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The Spirit is in me for me, but He's on me for you.

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He comes upon me to clothe me in power

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and express Himself through these different spiritual gifts.

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So today we're going to talk about something called the baptism in the Holy Spirit

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and speaking in tongues.

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We've been in this series about developing our prayer life

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and how we can strengthen ourselves in the Lord

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and even finding time every day to connect with Him

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and grow in friendship with God.

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So this is one of my favorite things to talk about

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because I think that praying in the Spirit or praying in tongues

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has been one of the key ways that the Lord has grown me

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as an intercessor and even as a friend

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and someone that hears His voice and prays effectively.

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So I want to talk about what this idea is,

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the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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You might have heard of this before, you might not have,

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but really when we look in Scriptures, we actually find three baptisms.

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And usually, you know, people talk about water baptism

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and we understand mostly what that's about

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as a symbol of being dead to sin and then raised to life in Christ.

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But there's actually two other baptisms that we see in Scripture.

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The first baptism is when you get saved.

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The Holy Spirit baptizes you in Jesus.

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This is in 1 Corinthians 12, verse 13.

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So this is talking about when you got saved,

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the Holy Spirit actually baptized you into Jesus.

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When that happens, the Holy Spirit comes to life inside of us

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and we become a new person.

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A second kind of baptism is the water baptism.

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This is where a disciple actually baptizes you in water.

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So maybe you go to your church and they have a baptism service

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and someone asks you about your faith

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and then they baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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So when you look at Luke 3.21, it says,

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So even Jesus was baptized in water by John the Baptist.

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In water baptism, what's really happening is the old man is being cut off.

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That's what it's a symbol of.

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But I also think there's actually a spiritual reality to this water baptism

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that enables us to continue to grow as disciples of Christ.

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Or you can look at Matthew 28.19. It says,

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So that's talking about water baptism.

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But there's also a third baptism.

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And in this baptism, it's actually Jesus who baptizes us

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in or with the Holy Spirit.

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So some people say the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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My mom was an English teacher,

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so I get really particular about what kind of prepositions we're using.

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Really, this isn't the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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That's the first one we talked about,

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where the Holy Spirit baptized us into Jesus when we got saved.

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But this is the baptism in the Holy Spirit or with the Holy Spirit.

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You can think of the same way you were submerged in water.

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You're being submerged or covered with the Holy Spirit.

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It even says in Scripture that you're being clothed in power.

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What's happening is you're being filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit,

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and you're receiving power to walk in your new life in Christ.

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So there's an enablement and an empowerment and a release of grace that takes place.

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It doesn't automatically happen when we're saved.

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It's actually a separate occurrence from salvation.

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Now, this can get kind of confusing because several Scriptures say

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that when we got saved, we were sealed with the Holy Spirit, and that's true.

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And a great example is in John chapter 20,

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when Jesus has, after he's raised from the dead,

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he comes to his disciples, and it says he breathes on them

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and says, receive the Holy Spirit.

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And I believe that was really their salvation experience

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where they received the seal of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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And what I like to tell people is the Spirit is in me for me,

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but he's on me for you.

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He comes upon me to clothe me in power

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and express himself through these different spiritual gifts.

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It's actually, this baptism is mentioned in each of the four Gospels.

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To kind of remember, Matthew and Luke, it's in chapter 3.

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Mark and John, it's in chapter 1.

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I'm going to read Matthew 3.11.

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This is John the Baptist speaking.

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He says, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.

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So he's talking about salvation and then baptism in water,

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turning from our old life.

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But he who is coming after me, he's talking about Jesus,

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is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.

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He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

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So this is something that Jesus does for his disciples.

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He loves to baptize us in the Holy Spirit and with fire

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so that we can be empowered to walk out a Christian life

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the same way he did.

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These three baptisms are mentioned all throughout scripture

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in Acts 2, 37 through 39.

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These men ask Peter, what shall we do?

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He says, repent and let every one of you be baptized

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in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.

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So get saved, repent, get baptized in water

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for the remission of sins.

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And he says next, you shall receive the gift

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of the Holy Spirit for the promise,

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he's referring to the gift of the Holy Spirit

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as the promise, is to you and to your children

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and to all who are far off, that's us,

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all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

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So if he's called you, the promise of the gift

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of the Holy Spirit is for you as well.

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In Acts 8, when all of these people believed Philip

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as he was preaching, Simon also believed

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and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip

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and was amazed, seeing the miracles

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and signs which were done.

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And when the apostles who were at Jerusalem

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heard that Samaria had received the word,

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they sent Peter and John to them,

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who when they had come down, prayed for them

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that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

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For as yet, he had not fallen upon none of them.

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They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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So they had only been saved.

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They'd only been saved and water baptized,

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but they hadn't received this promise gift

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of the Holy Spirit coming upon them.

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And then in verse 17, it says,

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then they laid hands on them

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and they received the Holy Spirit.

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So this thing took place later

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when the disciples came to those believers.

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Acts 19, while Apollos and Paul were at Corinth,

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they found some disciples and they asked them in verse two,

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did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?

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So they're asking, did you receive this gift

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that we've been seeing even the Gentiles receive,

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the promise gift of the Holy Spirit?

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And they said, we have not as much heard

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whether there is a Holy Spirit.

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I'm like, man, that's how I feel

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because the way I was raised,

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I didn't even hear about the Holy Spirit.

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I didn't hear about the power of the Holy Spirit.

