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OPENING
Just before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He gave His disciples some final instructions on how they were to live out their mission to spread the gospel.
Luke records this for us in the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts:
The word “endured” means “to be clothed with.”
Jesus said that He was going to clothe them the power to carry out their mission.
In Acts, Jesus tells them the source of this power.
The source of power that Jesus referred to in Luke’s gospel is the same as the Promise of the Father.
He said that they would be baptized with the Holy Ghost very soon.
Jesus then directs their focus back to their mission.
They were not to focus on when the kingdom of Israel would be restored on earth.
They were to focus on spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
How could they accomplish this mission?
Especially now that Jesus was no longer going to be with them in person?
Jesus gives them the answer.
He is ascending back to Heaven.
But He would not leave them comfortless.
He would send them back the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to be with them, to lead them, to guide them, to direct them, and to empower them!
The Baptism with the Holy Spirit was going to be the source of power that they needed to accomplish their mission.
As believers today, we have access to the same empowerment of the Holy Spirit that the early church experienced in the book of Acts.
God is still pouring out His Spirit today.
He is still baptizing believers in the Holy Ghost and equipping and empowering them for Christian service.
It is time for the church to get empowered!
I believe that God is getting ready to do great things.
Not just here in Farm Hill, but across the world.
God is going to pour out His Spirit without measure in these last days.
We are going to see signs, and wonders, and miracles.
We are going to see countless souls born into the Kingdom of God.
And I want our church to be a part of what God is doing.
I don’t want us to just be spectators.
I want us to be participators.
Put us in the game Coach!
But in order to be effective, we need to be empowered by His Spirit.
Over the next couple messages, we are going to focus on getting empowered.
My prayer is that you will take these messages to heart and allow the Holy Spirit to fill your life in an even greater measure.
And as you do so, God is going to begin to use you and use our church in an even greater measure.
SCRIPTURE
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The Day of Pentecost
John the Baptist came to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
He began preaching a message of repentance, “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
And he began baptizing new believers in water as a demonstration of their repentance and entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.
But John knew that there was a greater person and a greater baptism that was coming.
He said, Jesus is about to come on the scene.
And He is far greater than I am.
And He is not going to baptize with water.
He is going to baptize believers in the Holy Ghost and with Fire!
This was fulfilled in Acts 2. If you have your Bibles turn to Acts 2 because we are going to spend some time there.
120 believers tarried in the city of Jerusalem just like Jesus had instructed.
But they just didn’t sit around and wait.
They had a 10-day prayer meeting in an upper room.
And on day number 10, on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after the Passover, Jesus sent them the Promise of the Father.
Jesus baptized them with the Holy Ghost and with Fire!
This was the official birth of the Church.
This was the initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit on believers.
This was the fulfillment of prophecy that had been spoken hundreds of years earlier by the prophet Joel.
In the last days, God promised that He would pour out His Spirit on all flesh.
And Pentecost was the fulfillment!
The 120 believers, newly baptized in the Holy Spirit, walked out into the city of Jerusalem empowered for service.
And the crowd in Jerusalem took notice.
And then Peter, who less than two months prior, had denied three times that he even knew Jesus, now stood in front of thousands of people and proclaimed that something really good had just happened!
But Peter told the crowd that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not just for the 120 disciples that day.
It was for whosoever will.
Peter said, this promise is available to anyone who wants to receive it.
Peter preached with such boldness that day that 3,000 people got saved and filled with the Spirit.
Where did this boldness in Peter come from?
It came from being filled with the Holy Ghost.
Peter and the other believers were empowered by the Holy Spirit to accomplish the mission that Jesus had given them to do.
The Pattern for Spirit Baptism in the Book of Acts
But Pentecost was not the end of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit continued throughout the book of Acts.
And a similar pattern of the baptism of the Holy Spirit also continued with subsequent outpourings.
The initial 120 on the Day of Pentecost heard a sound like a mighty rushing wind and visibly saw tongues of fire.
This was not repeated throughout the rest of the book of Acts.
So we don’t expect that to be normative for us today.
But there is a pattern throughout the rest of the books of Acts that is repeated and that we do consider normative for today.
That pattern is the person is saved, they subsequently pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and they receive the baptism, which is evidenced by speaking in other tongues.
Speaking in tongues is not the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
It is merely the initial evidence.
Tongues have many different purposes in Scripture.
They are a private prayer language.
They are a special praise language.
Sometimes they edify the individual speaking in tongues.
Sometimes they edify the entire church when they are interpreted.
They are a witness to unbelievers.
We don’t have time to get into all of this today.
We’ll spend a little more time on tongues over the next couple weeks.
So stay tuned.
But for today, we are just going to focus on their purpose as the initial evidence of the baptism.
The Samaritans - Chapter 8
Philip went down to Samaria and preached the gospel to them and many were saved.
When the apostles heard about the revival in Samaria, they sent Peter and John down to them as well.
This was Simon the Sorcerer, not Simon Peter.
But this man “saw” something, he witnessed something, there was some sort of evidence, that these Samaritans had recieved the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
What was that evidence?
The text doesn’t say, but we can make an educated guess based on the evidence of Scripture.
It is more likely than not, that these believers spoke in other tongues.
So the pattern for the Samaritans was first salvation, then baptism in water, then the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence likely being speaking in tongues.
Saul (Paul) - Chapter 9
Saul had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.
He was going there to persecute Christians.
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