Nice Lord. Um It's been most of the talk in the book of Acts today
Well, not most of it. All of it gonna go through scriptures where people were saved or people responded to the gospel
And, uh, you know, from time to time we get challenged on their beliefs and uh time
to time about every second hour when you witness the sign. Anyway, what we've come to is amazing and uh there's always a push to
oh, you know, just uh fellowship with anyone that says they believe in
in Jesus. And uh boy, how do you should see what's happening out there for Pete
In, under the name of Jesus. There's so much terrible stuff happening that uh people who proclaim
they believe in Jesus, they're using the brand name, they're putting on a false
a false product. And uh I could go on all day the stuff I just
ah, I won't, there's just, it's horrendous like you just, just couldn't believe it
you know. And the, and the latest thing is that, uh just believe in Jesus
uh we believe in Jesus, but not the Bible. I mean, how on earth can you even know
Jesus without the Bible. But that's, that is the latest trend and it's huge
And uh you know, um you know, I'm believing in Jesus is a good thing
Either to believe in me will have eternal life. The Lord said
you know what Jesus are you believing in? I mean, you've got to believe in the Jesus of the Bible
not some made up fictitious manmade image or idol and name it the same
So many, so many below. The big thing in religion in Christianity today is
uh, uh, obviously give your heart to the Lord. Uh You have
uh uh they take it to the extreme where, you know, we're not saved by works
They include baptism. Baptism is a work. I get, I've talked about that before
I know it. I just cannot get my head around how a baptism is a work when you sit in a Baptist
But there's nothing of yourself. You're so humbled. Somebody else is doing the baptizing like it's just
and I actually heard a good ogy the other day. Oh, months ago I read and I
I'm not sure how sack it went, but it was like, you know
they just, we can have, there's absolutely nothing of ourselves we can do to be saved
Which is true. Jesus saves us. But what if you're down a 40 ft
Well, right, you're down a 40 ft. Well, you can't get out right
The emergency services turn out and they throw you down a, uh
the rope and the harness and they say, put it underneath your arm, just putting the rope underneath
putting that rope around your arm saying that some, you're not you
that you saved yourself. You're still gonna say I had no way of saying myself
the emergency service saved me. It's just ridiculous. But these, these people
no, no, don't put the, don't put the harness around. It's just bizarre
What we've come to is powerful and, and there's something more than just believing James said
And most of these people don't like the book of James, by the way, when he was talking about faith and works
he and I actually read it in a different translation this morning where it literally says
oh, you say you believe what you do uh Well, in, in the Kings Day you say you believe you do well
so do the devils and they tremble. And the other version of you say you believe
well, good for you. Uh That's probably more like it, isn't it
You know, like there's more to it. Just what with K and
in my personal testament, I believed all my life always. I have believed God since I can remember
I read the word from an early, early age, didn't understand it
I read the children's Bible. I had this faith I was known in my family for being this kid that just loved
loved God, loved the Bible. I can tell you 100%. I was not filled with the holy ghost
I never had the holy ghost without the spirit of Christ. We read
you're none of his out there today. Do you think as soon as you get baptized
as soon as you believe, you receive the holy ghost? But you do
you just believe it. There's no way of knowing for sure. You just got to accept that you have
they, they call believing the same as being born again. Believing is the first step
No doubt about it. It's not the same as being born again. It must be born of water and the spirit
They're not the same terminology. And I know many people here who used to be churchgoers who were believers
If you like, they didn't have the Holy Ghost till they received the holy ghost that spoke in tongues
You know, it's more than speaking in tongues for those who I haven't received it yet
It's border speaking, speaking tongues, lets me know. I've received it. Lets the person praying with me know
lets everybody else around me know I've received the Holy Spirit. But what happens on the inside is unexplainable
It is the unspeakable gift. It's life transforming. It's powerful. It turns gamblers into non gamblers
drunkards into non drunkards, drugs into non-drug as it transforms your life
And you know, you know, when you receive the Holy Spirit, so many here have gone through uh what they you know
in the Church of England or Anglican. Now, the uh confirmation service
that's when you're supposed to receive the Holy Spirit and nothing happens. Nothing
It's just, I'm saddened, I see uh popular podcasters all over the internet who are enquiring
They have religious people, they have Christian leaders coming onto their podcasts and they say to these guys
I cannot, they say I cannot believe in Christianity. It's just another myth because there is no proof
There is no evidence and these and not one after one, these guys say, yeah, there's no proof