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I didn't hear about healings and miracles

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and speaking in tongues and signs and wonders.

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So I feel like these people

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that had come to Christ in Ephesus saying,

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we hadn't even heard about the Holy Spirit.

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So then Paul says to them, into what were you baptized?

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They said into John's baptism.

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So he's checking out their salvation.

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And Paul says, well, John indeed baptized

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into a baptism of repentance,

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saying to the people that they should believe

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on him who would come after him, that is Christ Jesus.

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When they heard this, they were baptized

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in the name of the Holy Spirit and watch this.

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And when Paul had laid hands on them,

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the Holy Spirit came upon them

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and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

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So we see this occurrence where Paul laid his hands

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on these people and they began to express

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with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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So I'm not gonna tell you, well,

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you have to have this certain spiritual gift

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as an expression of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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And if you don't have this,

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and you're not really baptized,

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I think we're getting a little bit too religious

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about these things when we put those stipulations.

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But you should be operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit

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if you're a believer, they're available to you.

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Why would you wanna live your life without good gifts?

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You know, if God wants to give the power

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of the Holy Spirit to you,

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I wanna receive it for my own life.

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So here's another example of these three baptisms

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in 1 John 5, verses seven and eight,

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says, there are three that bear witness in heaven,

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the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit,

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and these three are one.

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And there are three that bear witness on earth,

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the Spirit, the water, and the blood.

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And these three agree as one.

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Look at this, the Spirit, the water, the blood.

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The blood, it's talking about when you received Christ,

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you received this baptism into the body of Christ,

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the blood.

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When you got baptized in water, the water.

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When you get baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit.

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Look at 1 Corinthians 10.

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Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware

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that all our fathers were under the cloud,

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all passed through the sea,

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and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

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And Moses is this archetype of Christ.

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And if you read the rest of that passage,

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you can see how Paul is giving an Old Testament example

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as a foreshadowing of what was going to take place

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for believers in the new covenant.

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They were going to be baptized into Moses, into Jesus,

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when they got saved.

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They were going to be baptized in the sea.

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That's water baptism.

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And they're going to be baptized in the cloud.

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That's the Holy Spirit baptism.

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Even if you look in...

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Exodus 30, I'm not going to read this whole chapter to you, but it describes the order

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of worship in Moses' tabernacle.

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And it followed the pattern of these three baptisms, even as a foreshadowing.

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Before you could enter into God's presence in the Holy of Holies, the first thing you

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did is you would have your sins cleansed through blood sacrifice, that's salvation.

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Then you would wash yourself in a laver with water, that's symbolic of water baptism.

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And then you would be anointed with oil.

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That's the baptism in the Holy Spirit, this clothing and power.

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So we see this pattern happening throughout scripture as a foreshadowing of what it's

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like to live the Christian walk.

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Even Jesus instructed the disciples not to leave Jerusalem until the promised gift of

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the Father was given to them.

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These are the same people he breathed on and said, receive the Holy Spirit.

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So there's this separate thing that Jesus is encouraging them to wait until they've

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received this promise.

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Look at Acts 1, 4-5, being assembled together with them, he, Jesus, commanded them not to

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depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father.

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And he said, you have heard from me, John truly baptized in water, but you shall be

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baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

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So that is what the promise of the Father.

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Remember Peter was saying, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise

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is to you and your children.

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He was remembering what Jesus has said to them.

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This promised gift of the Holy Spirit, this promised clothing and power, this promised

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anointing and enabling to walk the Christian life is for anyone that would believe if you'll

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ask for it.

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So the Holy Spirit is a gift and he also gives us gifts.

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First Corinthians 12, 7-11, Paul writes to the Corinthian church, he says, the manifestation

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of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.

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See that's what I'm saying, like the Holy Spirit is in me for me as a comforter, as

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a guide, as a teacher, as a leader into truth, but he's on me, the manifestation of the Spirit,

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the visible outward gifts is on me for the profit of all.

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See God wants to use me to minister to others and he does that through this baptism in the

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Holy Spirit.

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He goes on, he says, for one it's a word of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge,

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to another faith, to another gifts of healings, to another the workings of miracles, to another

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prophecy, to another discernment, to another different kinds of tongues, to another interpretation

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of tongues, but one and the same Spirit works all these things distributing to each one

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individually as he wills.

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So these things are available for you.

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Maybe you're sitting here listening to this and you've never heard that there was a baptism

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in the Holy Spirit, that there is a promised gift of the Father that we're intended to

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receive, that Jesus, even after the disciples were saved and multiple times through the

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books of Acts, after people were saved, they received this empowerment, some through the

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laying on of hands, others just by asking Jesus, baptize me in the Holy Spirit, give

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me this spirit and fire baptism that you promised that was going to come after John's baptism.

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Maybe if that's you and you've never heard of that, this is something that you can ask

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the Lord for today.

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Have you experienced all three baptisms?

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Have you given your life to Christ, baptized into the body of Christ?

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Have you been water baptized so that the old man is cut off of your life and you're raised

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to life in him as a symbol of your faith, but also an enablement and a public confession?

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Have you received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, this coming upon you of power and

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the manifestations of gifts?

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If not, you can pray this with me today.

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Lord, I thank you that no matter where I am in my journey with you, you always want to

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give me more of your Holy Spirit.

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Please fill me to overflowing again today.

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Jesus, I ask you to baptize me in the Holy Spirit and with fire so that I can have power

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to live a life that honors you.

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Amen.