 Okay, good morning. All those have logged in. Very good morning. Good to see you guys today. We are recording this session, so just to let you know. Okay. So the last couple of days yesterday and the day before we looked at laying the axe to the root, right? So different things at different areas, which we need to bring under the cleansing, refining work of the Holy Spirit and it's like how the Lord Jesus said, it's like laying the axe. When the Holy Spirit deals with us, it's like laying the axe to the root of the problem. But one thing is that we need to cooperate, right? We need to surrender, we need to give ourselves to the Lord and the Lord will deal, right? Whatever things are, you know, all these things that we're looking at are really things that trouble us, right? If you look at jealousy or pride or lust and all these things, these really trouble us and you know, they make us fall short of the glory of God, right? They bring us, they withhold us from fulfilling what God wants us to fulfill. They withhold us from living the way God wants us to live, right? So it's good that we open our lives to the Holy Spirit, to the work of the Holy Spirit, to deal with, to refine and cleanse our lives. And then we will experience that freedom and the liberty that comes from the Spirit of God. Because what God very clearly says that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. There is liberty, right? We will experience that in our spirit, in our minds and in our lives. OK, so let's, why don't we pray and get started, right? Let's pray. Father God, we thank you, Lord, for this day, yet another day that you've given us, Lord, to learn, Lord, even as you reveal your heart to us, Lord, to learn to receive from you, Lord, and to walk in the revelation, to walk in what we receive from you, God. We thank you, Lord. We come at each one of us into your mighty hands, God. Just go ahead and you pray and say, Lord, speak to me today. Lord, deposit your word in my heart today. Lord, deal with my heart today. Deal with my life today. I want to encounter you, your presence. I want to encounter your power. You know, just go ahead and just pray that prayer. And make it the sincere one and may it come from our hearts. And maybe you're in a place saying, Lord, I don't know. I don't feel any hunger. I don't feel any, you know, intense desire. But you can pray that as well and say, Lord, change my heart. I really want to know you. Change my heart. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Farah, God. Yes, Lord, you know us, Lord, inside out. And, Lord, you know our present circumstance. You know the condition of our heart, Lord. Lord, what is going on in our thoughts, in our minds? You know everything about us. And, Lord, we come to your presence as we are. And this morning we ask for God that, Lord, even as we acknowledge that you indwell us. Lord, we ask that you would, or strengthen, refresh, Lord, lead us into all that you have for us today, God. We thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Okay. Okay, today we're going to look at, in this morning's session, we're going to look at this whole aspect of baptism in the Holy Spirit. What is this baptism in the Holy Spirit? Why is it necessary? Why is it important? And is it for every believer, you know, all those kinds of things? What happens when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit? So, we're going to be studying that and after we take a break, after we come back, maybe there are some questions and doubts. You know, we'll answer that and also we would pray. Pray and minister, pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Like, for maybe some of us are already baptized and we move in the gifts and so on. That's wonderful. If not, you know, it'll be a new thing that the Lord does in us. Otherwise, if you're already, you know, filled and we move in the gifts, it'll be another refresher for us. So, that is what we're going to look at. So, in the laying the acts to the root, whatever we were studying yesterday and the day before, we looked at one scripture, right? We started off with one scripture. Anyone remembers what it is? We started off with one scripture, one main scripture. And then we went on to laying the acts to the root and so on. So, where is this whole laying the acts to the root? Where does, where is it found? Sorry? Okay, is it an Old Testament or New Testament? We'll start from the basics. New Testament, okay. Online students, you know, you can put your answers on the chat, right? Okay. In the New Testament, whose words were these? Is laying the acts to the root? Who said those words? John the Baptist. So, it's definitely in the New Testament, okay. So, which of the Gospels? I know, you know, in a couple of places he says, but in Matthew's Gospel, right? Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11, I think, right? Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11, where John the Baptist comes and he says, this is what is going to happen. I introduce to you the Lord Jesus, right? He whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry, but he, see, I'm baptizing you with water. That's what John the Baptist was doing, right? What is baptism to? Immerse completely in something, right? That term was used for even dying of garments and so on, right? In those days. So, baptism means to immerse completely, surround completely, immerse, baptize so. So, John the Baptist was baptizing people in water, right? In those rivers, he was just baptizing them, he was baptizing them to repentance. He was saying, you depend, change your ways, right? And then, when he's introducing Jesus, the Lord Jesus, what does he say? He says, there's coming after me, Jesus, whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry. He will do something. What do we do? He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. So, and, you know, he says that his winnowing fan in his hand verse 12, he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Okay, now this burning, you know, it's a work of refining. It's a work of burning away all the unnecessary things. It also refers to the eternal judgment, the final judgment, right? Unquenchable fire, the Holy Spirit will do that. But for the believer, it's the work of changing, refining, burning away the unnecessary things so that the believer can be free of all these things, right? So he says the Holy Spirit will do that. But he says, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit, okay? You know, something to do with that grammar, if you look at those words, that words that he used, baptize with, he can actually be translated as baptize in, baptize off, baptize with and so on, right? So, when we say baptize with the Holy Spirit or baptize in the Holy Spirit, it's one of the same thing because in the Greek, you can actually use it interchangeably, right? So, that's something that to bear in mind. So, what is he going to do? He's going to baptize the believer, the follower with the Holy Spirit. Now, the Lord Jesus Himself, when He ministered on the earth, He ministered by the power of the Holy Spirit, right? He ministered by the power of the Holy Spirit and Scripture testifies to that and He also promised the believer that, hey, I'm going to send the promise of the Father, okay? In the book of John, he says, I go to the Father, it's beneficial for me that I go to the Father, for then He will send the Holy Spirit and then He goes on to say, hey, you will do the things that I do, John chapter 14 and verse 12, okay? You will do the things that I do. You will do greater things in the sense, the Lord wants to empower each and every one of us to minister in the same way that He did, okay? To minister means to preach the gospel, to heal the sick and all the other things that followed His ministry, signs, wonders, miracles. The Lord Jesus wants us to minister in the same way and for that, He says, I will empower you by the power of the Holy Spirit and that is why He's saying, you know, I will send the Father, I will send the promise of the Father, okay? One particular scripture, Luke chapter 24 and verse 48, 49, okay? If you're following in the book, I forgot, if you're following in the book, it is page number four, okay? Page two, is it? Page two, okay, I'm all, okay. If you're following the book, it's page number two. Those of you online, if you're following the PDF, the e-book, it's page number two, right? Okay, Luke chapter 24, verse 48 and 49, He says, I will send, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but wait in the city of Jerusalem, okay? So He's telling the disciples, I send the promise of my Father, but wait in the city of Jerusalem, okay? Now we move on to the book of Acts chapter one and the Lord is with them, the resurrected God, He's with them and He's commanding the same thing. He says, wait in Jerusalem, why should they wait in Jerusalem? Saying, I send the promise of the Father, you know, can you see that? What page is it? Three, okay? Being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which He said, you have heard from me, right? Which means He has already spoken to them, He has already taught them, said, you know, remember, I told you, so you wait in Jerusalem, behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you, okay? For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now. So He's actually recounting the whole thing, right? John, when He introduced Jesus, He said, I'm baptizing you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. The Lord is saying, remember I told you, I will send the promise of the Father, so you have to wait in Jerusalem, because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now, okay? So He's promising, and this is what He's saying, verse 8, Acts chapter 1 verse 8, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth, okay? So this is the, He's saying, this is what will happen, when you wait in Jerusalem, you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit, I will send the promise of the Father, and you will receive what? You will receive power to be witnesses, okay? So that is the objective of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Why baptism of the Holy Spirit? Why baptism in the Holy Spirit? So that we can receive, that the follower of the Lord Jesus can receive power to be witness, power to witness. And how did the Lord Jesus witness when power, in deliverance, right? In healing, in forgiveness, in sharing the gospel, right? And people were set free, people were, you know, joyful, they received solution for their problems, right? So the same way, the Lord is saying, you will be witnesses, but you will be witnesses with this Holy Spirit power. So that is what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is for. The Lord wants to work in us and He wants each one of us to be witnesses, testifying about Jesus, but not with just mere words, but with Holy Spirit power, okay? Everyone okay? Okay, right. So let's, for the purpose of study, we're going to look at the Book