right? So they were prophesying, what were they saying? They were actually declaring the wonderful works of God. Okay, and Peter is saying, this is what it is. The Lord, the prophet declared this, we see the completion of that, or we see the actual working out of that, and they are filled with the Holy Spirit. They are not drunk, they are filled with the Holy Spirit. And as a result of that, this is what you see, this is what you hear. Okay, so something we see that as a result of baptism of the Holy Spirit, you know, he's talking about dreams, he's talking about visions, he's talking about prophecy. So we know that it can be an overflow of that, right? As a result of baptism of the Holy Spirit, we can expect that. As a result of being filled with the Holy Spirit, we can expect that because God wants to do that, God wants to release that, right? Dreams, prophecies, visions, well, it comes with that. So we don't need to restrict God and say, okay, it can happen this way. No, and they all spoke in tongues as well. So we see that. And then he says in verse 38 and 39, what does he say? Then Peter said to them, repent, because they ask, you know, what should we do? Then Peter said to them, repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are afar off as many as our Lord our God will call. So if there is a question, you know, this baptism of the Holy Spirit was only for the New Testament early, it's not for others. It could, you know, some of these questions could come up. You know, it was only then the Lord did it sovereignly. It's only then it's not anymore. But, you know, Peter puts to rest any such question. It's to you, it's to your children, the next generation and to those who are afar off people who are not here, they are as many as our Lord will call. Okay, so it's talking about Jerusalem, Judea, ends of the earth, Atomos parts of the earth, everyone is included in this. It is for all, this baptism of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so what is the intention? What is the objective? It is to witness with power. Okay, so in the witnessing with power, we need to understand this. Witnessing with power, you know, what is the understanding of it? Okay, let me ask you first. Witnessing with power. Okay, we received that to some of the Holy Spirit. He's given us the ability to witness with power. Does it mean that I need to speak it loudly, boldly, the gospel? What is it? What do you think? Witnessing with power, anyone? Good boldness, careless, okay, without any hesitation, not being ashamed, not being shy, anyone? Anyone else? Live for God, a life that is abandoned, totally for him, yes. What else? Anybody from the online class, what do you think? This witnessing with power. Now, this is the way in which the apostles actually gave witness. So, is there more to it? All these responses are correct. With boldness, without holding back, living an abandoned life, peerless, absolutely. But is there more to it? What do you think? Yeah, so that's the other aspect of it. In the sense, whenever the apostles, when we read the book of Acts, whenever the apostles, it says they gave witness with power and it talks about, let me just read. Okay, so verse 43, Acts, we read 38 and 39 promises to you and your children. Right? Then when we read 43, then fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles, many signs, many wonders. So, where the signs and wonder, how were these possible? How was this possible? Because the Lord Jesus already said that, if you believe, you will be doing this. He already said that. He also said that it is to this whole thing of baptism of the Holy Spirit, infilling of the Holy Spirit, it is so that you might be filled with power. Okay? And so, when we say to be witnesses, to be clothed with power, it is to be giving witness with the manifestation of the power of God. Living a righteous life, life of integrity and holiness. Yes, it is the power of God, transformative power of God. You know, living a life or giving witness with supernatural works of God, right, where God meets the need of people, whether it's healing or, you know, when there's a discouragement situation and the Lord brings in a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom, where the person, you know, begins to share or begins to share an information to another person, which this person has no idea about that person, but the Holy Spirit who knows everything reveals and you share, like, that is witnessing with power, right, where you witness with the power of God and you're giving witness, you're saying, this is God, it's not me, what is God, and God who knows everything is actually revealing. He knows you, he knew you, and he's revealing this to you, that this is how you were and this is what he wants to do in your life. So there is a witness right there, there's a testimony right there and it's with power, right, and that's what happened, you know, when they started speaking in tongues, it's not to display, put on spiritual display, you know, something like a trophy, oh, I received this, no, it was actually witnessing in power the supernatural works of God, what God, this infinitely supernatural, this wonderful working God can do through a finite person, a finite human being whose life is turned over to God, right. So the Lord Jesus wanted that to happen to all his, wants that to happen to all his, believe us, right, all his followers, all his disciples, that we would give witness with power, right. So, okay, the annoying thing will be moved to make a decision, yes, yes enough, yeah, so that's the thing, you know, it's, so power includes all that, you know, the transformative life, the testimony, the, you know, convicting power of the Holy Spirit and truth being enlightened and all these other manifestations of the power, because of the power of the Holy Spirit, right. Okay, so that was the first thing, okay, so let's move on to the second instance, okay, so these things, you know, you should be in your heart, okay, Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 8, all these things, you know, all these, you know, instances that happen, we should really know it, okay, so let's move to Acts chapter 8, okay, so Acts chapter 8 and verses 12 to 19, okay, Acts chapter 8, what happens in Acts chapter 8, okay, just a quick recap, there's a lot of persecution that happens after the martyr Dem of Stephen, right, chapter 7 is all about that, Stephen shares the message, he's stoned, he's put to death, Saul, we see Saul being introduced there, Saul is standing there, he was taken care of actually all the cloaks and everything, he was consenting to the death and after that we see that Saul is creating a havoc, right, he's persecuting the church, he's doing all that and people are scattered and one such place where this persecution happens is of course in Jerusalem it happens and Philip and others, they go to this place called Samaria because of the persecution. Philip shares the Gospel in Samaria, people are born again in Samaria, right, people start to follow the Lord, actually it says here that if you look at Acts chapter 8 and verse 7, for unclean spirits crying out with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed, so what was Philip doing, he was actually giving witness with power there and it says, as a result of all this, verse 8, there was great joy in the city, right, people who were in bondage, they are being set free, they have come to the saving knowledge of Christ and there was great joy in that city, okay. Okay, now let's go on to verse 12, right, we have time, okay, let's take a break and then once we come back, we'll continue with verse 12 to 19, Acts chapter 8, we'll take a break right.