there's no evidence. You just gotta believe there is proof. There is evidence
God, God give signs following. He gives evidence. Now Jesus is sitting at the right hand
of the father sending a holy ghost on whoever asks and when someone gets filled
the holy ghost starts speaking in tongues. There is the evidence that he's where he said he would be doing what he said he would
be doing. It's a powerful, it's a gospel of power. If those who don't want to believe
they'll argue the cows come home. But I'm gonna, you know, I'm just gonna address some of the
the things I've heard. I have the most. No better place to start Acts Two or just go
oh There's another criticism. You always go to the book of Acts man
Why you got some of it up the Book of Acts, it's called
it's the Acts of the apostles. It's, it's the Action of the apostles
And the book of Acts is, is, is the book of Revival. It's the, it's the book of evangelism
It's the book of conversion. You want to see how people were
were preached to and how they were converted. It's in the Book of Acts and all the other books are written to
the ch to these people. The Book of Action is like how to get saved
And the rest of the book is how to stay saved. It's what you've come to
It's what it explains more, what you've experienced, explains how to behave
explains how things work. But the Book of Acts is how I will convert it
And that's why I go to the Book of Acts. The rest of the there's pastoral letters and there's all sorts of things in the
rest of the New Testament that's written to the already converted. The Book
of Acts is where the action was. And that's why I gave the Book of Acts
But there's plenty of people out there who try to explain away what happens in it too
So let's see how we go and no better place. Acts two verse one
Obviously, we've heard it a million times if you've been in a fl as you when the Day of Pentecost was fully come off
First of all, this is written by Luke, right? This is like Luke part two
you have the gospel of Luke and then Luke continues to write the book of Acts people seem to miss that in the world or
in Christianity. This is the continuation. He finished the book of Luke Tari Ye in Jerusalem to be endued with power from on high
So we've read in I if you read It Acts One, they waited in Jerusalem and here's where they're being endued with power from on
high end means clothed upon, clothed upon with power from on high
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind and through all the house where they were sitting and there appeared
unto them cloven tongues like there's a fire and it was upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and
began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them the utterance
You know, another argument out there about speaking in tongues. Oh, you're not saved by your own abilities like the spirit gives you the utterance
Where's your ability in that? You and the people making that claim can't speak in tongues
So obviously, it's not your ability. It's a gift from God. This
is the first time the Holy Ghost was out poured in this fashion. We read on in this scripture in this
in this how Peter got up and said, this is what was prophesized by the prophet Joel
He also finished that little pre speech with whom God has raised
Uh oh, sorry, he, he finished that with uh and if she'll come to pastor
whosoever she'll call in the name of the Lord, she'll be saved. That's men
that's men mentioned in Romans as well. And people just take that out of context, the exact verse she's relating to people being
filled with the Holy God. This is the first time and uh quite often you get the accusation
oh, you, you only make an assumption and that this happens every time. The thing is you
the people make with telling us how to make an assumption that it doesn't happen like that every time
And I'm gonna go through some stuff here where we'll see why assuming this happens every time is a better assumption than the other because
there's a lot of proof in here. And so are the Peter preachers
We go down to verse 37 and he says now when they heard this
the people who he was preaching to, when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter
unto the rest of the apostles men and brethren, what shall we do? Now
this happens every time we're preaching, when you, you testify about Jesus Christ and him crucified
When you explain what it's all about, it's to prompt the question
what shall we do? And I think it's presumptuous for people to change the answer
that Peter gave right at the beginning in verse 38 Peter said unto them be bapt uh repent
be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins
And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So they've just witnessed
they've just witnessed the gift of the Holy Ghost. They've come and asked
what's this all about then? What do we do? Peter said, repent
be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. And you'll receive this as well
The Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues which they just witnessed on the
internet in, in videos. And you know, the old good old Baptist
I've seen them mock, mock this verse or you know that verse in act
I just cannot believe it, you know, mocking it. And
he says in verse 39 for the promise, remember, this is the promise of the father is unto you to your Children and to all
that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call