of Acts, okay? We're in chapter 2, maybe page number 4, I think, or chapter 2. And so we're going to look at several instances in the Book of Acts where the Holy Spirit, where people were baptized to the Holy Spirit or filled with the Holy Spirit, and certain things happened, okay? So we're going to, we're going to study that to see, okay, what happened when people were baptized in the Holy Spirit, okay? So we see in the Book of Acts, five instances or five times this is recorded. There could have been many more instances or incidents of people being baptized in the Holy Spirit, but five very clearly recorded incidents, okay? So first one is in the, is in Acts chapter 2, okay? Acts chapter 2 versus 1 to 4, okay, let's, let's read, right? When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there 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, as 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. So this is recorded for us, Book of Acts chapter 2. They were all in the, in one place, they were about 120 of the disciples, they were praying, and suddenly there was the sound of the rushing mighty wind, okay? They were all indoors, right? Everything was closed, but there was a sound of a rushing wind, okay? Just imagine, they're all, you know, no windows here, but suddenly there's a sound of a rushing wind, right? As if all the fans were on, you know, that is what they experienced. And there on top of each of their heads, it appeared like tongues of fire, okay? On each of their heads, something supernatural was happening, because there is wind, and there is also fire, right? And it says the sound of a rushing wind, so, yeah. And then something happened, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak with other tongues or other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance, okay? So, which means that Holy Spirit gave them the words of other tongues or other languages, and they began to speak out, something supernatural happened, okay? So, what does it mean? Here we learn, we see that they spoke, they began to speak, who spoke? The disciples spoke, okay? So, it was not God speaking, it was not the Holy Spirit speaking, but it was the disciples themselves speaking. But they were speaking the words which the Holy Spirit was giving them. How do we know that? Verse 4, it says, the Spirit gave them utterance. They spoke as the Spirit gave them utterance, okay? So, our expectation, our thinking is this, okay, the Lord gives the words, and we speak it out. He fills us with the Holy Spirit, He gives the words, and it is me who speaks it out, it is I who speak it out, right? Okay. So, they were all there, and it was the feast of Pentecost, 50 days after the first fruit. So, there were people from the surrounding areas, Jews from the surrounding areas who spoke other languages, right? So, they were all there, and they saw and they heard their own language being spoken, in their own language people were magnifying God. So, they found it strange. Why? Because they knew that these people were Galileans, these people were the local folks, and they had no way that they could speak their own language, right? So, they were all, it says here, if you go to Acts chapter 2, it says that they were amazed, they were perplexed, they were mocking them, right? All kinds of reactions, right? Because it says that, you know, different kinds of people were there, Parthians, Medes, Illamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, so all these regions, people had come for the Feast of Pentecost. After the first Feast of First Roads, they're there waiting for the Feast of Pentecost. So, now the day of Pentecost had come, and people were speaking in other languages, okay? So, they began to, all kinds of reactions, but some of them mocked, okay? So, they made fun of them, saying these people are drunk, okay? So, they heard people speak in their own language, okay? So, I'm sure a lot of languages are represented here, like Hindi, yeah, I'm sure there's Telugu there, there's Malayalam there, what else? Tamil is Mizo, yeah? Mizo, no, not Pizano. Rinchen, what language? English only, okay. Okay, any other language? Marathi, Malayalam, of course, I think. I speak Konkani, Pasra. What do you speak? Hindi, okay. Kannada, Nagamis, who speaks Nagamis? You speak, okay. Okay, so different kinds of languages, and thanks Sanjay for posting that link. So, different kinds of languages, people are praising God. So, there's no way that, what is your name? Non-sang, okay. So, there's no way non-sang can speak Tamil, can you non-sang? Or Malayalam, right? This is like down south from Northeast. So, let's say non-sang just sings Tamil. You know, that's a Tamil song. And everybody is like, wow, non-sang, how did you get that? This is something recent, and how did you learn languages? No, I was just singing in tongues, right? So, that is what happened here. So, they were all amazed. They said, wow, there's something supernatural is happening. There's no way these people could speak. There's our languages, but we are speaking, and they are actually praising God, right? It says here, we hear them speaking, verse 11, Acts chapter 2 verse 11, we hear them speaking in our own tongues, the wonderful works of God. So, they're speaking with a purifying God, praising God, and so on. And then Peter stands up, and then he addresses the crowd, and he says, since people were mocking and saying that these people are drunk, because some of them were actually speaking something which was not