 Okay, this message from Subhash Singra is not part of the WhatsApp group, so probably someone can just help him and add him to the WhatsApp group, students WhatsApp group, so he'll also be part of the discussions and yeah, okay, let's pray and then we'll get started, right? So, let's pray. Father we thank you, thank you for this day Lord, thank you for that you are with us, thank you Lord that you are leading us, guiding us, speaking to us, Lord we just pray that we'll continue to sharpen our hearing or God that whatever is coming as a hindrance, Lord, between us and you Lord, I pray that it'll be removed. Father God I just pray that Lord that we will even remove that mindset that we cannot hear from you. For you have said Lord that we are your sheep and the sheep have the privilege of hearing the shepherd's voice and so Lord in everything Father God I pray that we'll continue to seek you, pursue you, God seek your face and Lord I pray that they will always be a rich deposit of your word in our hearts Lord that that may be quickened by your spirit and to our understanding and I just pray Father God that you speak to us in amazing, the various ways that we've been learning and I pray that we will grow in our understanding in this manner also Father God and thank you master, thank you for always being with us and always there for us Lord and thank you God that we can just turn to you and look to you and call upon your name anytime we want to God and anytime there is a need and I just pray that to pray this morning that we will look to you first Lord we will look to you first that our hearts might be settled that you will speak your peace and then Father God that as you lead us that we will be led by you to do what needs to be done Father God whether it's when it's challenging times when it's a crisis or anything God that you have the answers and you're the one who leads us so God we pray that we will discipline ourselves to seek you seek your face God at all times God we thank you we come at these sessions into your mighty hands Jesus name we pray amen okay okay thanks for thanks for putting up that link okay let's let's start with where we stopped last class last class we we completed chapter 8 right we completed chapter 8 which is the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life and we look at several topics under that and the manner in which the Holy Spirit God the Holy Spirit works in the believer's life and the wonderful thing is that he you know he speaks to us and we have the privilege of hearing his voice right today from today and maybe for a few weeks we will look at chapter 9 and you know the chapters following that which is about the work of the Holy Spirit and starting with the baptism with the Holy Spirit or baptism in the Holy Spirit and also going on to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and because the baptism of the Holy Spirit when we when you study the objective and the reason for which the the Lord invites and opens up the life of the believer for this we see that the objective is to clothe the believer with power for the work of ministry and one of the ways to which the expression of God's power or God expresses his power is through the release of the gifts of the spirit which is you know the manifestation of the gifts of the spirit which is a display of God's power God's miraculous power God's transformative power in the human's life so so we're going to be spending some time looking at studying the gifts and we will go you know we will look at the gifts of the spirit which are listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and we will look at each one of them and how they you know how to identify and how to move in it and so so it's all a you know very exciting and also a very practical sessions right so so starting with you know hearing the voice of the spirit just want to encourage all of us to you know once the class is over and maybe in your quiet times to step in faith and practice it and practice what we are learning to receive what we are learning and receive my faith from God right so it's it's it's going to be a lot of practical things from now on so just want to encourage all of us to be to truly jump in right enter into it right okay so let's look at chapter 9 baptism in the Holy Spirit and from now on we will also use the APC publication Pascal's book which is the gifts of the Holy Spirit so you could download that and keep it handy what I will do is after the session I will also put the link you know or maybe put the PDF in the in our resources tab so you can download that as well okay so okay for today's class maybe I'll just project it so you can follow it let's see this one second I'm just getting the hang of it okay so you've got that right so we're looking at you know the baptism in the Holy Spirit or baptism of the Holy Spirit baptism with the Holy Spirit so the first thing to can you oops just a minute as the display changed okay just a minute please I'm not sure sorry guys sometimes this okay here we go okay so is that has that come on okay yes okay so let's look at you can just follow through in the screen or in your notes so we see this whole thing of baptism and the John the Baptist we know came baptizing baptizing people in water and he also made a very you know very specific reference to baptism the kind of baptism that he is involved in and the kind of baptism that the Lord Jesus will introduce to the people okay so we see that in Matthew chapter 3 verses 11 and 12 let me just read that scripture it is there on the screen I will 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 and then verse 12 his winnowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn but he will burn up the shaft with unquenchable fire okay so one thing to first firstly for us to understand is that he's saying that he's baptizing with water and it's a it's a symbolic you know something that symbolizes people's repentance but he's referring to the Lord Jesus and he's saying he is coming after me is mightier and he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit okay so the word baptize it actually means to to immerse completely let me just okay it means to to dip or to immerse and it was a term which was used by in in by the people who were actually doing the dying of fabric right so something is immersed completely and and the color of the dye fastens on to the fabric and completely changes right it it's immersed completely so that is what it means to baptize or means to immerse completely so completely covered or fully surrounded and immersed right so now so the John says that the Lord Jesus will do this he will baptize you he will immerse you surround you maybe fill you with the Holy Spirit and with the Holy