And with many other words, did he testify? And exhort saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day were added unto them about 3
3000 souls. That's a big day of baptizing point
One, especially for those who are against baptism, they that gladly receive his word got baptized
those that those that argue and bicker about it. They're obviously not gladly receiving God's word
But the first objection is see, oh, see, they didn't speak in tongues. There, 3000 people were added to the church and there's no mention
that they spoke in tongues. So you shouldn't assume that they spoke in tongues is what they say
Do we assume they receive the Holy Ghost? Cos there's no mention of receiving older ghost either
And in verse 38 it says repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remiss to sin
And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the whole purpose when he got up and preached and tell him to be baptized
well, so that they could receive the Holy Ghost. So I think it's a fair assumption that they received the Holy Ghost
which even those who are against speaking tongues will say, yes, yes. You've got to presume they've spoke in tongues
So why do you have to presume then uh they'll say, you have to assume that they've received the Holy Ghost
So why do you have to assume they received it differently? But in the beginning they spoke in tongues
Let's go to Acts eight. Let me go through. I'm just picking out there's a ton of scriptures here
I don't know if I'll get through them all. But X eight verse five
then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake hearing and seeing the miracles which he did for unclean spirits
crying with a loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them and many taken with palsies that they were lame and were
healed and there was great joy in the city. Many people will say
you know what you tell when someone's got the Holy Spirit by their fruit. You know
we're gonna see scriptures here where you can instantly tell when someone's through the Holy Spirit
how long does it take for fruit to grow? You can tell an organization by their food but an individual you can tell has been
filled with the holy ghost straight away. And then therefore, they would say these guys were saved and for and filled with the holy ghost
Oh, there's miracles, there's healings, there's great joy in the city. They believe Phil game set match
If you believe modern Christianity, as you can see, there's more to it here
verse nine. But there was a certain man they uh called Simon which before time in the same city used sawtry and Bewitched the people
of Samaria giving out that himself was some great one to whom they all gave heed from the least to the greatest saying
this man is the great power of God and to him, they had regard because that of a long time
he had Bewitched them with sorcery. But when they believe Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of
Jesus Christ. They were baptized both men and women. Well, hang on
That doesn't fit in with modern, modern, modern Christianity. He was preaching to them Jesus Christ
And somehow out of that they worked out. We gotta be baptized. I mean
you think he, he spoke about baptism. Then I remember watching this show
one of, one of their mates on TV. And, um, there's a fellow on there
they have a board, they have a, they sit around call studying the word or something
This one guy I really like, he's so humble, he's so humble. He goes
they're talking about, you know, you don't have to be baptized, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And uh
he goes, oh, yes. But, uh, you know, it seems the early Christians had it different to us
They seem to baptize people straight away, you know, and they just go
oh, well, they didn't understand till Paul came along. That's just bizarre. And
everywhere you'll see this when you see that they preach Jesus Christ
the baptism followed water baptism. Then Simon himself believed also
And when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and wondered the and beholding the miracles and Sims went and get this
They believed, it says it there, Simon believed also. So these guys believed in Jesus Christ cos they
believe Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ
They believed, they believed Philip preaching the things about the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ
And they were baptized modern Christianity say, well, they're born again. They believed Simon
believed and was baptized verse 14. Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them, Peter and John who when they were come down
prayed for them that they might receive the holy ghost for as yet he was fallen upon none of them
Only this is an important word. We're gonna see this later on
Only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy
Ghost. So they were, they believed they were baptized by full immersion
but they had not received the Holy Ghost totally opposite to what you hear in religion
Today. There was healings, there was miracles, there was great joy, demons were being cast out
They believed they were baptized yet they had not received the Holy Ghost
And it makes it clear that they only like it's not complete
They'd only we're baptized and the apostles
went down there to pray for him to receive the holy ghost. It doesn't mention
speaking in tongues here. But in verse 18, and when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles hands
the holy ghost was given, he offered them money. Something happened immediately
instantly that even someone who did not have the Holy Ghost could tell that someone had just received the Holy Ghost speaking
in tongues. So you, you gotta make your assumptions that speaking your tongues
Where's the assumption? If that's that, that uh it's more presumptuous to say that they receive something different
What was, what was, what was so special? What was so evident
How could one minute someone tell that they did not have the Holy Ghost
And the next minute they could tell they did, did have the Holy Ghost. Something happened
evidence happened. Oh, something powerful must have happened. Or this must have happened
Why, why go outside of the pattern that God has already shown to have taken place
It's only logical to assume he spoke in tongues. Well, these people spoke in tongues
and that's how they could tell they'd received the Holy Ghost. Um
verse 20. But Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee. Oh, only some of these modern Pentecostal preachers would listen to that my
money perish with the because I thought that the gift of God maybe purchased with money
Oh, so many websites. So many groups out there put your seed money with us
They call it seed money. Yeah, they put it over there. Give it to us fertile ground
Your seed will come back to you. It's like like some Ponzi scheme, give your money
give your money to us, it'll grow, come back to you somehow. Mine is everywhere
This one a prosperity doctrine, sickening thy
money perish with thee. Fair Dinkum. In verse 21 Peter says, thy
thou hast neither part nor lot in this manner for thy heart is not right in the sight of God
Oh, how dare Peter say that to Him? He believed shouldn't be always singing Kumbaya with each other
I'm more humble than is off the stage. I think you better
But honestly, that's it Like they will want us to hold hands of S Kumbaya
Oh, it just because someone says they believe thy money perish with thee
You've got no part. Why does the Bible tell us to come out and be separate
Those who have a form of godliness but deny the power. They're of. Yeah
most of the mainline churches when, when you know Pentecostal churches only exist because they
they were kicked out of the mainline churches. They banned it talking about denying the power they're of
And he says to me, repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray to God
If perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee for, I perceive that they are in the gall of bitterness and in the
bond of iniquity, then answered Simon, pray ye the Lord for me
None of these things which you have spoken, come upon me. And they
when they had testified and preached the Lord word of the Lord returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans
and the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip saying, arise and go toward the South unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem
unto Gaza, which is the desert and he arose and he
went and behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians who had the charge of all her
treasure and had come to Jerusalem for, to worship. Yeah. First of all
I know it's a side issue but we read that everyone reads that, oh, he was an Ethiopian like he was reading the scriptures
Seems to indicate to me that he was a Jew. He came to Jerusalem to worship
It was a eunuch in her service. You know, it doesn't necessarily mean
I mean, how else did he have the scriptures? I, I believe he was a Jew. But anyway, 28 was returning and sitting in his
chariot, he read Isaiah the prophet. It's very rare to have this
the word like this. Then the spirit said to Philip, go near join thyself to this chariot and Philip read the to him and heard
him read the prophet Isaias and said, under understand thou what thou read us
And he said, how can I accept some men to guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him
And the place of the scripture which he read was this, he was led like a sheep unto the Lord who was like a lamb
dumb before his shearer. So opened him, not his mouth in his humiliation
His judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth
And the eunuch answered Phil and said, I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet of himself or of some other man
And then Phil opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him
Jesus. Now he's preaching here. It's similar here, be before a as to before
when, when, when he was preaching Jesus, they got baptized here. He is
So he preached to him Jesus. And what happens next as they went on their way
they came unto a certain water. And the eunuch said, see here is water
What does he need to me to be baptized? Well, when he was preaching to him
Jesus, where did he get the word? Where did he get the idea? He had to be baptized from? Obviously
he came up in discussion when he was preaching to him, Jesus
You didn't pluck it out of a mid air. Oh, look some water. That doesn't be a good idea
He was told he had to be baptized. It's part and parcel
What it's about what hinders me to be baptized. I'll go do knock
400 houses. Don't finish this course. That's what you get in various churches today
Wait, yeah. What hinders me to be baptized? Verse 37 And Philip said
if thou believes with all thy heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Doesn't that just touch you