making sense, right? It sounded like gibberish. It sounded as if they were drunk. They were behaving strangely, right? So, Peter stands up, and he says, hey, it's nine o'clock in the morning. They're not drunk, as you suppose, right? And let it be known to you. And he goes on to quote from Joel chapter 2 verse 28 to 32, and he says, and he says, this is what was mentioned in the Old Testament, in the scriptures, you know, that was the scriptures they had. He said, this is what Joel mentioned. What did he say? Joel chapter 2 verse 28 to 30, it shall come to pass in those days, 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 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 Peter's saying, this is what is mentioned there, and this is what is happening here. Okay, but if you notice, Joel talks about prophecy, Joel talks about dreams, Joel talks about visions, but none of that was happening there, right? This is just that people were speaking in strange languages, right? So we understand that it is the same Holy Spirit, but the manifestation of His power, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit can be different, right? It can be varied, but it's the same Holy Spirit who displays His power, who displays His presence. Okay, okay, there's a, somebody's audio is on, if that is on, could you please mute your mic? I just see a comment here, online students. Somebody's, let me just see. Sorted, okay, thanks John. Okay, John, blessy, you raised your hand. If it's, John, do you have a question or something? Or, okay, you can post on the group, John. I don't know whether you raised your hand by mistake, but okay. Okay, let's keep going. Okay, so we see that different kinds of manifestations of the Holy Spirit. So, Peter, you know, makes a very important statement there, he says, in verse 38, okay? If you can look at what page is it on, Anand? Page six, okay. So, accept it to 38, he says, Peter said to them, repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of the Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, okay? So, what had happened just then? They had this whole wonderful supernatural experience of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. So, Peter's saying, you know, you are yet to receive Jesus. So, repent and receive Jesus into your heart. That's what he says, repent and be, you know, each one of you be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins, and you shall also receive the same thing, the same thing that we have received. What is it? He says it's the gift of the Holy Spirit, yeah. Yeah, so this is the first time we record that the baptism of the Holy Spirit for the people, you know, after the cross, in such ways that was prophesied by Joel, people experiencing the power and the presence of the baptism. Yeah, we're going to look at that. So, yeah, so we see it's a different measure of the Holy Spirit, again, like he breathed on them so Anand's question is, you know, we see another reference there in John chapter 20, verse 2021, I think, right, 21, 22, where he says Jesus breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit and, you know, and then we see that reference also. So, what is the difference, you know? Yeah, so this experience of baptism of the Holy Spirit, it was for the first time, for all, because this is something that they were experiencing for the first time, that there was a supernatural manifestation of tongues and so on. So, we see that this is something which is unique and it's happening in history for the first time, right? So, we will also, you know, learn about what was that then, you know, when he said, you know, he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit. We'll look at that, right? Okay, okay. And Peter says in verse 39, for the promise is to you and to your children, okay? So, this promise, this gift of the Holy Spirit is not just for us living at that time, not just for us disciples, okay? It's not something that is just for us and that is it. He's saying this is promise is for you. In fact, he says, repent and be baptized and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And then he goes on to say in verse 39, this promise is for you, your children and as many who are, all those who are afar off, as many as our Lord, our God will call, okay? So, you're saying as many as the Lord, our God will call, which means is referring to the future generations, is referring to maybe a millennia too later to us also, right? As many as the Lord will call who respond to that call, you know, this gift of the Holy Spirit is available. This promise is to each one of us, okay? So, he says it is a gift, which means what is a gift? It's something that is not, you don't give, you know, you don't tell someone, hey, I want that gift, can I give you some money, right? You don't say that, no, gift is given freely, right? So, we just receive the gift. Gift is not earned, like you don't do some 10 things and say, now I've earned my gift or I've performed well, I'm a top performer, therefore I need this gift, you know, I'm entitled to this gift, we don't do that, right? The gift is given freely. So, saying this is a gift which is given freely, we don't earn it, we don't, we're not entitled for it, we don't do any good works to receive it, but it is purely given freely, okay? Okay, and it's for future generations, it's for available for us today. So, that's the first instance that we see in the Book of Acts, where it talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. What