receive the promise of the spirit through faith. Uh this is the promise uh that I want to focus on today. The promise of the spirit through faith. Um the Holy Spirit being our birthright. Many times we heard in our uh in many of

16 Jesus introduces the Holy Spirit to his disciples and I want you to get a picture of what it was like at that time where Jesus had been a real person for Peter and James and John and Andrew and Simon and uh

and off on fasting, praying. I said, "Lord, I need the baptism in the Holy Spirit." Baptism means immersion. And I was born again. The Holy Spirit had come in. Rom Romans 8:9 says, "If you don't have the spirit, you're not

soul I want to worship you in spirit and in truth Will you pour out your Holy Spirit aresh upon us this evening will you come and move in our midst and move in our hearts in a deep way that causes us to fall on our face and know that you are

we've been thinking this weekend about life in the Holy Spirit and over the last few years I can't speak or sing about God's

tongue James chapter 3 I think it's significant that when God chose a part of the body to symbolize the Holy Spirit he chose the tongue you read in Acts chapter 2 when the Holy Spirit descended upon the 120 that were

holy spirit when you believed now what i believe paul saw in this town of ephesus as he was passing through there's no new covenant church there but he saw a group of believers meeting and he was there in one of their meetings

gave in order to establish this work and the primary gift was the gift of the Holy Spirit which in the Old Testament the Holy Spirit was only upon people anointed people for service some mighty works. Elijah. Elisha could raise the

New Testament is Matthew three and verse 11 he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit now unfortunately the word baptize is not an English word it's a

your enemies and to forgive everyone now the only reason this is possible is because the spirit of god the holy spirit the third person of the trinity can live within us and help us from within exactly listen to this

through the power of the Holy Spirit. Growing up in a Hindu family, I never expected my life to take this path. But in college, God's grace reached out

with the Holy Spirit or baptized or immersed in the Holy Spirit, I don't know how much of us are looking for the evidence in self-control because that is a fruit of the spirit. Here's another verse that's very similar to that. Paul

much. I have often said that the first two promises in the New Testament are very, very important. The Holy Spirit inspired the New Testament.

means verse 14 teach-ins 3:14 and pray that God will grant you were 16 according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with the power of the Holy Spirit in the inner man that's the secret

share on one of the fruit of the Holy Spirit uh that the Lord has been working in my life and um I thought it would be beneficial to for all of us to hear some of the things that the lord has laid in my heart so before I go

strength we come to this promise Lord you promise that you'll give me an helper the Holy Spirit who will be with me and help me and guide me these two promises one first verse is about Grace the second verse is about the power of the Holy Spirit available

chapters is one thing that is the Holy Spirit. If all of Romans 7 and see that not even once the Holy Spirit was mentioned. Paul is trying to win the battle

in the first place than to have it clean and leave it empty we must be filled with the Holy Spirit we must speak over the Holy Spirit Christendom has sadly made you must be born again

frustrated one day we will learn we need the power of His Holy Spirit you cannot live the Christian Life without being filled with the Holy Spirit every single day and it's not in just an experience it's a constant state

[Music] Christ our Savior Baptizer in the Holy Spirit or immerser in the Holy Spirit

for the baptism in the Holy Spirit people told me well the only people who talk about that are the Pentecostals so I never I didn't know all these denominations I was going to Believers Church but they never spoke about the

Is given by the inspiration of God. So the Holy Spirit is ultimate author of the book. Holy Spirit moved the people who lived uh in different times but the message is the same because the ultimate author is the Holy Spirit and the books

back to yourself I never want to lose sight of the heart of God I want to invite all of you dear brothers and sisters to ask the Holy Spirit to show you the heart of your heavenly father to show you the Heart of Jesus Christ and

Christ baptized in water and if you really seek the Lord the way the early apostles did baptized in the Holy Spirit but because there's so much controversy on the baptism the Holy Spirit the devil deceives people into canto feed