Spirit and fire okay so um the you would have heard you know many terms many people using the word terms baptize with the Holy Spirit or baptize in the Holy Spirit okay and and both are correct because the the Greek rendition of that word with is it can be translated as in or with off and so on so baptize with or baptize in the Holy Spirit it both are correct so so you know if anybody asked it question you know this is actually not true then you could answer you know this is you know the the Greek word with is translated in these ways so so both are correct right baptism with the Holy Spirit and baptism in the Holy Spirit okay so John um uh referred to the Lord Jesus and he said that the Lord Jesus will come and he will baptize with the Holy Spirit okay so in the teachings of the Lord Jesus the Lord Jesus makes this reference in Luke chapter 24 okay Luke chapter 24 versus 48 and 49 um the Lord Jesus says and you are witnesses of these things behold I send the promise of my father upon you but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high okay so um just want you to um look at that phrase promise of my father okay um says uh is to his disciples you wait in Jerusalem I'm sending the promise of my father um and you wait in Jerusalem till you are endued or clothed or covered that's the word endued meaning of the word endued still you're endued with power from on high okay and in aspect of one versus four to five and also in verse eight um he repeats that instruction we see that instruction being uh uh you know uh repeated there um and and Luke is captured that right uh he says verse four and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem okay so I'm sorry it's it could have may have been repeated but it's it's uh definitely written there uh for us um by Luke right so um 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 okay so it is a repetition um for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now okay so um again referring to John's instruction of John himself said said this that I baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit so here the Lord Jesus saying that you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now but it's different from John's baptism which is baptism of water um verse eight 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 um he asked them to wait gives them specific instruction and he says you will receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit okay now in the book of acts we see uh five instances of uh of the baptism of the Holy Spirit okay five uh five very distinguishable instances that we see there and we let's look at that and then uh maybe we have some questions we'll take that also okay so let's look at the first instance okay which is acts chapter two and verses one to four um acts two okay when the day of Pentecost has had fully come they were all in 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 of 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 so they were about 120 disciples and they were baptized and this happened on the day of Pentecost okay so the day of Pentecost being um you know after uh 50 days after the feast of the first fruits the feast of the Pentecost so the day of the Pentecost had arrived and on that day this happened right so they were filled with the Holy Spirit you know acts after one and verse five the Lord Jesus says you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now and uh accepted two and verse four they were all filled with the Holy Spirit so we see that being baptized and being filled with the Holy Spirit you know the same usage for this this whole thing of baptism of the Holy Spirit you know they were filled with the Holy Spirit okay the other thing that we notice here is that they spoke with other tongues they began to speak with other tongues or you know other languages right and this these words were given by the Holy Spirit okay that's what verse four says that as the Spirit gave them utterance okay so the words for this language was given by the Spirit it's not something that they naturally learned grammar and and syntax and and alphabets and so on they did not learn it that way it was actually them speaking but the Spirit of God giving them the utterance um as the Spirit gave them utterance okay and um something that we notice here is that it this produced uh varied reactions okay we look at acts after two and verse 12 um verse uh okay maybe we should just read from verse nine onwards Parthians and Meads and Elamides those dwelling in Mesopotamia Judea Cappadocia Pontus Asia Phrygia Phamphilia Egypt and the parts of Libya joining siren visitors from Rome both Jews and proselytes uh Cretans and Arabs we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God so these were the people groups which had gathered and they heard them uh they heard the disciples after this experience of baptism of the Holy Spirit they heard the disciples speaking in their language okay and they were declaring the wonderful works of God wonderful works of God sorry verse 12 says they were all amazed they were perplexed okay they were amazed that something like this could happen they were perplexed which means they're troubled saying hey uh because they can't explain this how how did this happen how what could this mean and there were others verse 13 they were mocking them saying they're full of new wine which means that this uh what they did how they spoke seemed like they were you know they were saying something and it seemed like people who were drunk would you know blabber okay so they were these languages which they could identify and say hey um you know this this is my language and they're actually declaring the words of God but there were others who also were mocking saying they were knew they were you know they were drunk because they could not make out they could not understand what they were saying okay so uh and following that uh Peter stands and then he he makes a reference to the prophet Joel he says you know in verse 14 he stands up and he says men of Judea you know they are not drunk and it's it's it's in the morning uh nine o'clock or so it is not drunk we are not drunk and this is what was prophesied by prophet Joel okay what did what did he's and he quotes that verse and shall come to pass in the last 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 dream dreams and on my men's servants and on my made sons I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy okay so um so we see um the prophet Joel saying that there would be this supernatural phenomenon of God pouring out his spirit on on people and that they would prophesy there would be dreams there would be visions um but actually when we when we look at accept to we see uh we don't see the prophecy or dreams or visions mentioned but we see something supernatural there was a sound of a rushing wind and there were tongues of fire and this supernatural uh release of this language so we see this um but now Peter very categorically states that this is what was prophesied by prophet Joel and uh this is what this is uh this is what was spoken right so which means that uh yes we know that this is the outpouring of the spirit the spirit being poured out and something supernatural happening uh but it is the same holy spirit at work and the manifestation like the expression of the Holy Spirit you know it's it's varied it's different and but we know it it is the same Holy Spirit and we see that many people were saved that day like thousands three thousand was saved that day uh at the end of it um accept it too was 38 and 39 and uh and this is what Peter says Peter says repent because they before that they ask you know brothers tell us what should we do they were convicted their hearts after Peter's uh sermon then Peter said to them repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ 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 all who are afar off afar off as many as uh as the Lord our God will call okay so he says repent let your sins be forgiven and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so whatever they had received or they had experienced the baptism the infilling of the Holy Spirit he said this is this promise is to you you will receive the same and not only to you but to know to your children and to those who would uh call upon the name of the Lord so they would also receive forgiveness when they when they call upon the Lord when they when they call upon him in repentance they would also receive forgiveness and they would also receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so whatever we experience they will also experience as well and you know we should always remember the objective of the baptism of the Holy Spirit the outpouring of the Holy Spirit uh is uh as defined you know as stated by the Lord Jesus so that you'd be endued with power and you would be witnesses right so that is the objective nothing else right and so we see this first instance the church the early church the disciples uh all the and you know about 120 of them and they are filled with the Holy Spirit okay and the supernatural phenomenon of praying in other I mean speaking in other tongues okay then we we turn to Acts chapter eight Acts chapter eight we see another instance in when we see look at apps I accept the eight now this happened after the death of Stephen okay Stephen as one of the young men who were chosen to take care of the administrative duty of distribution of food for the widows right one of the seven and now he is martyred okay and after his death there is widespread persecution of the church and and we we see Saul being introduced there right Saul he's making havoc of the church he's persecuting the church and and the believers from Jerusalem they get scattered they run for their lives because of the persecution they go to neighboring places and so on and Philip we read about Philip going to Samaria and he goes to Samaria he preaches Christ and many are saved and there's a lot of you know wonderful things that happen unclean spirits come out the the people who are paralyzed and lame were healed and then there's great joy in the city verse eight acts eight verse eight there's great joy in the city okay so then what happens is people in Jerusalem get to hear that people in Samaria have received the gospel okay so and they've and and one of these wonderful things are happening so in worst well we see this but when they believed Philip as they preach 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 which were done so they were baptized meaning they were baptized in water now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God they sent Peter and John to them okay so here are these disciples in the group of believers in Jerusalem who are giving leadership through the church they heard here's Samaria there are believers there Peter and John they are they're sending Peter and John and Peter and John they come and the first thing that they do is that they pray that they might receive the Holy Spirit okay so we see that you know maybe that was a pattern in the early church that you know you lead men you lead people to repentance they receive Jesus and you pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit because this is something that was instructed by the Lord whom you know they themselves personally if they were instructed they received and this was so that they would be clothed with power to be witnesses so they felt that it was important and they you know they they did that they came they prayed that they may receive the Holy Spirit now the thing is they've already become believers right we know that they've already received Christ they've already been baptized in water but Peter and John come and do this right verse 16 says for as yet he had fallen upon none of them they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus okay verse 17 then they laid hands on them that laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit verse 18 very interesting and when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hand hands 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 so something happened something supernatural happened when when Peter and John sorry when Peter and John yeah Peter and John laid hands and prayed something supernatural happened it says here that Simon noticed that and he offered them money saying that I even I want this you know I'm gonna I can I offer you this money or even I want this that whenever I lay hands that people will be baptized with the Holy Spirit right so we don't know what happened you know it's not clearly mentioned what happened but it was something noticeable right so he saw and it was something noticeable but we can infer that they started they also maybe started to speak in tongues like we can infer that we can conclude that because that is what happened at the early and accept it too and they prayed specifically that they may be annoyed they may baptize with the Holy Spirit and we can infer that they probably started praying in tongues we don't know right okay so those were two instances now we go to the third one which is in Acts chapter nine okay so in Acts chapter nine we read about Saul okay we read about Saul and he's on the way to Damascus he has his encounter with Jesus and the Lord says you know Saul why are you persecuting me and then you know that conversation he has now he's completely blind and the Lord gives him instruction that he should go and be in this place so he goes and three days you know he's without sight he is not eating or drinking is fasting and yeah and when verse 10 we see that Ananias has a vision and the Lord sends Ananias to go and specific instructions what he should do okay so let's read 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 straight and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus and behold he is praying 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 then Ananias answered Lord I have heard heard from many about this man how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem and here he has authority from the chief priest to bind all who call on your name so Ananias has doubts so he's like no Lord are you sure you know I've heard about this person and and then you know this is what he does but the Lord said to him go for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles kings and the children of Israel for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake 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 okay so we again just want to remind us when we when we looked at acceptor two acceptor one verse five you see the word word anoint or baptize sorry baptize with the Holy Spirit you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit acceptor two we saw that you know they two and worse four they were filled with the Holy Spirit so here he's using the same same phrase we filled with the Holy Spirit right so he says you know that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once and he arose and was baptized okay so these are two things that he prayed for an Ananias but you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit and we see in verse 18 that he received his sight something fell from his eyes like scales he received his sight he could see and he arose and was baptized okay now here again we don't see any supernatural phenomenon but it just scriptures as plainly mentions that he was baptized and and then you know later he just goes on so did he speak in tongues at that point we don't know okay because we can of course we can say you know in the in acceptor two it happened acceptor eight probably it happened here also maybe there could have been something we don't know but we do know that Paul eventually prayed in tongues okay because when he writes to the Corinthian church he talks about that he says he tells them he gives them instructions about you know what to do you know what not to do with regard to praying in tongues and he also mentions you know one Corinthians 14 he verse 18 he says I thank my god I speak in tongues more than you all okay so we know that eventually he started praying in tongues or maybe at that point itself he started praying in tongues because he testifies to the Corinthian church and he says I pray in tongues more than you all he's actually you know encouraging them and laying down certain things do's and don'ts about you know the soup about praying in tongues about prophesying and so on okay so that is the that's the third instance and then we look at one more which is you know you know acceptor 10 and this involves Peter and the household of Cornelius so a Peter goes to Cornelius house and he is ministering to them right he's speaking to them and they're already and you know we know that how Cornelius had an angelic visitation and and all that right so we see in Acts chapter 10 verse 44 as Peter was speaking these words you know he's talking about the Lord he's he's he's in a you know Gentile household non-Jewish household and he's and he's saying you know God is not partial and God sent his children God sent Jesus and who came to you know preaching peace and so on he's the Lord as he is speaking these words verse 44 says that the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word okay and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished the Jews were there with him and maybe Peter himself believed as many as came with Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also okay so the promise of the Father the gift of the Spirit where Peter says right the this gift of the Holy Spirit is for you and your children and all those who call so here it says that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also verse 46 for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God okay for the and what is 46 actually clarifies why why why is it mentioned that they received the gift of the Holy Spirit which has been poured out you know why can one make that statement verse 46 the proof is the evidence is that they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God then Peter answered verse 47 can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have okay they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have right alluding to what happened in chapter 2 and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord so he is baptizing them in water right they have received Jesus they have received the gift of the Holy Spirit which has been poured out on them and Peter testifies and says you know these have been you know baptized these have received the Holy Spirit just as we have so you know let's complete the whole thing you know let's baptize them in water as well so then they get baptized in water and he stays with them for some time so on right and he also testifies Acts chapter 11 you know there's a lot of people are angry people are they are they are angry with Peter you know they are why did you stay and you know why did you go into a Gentiles house and why can you how can you fellowship with them because he stayed there and it's not according to Jewish customs to fellowship and to eat with them and to stay and so on so they so they ask they don't accept 11 so it says accept 11 and verse 2 Peter came up to Jerusalem and those of the circumcision contended with them you know saying you went into uncircumcised men and ate with them and then verse 4 Peter explains okay and in this explanation he again tells them verse 15 as I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning then I remember the word of the Lord how he said John indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit if therefore God gave them the same gift as he gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ who was I that I could withstand God when they heard these things they became silent and they glorify God saying then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life okay so suddenly eyes were open they realized that hey this this is not just for Jewish people this gift of salvation this baptism of the Spirit is for is for everyone is for the you know everyone else also so then they make that connection and they say you know God has granted even though the Lord commissioned them saying you know you will go to all the nations preach the gospel to every creature teaching them they thought okay it was you know for their mind it just meant the Jewish world right but here they that was one of the things the eyes were open they said yes God has granted repentance to life to the Gentiles as well and the interesting thing is that as they believed in Christ as they believed in the Lord they were baptized they were filled with the Holy Spirit or you know the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on them you know all these usages referring to the same thing okay then one more that we see the fifth one the last one that is recorded in the book of Acts about the baptism is in Acts chapter yeah Acts chapter 19 okay so this is about the believers what happened to the believers at Ephesus okay so let's read this Acts chapter 19 1 to 7 right and it happened while Apollos was at Corinth that Paul having passed through the upper regions came to Ephesus and finding some disciples he said to them 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 into what then were you baptized so they said into John's baptism then Paul said John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance saying to the people that they should believe on him who would come after him that is on Christ Jesus when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul had laid hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied now the men were about 12 and all okay so here again the first thing you know just like how Peter and John when they went to Samaria they they just laid hands and prayed for the believers okay we see Ananias doing that are the Lord instructing Ananias to to pray for Saul and here we see that as soon as he comes he meets the disciples in Ephesus and the question he asks them is did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed and he clarifies to them because they they were actually you know baptized in water just like how John John had baptized them so they they they only knew about that so they were rebaptized in the name of the Lord and then Paul lay hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied okay so it says here the Holy Spirit came upon them okay the baptism of the Holy Spirit infilling of the Holy Spirit the the gift of the Holy Spirit poured out here says the Holy Spirit came upon them in I think in Acts chapter 11 it says in yeah Acts chapter 11 verse 44 right now as while Peter was speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word you know you see these different phrases so it it need not put us off you know it's referring to the same thing Holy Spirit fell the Holy Spirit came upon the Holy Spirit filled they were baptized it was poured out etc and Prophet Joel saying that pour out the Lord will pour out of his spirit on all flesh all referring to the same thing okay but we see that Paul coming here and you know asking in Ephesus you know have you did you receive the Holy Spirit okay so which means that he was in the habit of you know he's traveling to all these places you know ministering their planting churches and so on so which means that Paul you know led people to Christ and prayed for them to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit right so that that that must have been the norm because this is the first thing that he asks here so so we see that the early church taught and led people in this what we call as a baptism of the Holy Spirit so okay in these five instances we noticed some things okay what are some things that we notice out of three out of these five three very clearly three instances three places it says that they spoke with tongues what are those three accepted to the disciples that gathered Holy Spirit filled with the Holy Spirit they spoke in tongues the second instance that we see is that Cornelius house Peter is ministering Holy Spirit falls upon them and they speak in tongues the third instance we see church in Ephesus I mean the believers here in Ephesus they prayed in tongues and something additional they prayed in tongues in prophesied okay so and the other two instances what are the other two instances one is in Samaria the other one about Saul okay now Saul eventually prayed in tongues so we can infer maybe that happened here something supernatural happened that filler that the Simon the sorcerer saw that and it was so clear it was very very visible what were whatever happened so he said you know I want to give you money so that I may also receive this gift because I want to lay hands and pray now Simon the sorcerer had a different motive because everyone saw him you know before they came to Christ they were actually he used to astound them with the you know the black magic and and everything so they they used to refer to him as a great power of God right so so he wanted to have he wanted to have that influence again so his motive was not right but the fact is that he noticed there was something supernatural so we can say okay maybe there was you know it's safe to infer that they are also there was praying in tongues happening okay the baptism of the Holy Spirit so other things that we can you know we can infer is that when we are baptized with the Spirit the Lord Jesus says that you will be endured with power endured meaning surrounded clothed so we see that okay so we are endured with power because that's what the Lord Jesus said and we also receive the gifts of the Spirit at least we see tongues and prophecy happening so that so we also receive the gifts of the Spirit okay but the thing is that okay we are going to learn about the gifts specifically and we look at the details of that right the other thing that we can see is that now the power of God the power of the Holy Spirit and the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit is revealed or manifested expressed through these gifts okay when we study the gifts we realize that okay it's healing miracles the supernatural work of God now these are expressed the power of God is expressed through these gifts so when the Lord Jesus says that you will be clothed in power yes you know that is what that is what is happening and that power is expressed through these gifts okay and also we see what is common in all this is the gift of tongues okay now that seems to be the common gift and also seems to be you know something that starts off with the other expression expression of other gifts as well something like a key that opens or unlocks other things right so we now these are inferences of course we can infer that okay we'll stop here and then we'll come back after the break and continue maybe you have some questions we can you know we'll take some okay there are some questions here already okay so we'll address those when we come back okay right