is the second one? Second one we read in the Book of Acts again, chapter 8, okay? Chapter 8. So, what happens in chapter 8? These believers who are in Jerusalem, they are arrested, are persecuted for their faith. So, they go from Jerusalem, run away from Jerusalem, and they go to this place called Samaria, okay? And the wonderful thing is this, as they are going, wherever they are going, they are preaching the gospel. They are sharing about Jesus, people are getting saved. So, also in Samaria, there's this person by the name Philip, he goes there to Samaria, he shares the gospel, people are saved, they experience some wonderful things. It says here that unclean spirits came out with a loud voice, for many were possessed, many who were paralyzed and lame were healed, and there was great joy in that city where Samaria, right? They had received the gospel. So, they were believers there. And it also talks about a person named Simon, who was actually a practicing sorcerer or witchcraft, who was into all that, he also believed. Now, when the apostles who were in Jerusalem, when they heard, people in Samaria have become believers, right? When they heard that, they did something, they sent Peter and John. They sent Peter and John, and it was with this objective. Peter and John, when they came, when they met the believers, who were already following Jesus, they laid hands on them and prayed. And it says here that when they came, I'm looking at Acts chapter 8 and verse 15, 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, it says here that this is what Peter and John did. They came, they prayed, they laid hands and prayed, and people received the Holy Spirit. Were they believers? Yes, they had already believed. So, when they, so that's the question, when they believed, obviously, we know that the Holy Spirit envelops the believer, right? We see in the episodes, we see that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, right? So, here we see that this baptism of the Holy Spirit, we learn it's something for every believer who has the indwelling presence, but this is something that the Lord wants the believer to experience and receive in order to be a witness with power, right? Okay, and here also something supernatural happened. In Acts chapter 2, we saw that people, what does the supernatural thing happen in Acts chapter 2? The sound of the rushing wind in a closed room, tongues of fire on everyone's head, and people speaking different languages which they had not learned. The Holy Spirit gave them utterance and they spoke it, right? And they magnified God through those words. So, we saw these supernatural things. Here, none of that is mentioned, okay? But here, something supernatural happened because it says in verse 18, okay? Verse 17 says, they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Verse 18, and when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money. Why? He said, give me this power also that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit. So, he said, you know, I want this power. Something supernatural has happened. I can see, I can hear. You know, something happened. It's not like he laid hands and people receive the Holy Spirit and it was not noticeable. Something noticeable happened that he could see with his eyes or he could hear with his ears. Something, some change happened and so he said, let me give you some money. You give me this power because earlier he was into witchcraft, he was a sorcerer and it says that he actually amazed people with the display of this magic, black magic, sorcery, whatever. People were, you know, they said, wow, he was actually controlling them. So, now he actually believes in the Lord. But now, what is he saying? I want this power. You know, his motive was, I want to display this power now. I want people to see me. I want people the same kind of influence that I had. I want to have that now over the people, right? So, the important thing is this, something supernatural happened. It is not mentioned here, but it was something tangible, right? We can, okay, we can infer or we can conclude that this was maybe the gift of tongues. We can conclude. Maybe they also started speaking in tongues, just like how it happened in Acts chapter 2. But one of the lessons that we can learn is that going by Peter and John and what they did, we understand that it was quite a normal thing. If somebody's a believer, if somebody believes in Jesus and becomes a follower of the Lord Jesus, it became the normal thing to go pray for them that they might be baptized in the Holy Spirit, right? It was not like the first time. It's a normal thing. So, Peter and John, the first thing they do is they lay hands on the believers and say, okay, this is for you. You believe in Jesus, you become a believer, be filled with the Holy Spirit, right? So, we see that it was a normal practice in the early church that people be prayed for to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, okay? The third thing, third instance that we see is in Acts chapter 9. So, so far we've seen two. The third one is in Acts chapter 9 and it involves Saul, who later came to be known as Paul and who did great things. So, in Saul's life, we know, right? He was on the way to Damascus. He has his encounter with the Lord Jesus. He falls down of his animal. He's unable to see and he's taken into the city, right? And he's in this house and he's waiting. So, the Lord speaks to a disciple named Ananias, okay? Let's read Acts chapter 9 verses 10 