Hello Everyone, 4

The book of Acts uses several expressions interchangeably to describe the baptism in the Holy Spirit:
1. Baptized in the Spirit
2. Spirit coming, or falling, upon
3. Spirit poured out
4. Promise of the Father
6. Gift of the Spirit
7. Receiving the Spirit
8. Filled with the Spirit

The terminology is simply an attempt by Luke to help us understand better the meaning of the experience.

What can I expect when I am baptized in the Holy Spirit?
The short answer would be the answer Jesus gives in Acts 1:8, But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
We will receive God’s power to be His witness in our neighborhoods and the whole world.

The Holy Spirit gives:
Boldness Under Pressure
Peter has just been thrown in prison with John for using the name of Jesus to heal a man. The religious leaders have thrown him in jail. The next day he gives this defense:
Acts 4:8-13:
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 He is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” 13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

Revelation Knowledge
Peter and the disciples did not display any real insight into Scripture in relation to the mission of Jesus before the day of Pentecost.

But, after being filled with the Spirit, Peter shows amazing insight as he relates the day’s events to passages from Joel and Psalms, Deuteronomy and Genesis.
Revelation knowledge is the ability to understand the true meaning of Scripture as given by revelation of the Holy Spirit.

Inspired Speech
By this I mean when we speak the Holy Spirit supplies the words.

We see this in Acts several times:
• Witnessing/preaching—When Peter “addressed” the crowd of mockers on the Day of Pentecost, the word for “addressed” in 2:14 is the same word
translated “enabled” in 2:4 where it says that the believers were “filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.”
Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil