Sermon Note: Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Pastor Prince
Isaiah 59:21 – 60:1
“As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.”
The Gentiles Bless Zion
Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
Acts 10:43-44
To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”
The Holy Spirit Falls on the Gentiles
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
Acts 10:45
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.
Gift (dorea) of the holy spirit
The holy spirit is the gift
Acts 10:46
For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.
Then Peter answered,
Acts 1:4
The Holy Spirit Promised
And 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;
The promise of the Father.
Acts 1:5
for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
Baptise in the holy spirit receive power
Acts 1:8
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 end of the earth.”
Once you are born again you have the holy spirit
To be baptised in holy spirit is baptism of power. You shall be witnesses. All that you are, all that you say, there shall be glory of the Lord.
People need to see the brightness of our rising.
The holy spirit will put words into our mouth. Speaking in tongues.
When you are praying in tongues, your spirit prays.
1 Corinthians 14:14
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Keep on praying. The holy spirit knows exactly the situation. He knows the prayer to give you.
Pray first with the spirit
Pray with understanding
1 Corinthians 14:15
What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
Keep on praying in the spirit
And when you pray in English, God gives us the rhema word
The word is full of life
1 Corinthians 14:18-19
I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all; yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
And great shall be the peace of your children.
The Lord Himself will teach your children.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.
The more cheerful you are, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Spirit of sadness dries the bone. Your depression can affect your body.
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance,
But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
You are in the highest position in the universe. You are in heavenly. From that position you step down into earthly position
John 13:3-5
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
We start with we are complete in Christ
God wants us to reason from heaven to earth
We don’t reason from man to God. We reason from God’s perspective to man
We are rich, fully supplied.
Peace be unto you
John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
Followers of Jesus.
Received the holy spirit indwell them.
Wait for the promise of the Father which is the Holy Spirit
All the 120 in the upper room were all saved. On the day of Pentecost they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
The disciples were raised on the feast of rhe firstfruit
Holy Spirit is in us
And we are baptised with the Holy Spirit
Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The holy spirit leads us by the heart
The result of your choice you cannot change it. You can choose to put your fingers into fire but you cannot choose for it not to be burnt
To recognise you are, but a created being. A life dependency on Him
God is a good God. Good and perfect gift comes from above.
Flowing in the language of the holy spirit
Starts to speak in tongues, you start to speak
Joshua 3:13
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap.”
Ephesians 5:18-19
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord
Be filled with the holy spirit
Start speaking. When you feel down or feel under attack or you feel you need God’s intervention into something, pray with spirit and pray with understanding
Acts 19:6
And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
Speak in tongues and prophesied
Sing psalm sing hymns
2 Timothy 1:6
Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
John 7:38-39
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Fan the gift into fame
Fan into fame the gift of God
2 Timothy 1:6-7
Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
New York Times
7 Nov 2006
A neuroscientific look at Speaking in tongues
People who speak in tongues rarely suffer from mental problem
The spirit of fear will go when we pray in tongues and fan the gift.
We can love someone but no power.
We pray in tongues for God’s intervention.
When a child ask his father for bread, will he give you a stone?
Don’t be afraid. It is a gift. A gift receive by faith.