onwards, okay? Verse 10, now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias and to him the Lord said in a vision, Ananias and he said, here I am Lord. So, the Lord said to him, arise and go to the street called Strait and inquire at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus for behold, he is praying. You know, it's amazing. The Lord speaks in visions. First of all, we learned that. Then the Lord speaks great details. Go, he's in this house, the house of Judas. His name is Saul of Tarsus and he even gives the name of the street. He's in the street called Strait address. Great details, right? And he's saying, behold, he is praying right now. Okay, let's continue. Verse 12, and in a vision, he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight. So, the Lord is like doing multiple things at the same time. He's speaking to Ananias in a vision, right? And at the same time, Paul is receiving a vision. What is that vision? That vision is of Ananias coming in, laying hands and praying. Amazing, right? At the same time, he's saying, you know, even now in the vision, he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, putting his hand. So, you go. Now Ananias is troubled. Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this. Sorry, right? That is, how much he harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem. Verse 13, right? For he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name. Verse 15, But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings and children of Israel. And I will show him how many things he must suffer for my sake. Okay? So Ananias goes. Verse 17, 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 that's the Lord's plan for every believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit, right? And that's the instruction Ananias received. Go lay hands, pray, right? And this is amazing orchestration, supernatural divine orchestration. So he goes and he says, and this is what happens when he prays. Verse 18, immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once and he arose and was baptized. Okay? So he received his sight. He could not see, now he could see. He says he arose and he was baptized. Now again, the intention Ananias says, you know, this is what I call. I've been instructed to come and pray for you that you might see again. I've been instructed to come and pray for you that you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay? Verse 18 says, he saw and he was baptized. Okay? So both happen. Now, again here, we see that did Paul speak in tongues? You know, did anything supernatural happen? It's not recorded here, right? But we do know that Paul moved in all the gifts of the spirit because that is what he taught the Corinthian church, all the nine gifts of the spirit. So he taught them, okay, these are the gifts of the spirit. This is what you must do. This is how it needs to be operated in the church and so on. And he gave explicit instructions about the gift of tongues as well and gift of prophecy and so on. So, we see that Paul, we know that Paul, if not then, eventually started praying in tongues. In fact, in 1 Corinthians 14, I think it's verse 14 or 18, he says, I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. Okay? So that's Paul's own testimony. In his own words, he's saying, I pray in tongues, I speak in tongues more than something supernatural happening over and over again. Okay? Let's look at the fourth one. Okay? This is in the house of Cornelius, the man called Cornelius. Again, some supernatural things happen. If you read verse, sorry, chapter 10, we see that supernaturally God sets up, right? Cornelius, he meets Cornelius, he sends an angel with a message, send people, bring Peter. Peter's living here, address everything, so they go. And as they go, the Lord speaks to Peter through a vision to a trans that he has and says, go. Okay? So, this is what happens. So finally, Peter is there in Cornelius' house. We are in Acts chapter 10 and verse 44, right? So Peter is preaching. He sees that, you know, he goes to Cornelius' house and people are already gathered there. Okay? They're all waiting, expecting. Okay? Here's a man who's coming with a message from God. So much hunger, expectation. They're all sitting there. Can you just imagine, right? You're going to somebody's house and you're saying, come, come, come. You know, we're all waiting. You suddenly, you know, you just see that people are waiting, sitting everywhere, saying, you know, yeah, please, please speak, whatever you want to speak. Now just go ahead, we're just waiting to hear your word. So Peter just starts and he says here, while Peter was still speaking these words, you know, he's talking about the Lord Jesus, he's talking about, you know, verse 34 onwards, right? If you see, he's talking about the message of the gospel is for the Jews and the Gentiles and so on. Verse 44, while Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished as many as came with Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Okay, so here are these Jewish believers along with Peter and they are astonished. What is happening? Well, this gift of the Holy Spirit has been poured out and what is the evidence? What is the proof? Hey, they are speaking in tongues and they're magnifying God. One of the factors, right? One of the signs saying they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. When Peter answered, can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. And he commanded them, verse 48, and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few words, stay a few days, sorry. So excuse me. So they asked Peter was preaching, people were believing, they were already expectant. The Holy Spirit was poured out on them and they began to speak with other tongues and magnify God and so on. So here we don't see any laying on of hands like Peter and John. We don't see any laying on of hands like Ananias who prayed over Saul. No laying on of hands, just like Acts chapter 2, the first time. Sovereignly, they were just expectant, they believed in Jesus, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. So certain things that we learn here, okay, I don't need to have somebody lay hands on me and pray over me. Jesus is the one who baptizes, that's what John said. He's the one who baptizes with Holy Spirit and with fire. So God can do it anyway. He can do it when people lay hands. He can do it sovereignly, even if people do not lay hands. That's something that we, okay. Then we also see that these people believed in Jesus, they are baptized in the Holy Spirit and then they were baptized in water. Okay, do we see that? Right, verse 48. So Peter commands them. He says, okay, you know, now who can stop them from being baptized? So he says, can anyone forbid water? And he says, these should not be baptized. So let them be baptized in the name of the Lord. So then they are baptized in water as well. Okay, so we see the order shift. It's not like I believe I'm baptized in water and then the Holy Spirit, you know, I'll be baptized in the Holy Spirit. No, right, here the order is changed, right. Okay, then we go on to the fifth instance. So we'll take some time to, you know, if there are any doubts or questions, we'll take some time to do that. So the fifth instance is in the place called Ephesus. Now this involves Paul, okay. So Saul became a believer. He's filled with the Holy Spirit and an IS ministered to him. Now here we see him going to Ephesus and he's meeting some people here, okay, Acts chapter 19. Okay, Acts chapter 19. And it happened while Apollos was at Corinth that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus and finding some disciples, like important to take note, right, finding some disciples. He said to them, see, this is the first thing, you know, it seems like this is the first thing that they, you know, ever in their conversation, oh, hello, I'm so-and-so, I'm Paul. Who are you? Oh, my name is Josephus. Okay, nice to know you. Nice to meet you. You're a follower of the Lord Jesus. Yeah, how did that happen? Oh, this is how I believe Jesus. Okay, did you receive the Holy Spirit? Today, we'll be like, you know, why is this person so, you know, we sometimes people get offended, right? And they say, you know, they say, why should he, why should he even mention like this? If it happens, it happens. No, they were very intentional, right? They said, did you receive the Holy Spirit? Very casual question. Okay, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? So they said to him, we have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit. And he said to them, what kind of baptism did you have? They said, well, John was baptizing, right? That kind of baptism was for, then Paul said, John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him who would come after him, that is on Christ Jesus. So he baptizes them in water in the name of the Lord Jesus. Okay, after that we see in verse six, and when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. What do they do? They spoke with tongues and they prophesied. So every time these five instances that we have seen, every time something supernatural happened, something out of the ordinary that people would not normally do happened, right? They filled with the Holy Spirit, they spoke with tongues and they prophesied. What is prophecy? Speaking as inspired, as led, as prompted, receiving inspiration from God and speaking it out, right? So they received that and they prophesied. So we see, okay, it is not just gift of tongues but it's prophecy also. In fact, because we are receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, it could be any of the gifts of the Spirit, right? Any of the gifts of the Spirit to be manifested. So they also prophesied at this time. They prayed in tongues and they spoke in tongues and they prophesied. Okay. So we learned when we put all this together, we see, okay, it doesn't mean that people have to be laid hands on. It can happen without laying on our hands. What else do we learn from these five instances? What else do we learn? We also see that it doesn't depend on the order. I need to be baptized in water and then it doesn't depend on that very clearly in Cornelius house that happened. Okay, what else do we learn? It is for all believers, right? All believers, it's the most natural thing that was happening in the early church. Hey, these guys have become believers. Just go pray for them. Or, you know, these people have become believers. Oh, most natural thing to ask the question. Did you see the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Right? We learned that, right? It's the most natural. It's for all believers. It's not only for those special disciples who walked with the Lord. It's for all, all generations who would call on the Lord. Okay. Okay, we'll take a break and then once we come back, probably we can share some more learnings. Maybe you have some questions. We can address that also. Okay, we'll take a break and come back. Thank you.