You believe with all thine heart, you can get baptized. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Again, back in Romans. There was that, yeah, if you confess with your mouth
believe in thine heart. Hello. If you believe with all thy heart
you can get baptized. I believe he confessed. That's my people. Just take things out of context
That's all part of the package you paint and be baptized and receive the holocaust
And he commanded the chariot to stand still. They went down both into the water
both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water
the spirit of the Lord called away Philip and the eunuch saw no more
I know what happened there. Now again, it doesn't mention him receiving the Holy ghost
Well, it doesn't say he's spoken guns. It doesn't say he received the Holy ghost either
We gotta assume that somewhere along the line. Again, if he was Jewish and he kept coming back
he received all the GST and he would have spoken to that one's that one
There is probably the least evident, but we'll see how it ties in how you make the correct assumption by reading what happened elsewhere
The terminology that Luke is writing with, this is how Luke writes as inspired by the Holy Ghost
I'm just going through an order here. I could tie certain things together. But acts nine acts nine verse 17
you know, this is, this is, this is a, a soul breathing out threatening
You know, it's just amazing. Like this guy one day he's one day he's killing the brethren and the next day he's fellowship with them
like chess. But for time, we'll pick it up. In verse 17
this is after Paul, Paul saw the saw, the saw, the light literally fell off his horse
Didn't that fall off your high horse? What happened to Paul fell off? His high horse saw the light
The Lord said, how you know how often do you kick against the ? And verse 17
Anias? And, and the Lord said to Ananias, go and see Paul Ananias
Can you pick someone else? This God kills Christians and why Ananias obeyed in verse seven
And Anias went his way and he entered into the house and put his hands on him
By the this Paul went blind. Sorry, Paul went blind, he fasted for three
He didn't, didn't eat after he went blind three days for three nights, didn't, didn't eat
didn't drink. And Anias comes to him enters the house, putting his hands on him
Said, brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that appeared unto thee on the way as thou camest has sent me that thou might have receive
thy sight and be filled with the holy ghost. So we're seeing here
he's gonna receive his sight and he's gonna be filled with the holy ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes that had been sails
and received his sight, walk with and arose and was baptized. Oh boy
what a surprise. He was baptized straight away. And it doesn't say anything there about him receiving the holy ghost apart from
Ann. And I are saying, I've been sent that you will. And we know later on Paul spoke in tongues
He said, I'm glad I speak in tongues more than you all. So we know he received the Holy Spirit
We know he and we know he spoke in tongues. Yet he is a verse similar to the Ethiopian enoch where
it just mentions that he was baptized X
10. I mean, the whole chapters gotta be my, one of my most favorite chapters in the Bible we won't go
into. But again, this is, this is a man of Caesarea Cornelius
I mean, it says he was a devout man, one that feared God. All his house gave much alms to the people
Prayed to God, always had a good reputation amongst the Jews and been a nice bloke
Someone who helped them out a good man. What do you need saving for that
And the modern religious terms, he sees a vision goes, sends his
his service to get Peter Peter sees a vision. Remember at this stage
the Jew, they're only witnessing the Jews. They weren't witnessing the gen any gentiles
This chapter is just amazing. Now, the gentiles also receive salvation. Peter's eyes were open to this fact
Who got us cleanse? No man called common. And we're just f you know
he gets up and he preaches to them, Jesus Christ. There ain't Jesus had done
I mean, just for the sake of time, just get pick it up. Verse 44
And while pd yet fake, these words, the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the word and they of the circumcision
So therefore, the Jews which w which believed were astonished as many as came with Peter because that on the gentiles
also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. You gotta get your head around
This, this is a big deal to the Jews. Salvation was only for them
It wasn't to go to any other nation or any other people. They were astonished because instantly they could tell these guys
were filled with the Holy Ghost. I didn't sit around for three years waiting for them to bear fruit
Oh, yeah, I got it. Something happened that they could instantly tell that the Holy Ghost had fallen upon these people
And it's, and it tells you verse 46 for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God and then answer
Peter. Can any man forbid water? The should not be baptized. We will receive the holy ghost as well as we and he commanded them
to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Oh Peter. Peter just doesn't get it
You telling people they have to be baptized. So they're telling you the modern day churches
don't I tell you what? I see it over and over and over again. Faith alone
You don't have to do anything. Baptism's a work. Mhm. It's not a work
But anyway, repent, be baptized and you shall receive the Holy Ghost must be born of water and of the spirit
You follow Peter's Ministry, water and spirit, water and spirit, water and spirit all the way through
People receiving the Holy Spirit, people being baptized born again. Hewitt is laid out so clear and so simple
So why do you have to assume that it's different for others because it doesn't go into the s in de in depth detail all
the time. Now he who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to men but speaks
to God. Wow. I still can't get my head around that. If you speak in an undone tongue
you speak to God. But why would God have some people who say they're Christians speaking to him and others
Not if you're a child of God, wouldn't he give you the ability to speak to him
Why would he allow what he that speaks in a no tongue speaks to God saying he's cruel to me that some Children can't and
some Children can. All these Children can speak to God by one spirit
We have access to the father. What the 12, 8 X 11
That's the name. There's a big hullabaloo over this. Fancy Peter's gone in and gone into the gentiles
very non Jewish of them. I don't think they've realized they're Christian yet. And there's a big dispute
there's a council pulled together. And in verse 13, he says, um he saw the vision bid me to go in verse 14
Um who she'll tell me so don't is, is it recounting the vision
How how Cornelis had seen a vision? He had to go and get Peter and in verse 14
who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved
And as I began to speak, the holy ghost fell on them as on us in the beginning
Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John
indeed baptized with water. Ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost
You know, when John B, when, when, when John didn't want to baptize Jesus
Oh Lord, you know, you know, and, and the Lord said, suffer it now for righteousness
sir, water baptism. Holy ghost baptism A 11. I I won't
go into it. It talks more about it. Oh I was just there was I must be spot terrible getting old
Act 16 verse
four. When we hear a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of Purple
of the city of P which worshiped God heard us whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the
things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, oh
where'd you get that idea from? She attended to the things that were spoken of Paul
You know, they make a big deal in Corinthians. I've spoken about it before where Paul said I came not to baptize but to preach
the gospel. But everywhere he went, people were baptized, maybe not by him personally
but somebody with him, everywhere he went. And here's another instance here
So uh when she was baptized and of household, she besought her saying if you judge me to be faithful of this Lord
come to my house and abide there and she constrained us. So I gained no mention of receiving the holy ghost
Maybe you've received it later. Luke just doesn't write about it. Then we go down to uh sorry
verse 25. This is Paul and Silas
and oh, this one's a big one. This is what theyre people quote a lot. They're locked in prison
And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises on the God and the prisoners heard them and suddenly there was a great earthquake
So the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were open
everyone's bands were loosened and the keeper of the prison awakened out of his sleep
And seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself
Supposing that the prisoners had been fled. The poor cried with a loud voice saying
do thyself no harm for? We are all here. Hey, imagine being that
that jail keeper. And then he called for a light and sprang in and came trembling
and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said
sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
thou shalt be saved in thy house. And that's it. People say
see, that's all you gotta do, which technically is correct. But there's mo more involved in this believing
Therefore, you don't have to have speaking to, you don't be baptized
But the, the very next verse verse 32 and they spake unto him the word of the Lord to all that were in his house
Oh, wait, there's more that was the star and then they spoke to him
the word of the Lord. Luke doesn't go into everything they say
But lo and behold when it's all said and done up, they preach to them the word of the Lord
He took them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes and was baptized
He and all his straight away. Now, Paul did the baptism in well, Paul is
that's one of them they do. So again, back to some followed preaching
Obviously, they preach baptism. Again, it doesn't mention that they received the Holy Ghost
Well, it doesn't mention speaking your tongues wood. It doesn't mention that they received the Holy Ghost. In fact
throughout the book of Acts only five times during these conversions that actually mentions they received the Holy Ghost four times
four times. They spoke in tongues. The fifth time was Simon Pe uh Simon who want a sorcerer who wanted to offer money
Clearly, something evident happened when they received the Holy Ghost where Molas let's
go to X 18. I'm gonna take that. I'm only going to X 19
We'll get there, right? Nice oven. You got one on, that's 18 verse
eight and Christmas, right? Something you have a snack with me was the food in the Christmas
The chief rule of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing believe
oh, I know they were baptized shock horror again
It doesn't mention that they received all the games. I think it's if you haven't got the spirit of Christ you
I think, I think it's a good assumption that somewhere along the line they did and therefore it doesn't mention they speak in tongues
Well, they would have the same as time they received the Holy Ghost. So that's verse eight
Yeah, of verse 24. And a certain Jew named Apollos. I like this guy never met him
but he sounds good. Born in Alexandra, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came
to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in the spirit
he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John
Remember that I, so Mary had received the word, the apostles had to come down to them for them to receive the Holy Spirit
because they'd only been baptized. Looks, looks like this guy's in the same position
Knowing only when that, that word only means there's gotta be more otherwise
it wouldn't be only he knew only the baptism of John and he
but he was, he believed. So he's someone who believed he's someone who was actually preaching the word
This guy was full of full of verber. His spirit was moved to preach
He was convincing many of the Jews to get baptized, but he had not received the Holy Ghost
And he began to speak boldly in verse 26 in the synagogue, who when Aquila and Priscilla had heard
they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly
Oh, when they finished, when you knew more than only the baptism of John
And uh you know, he went on his merry way preaching uh says
cos he mildly convinced the Jews and that publicly showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ then
in verse nine. So we've had a, a lot of instances here where we're seeing baptism following the preaching of Jesus
but no mention of the Holy Ghost. But that same thing happened to Paul
We know Paul received the Holy Spirit. We know Paul spoke in tongues
But in that passage of scripture, it only mentions him getting baptized. So why
why do we have to assume that the same thing doesn't happen to everybody
And of course, by our own personal testimony, we know that that's the case. We know
we know it was chalk and cheese, what we were like before and after coming to the Lord
many of us believe God all our life, the arch A 19 will finish here
And this is when you read the book of Ephesians, this is, this is the start of that book
This, this is the People in that church. This is how that church began
Now I get the arguments though I see in Ephesians it says this therefore
we don't have to do to speak in tongues. We don't have to receive them. Why would the again Book of Acts is the the
book of in gathering the book of conversion, the book of how the church has started
Why would they change course along the way? I say back, Sli Paul's writing these letters
Paul Paul here in acts 19 since we're reading about to the Ephesians and then he writes the book of Ephesians
why would he, why would he have a conflict? Why, why would it be something different acts
19. It came to pass that while Apollo was at Corinth Paul
having passed through the upper coast, came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples
These, these are disciples. These are people who believe and he said
unto them, have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said
and we have not so much as heard whether there'd be any holy ghost
I was like that in my early days. What's this Holy Ghost and your age stuff they're on about never heard of it so foreign
It, it's much more common. Now people talk about it back back in the day
This wasn't spoken about. So now, so these were believers, these were disciples
We've never even heard about the Holy Ghost verse three. He said on them
well, well, to what were you baptized? And they said unto John's baptism
So here we have a similar thing I knew about John's baptism
And then said, Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on him
which should 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 laid his hands upon them
the holy ghost came on them and they spoke with tongues and prophesized and there was 12 blocks
there was 12 people. There's a pattern there and it's, I think it's very presumptuous to assume
you know, when, when you're accused of, oh, you only, you can only assume that that happened
Why do you have to assume that it didn't, they can only assume it did
Whereas everywhere, the full gospels may, everywhere believe in Christ, everywhere get baptized and everywhere
Like I said, five times in the script. You know, ah, speaking in tongues is only mentioned so many times in the book of
actually, you know, it's mentioned more times than repentance. They don't argue about being, you have to repent
It's just bizarre. You know, just bizarre. We've done to something powerful
powerful. That's what's changed their lives. I said it. I said it in a talk not too long ago
Remember your first week when we see the Holy Spirit chalk and chase one day you had
didn't have a clue. And then in an instant you knew God was real because he filled you with the holy ghost
And you know what, when you were out in that prayer room and you started speaking in tongues
everybody else in that prayer room knew in an instant that you'd received the Holy ghost
That's a real confirmation. Amen